Leofwine_draca RABID GRANNIES is a very low budget gross-out comedy from Belgium, unless you happen to watch the American version put out by Troma, in which case it's merely a comedy as all of the gore has been excised, weirdly, from their version. The story is set in one of those old dark houses where a couple of grannies receive a cursed present and transform into demons which then proceed to slaughter the assembled relatives. As a film it feels a little like Peter Jackson's BRAINDEAD albeit not as good, but without the rubbery gore effects this is merely incoherent nonsense, and completely pointless to watch.

Paul Magne Haakonsen Right, given the age of the movie, the title of the movie and the plot synopsis of the movie, you just know that you are in for one cheesy movie. And the movie is exactly just that, campy and cheesy.Given the fact that the movie is from the late 1980's, then it wasn't particularly impressive, not even for that time of age. I remember there was far better horror movies around back then. And "Rabid Grannies" is listed as a comedy horror movie, but there is surprisingly little comedy in it, unless you count the horrible dubbing and questionable acting as comedy, or if the lack of coherent plot qualifies as comedy, I will just leave that up to the individual viewers to decide for themselves.The story in "Rabid Grannies" is about a birthday party held at an old castle for aunts, when a mysterious stranger appears at the front gate with a strange present. The present contains a diabolical gift that turns the two elderly women into demonic creatures that are hungry for the flesh of their relatives, seeking to torment and kill them in the most gruesome of manners. Time is ticking for the family as the demonic duo wrecks havoc and destruction upon them, one at a time. Can they survive the ordeal and make it through the night alive?The story in itself wasn't all that bad, but unfortunately it was executed by questionable actors and it wasn't particularly helped along by the horrible dubbing of English speaking voice actors - who all sounded constipated and were yelling most of the time instead of speaking.There is a little bit of gore in the movie, that actually works out well enough, but it is hardly enough to make the movie interesting to watch. And the demonic creatures sort of look like parodies of wicked, evil creatures, so it is a little bit hard to take it all seriously.Personally, I found "Rabid Grannies" to be somewhat of a struggle to actually get through, because my attention kept drifting away from the movie, as there was just too many scenes that were questionable, laughable or downright irrelevant for the actual movie.If you enjoy movies from the late 1980's and haven't already seen it, and if you have absolutely nothing else to do, then perhaps watching this movie might be right for you. But otherwise, there is nothing worthwhile appealing to this movie. I have seen it now, and can honestly say that I will never see it again, nor do I consider my cinematic history of movie watching enriched in any way by having seen this particular movie.The original title of the movie is "les mémés cannibales", which translates as "the cannibal grannies", so why they opted to title this movie "rabid grannies" is beyond my comprehension.I am giving this movie a 3/10 rating because of the small amount of gore and mayhem that was in it and because of the original idea, which was the only two things that really appealed to me. The rest of the movie is not worth mentioning.

RabidNerd I was 10 years old (now 26) and this film was the first gore horror i laid my eyes on and it's mentally scared me in a way.Now and again i watch the odd clip of it on youtube and even now it gives me this strange feeling that 'i don't really want to be watching this'..Even though, since... i've seen hundreds of gory films, but this one is still implanted in my head, possibly because it was my first.Even the front cover of the video, with the little girl and the two rabid grannies stood behind her freaks me out.Maybe i should talk about the plot... well, there isn't one. It doesn't need one really. It's just a couple of Grannies ripping their claws through a bunch of middle class relatives. I don't even think they're rabid from what i remember!?The setting of a remote mansion works really well, gives it a creepy feel to the daftness going on inside the house.On the downside, the films English dubbing doesn't really do it any justice, making it into more of a comedy than an actual horror. I'd like to watch the subtitled version, if one exists, to see if takes away that comedic effect.My verdict from what i remember 7 out of 10... and thank you for poisoning my angelic childhood Grandma's.

MovieManiac42 The idea of this flick is hilarious. Just hearing about it made me laugh. I finally obtained a copy of this film and immediately sat down and gave it a watch.The film takes place at a family gathering. Its two grannies birthday party and everyone is pretending to be excited to be there. When it comes time to open the presents the grannies come across a gift that isn't from anyone in the family. The present releases a demonic smoke possessing the two old ladies. Now they have super strange and are hungry for human flesh!Overall the film has some good parts. It kind of reminded me of Peter Jackson's Bad Taste, but at times I found myself getting bored. The film has some great scenes and will definitely make you laugh, especially the demonic granny hanging from the chandelier, but over all I found the majority of the film kind of slow. I was waiting for the next gore scene to pop up but during that time I found myself dazing off.Its a great film to own for the novelty of it, but don't expect much from it.