A FILM SERIES EVEN I WON’T REVIEW? YEP.

THE UNCLE GODDAMN MOVIES – Over the years, several people have asked me if there are any weird films that I won’t review. Believe it or not, there are. First would be the decades-old version of A Christmas Carol performed by a class of mentally challenged students.

The production was filmed so the students and their loved ones could have copies but eventually a copy fell into the hands of some fairly cruel-humored people who made many more copies and packaged it as a movie to watch so you could laugh at what they called “retards” acting out A Christmas Carol.

Over time, that film became one of the products sold by the now-defunct mail order site called Blackest Heart Video. So far, it has been the only version of A Christmas Carol that I’ve neither bought nor reviewed.

Cruel as that video offering was, it was only one movie. There is also an entire video series I won’t review – the infamous Uncle Goddamn shorts (see above pics). WARNING: If you don’t want to read the vicious details, don’t click on “continue reading.”

For starters, many people like me were suckered into buying those flicks back when they were being misleadingly marketed as a series made by amateur gore effects fans showing off supposedly advanced fakery of simulated violence.

Some outlets were selling the Uncle Goddamn videos as if they were counterparts of Herschell Gordon Lewis’ old splatter films like Two Thousand Maniacs, The Wizard of Gore, Blood Feast, etc. In other words, as if they were works of fiction featuring such over the top effects that they weren’t possible to take seriously and could just be laughed at in the usual way with Bad Movies.

Unfortunately, the outlets were blatantly lying. The series of videos depicted a family of yahoos and rednecks inflicting assorted violence and humiliation on their drunken, older relative called Uncle Goddamn because of his frequent use of “goddamn” in his reaction to their mindless nastiness. 

The activities in the videos are (supposedly) real but are fairly mild. What puts them beyond the pale is the thought of treating anyone that badly. Another layer to the fakery arises in tales that even the mild violence was all fake and Uncle Goddamn himself was in on the ruse. 

Urban legends about the series of videos held that over time other family members would be subjected to such treatment, with the uncle himself helping to inflict the violence on those family members. There apparently ARE such videos out there, sold as hicksploitation flicks.

Elevated to this level, the films become like live-action versions of the intentionally gross and disgusting cartoon shows out there.

I never ventured further into the Uncle Goddamn phenomenon beyond throwing away and never reviewing the one video I bought under false premises. However, I’ve been asked about reviewing the movies by several readers over the years because of the grotesque reputation the series has earned. 

To hopefully never again be asked about that long since discontinued “franchise” I’m posting a link to a video by a YouTuber who did a deep dive into the lore and the facts behind the reprehensible productions. CLICK HERE. I can’t vouch for anything the reviewer says about his investigation, but hopefully this will dissuade anymore people from asking me to cover Uncle Goddamn.