The Granny (The Matriarch)

A New Decade! A New Year! Movies Watched In 2020 (641 movies items)

"Granny’s family wants her dead so they can collect her insurance. While she is on her death bed, she drinks an eternal life potion and returns to the land of the living. She is on a mission to wreak havoc over her greedy relatives. This is a low budget horror parody and while plenty of the jokes fall flat, there are some genuine laughs along the way. Most of the best lines in the movie fall to Stella Stevens as the title character. There is also dollops of gore as well including one kill in w"

Watched in 2019 (214 movies items)

"5.10. Aivan ihastuttavan paljon ysärin tv-sarjaa muistuttavassa kauhukomediassa mummo vetää pilaantuneet demonimehut kurkkuun ja tappaa perheensä. Harmaavarpuseksi markkinoitu Playboy-malli sitten kurittaa pahuutta yhdessä supercoolia esittävän ohjaajan kanssa. Näyttelyn uskomaton kökköys ansaitsee aplodit - tuotantoarvot seisovat sellaiset."

Film Journal 2019 (225 movies items)

"Still the primo of the primo 90s trash movies. I wish Christopher Nolan movies had this many dutch angles. Because his DP is the DP in this movie. The fucking Granny. Wally Pfister, you sure went the distance. "

Film Journal 2018 (179 movies items)

"Absolutely primo 90s horror schlock filmmaking. The editing and style is incredibly on-point. Whenever the 90s reach that same fever-pitch of nostalgia the 80s have, this'll be in high demand. Stock-full of offensive, great, terrible lines (and line-reads), The Granny runs super smoothly through the 85 minutes it takes to tell the decade-spanning tale of a granny whose greedy relatives kill her only to have her come back as an avenging demon. It often makes no sense but the characters are so fun"