10 Horror Musicals You Need To See
7. Big Meat Eater
Canadian science-fiction is a narrow genre at best, but even harder to find are those films featuring music numbers, cannibalism, toy robot aliens, a zombie mayor and a hero that owns a butcher’s shop.
Spoofing everything from Plan 9 From Outer Space to more earnest Canadian productions, Chris Windsor’s sole directorial effort not only pre-dates Peter Jackson’s Bad Taste but makes you wish he could’ve gone on to a similar career.
The “plot” involves a group of wind-up toy aliens who reanimate the dead so that they can steal Balonium, the revolutionary fuel source that has inexplicably formed in a local butcher’s septic tank. The mayhem and weirdness doesn’t end there, however: Windsor also throws in a dance number (“Baghdad Boogie”) set in a boiler room, a Michael Caine-ish geek who’s building a spaceship in his bedroom, and an immigrant family whose daughter keeps getting attacked by monsters.
Inception, this is not.