Honky Holocaust (2014) User Reviews

Z-grade mash-up of exploitation staples

[Leofwine_draca · 2/10 · 23 April 2017]

HONKY HOLOCAUST is a Z-grade exploitation film set in an alternate universe in which the Manson family remain on the rampage decades after their set-up. It's a no budget oddity that plays out as a blaxploitation film in parts, looking at gang violence and race relations, but it's also very crude and unoriginal. The whole middle section of the film progresses very slowly and the non-ending is a disappointment. The most striking part is the early discovery of the hanged corpses, which has an icky vibe reminiscent of the Italian cannibal film cycle.

Possibly The Best Movie About Racism Since American History X

[biscutbuu69 · 9/10 · 4 October 2016]

I kid of course when I say that but legitimately it's a trip, man! Distributed my Troma Entertainment (known for releasing such lurid pictures like Blood-Sucking Freaks aka The Incredible Torture Show, Killer Condom, Rabid Grannies, The Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke Em High and Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, just to name a few) comes Honky Holocaust a film that was proclaimed by head of Troma Lloyd Kaufman to be the best film he had seen in the past 40 years and I kinda have to agree. In the last (about) 10 years I had not seen an exploitation film this unique, original, thought-provoking and soulful and yet at the same time trashy, stupid, offensive and gross since Kaufman's own Poultrygeist. The plot is as follows: Charles Manson was right! The Beatles did tell him of a great race war with their song Helter Skelter. And by committing the Tate/LaBianca murders Manson and his followers hid in a bunker in the woods waiting for Helter Skelter to end so they may rise up and rule the world. The thing is Manson was wrong about something though, the world they enter is a world ruled by African-Americans. What follows is gross, gory, stupid, cheap, foul mouthed and kinda genius. Really everything in this movie is BAD I mean worse than you could possibly imagine (Unless you watch bad movies on a regular basis and have seen literally thousands, like me, then this might be not that bad but I am writing this segment from the perspective of someone who might not be familiar with the low budget exploitation genre), that level of bad on a serious critical level this is something that would make Ebert walk out of the theater within the first few seconds. But since I love bad horror and exploitation films this did not bother me in the slightest in fact the low budget added to the surreal nature of the film and its serious themes at least in my opinion. Overall it's an interesting premise done on a super low budget. The film's use of the creative premise, some really off the wall dialogue and scenes and the creative use of very cheap effects make it all worthwhile especially if you love weird hippie exploitation or blaxploitation films like An American Hippie in Israel or Fight for Your Life. Or if you love terrible low budget splatter films like Pemutos: Lord of the Living Dead, Violent Sh!t and Black Past. It is possibly the best movie about racism since American History X. 4.5/5