This Stuff'll Kill Ya!

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This Stuff'll Kill Ya!
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Directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis
Written by Herschell Gordon Lewis
Produced byAllison Louise Downe
Herschell Gordon Lewis
Starring Tim Holt
Jeffrey Allen
Cinematography Herschell Gordon Lewis
Edited byAlex Ameri
Music by Herschell Gordon Lewis
Production
company
Ultima
Distributed byUltima
Something Weird Video
Fright Video
Trans World Entertainment
Release date
  • 1971 (1971)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

This Stuff'll Kill Ya! is a 1971 film directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis [1] and starring Tim Holt and Jeffrey Allen. It features Holt's final film appearance. [2]

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Plot

A con artist acts as a preacher to run his moonshine distillery in a small town in the Deep South and clashes with a number of locals and a federal agent bent on shutting his operation down.

Production

This Stuff'll Kill Ya! was filmed in Checotah and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Critical reception

Film Threat described the film as "long, dull and boring" with "stilted dialogue and static direction."; [3] critic Jeffrey Kauffman, as an "oddball entry," "patently silly," and "Uneven at best and hilariously inept at worst (in the Lewis tradition)."; [4] and DVD Talk , as "unyielding creepiness,"; the same review stating that "[i]t also doesn't help that Allen's performance - which permeates almost every frame - is grating to no end, while the story absentmindedly stumbles around with no clear focus." [5]

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References

  1. Harrison, John. "THIS STUFF'LL KILL YA!". AGFA. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
  2. Review at DVD Drive in accessed 1 June 2013
  3. "THIS STUFF'LL KILL YA / THE YEAR OF THE YAHOO (DVD)". Film Threat. Film Threat. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
  4. Kauffman, Jeffrey. "This Stuff'll Kill Ya Blu-ray". Blu-ray.com. Blu-ray.com. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
  5. Cornelius, David. "Drive-In Classics Collection". DVD Talk. DVDTalk.com. Retrieved 2022-04-12.

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