Synopsis
Just when you thought it was safe to putt.
A peaceful country club becomes the hunting ground for a demonically possessed lawnmower with a taste for human flesh.
A peaceful country club becomes the hunting ground for a demonically possessed lawnmower with a taste for human flesh.
Robert North Jeremy Whelan Victoria Scott D'Angelo Holly Stevenson William Towner Peter Wray Charlie Quinn Bruce Katlin Lee Devin Bill Kimble Donald Jackson Hank Berkheimer Anne Haddad Andy Fertal Larry Stromberg Kara Callahan Jon McBride Andrea Diehl Janet Niccoletti Greg Leiner David Aldrich Kyle Remissong Robert Haney Suzie Meyers Richard Joyce Joel Fogel James Difonzo Ron Butko C.C. Rose Show All…
Panique sur le green, Ratom - Klingen aus Stahl, Blades - Klingen aus Stahl, Лезвия, A golfklub rejtélye, 死亡刀锋, Cuchillas
I’ll just keep my golfing career to Wii sports.
Sometimes I worry I will run out of 80's trash like this to watch one day.
Jaws for the Flymo Generation
Troma Jaws riff but the shark is a lawn mower and Amity is a country club golf course in jersey lol. Less of a spoof than I thought it would be… with plenty of totally absurd mower dismemberments, the Brody/Hooper/Quint trio realized by two golfers and a groundskeeper, and a mayhem filled finale worth the price of admission alone.
A goofy idiot movie for sure but definitely fun and the perfect Monday morning couch burner swill to start the day.
Absolutely furious no one ever told me Troma made a scene-for-scene Jaws remake except about a sentient lawnmower killing people at a golf course. Haven’t hooted and hollered this much in years
This is literally Jaws on a low tier country club golf course and somehow it works pretty damn well!
There are many scenes recreating the classic ones from Jaws including one where they string up a lawnmower and cut the clippings bag open to see what is inside it just like they did the small shark in Jaws and it’s truly inspired.
Like most cheap horror comedies of the 80’s, the pacing is all over the place and there’s too much down time between scenes like the one I just mentioned, but then the finale is deliciously silly so it all balances out, tipping towards greatness even if it never fully gets there.
The main character is a former pro golfer who…
Recommended to B Movie enthusiasts ONLY!
I wasn't expecting much from the film considering it's from Troma's stable of B movies! Their penchant for over-the-top goofiness being the detractor that it is I figured if my movie viewing experience went south I could always resort to multitasking on the ole laptop so it wouldn't be a total waste of my time!
I quickly realized this was a Jaws Rip off, I wasn't amused! However the further I got into the film that all changed! To my pleasant surprise they opted to play it straight! There really was no reason to turn it into an inept slapstick gagfest.. The bizarre premise alone of an inanimate killer lawnmower played out by the…
A gleefully silly send-up and/or rip-off of JAWS, but on a golf course. It really follows that plot pretty closely! The main dude is a mix of Brody and Quinn, and the lady is Matt Hopper.
I was kind of middling on this, and then the hero uses golfing to save the day, and said "Fore!" as he hit the ball.
Single tear.
There are dozens of Jaws rip-offs (mostly from Italy) that feature bears, piranhas, alligators, crocodiles or any other kind of predator you could think of. But there is only one that features goofball 80’s humor, soooo much golf talk and an unexplained, sentient killer lawnmower.
"Just when you thought it was safe to Putt!"
Well it's not the water that you have to worry about this summer! It's the dang golf course! A sillyhead Jaws spoof replacing the shark with a killer lawnmower. Yep. That premise alone should tell you whether this is for you or not. I think it was for me? It doesn't fully commit to it's goofy 80s slasher vibe and it's more polished than you would expect. The characters weren't nearly weird or interesting enough and the kills were fairly tame for it's premise. By riding the line of a well produced horror comedy and a low budget B movie it fails to reach its full potential by playing it safe. There's still some entertainment to be had and I couldn't help but respect their ambitious attempt at an idea this ridiculous.
A Jaws spoof that isn't really a spoof at all. Picture this: a Troma (distro, still) movie about a killer lawnmower that doesn't play things for laughs at all. Sure there's a lil tongue-in-cheek in the writing, what with "We're gonna need a bigger boat." getting swapped out for "I show you where the booze is.", but everything on screen is SO remarkably sincere that it deserves all the credit in the world for not taking the easy route of gags & winks. The world is a lesser place for never having given us Blades II: Hedges. (It's on Troma's YouTube channel, for those interested in tracking it down, which I highly recommend.)
succeeds as much as “Jaws with a lawnmower” as “Caddyshack meets Maximum Overdrive” and surprisingly earnest in its absurdity; most of this works but the last act - with our three leads in a van facing off against an evil lawnmower - is top tier Troma