‘Pretty Young Ladies Make the Perfect Plant Food!’
Please Don’t Eat My Mother – also released as Glump; Hungry Pets and Sex Pot Swingers – is a 1973 sexploitation comedy horror film produced and directed by Carl J. Monson (Legacy of Blood; A Scream in the Streets) from a screenplay by Eric Norden for Harry Novak‘s Boxoffice International Pictures. It stars Buck Kartalian (Octaman; Legacy of Blood; Monster Squad), Lyn Lundgren (Strait-Jacket), Art Hedberg, Alice Friedland (The Psycho Lover) and porn star Rene Bond (The Adult Version of Jekyll & Hide; Necromania: A Tale of Weird Love!; A Name for Evil).
The film is an adult-orientated softcore remake of Roger Corman’s The Little Shop of Horrors. According to Michael Weldon’s Psychotronic Video Guide, the film was still playing at drive-ins as late as 1982.
Plot teaser:
A shy and timid man who lives with his mother buys a plant he thinks talked to him. His loneliness is very apparent in the way he tries to turn the plant into a friend. Well, the plant is carnivorous and can talk with a woman’s sexy voice. Henry, the protagonist, now has two joys in life. One is being a voyeur (he is much too shy to actually talk to a girl) and the other is his new plant friend. Soon he discovers the plant likes bugs (and then frogs and dogs and cats but he draws the line at elephants). Eventually the plant wants to try a delicious woman, like in the pictures Henry has hanging in his room.
One day, Henry’s mother breaks into his room thinking to confront him with a woman and all she can find are Henry and the plant. But soon the plant eats her and discovers that women are really tasty. When detective O’Columbus shows up, the plant discovers she does not like eating men, just women…
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Reviews:
“Clearly not for everyone, Please Don’t Eat My Mother is an acid-gobbling piece of no-fi sexploitation junk that stands out both for the shabbiness of its monster and for its oddly affecting protagonist, a teeth-gnashing, chronically masturbating man-child fleshed out into a living, breathing hunk of sweaty desperation by Buck Kartalian, one of exploitation’s most sadly unsung character actors. Boner-seekers will be out of luck, since the sex scenes are ineptly staged and boring to watch, but the sniveling characters, eye-scorching sets and inept creature construction are just too bizarre to miss.” Movies About Girls
“It tries to be a number of different types of movie and essentially fails on all counts. When it’s trying to be a comedy it suffers by not actually being very funny. When it’s trying to be a horror film it suffers because it’s not scary in the slightest. And when it’s trying to be a porno it doesn’t actually show the stuff you’d expect to see in a porno, and it keeps cutting to an imbecile acting like a pervert so anyone looking for that sort of thing will be disappointed too (I’d imagine).” That Was a Bit Mental
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Special Features:
- Trailers for this, plus “Hungry Pets,” “Booby Trap,” “Exotic Dreams of Casanova,” “Indian Raid Indian Made,” “Pigkeeper’s Daughter,” “Street of a Thousand Pleasures,” “Substitution”
- Radio-Spot Rarities
- Gallery of Harry Novak Exploitation Art
- Two Archival Short Subjects: “Please Don’t Eat My Mother!” star Buck Kartalian in the Harry Novak short “The Voyeur,” “Rene Bond Bound”
- Something Weird Video raids Harry Novak’s Film Vault
Choice dialogue:
“Oh frog me, Henry, frog me!”
Cast:
- Buck Kartalian as Henry Fudd
- Lyn Lundgren as Clarice Fudd
- Art Hedberg
- Rene Bond as Harry’s wife
- Alice Friedland as Call girl
- Adam Blair
- Flora Weisel
- Ric Lutze as Harry
- Carl Monson (uncredited) as Officer O’Columbus
- Zach Moye
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