Horror

Comedy

Luther the Geek

Troma Entertainment

United States of America

English

Edward Terry

Joan Roth

Stacy Haiduk

Thomas Mills

Jerry Clarke

Tom Brittingham

Carlton Williams

'Chicken' Klabunde

Gil Rogers

Karen Maurise

Jerome Borgos

Michael Boyle

David Pavlosky

Robert Caraballo

Nat KT

Tom Wadsworth

Sigrid Norris

Gail Buxton

Tris Brumbly

Martin Widener

Chris Sprister

Carlton J. Albright

Cidele Curo

Michael Beaudette

Lance Norris

Eva Banhidi

David Platt

Bill Schwarz

David M. O'Dell

Laura Drawbaugh

Wendy Hedin

Verne Carlson

Richard Smigielski

Patricia Aldrich

Michael Jordan

David Knox

Ernest Shapiro

Beth George

Brian O'Connell

**_A deadly “chicken-man” is on the loose at a farmhouse in the Midwest_**

A deranged geek with a penchant for killing with his metal dentures is unwisely paroled and wastes no time returning to his sick ways as he terrorizes people at a remote Illinois farmhouse.

“Luther the Geek” (1989) is a low-budget slasher in the mold of "Blood Harvest" (1987), just with better production values seeing as how it was filmed over the course of five weeks whereas “Blood Harvest” was amazingly shot in a 24-hour period. Both movies have a small cast of about five people with a one-dimensional story focusing on a killer at an isolated farmhouse in the Midwest. 

Joan Roth plays the fair mother of the homestead, Hilary, while Stacy Haiduk is on hand as daughter Beth. The latter has some brief nude scenes that are relatively tasteful (just a heads up). I prefer Itonia Salchek from “Blood Harvest,” but Stacy is effective enough here.

Some commentaries cite this as a comedy, but it’s not. They probably felt the chicken-like odious antagonist was amusing, but that doesn’t make it a comedy. This is serious horror on a low budget with Edward Terry convincing as the clucking nutjob. Like “Blood Harvest,” it’s an 80’s slasher artistically done on a miniscule budget. 

However, if you have no patience for slow parts that create creepy, suspenseful mood, such as the closet sequence from “Halloween” (1978), don’t bother.

The film runs 1 hour, 20 minutes, and was shot in Tampico & Sterling, Illinois, both in the northwest corner of the state. The parole board scene was evidently done in New York.

GRADE: B-

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