The Severed Arm

Starring:Walley, Carr, Cannon, Kaplan
Studio: Brentwood Home Video
Product Type: DVD

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Flesh Feast
A DVD with 'Taste'
3 B movies for one cheap price

Great Cannibal Classics (The Undertaker And His Pals / The Severed Arm / I Eat Your Skin)
Starring: Great Cannibal Classics
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ASIN: B00006BSDD
Release Date: 2002-08-27

Customer Reviews:

Flesh Feast.......2006-01-09

I have a 4 pak called Flesh Feast with these same films. Let's take each film one by one:
Slave of the Cannibal God-Stacy Keach and original Bond Girl Ursula Andrews. This film was a pretty good adventure film. Some great scenery and pretty enjoyable. 3 stars
The Severed Arm-Not bad, pretty funny and pretty corney but that is ok. 2 stars
I eat your skin-Silly fun movie that takes place on a fictional island where voodoo creates the living dead. 2 stars
The Undertaker and His Pals- Now this is a funny movie. And like someone else stated the Hip Thrusting still has me wondering as well, but that is the silly comedy of this film. The opening scene where the picture of the sailor changes from happy to shock as he sees his girlfriend murdered was creative and funny. I give this film 3 stars. Overall I give the pak 3 stars, would only recommend for people who like silly, creative older films.

A DVD with 'Taste'.......2004-11-11

Although that was a pun, the selection of movies on this DVD is on the tamer side of cannibal movies. If this upsets someone because they get turned on by movies where animals are slaughtered and women are brutalized, they should seek therapy. There are three movies on this single-sided DVD. 1) 'The Undertaker and His Pals': A campy movie that is thankfully not too long. This movie answers the question, "What happens when you cross Lorenzo Semple, Jr. with H. G. Lewis?". Nobody asked that question but we still got an answer. 'The Undertaker and His Pals tries hard (too hard) at times to be funny. At times it succeeds and at times it falls flat on it's face. I did find humor and some laugh out loud moments in this movie. Some funny moments were intentional, some not, some I had trouble figuring out which (the hip thrusting recoil scene still has me wondering). I found this movie enjoyable enough to watch for it's short 63 minute runtime. It pretty much falls into the category of so bad it's good. If you do not enjoy that type of movie, you probably will not enjoy this. The simple plot of this movie centers on the owners of a diner and a undertaker who plot to kill women for food for the diner and a burial scam for the undertaker (effectively and annoyingly played by Ray Dannis not Ray Dennis as some DVDs have listed him). This also involves a P.I. and a secretary who becomes food and a secretary they want for food (and no, I am not going to make a remark about that, fill in your own blanks). 2) 'The Severed Arm': Several men are trapped in a cave-in. As time passes starvation sets in. The trapped men draw lots to see who will sacrifice a limb so the others can have food. Unfortunately, now for the one-armed man, rescue comes shortly thereafter leaving a bad memory for one survivor and a lingering revenge against the others. To help confuse matters, this movie features Roy Dennis (not Ray Dennis or Ray Dannis). 3) 'I Eat Your Skin', a.k.a. 'Voodoo Blood Bath': This movie was titled 'I Eat Your Skin' to double-bill with 'I Drink Your Blood' in 1971. This at times was gory for the times but nothing like the title suggests. A doctor (call him mad if you want) conducting experiments on a Caribean island (sound familiar) for a cure for cancer instead ends up creating a bunch of bugged eyed zombies. These zombies are not flesheaters as the title suggests but drag people off, beat them, etc. Thankfully there is nobody with the last name of Dennis or Dannis in this movie.-- Aside from the three feature films, this DVD also contains trivia about real ife cannibals. The quality is at or better than VHS and looks good on a 20" TV screen. Please do not eat the DVD.-Bob

3 B movies for one cheap price.......2004-01-02

First of all, I should point out that all 3 of these movies are also available on a collection called "Flesh Feast" that also includes "Slave of the Cannibal God." Haven't seen "Flesh Feast" so I don't know if the picture quality is better or worse. You do get a menu on this DVD with actual facts about real-life cannibals, for what it's worth.

That said, "Great Cannibal Classics" is typical of these cheap multi-movie sets: no-frills versions of the movies, no widescreen, etc. I guess if you were to buy these movies individually you might get a better version w/more extras, but this is a cheap way to get exposure to these movies without paying lots of $$$.

The best one on here is "The Undertaker and His Pals." Fans of Herschell Gordon Lewis need to see this one; it's got the mixture of blood and horribly acted 1960's comedy-shock-horror that gave his movies their distinctive flavor. If I didn't know otherwise I would have sworn he directed this one, although it's a little less gory than most of his films. It's about an evil undertaker that supplies the diner next door (actually named the "Greasy Spoon!") with fresh meat. Really hilarious, especially the ending when they show all the actors. Must be seen to be believed.

Then there's "The Severed Arm," some 70's B-trash about men trapped in a cave-in. On the verge of starving to death, they cut off one guy's arm. Five years later, a guy with a hatchet hunts them down one by one. Not as much blood as I had hoped for, and parts of the film can be damn slow. But it has that 70's cheesy charm to it (especially the weird synthesizer soundtrack), and there's a great twisted ending that makes it all worthwhile. Great for fans of cheap horror films that would have played in the 42nd Street grindhouses.

Finallly, "I Eat Your Skin." Apparently this one ran on a double bill with "I Drink Your Blood," which I've never seen. It's 60's black and white island zombie nonsense, where the zombies' bug-eyes look like Muppet style ping-pong ball halves. Don't expect good makeup here. Worth it for the unintentional laughs, especially the action hero lead who womanizes like James Bond. Pretty grainy picture quality.

Customer Reviews:

A b-movie gem :-).......2006-11-01

A great b movie.Has your typical 1970's blood and gore.Not so much as to make you think it was "over done". The story starts out with a man receiving a mysterious package. Guess what? It's a severed arm! Yikes! Then the story goes backward in time to when 6 Men are trapped in a mine shaft. Time is running out so they make a decision to draw strips of paper and the one with the shortest has to lose his arm to save the other 5 from starvation. Ironically they are saved as Ted Rodgers' arm is being amputated and now a psycho-killer is running around killing off the rest of the group and removing the arm of its victims. Who is this psycho-killer? Is it Ted seeking vengeance? Will Detective Mark find the killer in time? Also there is a nice twist at the end. Picture and sound quality good for a b-movie.

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Worth it just for the first film
Wrong!

I Bury the Living/The Severed Arm

Manufacturer: Diamond Ent. Corp.
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Worth it just for the first film.......2007-03-19

I picked up this low-price DVD because "I Bury the Living" was recommended to me, and the small price was well worth the good quality of this 1958 suspense/horror movie. Although in B&W, the picture quality is very good, as is the sound, and the entire film has all the earmarks of a high standard production such as good use of lighting and shadow, various visual effects, professional actors and a clever, well-planned script. The story moves along at a good pace as it escalates in suspense, and Richard Boone is very effective in portraying the psychological turmoil his character experiences when faced with a situation reminiscent of sticking pins into a voodoo doll. The idea is quite brilliant and would surely appeal to viewers who prefer an intelligent horror/thriller/supernatural theme without gory and gruesome scenes, but with enough strangeness to stretch the imagination. In this story, the pins are put into a cemetery map to denote people: black pins for the dead, and white ones for those who have purchased a cemetery plot but are still living. The suspense begins as soon as Boone, the new cemetery director, puts black pins into the map instead of white, resulting in the sudden death of those people. The viewer relates to his anguish as he becomes convinced that he has some supernatural powers causing these deaths and begins to wonder if replacing black with white pins will bring those ones back to life. Just on the verge of desperation and suicide, there is a twist that many of you won't see coming, and it may be satisfying or disappointing - depending on your expectations. In any case, this is a refreshingly good, clever and well-made horror/suspense film worthy of 4 stars, but together with the other film, "The Severed Arm" this DVD only averages 3 stars.

In total contrast to "I Bury the Living" in every aspect, "The Severed Arm" was obviously made on a very small budget in 1973 and is quite simply the worst film I've seen in a long time. It is mediocre at best, extremely dull and flat with poor lighting and even poorer script delivered by average actors. Even the sound seems to be of rather low quality, and there is very little suspense in this predictable plot, even though the ending does have a bit of a twist. I can imagine that the story itself could be salvaged with a much better script and more inventive directing, making it a psychological thriller about the long-term effects of a desperate act to cut off and eat a man's arm after a group of men were trapped in a cave-in for over a week and were starving to death. Some years later, a mysterious axe-wielding attacker takes revenge on the members of that party by chopping off their arms, but the climax shows that things are not as they seem. Nevertheless, the twist at the end doesn't save the film from barely rating 2 stars, and it seems a shame to have this low quality budget movie on the same DVD as "I Bury the Living" unless it serves only to show by contrast just how good the latter film really is! For such a low-priced DVD it still has some extra features and is overall pretty good quality, so it is definitely worth the few dollars just for a good film like "I Bury the Living".

Wrong!.......2004-08-30

I recently purchased this DVD based on the other reviewer's recommendation and especially for the "Saturday night at the movies" mode that he/she talks about. Well I got news for ya - there is no Saturday night at the movies mode. I have no idea what the reviewer was watching, but it was definitely not this DVD. Just a heads up.

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The Severed Arm

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Product Description

Trapped in a cave, five men cut the arm off of another companion in order to ward off starvation. After they are saved, their victim seeks revenge on them one by one.

Good Against Evil (1977)/Severed Arm (1973)

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Good Against Evil (1977)/Severed Arm (1973)
Starring: Good Against Evil (1977)/Severed Arm (1973)
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