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Mardi Gras Massacre (1978)-A textbook example of a film that's so bad it's good. You have classy characters; the nerdy pimp who only talks in rhymes, the killer asking hookers if they are "evil", the cop who's only interested in catching the killer when his love interest is in jeopardy and suddenly springs into action when he discovers this. Comparisons with HG Lewis's "Blood Feast" are inevitable but honestly how people took this film seriously enough to be offended by it and so becoming a video nasty is beyond my comprehension. There's only one gore scene and it is repeated for every murder so it's the laziness of that which I found a little shocking. Cheap, cheerful, with bucketloads of sleaze and dry one liners such as the killer ordering chinese takeaway "And.............a fortune cookie" make this a lot of fun to watch :)
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