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clckworang

I believe it was my first challenge that I discovered this one. I was scrolling through streaming horror titles on Netflix, hoping to find some short titles for shameless padding in my first mad dash for 100. It was even in the Netflix horror classics section. I gave it a try and found it terrible but hilarious, one of those instant bad movie classics.

Years later, we got the Arrow Blu-ray edition of this. As usual, Arrow did a great job on the disc. Having seen it, I decided to watch it with the audio commentary from the writer-producer. It's an all right listen. He seems very self-congratulatory. I guess I don't blame him. It sounds like he didn't make any money on this for a long time, and now he's cashing in. Good for him.

Undeadcow

Microwave Massacre is the right kind of dumb everyman humor and Jackie Vernon has great comedic presence. It's stupid and sarcastic but also the kind of casual viewing that doesnt take itself too seriously or require much from the viewer. The comedy is over the top and rarely laugh out loud but black and breezy enough to standout although sometimes a bit corny. Im not sure I'd call this 'bad' but just the right kind of beer and popcorn silly. Ha, remember the glory days of cooking everything in the microwave - a joke that might be the least clever part of Microwave Massacre.

numbercrunch

Jackie Vernon was mildly amusing in this silly slasher comedy. its definitely in the so bad its sorta good category

Toddarino

The first time I watched it, I hated it. It’s grown on me since. You really have to appreciate Vernon’s comedy and delivery to get into this movie.

indiephantom

This is comfort food and perfect with Hot Pockets or your favorite microwavable snack. Pour lots of cheese over whatever you heat up.

Love the dialogue. It makes me laugh. As absurd as everything gets, Vernon keeps it in just believable enough to have fun with. Helps that it was shot on film because SOV is not kind to horror comedy.

I really appreciate the effort put into these posts, especially the additional artwork section.

WillieMLF

There is never a serious moment here, and I found myself wanting this to be over after about the first ten minutes. I have the Arrow version, and had never seen this before. That cover really had me expecting something that really wasn't delivered in a coherent manner. I think part of the problem was that I had seen too many horror movies yesterday, and was expecting something just a little more serious than what I got.

ororama

Unfortunately, the only part of the movie that was really funny was the closing credits. The movie got slightly more bearable as it went on, as some actors stopped trying to do bad acting and spoke more normally, suggesting that the movie may have been shot more or less in order. They could have done a better job with the kills (at least one was off-screen), but maybe they were in a hurry to get back to the bad jokes.

PhantomStranger

There's a little comedy from hearing Frosty the Snowman's voice in a horror film, about the only thing I truly loved about Microwave Massacre.

Fist of Doom Jr

Yeah if you were hoping for a serious movie, I'm sure this was a disapointment.

I'll say this for the movie: that opening scene is memorable.

wishbone

"You know when it comes to cooking you'd make a great decorator."

It's like an odd homage of Hitchcock's Frenzy with the Chief Inspector and his wife's gourmet dinners.