A Night to Dismember (1983)

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Laughably bad movie, so bad that I laughed throughout. At first I assumed the movie's editor had eaten crack rocks for breakfast, but then I read that a disgruntled crew member destroyed much of the movie and they had only what was left to piece together what we have now.Almost no one actually speaks, we just hear a lot of bad narration. When someone does speak, it is some of the worst dubbing you will ever see. Apparently the original movie was filmed without any sound! And let's not forget about the film's "soundtrack." The producers obviously bought an 8-track of cheesy, happy elevator muzak to play during the murders. Just insane. This would be a great movie to watch with your friends if you had just consumed a large quantity of drugs or alcohol or both! And the worst part: Lead "actress" Samantha Fox was not the same pop princess from the 80's but some hacktress no one ever heard of again. Disappointed.My favorite kill that had me howling was the mother, Blanche. She hid under the bed sheet and just waited to be murdered with an axe. Way to put up a fight, Blanche.Blanche, there's a name mothers stopped naming their newborn daughters years ago. Blanche to me sounds like something is wrong in the garden: "Oh no, my tomato plants have blanche!"

A Night To Dismember is probably one of the worst slasher flicks in existence. I've seen loads, but this one really takes the crown. Perhaps it was the editing problems that made it so unwatchable, but as far as I'm concerned it would have been awful even without these. There is no passion whatsoever, from the director or the actors, which ultimately leads to a dull film. Most low-budget slasher flicks are entertaining in some way or another because the director was a fan of horror films. Not so in this case. The only remotely "decent" scene is when the girl gets stabbed to death in her dreams, and she moans erotically as if she's enjoying it. I didn't keep watching for much longer than this because the film was frying my brain. All self-respecting horror fans should avoid this as it's not good on any level. This and another awful film called Blood Shack are at the top of my list of worst horror films.

Director: Doris Wishman, Cast: Samantha Fox, Saul Meth, Miriam MethSlasher film starring Samantha Fox (not the singer)about the Kent family that all get murdered or dismembered by some deranged person. This film had the potential to be the most notorious film of all time for gore and violence but it is severely hindered by its low budget production. It is too cheap looking to be shocking or scary.It looks as if it was made by a film student! The movie was filmed without sound and the sound was dubbed in later. It has almost no dialog. Most of the film is narrated by the person playing the detective.If one takes this film for what it is, a low budget slasher film, it is actually a fun little cult flick. It is a great film for fans of rare underground exploitation films. Doris Wishman made a lot of low budget exploitation and nudie films going back to the 1960's. The Elite DVD has a funny commentary with Wishman and her cinematographer.

A NIGHT TO DISMEMBER may not be one of them, but jesus, I honestly can't think of another film so disjointed, so visually unattractive, so inane and illogical beyond belief as this train wreck on film. So, because of that I strongly suggest anyone who seeks out the macabre, twisted, odd and unusual to do whatever it takes to see this movie. Thinking back, I'm almost sure it has to do with a woman released from an insane asylum and a whole lot of elevator music and narration. A detective narrates the entire film (!), telling us things that have absolutely no relation to what we are actually seeing. He stumbles and stutters his lines, coming across like an 8 year old with dyslexia. It's actually very funny. Occasionally, the actors in the film do get to speak (albeit they are HORRIBLY dubbed.) Much of the time when they are speaking, we aren't shown the actors' faces, rather their feet, a couch or a house plant! Oh yes, like any Doris Wishman film we get plenty of shots of people's feet. She must've had a foot fetish, like 99% of America I suppose. Ok, I'm trying to give you the plot of this car accident but it is physically impossible. Woman gets out of loony bin, her brother and sister try and drive her back there (for what reason, I have NO idea), a few gory murders take place (in the HG Lewis gory way) and before you know it, this 70 min. mess is over and you wonder to yourself JUST WHAT IN THE HELL YOU WATCHED. And just in case the movie itself isn't surreal or bizarre enough, Wishman throws in a couple of dream sequences to REALLY throw you off. In one dream, a woman is slashed and knifed to death about 100 times, slashing and knifing, over and over and over.. She moans like she's having an orgasm. Speaking of orgasm, A NIGHT TO DISMEMBER probably has a budget much lower than your average porn. Technically speaking, THIS IS UNDOUBTEDLY the worst motion picture made. Point blank. But, I found enough enjoyment to watch it multiple times. It's funnier than most comedies, and makes not a lick of sense that it BEGS to be watched. A true spectacle.