Mardi Gras Massacre

1978
Not Rated
1h 37min

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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre languePolice try to capture someone who is commiting ritual murders of women during Mardi Gras in New Orleans.Police try to capture someone who is commiting ritual murders of women during Mardi Gras in New Orleans.Police try to capture someone who is commiting ritual murders of women during Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

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3,9/10

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Anecdotes
The film was listed as one of the DPP's 72 video nasties in the UK and even made the final list of 39 official titles for prosecution. It was finally released in January 2023 by 88 Films, 45 years after its original release.

Gaffes
Just before the scene changes after the first sacrifice scene, the victim clearly starts moving and opens her mouth to breathe. This is after she remains motionless once her heart is removed.

Citations
John: Good evening, ladies. I'm new in the city, and I'm looking for something... different!
Sherry: Well, if you've gor the money, you can buy anything you want; of all sizes, colors if the price is right.
John: Well, as I said, I'm looking for something... special, and I'm very willing to pay for it.
[shows a wad of bills]
Amer: Hum! For that kind of money, you may buy anything you want.
John: Tell me... Out of all the ladies in this bar tonight, who do you think is the most... evil?
Sherry: Evil?
[pause, looking round]
Sherry: The most evil without a doubt is... Shirley.
John: Then, it's her I want.

Versions alternatives
Is available on a Region-Free DVD in the USA, released by 'Videoscreen'. This is the full uncut version

Connexions
Featured in Dusk to Dawn Drive-In Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 2 (1996)

Bandes originales
High on Love
(uncredited)
Written and performed by Dennis Coffey

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Gorefest in New Orleans

My review was written in May 1984 after a screening at Selwyn theater on Manhattan's 42nd St.

"Mardi Gras Massacre" had the makings of an atmospheric B-movie set in New Orleans, but emerges as a mee Grand Guignol exercise reminiscent of Herschel Gordon Lre7744ewis ("Blood Feast") pictures of the 1960s. Extremely obscure feature is not listed in any fantasy reference books or film production charts but appers to been lensed circa 1978.l Story concerns an unnamed nutcase who seeks out "evil" prostitutes and ritualistically sacrifices them on Tuesdays to an Aztec goddess whose name translates as "The Lady of the Serpent Skirt". This leads up to Fat Tuesday (i.e., Mardi Gras), when he plans a three-girl sacrifice. Frank, the cop on the case, falls in love with a heat-of-gold blond prostie named Shelley while he incompetently tries to track down the killer. Not surprisingly, Shelley (who proves to be amazingly forgetful, having met the killer at film's opening) is one of the three potential Mardi Gras victims until Frank and cohorts come to the rescue.

Location lensing at bars and strip-joints plus some flavorful quirky performances (particularly an ofay pimp who has his rhyming slang down pat) are "Massacre"'s high pints. Unfortunately, the pic's raison d'etre consists of repetitive gore stagings in which the killer ties each nude prostitute to a table, ceremonially cuts her hand and foot and then (switch to closeup of a well-matched rubber model torso) cuts open her chest to remove the heart as a sacrifice. Target audience for this old-hat attempt at shock is very limited.

Filmmaker Jack Weis directed a black-oriented period picture "Quadroon" in 1971 and announced an ambitious (bu apparently unrealized) project entitled "Storyville" in 1973, the milieu later captured in Louis Malle's "Pretty Baby". With "Massacre", he has taken the low road, which leads directly to obscurity.