Demented Death Farm Massacre (1971)

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(Foreign Titles)

Nomination Year: 2017

SYNOPSIS: This movie represents the triumph of banjos over optimism.

Four diamond thieves need to lay low for a while, so they force themselves into the house of a country bumpkin with a sexy young wife. Hijinx do not ensue, but horrible acting does. If we take “acting” to be synonymous with “hollering in a vexatious manner.”

No one is killed with a scythe, or by hanging. There is a farm, but it is in no way a “death farm.” Nor is there a massacre. Demented only serves to describe the people who made this film.

Kevin Hogan

Smithee Award Nominations

Worst Cover Copy

Front cover: That woman, that man, not in the movie. Those clothes? Not in the movie. No one is killed with a scythe. Or by hanging. There are no goats, chickens, cows, barn, silo, tractor, fields. No big gnarled tree, although the house is in the woods (not out on the plains). Back cover: Tag line is cheesy. And inaccurate. The whole country bumpkin through dimwitted husband thing is wrong. Tagline #2 is also cheesy. And inaccurate. But there are diamond thieves from the city driving a Jeep.

Sorry, this cover has not yet been made available!

Acting Appropriately Stupid
"I never seen a gun like that before. Can I see it?"	Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

Worst Acting
Hooker Berates Moonshiner Black Madame talks trash (badly) to moonshiner.	Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

Directors

Director	Claim to Fame
Donn Davison	from Kentucky; was both a yo-yo champion and a professional magician
Fred Olen Ray	If there's a contender for worst, most prolific Bad Director ever to (dis)grace Hollywood, he might be second only to Roger Corman. Oh, AND he wrestles under the name "Fabulous" Freddy Valentine.

Cast

Actor	Character	Claim to Fame
George Ellis	<Not Yet in Database>	despite his performance as "Harlan P. Craven" in Demented Death Farm Massacre, they let him act again.
Jim Peck	<Not Yet in Database>	Demented Death Farm MassacreM.cite> was his first role, and he has other scattered film credits up through 1997.
Pepper Thurston	<Not Yet in Database>	The first of two imdb credits. In the other, she plays "Big Girl."


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