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Man, it’s been a dead year so far for Cinema Stench, but I think Granny Mildred might have a home remedy for that...

Abby (Alicia Clark) is a young woman who responds to an online add posted by an elderly lady, Mildred (Donna Swensen), looking for extra assistance around the house. She is hired on the spot by the seemingly sweet yet peculiar granny, giving Abby much needed employment as well as some eye candy in Mildred’s handsome young grandson, Jace. Little does she know that strange and macabre things are happening behind locked doors. Murder, cannibalism, and necrophilia also reside in this quaint country home, and it’s only a matter of time before Abby stumbles upon Mildred’s bad side. 

Directed by Jacob Ennis and released by Bloody Earth Films, Kill, Granny, Kill is a quick little shocker in the vain of Funeral Home and Splatter Farm. The concept of having an unstable but kind-hearted old maid as a film’s villain has probably ruined me for bed and breakfasts. However, such might not be the case in this film, and it all comes down to granny Mildred. Oh, I can totally buy into that she is a granny. She does have that adorably sweet quality about her I recognize from every grandmother I’ve ever known, but the campy, B-grade nature that is so inherent in a title like this really shifts into gear when it’s time for granny to get down to the bloody business, and thus loses its tension. Old Mildred could use a bit more menace during these parts. Fairing not much better is her grandson, who displays such lack of personality that he might as well not be in the picture at all. 

As a film that can provide chills and unease, Kill, Granny, Kill falls a tad short. As a tongue-in-cheek cult film that can provide dark comedy and morbid laughter, on the other hand, it also barely misses the mark. Mildred’s one-liners as she hacks her victims with an old, rusty axe are awful (as they should be, don’t get me wrong) and very out of her character. She is not a wise-cracking, sardonic old cuss, so these puns and quips feel so unnecessary and misused. The other characters here are also pretty superficial and underwhelming but do manage to bring some life into the proceedings, like Alicia Clark’s improvised drunkenness during Abby’s sex scene and a homeless man’s wide-eyed, stuttering rant. Despite all of these things that would bring any normal movie down hard, KGK still gets by with a passing grade for being exactly what the poster art will have you expect.

The gore effects in Kill, Granny, Kill are wet, gruesome, practically achieved, and completely tasteless. I mentioned two movies in the beginning, Funeral Home and Splatter Farm. At first I was getting the feeling that there was not going to be a lot of action in this movie, much like the former. Then I was assaulted with a pretty harrowing dungeon scene that had me quickly reassess the movie’s potential, much like the latter. The film knows when to throw the left hook when you aren’t expecting it. The minimalist ambient synth score is effective for this type of picture, and there are hints of nice, Argento-style lighting that pop up here and there. And as a whole, this film is put together and directed smoothly and competently, making it an easy low-budget slasher film to enjoy without too much strain. 

Kill, Granny, Kill! (2014) (DVD Review)

Kill, Granny, Kill! (2014) (DVD Review) Directed By: Jacob Ennis Starring: Donna SwensenAlicia M. ClarkT.J. Pack Rated: UR/Region: O/Widescreen/Number of disc: 1 Available from Bloody Earth Films

Answering an in-home help ad for an elderly woman, Abby Daniels leaves family and friends for a remote farmhouse in the country. But all is not as it seems with her fluffy employer, whose locked doors…

Kill, Granny, Kill! is a 2014 US horror movie co-written and directed Jacob Ennis (Stash, Hillbilly Bloodbath). It stars Donna Swenson, Alicia M. Clark and T.J. Pack and is a Camp Motion Pictures production.

  The film is released in the US on DVD and Digital on 21 April 21 2015 by Alternative Cinema. Special features include a director commentary, outtakes and a trailer vault.

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KILL, GRANNY, KILL! Coming April 21. 2015 from Camp Motion Pictures

Look Who Granny’s Having for Dinner

  KILL, GRANNY, KILL!

Slashing its Way to DVD and Digital April 21, 2015

Watch the Trailer Here

December 18, 2014 New York, NY – From director Jacob Ennis (Stash, Hillbilly Bloodbath) comes a shocking new entry in exploitation cinema!  Kill, Granny, Killstars newcomer Donna Swenson as Mildred Mays, the fluffy yet formidable matriarch of a murderous tribe of…

Una abuelita muy ruda: “Kill, Granny, Kill!”

Hay algunas abueltitas que no son tan dulces y hacen tejidos, existen algunas a las que les gusta la sangre. El director Jacob Ennis nos brinda la película Kill, Granny, Kill!, repleta de gore proporcionado por la abuelita más enloquecida y perversa del cine.

Es protagonizada por Kayla Perkins, Kristine Renee Farlay y Jason Crowe.

  SINOPSIS

Abby Daniels deja a su familia para irse a vivir a una…

@:04 of this trailer for the horror movie “Kill Granny Kill” - logo created for Tuckywood Productions. Going for a old school 80’s vhs vibe.