Incest Death Squad

Director - Cory J. Udler (The Girl Who Played with the Dead)
Starring - Tom Lodewyck (Ed Gein: D.D.S.), Greg Johnson (Mediatrix), and Carmela Wiese (Incest Death Squad 2)
Release Date - 2009
Genre - Horror/Exploitation
Format - DVD (Personal Collection)

Rating (out of 5):

     In late 2011 I started up my first incarnation of what would later become Demons of Celluloid.  That blog, Blacktooth's Reviews and Rants, was something I started to relieve stress and review obscure indie films and classic horror flicks that time has forgot.  A year later I was invited to write for Horror Society and I could not pass up that amazing opportunity for a no talented hack like myself to join a prestigious horror site.  It was at this time another reviewer, for a small blog and not Horror Society, told me I needed to check out Cory J. Udler's Incest Death Squad and Incest Death Squad 2.  The titles alone drew me in but I could not get the IDS site to take my fucking order.  I was able to do a little Facebook stalking and was able to add Udler and over time we became friends.  I purchased all his films several months back but never took them down from display to watch because they were signed.  I was able to resist the urge to watch them for several months but my will was weak and I broke down.  I took all the films down from my display shelf and popped them in one after another.
     The film follows reporter Aaron Burg (Lodewyck) who is sent into a rural community in Wisconsin to cover a story.  Here he meets a random assortment of locals and even finds romance with a beautiful young lady that owns the local motel.  One evening he visits the local bar and meets another beautiful young lady.  The young lady, Amber Wayne (Wiese), picks up tourists and takes them back to her place where her incestuous brother kills them because "God" told them to.  She takes Aaron back but instead of killing them the two play a rousing game of hide the sausage which results in her immediate pregnancy.  Amber's brother, Jeb (Johnson), lets him live because he planted the seed in his sister and holds him captive in their barn where he forces him to kill tourists like them.
     When that reviewer requested that I watch these he stated that this film, and follow up, were solid horror flicks.  That statement, as short as it may be, is far from being accurate.  The movie is good so don't think I didn't like it because I did.  That statement is incorrect because this film is not actually a horror flick.  Instead, this film is a form of exploitation known as hixploitation or hicksploitation.  Hixploitation is exactly as it sounds.  In the 70s during the exploitation boom many filmmakers made films exploiting the fine folks from the south and Appalachian region.  Films like Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, Smokey and the Bandit, Deliverance, and Southern Comfort are all prime examples of these films.  Hixploitation actually never faded from memory and still continue to this day with shows like MTV's Buck Wild and Duck Dynasty becoming ingrained in our pop culture.  Just like with any genre, exploitation films sometimes dabbled in horror or added horror elements and that is exactly what Udler did with this modern classic.  This film is a prime example of hixploitation meeting head on with horror and I fucking loved every minute of it.  The acting in this film is fucking phenomenal.  The entire cast needs to work in way more films together.  Greg Johnson is a powerhouse of a performer and easily steals the show. Tom Lodewyck also does an amazing job and is a very strong lead actor.  He really needs to be apart of more films.  Also, Carmela Wiese and Melissa Murphy are both very talented actresses and both are fucking hot as hell.  The story for this one has been told before in one way or another but this one is by far the most entertaining and creative.  Finally, the film does lack the amount of kills one would expect from a film with the title "death squad" but like I said earlier, this is not a straight forward horror flick.  However, the kills we do get are fun, bloody, and very creative (to some extend).  Overall, Incest Death Squad is the kind of film that could be watched by itself or as a double feature with Herschell Gordon Lewis' Two Thousand Maniacs. The film is flawed but in the end it is a blaspheming good time.  Check it out...because God told you to!