Absurd Horror Overload: Marriage Bites, Killer Chickens & Cadaver Mayhem

This week on the podcast, we’re diving headfirst into a bloody buffet of bizarre horror! We’ve got marital mayhem in Marriage Bites, a festive feast of the dead with A Cadaver Christmas, poultry-powered pandemonium in Attack of the Killer Chickens, sharp-edged terror in Cutlery, and seasonal slashings courtesy of The Pumpkin Man.

From killer kitchenware and evil spouses to holiday corpses and rampaging roosters, this episode is packed with weird, wild, and wonderfully low-budget horror madness. Grab your popcorn (and maybe a machete) — things are about to get deliciously deranged.

Tune in for laughs, lore, and plenty of “what did we just watch?” moments! 🎃🪓🍗

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Welcome to Dad Bot of Horror. This is your host, Butch Barr. Still no co-host, still working on it. Welcome to season one, episode 19. Wow, 19 episodes. Pretty cool. And I want to thank everybody who has joined me along this particular journey as we continue along this particular journey. So, no housekeeping, so I will get right into it. The first movie I want to discuss is called Marriage Bites. It's from 2025. You can find it on Tubi. Production company is HPC Blue Square Productions and One Dream Productions. Director Quinn Gardner, writer Ashley Hargrove, starring Joe Kamara, Ashley Hargrove, and Darren Ewing. The plot. Rebuilding a stale marriage. Martin and Linda face an unexpected challenge when Martin is bitten by a vampire, leading them to test vampire theories and protect their own, I'm sorry, their town, from the undead. And that's kind of it, sure. Why this movie? I supported it on a crowdfunding site. How did I see it? Well, I originally watched it. Well, I said I supported it on a crowdfunding site, and so my name is in the end credits, and my picture's in the movie, so I wanted to check it out. And my wife and I sat and watched it. My favorite kill. So most of the people in this were either bitten and turned into vampires or bitten to be fed off of. So there weren't really any of that, there weren't that many good kills in it. So yeah. So first off, let's get into the whole vampire thing. You know, I have an issue with how vampires are portrayed. And uh this movie is another one which kind of picks certain particular vampire lore to follow and and others just to completely make up. So, like a bite can turn a person into a vampire in this movie. That's pretty standard fare. But somehow, this movie they uh they there's a bite and there's a nibble. Nibbles do not turn vampires, but apparently bites do. And I don't know, there's a whole thing about controlling a human being or or controlling a vampire once they become a vampire, and that all counts on the number of nibbles you took on them. It's it's really kind of weird. Um in this show, vampires seem to be able to walk around in sunlight without any issues, but some still wear sunscreen. But if you're not wearing sunscreen, it doesn't seem to matter anyway. So it's kind of silly to even introduce that the idea of sunscreen or go the other way, make sure they're wearing sunscreen. I don't, it was it was weird, not not thought through, I'm gonna say. Holy water works on vampires, uh, but crosses and garlic do not. And even with holy water, the the wife finds this out by spraying her husband in the neck with holy water and it burns them. But then other vampires, like it can just like that same amount disintegrates them. So it's kind of oh weird how it's used. Like, yeah, I don't know, it's inconsistent, I should say. Uh, but no matter what, the vampires do not sparkle in the sunlight. So, again, it's way ahead of that particular series of films. The movie itself is pretty okay. Um, it's very middle of the road. There's nothing too good, nothing too bad. It kind of just plods along and along and along and ends. It's just, I think, about two hours long. And I mean, and I think that's too long. I think these I think the filmmakers maybe got a little overambitious with the story they were trying to tell. Like there was a lot going on, but there wasn't a like a great deal of explanation. Like, you could have gotten more into like better backstories. So, in the plot, rebuilding a stale marriage, there was nothing going on that made you think that this was a stale marriage, and then even though they never set up the idea that it was a stale marriage, now they're now they're trying to say that becoming a vampire has spiced up their marriage because, like, all of a sudden the husband is, I don't know, they're having sex more, and even though it doesn't always seem to be what the wife wants to do, so you're getting into um things that go slightly beyond possibly consensual sex. So I don't know. The acting in the movie, okay. So we've already gotten into the writing is bad, and the story is okay, maybe overambitious. Like it, they're trying to try to tell like seems to be two, possibly three stories at one time, and they just don't have the ability to do that. The acting was what I would consider bad community theater acting. It's like totally over the top, just not what a movie needs. You know, the the person watching the film isn't 200 yards away, or not even that far, about 100 yards away over him in the back row with people talking around him. No, it's not, you don't need that on the movie screen. I do have to say though, that the movie was pretty good on how it handled picture placements. So my picture is in the movie and it is on the refrigerator in in a few of the scenes. Excuse me. You can obviously see my picture, and you would know it was me if you know what I look like. But they also did other things like they had wanted posters with a picture on. They had in two different stores, they had a picture of a boy like like that was kicked out of the store and isn't allowed to return. Like, if I mean that's one way where they were pretty good, you know, how they placed the pictures of the people that donated money to their film. So, I mean, good on them. As I said, it and I I believe I gave it a five out of ten, and I would stick by that. Um, if you want to, you know, check it out, please do. So now, movie number two. And I have a feeling these are gonna go pretty fast because there's not always a lot to talk about on some of these independent movies, depending on how good and or bad they are. I guess I could go on and on about certain things, but I don't. So there. So again, movie number two for season one, episode 19. The movie's called A Cadaver Christmas, and it's from 2011. You can find it on Prime, Con TV, Plex, Roku Channel, and Toobie Toobie. Production company is Natural Wipe, probably Wipes, Natural Wipes Films, who is owned by the the company's owned by Joe Zarule. I'm only assuming that's how you pronounce his name, Z-E-R-U-L-L Zarule. Zarul, maybe? I don't know. The director is also Joe Zarul. Writers, Daniel Rared and Hale, Hanlon Smith Dorsey, and Joe Zarule. And what's my rule? My what's my Zerule about director, writer, and production uh producer being the same person? No gouda. It stars Daniel Rared and Hale, Hanlon Smith Dorsey, and nope, Yosh Hayashi. Not Joe Zarule. So apparently he he probably is in the movie somewhere. The plot. Unconventional heroes band together against an army of living corpses reanimated by a dark force in a cadaver lab on Christmas as the undead rapidly recruit new members. So, why this movie? This was an independent movie that I bought at Monster Maniacon two years ago, I guess it was. So, how did I see it? Um, this is one of those movies that I was at my buddy Jamie's house, and we were looking for a bad horror movie to watch, and we chose this one. My favorite kill is mostly zombies getting killed or zombies biting people and killing them. So there wasn't anything in it real memorable. So this movie kind of starts midway through the story, and it has the lead actor tell everything that happened previously through flashbacks, and then it picks up from like where he's at, and it really works. I have to say, I did enjoy this movie. I kind of remember enjoying it the first time I saw it. Watching it again, I did enjoy it again. It is not a bad movie at all. You know, the like they they're they're going for this like grindhouse field, I guess. That's what it feels like to me. So they like purposefully make the movie a little grainy and like put the lines through as if you know this this movie's been around since you know the 60s or something, 50s, 50s, 60s, 70s, or whatever. It's kind of neat. It works. The movie was made, obviously, it was made on the cheap, but it's still a good movie. Uh, the production values aren't necessarily great, and the acting is mostly okay. I think they were smart enough to. I mean, obviously, this is a a horror comedy, and it kind of leaned into the camp. And and so everything that might seem silly because of the campiness they purposefully added, it's it's okay. Good job, team. Um, I think the movie is pretty clever, so it's called a cadaver Christmas because it, you know, these people are rising from the cadaver lab because they're at, I think, a university. Possibly med school, maybe it was med school. So when everybody keeps referring to these creatures that rose up, they're calling them zombies. This guy keeps calling them cadavers. And I don't know, it was kind of a like a sticking point for him, and I thought it was really funny that he kept on when they'd say, Oh, the zombies come cadavers, they're cadavers. I think that's funny. I like little clever things like that in movies. I mean, of course, I might be a little weird, but I I just thought that was clever. There's also a great scene towards the end of the movie, and it's this hyper-violent scene where your hero he uh he's kind of taking on the horde of of cadavers by himself, and it's very hyper-violent, and it's really cool, and it's basically the the it is being done in the background while this is happening. Is there's a singer singing Oh Holy Night, and very well done, but it was excellently done, like that entire scene was done really well. This movie, you know, my rule about don't have the director, writer, and producer be the same person because it's not going to be good. This movie might be the exception to the rule because because yeah, I really did like this movie, and I definitely could watch it again, no problem at all. Movie number three of season one, episode 19, is Attack of the Killer Chickens. Yes, you did hear that correctly. Attack of the Killer Chickens. As you can imagine, it's somewhat of a silly movie. It was made in 2022. You can buy or rent it on Prime. I have it on DVD, so uh you can ask me, I can let you borrow it. Production company is Kluck Kluck Productions. I'm not making that up. The director is Genoviva Rossi. The writer is Genevieve Rossi, starring Genevieva Rossi. First place, Genevieve Rossi, second base, Genevieve Rossi, third base, Genevieve Rossi. Also stars David Naughton and Brendan Fletcher. The plot. A chicken age. Humans have been the dominant species for far too long. The chickens have come to roost, and they're not clucking around. That is absolutely what the plot says. So why this movie? I absolutely unequivocally remember buying this at Monster Mediacom a few years ago. There was a person at a booth selling, you know, selling their wares, and there was a woman sitting there with this guy. And apparently Genevieve Rossi was the female sitting there selling them. And I mean, I know she was. So um, yeah, I bought the DVD and she autographed it. And the other thing is from gosh, from her 20s, maybe before that. My friends and I have this thing about chickens and killer chickens, and chickens make very bad house pets. But so I had I had to, I just had to watch it. Now, how did I see it? Now, even though I bought it, I never watched it. I watched it for the first time with for this episode. So, yeah. My favorite kill. The kills in this are really silly and are not graphic, so there is not a favorite one. Maybe it's something about independent movies where I never I don't really have a favorite kill. So let me start with the first disappointment that this particular movie gave me. The cover of the DVD shows a woman in a bikini running from an ale from alien chickens. This never happens in the movie. Strike one movie. Strike one. This film is much more of a comedy than it is a horror movie. I mean, people do get killed. But you know, there's other things more horrifying going on than the kills. Like, they very graphically show puppet puppet chicken sex. I say puppet chicken because the chickens that are killing people in this are obviously like puppets. They don't look great either. Like, they're not great puppets. They're not, these aren't like Muppets. Jim Hansen had no hand in this. They probably rolled over in his grave when he saw this, if you saw this. But yes, they're poorly made puppets and they show them having sex. Again, which is probably the most horrifying thing in the movie. It's weird because like they have news reports that come on all the time, and the graphics are great for that. And then they end up using these bad chicken puppets. Now, having said that, I saw another movie that I think had like similar graphics. So I don't know if there's a company that sells, like, you know, the hey, news report graphics that you can just buy. It could be that way. Uh, the other great thing about the news reports, they have this guy playing the anchor. The guy during the report um says, you know, is always like, we have video of this, and I have to warn you, it's pretty graphic, and blah blah blah. Not not for not for you know everybody's eyes. And then all of his face, his face lights up and a big smile. Let's watch it now, you know. And I I don't know. I like like that's clever to me, that's funny, and the fact that he repeats it over and over again, like four or five, maybe six times this happens. I just think that's great. Good work. So, like, you've heard them say, like, a movie can be so bad that it's good. Like, this movie is so bad that it's good and bad, and then good again. Like, it kind of laps itself. I mean, I did enjoy watching it, I would have to say it is for a certain type of mind. Not everyone would like it. I definitely can see this being watched like on a college campus, and maybe the people viewing it are in an altered state of mind. I definitely see that working. So, again, not for everybody, but I mean I did enjoy it. David Naughton and Brendan Fletcher are in the movie, they're listed as stars. I don't think either one is in the movie for more than 30 seconds. They basically come on, say a line, and then get killed. Now, they are the biggest names in the movie for the most part, but it's still kind of funny. Lloyd Coffin, who was the founder of Trauma, is also in the movie, and he gets killed by chickens. I mean, they're all everybody's just getting killed by chickens. Genevieva Rossi obviously had a huge hand in this. She again wrote, directed, and starred in it. Uh, she also played three different roles in the movie. I can honestly, I really don't think I ever heard of her before. And maybe I live under a rock because I had to look her up on IMDB. She has 130 credits to her name. And looks like she plays uh uncredited zombies a lot. And her bio says that she is a cult film star, horror icon, an award-winning actress of film and stage. This is in quotes Genevieve Rossi is one of the best-known cult film cult film stars in the world. That writes Claire Nixon of the Digital Dead from UK. Okay, well, maybe in the UK she's a huge star, but I had no idea who she was. And I mean she did a good job, but yeah, I had no idea who she was. So usually end with three movies, but we're gonna switch it up because um, again, I don't have a lot to say about some of these movies, so I'm going to keep going. I have movie number four. Look at that, groundbreaking already, uh on episode 19. Already breaking rules I set up for myself. So the movie is called Cutlery, and it was made 2025. I'm told it's on YouTube. Um, I really need to go to YouTube and start looking for obscure films. Uh, I mean, there's plenty on on these on Tubi and whatnot, but I have a feeling YouTube has some really interesting ones. Production company is a Ducks Quack Entertainment, who is founded by Jackson Avery Steele. The reason I bring that up is it's directed by Jackson Avery Steele. It's written by Jackson Avery Steele, and Jackson Avery Steele does act in the movie. I think he plays first, second, third base, probably catches, and maybe a little shortstop. If you don't know what any of that refers to, then you aren't my age. It's from a Bugs Bunny cartoon where Bugs Bunny plays every position on the field. It's kind of funny. The movie stars Maisie Moe, if that is her real name, Adeline Frost and Meredith Leo. The plot. After a worldwide surge in plastic wear sales, someone or something sets out to save the world using any means necessary. Why this movie? I supported this on a crowdfunding site, and you can see my name in the credits. How did I see it? I watched it first time for this episode. Favorite kill? I have to say most of the kills in this movie are really funny because they're being killed by silverware. So they're tripping and falling on a knife. Two people, I believe one of them being their director, is killed. They're drinking water and they both die. And then you see like a fork and it's standing and it's next to a bottle of, I think, arsenic. So the connotation is that he somehow poisoned them. I think that's hilarious. Um, IMDB estimates that this movie had a $300 budget, and I believe they may have overestimated it. It's really, it looks like a bunch of high school friends got together and made a movie. I mean, it's what it looks like. Um, I had a video camera when I, well, I didn't have it, it was my dad's video camera, but I borrowed it a lot. Because in college, you know, buddies and I would get together and we'd make really silly movies, and this is absolutely a movie we could have made. And, you know, depending on how much I drank, maybe we did make it and I forgot about it. You kind of just get thrown into the movie and kind of have to piece it out from there. There, there, there is there's no complex storytelling in this, it is very much straight out. Um, it's just a bunch of of high school girls, is really what it is. And there's a there's a girl I went to church with. Some of you I still go to church, she just doesn't intend that much, and I remember when. She sorry about that. I remember when she'd come in front of church and she'd read something, you know. So, like, you know, if I'm if I'm reading, like I'm reading my notes. I told you, I'm told you can see it on YouTube. I need to start looking for some obscure movies there. Okay, I just read that. Now, when she would read that, it'd be like, I'm told you can see it on YouTube. Like, she just would blast through it as fast as possible. Um, and that's kind of how I feel like these teenagers were for this movie. It's like every line was just say the line as fast and as loud as you can, and hope that's called acting. You know, so it is what it is. You know, the the the director of this movie was only 17 when he did it. Director, writer, editor, cinematographer, and actor. He was only 17. I imagine that it was his friends, probably 15, 16, 17-year-olds. It is what it is. Um, I don't think it's a bad movie. It's cute, it's short, it's like an hour long. It's not too complex. There's not like it's it really, quite frankly, go check it on YouTube. It's an hour of your time. See what, see if you like it. It's what it comes down to. Now, again, the idea is that there's this new plastic ware coming out called Schnortch. S-C, I'm sorry, S-H-K-N-O-R-X. It and uh there's a whole like movie, I'm sorry, commercial about the beginning of the movie. And apparently Silverware gets pissed off that we're wrecking the planet because we're using this plasticware that you throw out and we're ruining the world. So now Silverware is striking back, just if you wanted a recap there. But yeah, go check check it out. I would definitely I would definitely say go see this on YouTube if it's there. It's a fun one-hour watch. Now, movie number five, and this will be the last movie I talk about for season one, episode 19, is The Pumpkin Man from 2023. You can find it on Prime, Fossum, Plex, Pluto, and Tubi. Production company of South Ridge Films. The director is Ryan Cheats, the writers were Janae Muchmore, Jeff Rhodes, and Nick. I'm gonna say Romari, maybe Romari, starring Esteban Abunto, Matthew Beaton, and Barbara Desa. Plot Cromwell is a town intertwined with that of a local legend, the pumpkin man. People don't believe the tales, but when Catherine discovers the missing piece of the legend, the legend, she and her friends will face with the demon of Fa. Kerbis. I mean, come on. Just call him the pumpkin man, Kerbis, really? It's like a dude down the block. Hey, you guys go see Kerbis today? Yeah, I was checking him out. Yeah, it was Mona's lawn. Come on, Kerbis, Kerbis, really Kerbis. Sorry, uh, it's it's a silly, it's silly. It's like it's like Lost Boys, you know. Keeper Southern was his character's name's David. Yeah, I'm gonna be afraid of David. Come on. Sorry, I'll get off of my soapbox. Um, why this movie? I am pretty sure I ordered this movie as part of like an independent horror movie bundle off of some site. How did I see it? Again, I watched it, I thought, for the first time for this episode. But while I'm watching it, I was like, I've seen this before. I don't think I saw the whole movie. I think I saw like maybe the first 20 minutes, and I stopped and wanted to get back to it and never did. So I finally did see the whole movie. My favorite kill. So I think my favorite kill happened when Kerbis kind of let's say ripped the face off of a guy. Kerbis was standing behind the guy, the guy turned around, and it looks like Kerbis is breaking his neck, you know, spinning his neck to break it. And then the guy falls down into this girl's arms, and like it's just a skullhead, and like that doesn't make any sense. And then they go back to Kerbis and he's holding the face in his hand. I don't know. I thought that was kind of cute. I shouldn't say cute, funny. And I'll get into that the rest later. So, my question with this movie is why do kids always need to test a curse? So, this girl, they hear about this curse. If you find this book, you can blah blah blah, and there's a curse. So she finds a book. So, yeah, let's unleash the curse. Like, why you know? It's like doing the Bloody Mary thing in the bathroom window. Sure, nothing should happen. I agree, nothing should happen. But why take the chance if you don't have to? You know? But kids are kids, and we all know kids, I'm sure, still do Bloody Mary today. And hell, maybe as far as I know, they die. I don't know. I'm not doing it. Um of my big problems with this movie is the lead actress who plays that Catherine character. I'm telling you, she looks 12. She allegedly is playing a high school, you know, high schooler. But she looks 12. Maybe 13. Like, she definitely looks possibly not in her teens yet. And her love interest in it is supposed to be another high schooler, and he looks like he's college-aged. So, like, they kiss, and it feels really weird and uncomfortable seeing them kiss because they look like they're about 10 years apart in age, and at that age area, that's that's kind of crap. I realize you're supposed to be playing high schoolers, but they don't look it, and it is weird. The movie's kind of a slow cooker, it kind of just plods along, but the acting isn't terrible, and the practical effects are pretty good. So I would recommend the movie, it's not bad. The uh the guy Ryan Sheets, I was telling you about the uh the director. So he was also the pumpkin man, he also played a character named Paul, he played a skeleton, and he played a kid with a hat covering his face in the first classroom. So you see this a lot, and I kind of make fun of it a little bit. But when you're shooting with very little budget, you don't necessarily have the money to hire a bunch of actors. So if you can do it yourself, or if like one person like Genevieve Rossi in the chicken movie, she played three roles, like you do it, it saves money. You know, I don't know. Maybe Ryan Sheets might have been on the one of the producers, too. Who as far as I know? Heck, I don't know. But yeah, this isn't a bad movie. Uh you know, curse is unleashed, people are getting killed. How do we stop the curse? Okay, and they they either do or they don't, and then there's the final girl. Which I think was a final boy. But anyway, yeah, I think that that's all I have for this particular episode. Uh five movies. What more do you want? That's a lot of movie watching for me. Now, granted, Cutlery was only an hour. So, next episode will be in honor of Memorial Day. So, I will be doing movies related to war or the military, horror movies, of course. So, uh, see if you can figure out which ones that I'm gonna do. I will only do three. Probably if I end up doing shows that are filled with independent movies, will probably be more than three. There's just not a lot to say because there's just not always a lot to them. There's only so much you can do on a certain amount of money. Anyway, everybody out there, have fun.