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A venereal disease turns an entire town of two-timing mothers into cannibals! full summary | add synopsis
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Robert Lee Oliver ... Jeff Nathan
Donatella Hecht ... Linda Douglas
Neal Rosen ... Rinaldi Vivaldo

Valorie Hubbard ... Joyce Shepard
Terry Hayes ... Timmy Nolan
Katherine Mayfield ... Sylvia Douglas
Suzanne Ehrlich ... Rita Vivaldo
Louis Homyak ... Roddy Douglas
Ken Eaton ... Commissioner Dixon
Alley Ninestein ... Mrs. Shepard
Michael Fuer ... Dr. Lee Grouly
Mickey Ross ... Cylde McDormick
Grace Pettwohn ... Booty Bernett
Tony DeRiso ... Frankie Lemmonjello
Marie Michaels ... Lous McDormick
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Factual errors: In the STD check-up scene, it is revealed that the disease is caused by a virus, but in the end it is cured with penicillin, an antibiotic, which only fight bacterial infections, and would have no effect on a virus. more
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Rinaldi Vivaldo: What are we supposed to do? Stay here and have our asses chewed out by our mothers? more
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Desperate Housewives on Acid, 16 December 2009
7/10
Author: Coventry from the Draconian Swamp of Unholy Souls

Depending on your state of mind and personal standards (obviously mine were very low this time), "Flesh Eating Mothers" can be considered a delightful and charming low-budget late 80's splatter comedy. Of course this is pretty stupid, but if you go into this expected anything else than inane and offensive trash, you only have yourselves to blame people! In a happy little suburban community, the middle-aged mommies suddenly all synchronously develop cannibalistic appetites and begin to devour their husbands and children. The cause of all this tomfoolery is a venereal infection caused by overactive and hyper-sleazy jogging Casanova. Oh he's quite the "stud", all right, especially with his massively hairy chest and smooth talking skills. The adolescents try to fight back, as well as a fugitive copper (the first reasonable man to shoots his cannibalistic wife straight through the head) and a really short coroner. "Flesh Eating Mothers" is a nice and tacky time-waster with cheesy gore effects that are explicit but nevertheless too absurd to shock anyone. For example, there's a particular sequence in which a bunch of women literally tear apart a security guard. The scene is gross but at the same time quite hilarious. Yeah, the execution is pretty clumsy, but hey, at least this film is a lot better than the similarly themed (but also enjoyable) "Rabid Grannies". The teenager characters are surprisingly likable and the goofy soundtrack is irresistibly cheerful. Also, the script contains a lot of really lame and clichéd humor that you can't help but laugh at. Even if they're cannibals, the women remain concerned whether or not they turned off the oven before leaving the house and even in between human meals they debate their silverware. The midget coroner finds love in the arms of a doctor's assistant who's about twice his size and, when seen through a microscope, the venereal disease looks like a badly animated cartoon. The absolute OTT offensive highlight of "Flesh Eating Mothers" features two hungry wives fighting over a cat and literally break it in two. Watch it, if you have a wretched sense of humor!

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