The Chainsaw Sally Show

Comedy / Horror

Troma International

R1 DVD

According to the introduction by Lloyd Kaufman of Troma this series was designed to be a TV show that didn’t show because of its content. I can’t understand their reluctance to take it on. It has all you could want in a good show – lots of blood and guts, torture, cannibalism, chicks in tight T-shirts and short skirts, and sheep molesting. Perhaps they were put off by the fairly ordinary acting, the crap plots, or the dreadful theme song? But then, what would you expect from Troma? Mary Poppins?

Sally lives in Porterville, a quiet rural town, and looks after her retarded brother Ruby. Every now and then they will kill one of the locals for food, or just for fun. Sometimes Sally will let Ruby play with his food before he kills it. Sally gets a job managing the local library (by killing the obnoxious and officious previous manager) and forms a friendship with the part time worker, a girl named Poe. Poe is being picked on by some of the other schoolgirls and Sally sets out to do something about it for her.

Gradually the undesirables in the town go into the fridge to keep Sally and her brother in food. As well as the library manager she kills the schoolgirls, a sheep farmer who is VERY friendly with his sheep, and anyone else who gets in her way or seems to be undesirable. This includes the girl scout who sells her a box of peanut butter cookies instead of the mint flavour that she ordered. One by one she is cleaning up the town, but the disappearances have been noticed. A visitor to town is a real estate developer who wants to know what happened to one of his employees. They start to close in on Sally, who is so far beneath suspicion because of her daytime disguise of a meek mild mannered librarian. It is onlt at night that the real Sally shows.

Apart from the problems noted above, the film has all the values for which Troma films are well known – that is, none at all. Experienced Troma fans will know exactly what they are getting. The others will get a surprise. Herschell Gordon Lewis gives us an indie slasher film that combines the bloody and the sexy and is funny at the same time. It has well earned the Troma name.

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