Treacherous Cora (robustly played with mucho lip-smacking gusto by the incomparable Shelley Winters) marries men and then murders them for their money. Cora more than meets her match in Ellie (a spunky performance by juicy blonde beauty Sheila Kennedy), who's the smart and sexy daughter of Cora's latest victim. Ellie gets revenge on Cora by using her gorgeous body and feminine wiles to bump off Cora's three no-count sons -- slick, hunky Tom (Edward Albert), fat, infantile Billy (James Gaspard), and mean, ornery Frank (Robert Keith) -- in various unfortunate "accidents." Competently directed by Peter Wittman, with a blithely dopey script by Glenn Allen Smith, pretty, polished cinematography by George Tirl, and a folksy, harmonic country score by Bob Pickering (the funky Southern rock theme song in particular seriously smokes), this cheerfully lowbrow hayseed black comedy makes for a perfectly enjoyable diversion. Popping up in amusing supporting roles are Pat Paulsen as a lusty sheriff with the hots for Cora, George Gobel as an addled, doddering old priest, Ouida White as a daffy home buyer, and Patrick Tovatt as Cora's lazy, disgusting sleazeball brother. Best of all, the delectable Kennedy isn't the least bit bashful about baring her fine physique in a couple of yummy nude scenes. Troma offers a nice fullscreen presentation of this pleasingly silly hoot on a nifty DVD triple bill with the endearingly inane redneck romps "Preacherman" and "Hot Summer in Barefoot County."
Review of Ellie
