Anyone like "The Severed Arm" or "Flesheater"

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        First time posting, but I have been coming here since 2-3 y.a.  off a yahoo listing for Basket Case.
    Anyway, picked up "Deadtime Stories" pack from BCI/Eclipse for the Ossorio films, thanks to a $2.50 purchase of “BD 1” from Gametraders, and SciFilm's reviewer Ironwolf’s breakdown of some of the film’s in the series.  Looked through most the films, but found “The Severed Arm” somewhat fascinating (I once took a writing class).
    Grew up with “USA Up All Night” so that dates me as pretty young, in that I lack exposure to seventies films other than the obvious ones.  But, “The Severed Arm” (1974) seems to have a Gainsian (William “Mad/Tales from the Crypt” H.) philosophy to it.  (I wasn’t alive in the 50’s so I may have no clue as to what the style was behind TFtC, but it still seems to be a perverted and severe cynicism).  It is a horrible film but still interesting, even though I only got to see the 89 min. cut of it.
    I rented “Flesheater/Revenge of the Living Zombies/Zombie Nosh,” (which could not have been filmed in ’94, right?) and dug the idea of constantly introducing new characters and killing them off, “talk about character development” (I know, I know, I’ll punch myself in the head with a balpene hammer for that one).  The constant shifting of locations was funny as well.  Kind of like if Romero and Kubrick had a baby, and then kicked it.  The score is fantastic though, I know it may be another “Profondo Rosso/Halloween/Phantasm” sounding theme, but still, it’s not called a genre for nothing.
    Long post, if too long, holler, and I won’t bother with so much.

[JohnL]

I rented The Severed Arm when my parents first got a VCR. At the time I didn't realize that it was so old and I was fooled by the back of the box which promised it was incredibly shocking and disturbing. Mostly I thought it was boring.



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Yeah (JohnL), IMDB said there was severe editing to the gore, not a lot of time, nut that all the gore had been removed to later (1986-now) versions of it.  Still I liked the ending and it was suspenseful, for small segments at a time.


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