Overview: A young country boy is plunged into the depths of homicidal madness after witnessing the strange exploits of a carnival geek, a caged drunk so desperate for whisky that he bites the heads off live chickens in front of a freak show audience.

Thirty years later, Luther is all grown up and out on parole, after spending his childhood behind bars for a series of grisly murders. Armed with only a pair of razor-sharp metal dentures and only able to communicate through chicken clucks, Luther restarts his bloody rampage as he terrorizes the citizens of a small town and takes a young mother and her family hostage in their isolated farmhouse.

Featuring one of the most intense endings ever put on film, Luther the Geek is good gory fun in the splatter flick tradition of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Toxic Avenger.

Blu-ray Verdict: One thing’s for sure: there aren’t a lot of horror movies like this one! If this is a good or a bad thing is for you to decide. Although Luther The Geek isn’t your average splatter film, it obeys the basic rules of the genre and provides its viewer with all the classic ingredients.

There is the psycho killer, remorseless and cruel, slashing his victims’ neck with razor sharp metal teeth. There is the woman living isolated on a farm in the middle of nowhere, resembling the perfect victim. There is her beautiful, busty daughter who brings along her college boyfriend for some nude and even sex scenes. And there is the small-town cop, who heroically takes on the killer all by himself due to his evident lack of intelligence.

It’s all there - yet this movie definitely is different. You’ll quickly recognize the unusually silent atmosphere. Furthermore, the movie maintains a slow pace which reinforces the intensity of the pictures and leaves the viewer alone with the strange and sometimes pretty sick action he is forced to witness.

A good example is the opening sequence when little Luther meets the chicken killing circus geek in a dark barn. There is no distraction from the picture, no cheap dialogue to fill the silence, no fast cuts. In a time when the typical splatter movie maintains a fast pace, has a high frequency of cuts, is filled with senseless dialogues, with screams and dramatic music, Luther The Geek manages to disturb its viewer by doing quite the opposite. And if this wasn’t enough, Luther’s behavior does the rest, walking around clucking like a chicken throughout the whole movie.

I don’t know if you should consider Luther The Geek a classic but it’s certainly a memorable movie you won’t forget that easily. If you’re really into horror movies and especially into those that are somewhat strange and different from mainstream films, you’ll like this one. If you’re looking for a cool scary movie, well, please go and look somewhere else. Anyway, if you consider yourself a splatter film fan you just have to give this one a try! [M.G.]

Special Features:
Original Lloyd Kaufman DVD Intro
Carlton J. Albright’s Blu-Ray Intro
Director’s Commentary with Carlton J. Albright
Classic Interview With Director Carlton J. Albright
Classic Interview with William Albright
A Conversation With Carlton: An Interview With Carlton Albright
Fowl Play: An Interview With Jerry Clarke
Fowl Takes
Troma’s Freak Show
INNARDS! Music Video
Radiation March

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