9. They Don't Cut The Grass Anymore (1985)
To call this film 'highly successful' might be scraping the barrel a bit as only about 30 people have seen it. I have the DVD, and anytime I want a good gory laugh, I stick on They Don't Cut the Grass Anymore. Texan hillbillies Billy Buck and Jacob relocate to suburban Long Island and find that - yes - they don't want to cut the grass anymore, they want to kill the yuppies! The film possesses sub-H G Lewis gore effects but what is striking is, like an H G Lewis film, the killings are extremely sadistic, protracted and often involve total bodily dismemberment. The victims are literally ripped to pieces. The bodies are obviously of the latex dummy and animal innards school of FX, but this just adds to the sleaze factor! It is all quite effective for a low budget gore extravaganza. The movie is only 70 minutes long and in my mind, it is well worth getting if you are a fan of laughably terrible horror films. The film is simultaneously so dopey and so weird, it cuts its own swathe in the arena of low budget horror. Great fun.