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Friday 11 March 2011

Guilty Pleasure No. 2: The Pit (1981)

Let me just start with the tag line: Jamie wouldn't kill anyone...unless Teddy told him to!

A weirdly wonderful and funny horror movie that is simply unpredictable. Jamie Benjamin, played by Sammy Snyders (yes that is his real name) is an autistic child who is bullied by the local community and his classmates. Whilst taking a stroll one day he comes across a pit in the forest that is filled with carnivorous creatures that feast on human flesh... Revenge ensues.

Jamie with his blonde bowl hair-cut and turtle neck sweaters stares at boobs all day and has conversations with his demonic teddy at night. The teddy does talk back. He loves boobs so much he stages an elaborate plan to get topless photos of the school librarian. When he brings back his stash of naughties teddy exclaims "I'm gonna look at these a lot" in an extremely sincere and disturbing way. Everytime Jamie talks there is "atmospheric" music piped in to accompany the close up shots of his bulging eyes - to suggest how evil he really is.

He wreaks revenge on the community that bully him by feeding them to some monsters he found in a pit. The movie is basically death scenes, boobs, bullying and Jamie staring insanely and running about in a strop if anything upsets him. A few deaths are accompanied by jolly, uplifting marching band music in a montage scene where an old lady in a wheelchair and an aspiring football player come to their grisly ends; Jamie is having the time of his life.



With DVD chapter titles such as, Disturbing Bathtime, Handicapped Accessible and Half-naked lunch there really is no level of depravity the film-makers do not touch upon. There is no give in this relentless tale of voyeuristic perversion.

I love this film for its extreme close-up nipple shots, bad acting, bad editing, red-eyed monsters and depravity. It makes me laugh like no comedy ever could. Nothing compares to it.

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