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Undertaker & His Pals

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the 1967 version was much more gorier than this one , it showed the girl on the fence without boobs and that was for the breast of chicken, the leg of lamb well there was more to it than it is now , all in all the movie has left out a lot of parts since i saw it in 1967 myself.the movie now is just fast and dumb. i have it on vhs and dvd, and neither one of them are like it was in 1967,, but oh well if you want it in your collection i would advise to buy it , for a much cheaper price then most have of course,,good luck and enjoy,,,,,

This is without a doubt the dumbest hour I ever spent, and I loved every minute. Who couldn't love the humble undertaker, he's just trying to make a living and no one wants extras these days. This film works on many levels and has so much social, entertainment, and educational value, I don't know where to begin.

Check out the awful sound sinc when the chick fires the gun out the window. She fires twice, then you hear two bangs, THEN she thrusts her hips twice. Classic.

The undertaker loses his license plate, gets wounded and is about to be dumped in acid, when suddenly he helps Doc kill Mort in the acid. Did anyone catch this? Why did they do this?

How did the undertaker survuve a jump off a six story building and walk away without a scratch?

How did the undertaker take a leap at Thursday from two feet away and miss? She didn't even move!

What happened to Detective Glass in the end? Thursday ends up with the fat dude?

In 1967 gas was $0.32 a gallon? WOW.

This film leaves me in awe everytime I watch it. Next time I got a hankerin' for Leg of Lamb, Chicken Breast, or Hambur-Ger, I'm gonna get my butt down to the Greasy Spoon!

THE UNDERTAKER AND HIS PALS is about a trio of bikers (Doc, Spike, and Mort) who live only to find unwary citizens to slaughter in grizzly ways. This is both logical and beneficial to our three fiends, since Doc and Spike add certain severed limbs of their victims to the menu of their diner (The Greasy Spoon), and Mort is a mortician who charges the victims' families big bucks to dispose of the leftovers. Our merry band of psychos have no redeeming qualities whatsoever, but boy are they hilarious! Just check out the "coffin" Mort puts on display for his bargain funeral! Enter detective Harry Glass, inept sleuth with a face that is best described as a James Brolin / Adam West hybrid. His gift seems to be getting beautiful assistants murdered without noticing. For the year it was made, TUAHP is a gorehounds dream. Fortunately, there is so much jet-black humor that the intentionally excessive bloodletting becomes (almost) funny. Highly recommended for adults only...

...Well, this film is FAR FAR from that, but it is entertaining! Way to go to VCI for offering us interesting DVD's for people bored of Hollywood garbage they continue to pump on us. Hey folks, the film is CHEAPO, but it's entertaining...The foot in the meat grinder is pretty grizzly...a very high splatter count! Also this DVD contains the original theatrical trailer (AMAZING!) and some other horror trailers that VCI has their hands on! Grab the credit card, this is a fun disk. The print is so-so, but it's adds to the "feel" of the film man! Pirate copies have floated around years before, but now get a legit one that looks awesome. GRAB IT!!!

It seems with most old B-horror films, the trailer is better than the actual film. Not this time! The trailer is great, but the film is 100 times better. The best part is the autopsy scene with the undertaker's pals, Doc and Spike. Very funny! The best line is Doc's,as he's playing with a victim's guts, "Isn't she beautiful inside?" The soundtrack's great too.

The Undertaker and his Pals, an unsung B-movie heavily hinging the horrific with huge helpings of comedic relief, was something of a joy to watch. In fact, everyone I've showed it to thusfar - myself included - has found most of it, with the exception of the occasionally overdrawn chase scene or the moments when we have too much of driving cars/roving motorcycles, utterly intoxicating. I personally liked the move because it doesn't try to hide the facts within a cheaply insulting plot, opting instead to have fun with the concepts themselves and not with the frustration of the viewer.

Our tale begins with three bikers as they begin a reign of terror, one starting with them randomly locating the name of a potential victim in a phone book lovingly supplied in their friendly neighborhood telephone booth. There they locate the name of a Ms. Lamb, cruise on over to her home in their less-than-suspicious bikerwear (leather jacket, helmet, goggles, and cute little iron-on skull-and-crossbone insignias), and promptly being mutilating - I mean operating, keeping the legs and leaving the rest. Cut to our main character, a detective that lives to love the ladies, and his secretary as they go to the local diner, The Greasy Spoon, run by the illustrious Doc and Spike. The Detective decides to order the special of the day, leg of lamb, as his spicy secretary, Ms. Poultry, gets rude with Spike. Then, as another insult, the detective refuses to try the lamb, telling Spike that he's not sure what they're trying to pass off on their customers, while Ms. Poultry threatens to call the health department before the two depart. This, of course, leads to a new specialty item, breast of chicken, later on. Over the course of the movie we also learn about the Undertaker, Spike and Docs, friend, and his shady practices, the reason that Doc was kicked out of medical school, why women shouldn't hang out with detectives if they value their lives, how meals our named to add a little sarcasm to the killing and grilling business, and that the local police department/detectives in this movie are obviously as responsible, through bumbling, for the murders as the killers themselves.

The only unfortunate that the DVD has to offer is its quality, something I would have liked a bit more of, but asking that of a cheaper movie is asking a lot. Besides, it isn't too terrible and the movie itself, rolling punchlines through a veritable valley of gore, makes this issue only a small nuisance during an otherwise overly enjoyable experience.

I love this movie, it is one of those movies where everything is amataur,
Obviously everyone involved with this movie had a great time making it and the low production value and high spirits make it a fun filed ride for me.
I love it so much I am buying the DVD version despite have it on vhs for years. I love the casting in it and the idea of a "motorcycle gang" on Honda 50s or 90s barely more than a moped a hoot.
Great movie with a cheeseberger and beer.

This film was released as a second feature to "The Corpse Grinders" in the early seventies. It mixes comedy and horror, and the end result is a campy diversion from the explicit slice- and dice fare that followed soon after.

I happened to stumble across this little gem in a Horror movie DVD collection I bought during Halloween. It was the best DVD collection I ever bought, not only because of all the movies that came with it but also because it exposed me to the the highly enjoyable, UNDERTAKER AND HIS PALS. One night I just decided to watch this one, mainly because of the off beat sounding title and was pleasantly surprised!

The movie goes by fast with tons of bad jokes, horrible camera angels, bright red buckets of gore, terrible sound quality, off timed vocal dubbing and many more things that most people would try and avoid doing while making a movie. Not only does the "cheese" factor makes this a breezy experience but the movie itself is only about an hour long! Whoever made this movie was obviously just trying to cash in on teenage crowds going to their local sleazy Drive-In theaters and nothing more.

The actual movie plot is pretty ridiculous, an undertaker has joined up with a couple of low rent diner goons with a scheme to kill young people. They serve some of the bodies up as food in the diner and then dress the rest of the corpse up with expensive clothing and make their families pay high prices at the funeral. Meanwhile, the undertaker is the "brains" behind the whole operation, if you can call it that.

If all of this sounds pretty stupid, that's because it is. THE UNDERTAKER AND HIS PALS is the type of movie that you watch at 2 o'clock in the morning with your best friends, while totally drunk. Everything about the movie is so bad that it just kinda' captivates you from the moment it starts to the moment it's finished. This is an early example of a real "Grindhouse" movie. The copy I own is of such bad quality that it almost makes it worth while, mainly because of that old school vintage look.

Every single person I've shown this movie to has totally enjoyed it. It's one of those "it's so bad, it's good" type of movies. I even think it's better and more enjoyable than PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE! Gore hounds have a few scenes to enjoy here and there. One being a pretty silly death involving a woman in a steam room getting beaten to death with a rusty chain! Sure, it's not gory like HELLRAISER or THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE but for the time period, it does boast a good amount of splatter. Fans of good and serious Horror might want to avoid this movie, mainly because it's so bad that you'll end up hating it more than anything else. If you don't mind awful acting, terrible camera work, bad editing and messy gore, then you may actually like this movie.

My best advice, just watch the movie!

I saw this movie back when it was showing on the big screen (outdoors at a drive-in: for those of you under thirty years old, yes they really did exist!) I spent the whole time in stitches. This movie is a real hoot! Unfortunately the tape is of poor quality, although that is to be expected with a film of this type; yet it is certainly watchable. And still very funny. After seeing this movie you will never feel quite the same about dining out...or funeral homes...or, well, life in general. It's a slasher movie, but not your run of the mill type. Actually it's a "cut" above the rest (oh no, there goes my sharp wit again.) I won't spoil it by telling you anything about the plot. You'll have to watch it if you want to know.