The Undertaker and His Pals

1966 "A macabre story of two motorcycle-riding, knife-wielding, shiv-shaving, eye-gouging, arm-twisting, chain-lashing, scalpel-flashing, acid-throwing, gun-shooting, bone-breaking, pathological nuts and their pal the UNDERTAKER..."
4.5| 1h3m| R| en
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An undertaker befriends a pair of motorcycle-riding, knife-wielding, psycho restaurant owners who kill people for body parts to use in their blue-plate daily specials.

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Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review
Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
Scott LeBrun Clearly owing a debt to the kind of movies that Herschell Gordon Lewis was making during this time, the low, low budget "The Undertaker and His Pals" is an absolute hoot. The story concerns the title characters, an undertaker named Mort (Ray Dannis) and his restaurateur pals Spike and Doc. Together all three go out on their motorcycles, their faces obscured by their helmets, and murder people. This is done both to drum up business for Mort and provide human body parts to Spike and Doc to be served up at their place, The Greasy Spoon.This is a delightfully loopy exploitation flick with its fair share of tacky, bargain basement gore, but alas, no nudity. Still, it's good to see that the crew, led by writer / director T. L. P. Swicegood (you gotta love that name), and the cast are never at any point really taking themselves seriously. There's a dark and wacky sense of humour present from beginning to end. For one thing, hunky and sleazy private eye Harry Glass (James Westmoreland, "Don't Answer the Phone!") just can't seem to hold on to a secretary. Appreciably, this runs a scant 63 minutes (another similarity to HGL product because *his* movies usually didn't run that long); the pacing is good and there are a respectable amount of laughs to be had.The performances are just like the movie. They may not be that "good", but they sure are entertaining. Sexy blonde Warrene Ott is both a pleasing scenery attraction and a personable leading lady. But the show belongs to the amusing Dannis and the guys playing Spike and Doc. They do look to be having fun playing sadistic and insane.The final minute or so delivers an engaging curtain call for certain characters - as well as a number of winks for the audience.Eight out of 10.
morrison-dylan-fan Talking to a family about Horror movies that I've recently viewed,I was happily caught by surprise,when he passed me a Grindhouse double bill.Checking the running times,I found out that one of the titles was only 63 minutes long,which led to me deciding that it would be the perfect time to meet the undertaker.The plot:Breaking into her apartment,a biker gang kill Sally Lamb.At the funeral the undertaker reveals to the Lamb family that he had to give Sally plastic legs,due to the gang having chopped her legs off.As the funeral is taking place, detective Harry Glass visits a local café,where the special of the day is "Leg of Lamb."Finding the meat to taste odd,Glass starts to investigate the café,which opened shortly after the funeral parlour started to have a sudden rush in booming business.View on the film:Cut down from its original running time,writer/director T.L.P. Swicegood cooks up a bonkers mix of grisly splatter and Silent-Movie style skits.Made on a very low budget, Swicegood gives the screenplay a deep[ Black Comedy cut,as modern day Sweeney Todd's slaughter any dame that catches their sight.Whilst he stacks the bodies high, Swicegood gives the splashes of blood a washed-up,dry appearance.which gives the movie a rather strange Kitsch atmosphere,which is joined by very funny, wooden performances,as Glass meets the undertakers pals.
tommywilley47 This movie is awesome. i love old school cinema. i love the absolute cheesiness of this film and how it is proud to flaunt it with no shame at all. My only problem with this movie is i wish it was a little longer. if it were an hour and a half instead of just over an hour they could have added some more gore or some extended funeral home scenes which were really funny in a really mean way. i also found it amusing how two of the girls who were killed and cooked up at the diner happened to have the last names "lamb" and "poultry". I know a lot of you are going to rip on this movie and its too bad cause i find it to be a really unique film for its time or any other time for that matter.give it a shot. if you like it you do and if you don't then you don't.
Kenneth Eagle Spirit Built around puns and sight gags this film is a sort of treasure. Sick humor, the players do a good job. None of them are accomplished actors or actresses but that actually seems to lend itself well to the characters themselves. Some times a little inexperience comes across in a positive way when the goal is silliness anyway. No tongue in cheek here, unless you just bought a tongue sandwich at the corner dinner and are still chewing, its all straight forward slap stick. For quality of production and etc. I would compare it to "Little Shop of Horrors". Its just plain funny. Not a great flick, but not a bad one either. All of it works well enough, and certain of the scenes show an actual flair for photography and staging. Which helps make it as cool as it is.