CORPSE EATERS (1974) – Episode 240 – Decades of Horror 1970s

“Lucifer! Lucifer! Barabas! Barabas! By Santanica, Santanica! Come! Come! Etcetera?” Keep it down in there! Sounds like you’re trying to raise the dead. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Bill Mulligan, Chad Hunt, Gregory Crosby, and Jeff Mohr – as they discuss Corpse Eaters (1974), a microbudget Canadian horror flick with a micro-release.

Decades of Horror 1970s
Episode 240 – Corpse Eaters (1974)

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Synopsis: Some young folks decide on a whim to spend the night in a graveyard where they perform a séance and raise the dead, who begin eating freshly killed humans. Or is the mortician just drunk?

• Directors: Donald R. Passmore, Klaus Vetter
• Writers: Lawrence Zazelenchuk and Klaus Vetter (screenplay); Alan Nicholson (additional dialogue)
• Selected Cast:
  • Michael Hopkins
  • Ed LeBreton
  • Terry London
  • Michael Krizanc
  • Helina Carson
  • Douglas Deering
  • Gary Stevens
  • Bill Sharen
  • Louise Parr
  • Bill Costello
  • Cathy Hickey
  • Ted Majkot
  • Peter Travaglini
  • Doris Costello
  • Chris Kemp
  • Alan Epps
  • Paula Giroux

Corpse Eaters (1974) is the brainchild of Lawrence Zazelenchuk, a drive-in theater owner and erstwhile nickel miner in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, who decided to make a horror film he could show in his drive-in. This micro-budget dreck is a sight to behold, but please take that figuratively, not literally. Unfocused visuals, an undecipherable story, a laughable gimmick, poor effects, filler galore, and a cast of one-time actors in terms of IMDb credits make Corpse Eaters easily the worst of the 240 films the ’70s Grue Crew has covered. Unlike Godmonster of Indian Flats (1973) or Fury of the Wolfman (1972), there is nothing about this one that has any redeeming value… well, except for our talkabout. This might be the exception when you would be better off taking in our discussion before deciding to invest your time watching Corpse Eaters. We’re just sayin’.

At the time of this writing, Corpse Eaters (1974) is available to stream from Tubi.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1970s is part of the Decades of Horror two-week rotation with The Classic Era and the 1980s. In two weeks, the next ‘70s episode, chosen by Bill, will be The Last Dinosaur (1974), starring Richard Boone, Joan Van Ark, Steven Keats, and Luther Rackley. This time, rather than stop motion animation, the dinosaur of the title is of the man-in-suit variety in this joint production from Rankin/Bass Productions and Tsuburaya Productions. 

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