Big Meat Eater

Big Meat Eater
Directed by	Chris Windsor
Written by	Chris Windsor Laurence Keane Phil Savath
Produced by	Laurence Keane
Starring	George Dawson Clarence Miller Andrew Gillies
Cinematography	Doug McKay
Edited by	Laurence Keane Lilla Pedersen Chris Windsor
Music by	J. Douglas Dodd
Production company	BCD Entertainment
Distributed by	Citadel Films
Release date	1982 (1982)
Running time	82 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English

Big Meat Eater is a 1982 Canadian comedy science fiction film.^[1]

Directed by Chris Windsor, the film centres on Bob (George Dawson), a butcher shop owner in Burquitlam, British Columbia. His new employee Abdullah (Clarence Miller) has murdered the mayor and stashed the body in Bob's freezer; meanwhile, unbeknownst to him, his shop is also a trove of "balonium", a rare radioactive fuel desired by a pair of space aliens who reanimate the mayor's body to help them harvest it.^[2]

Jay Scott of The Globe and Mail favourably reviewed the film, calling it an admirable entry in the emerging genre of intentionally bad cult films, and a better bad film than the contemporaneous Eating Raoul.^[1] Nathaniel Thompson of Turner Classic Movies later wrote that the film "cannily foreshadows the affectionate ribbing and emulation of classic '50s monster movies found in the likes of The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra and Ed Wood."^[3]

At the 4th Genie Awards in 1983, Windsor and cowriters Laurence Keane and Phil Savath were nominated for Best Original Screenplay.^[4]

The filmmakers planned a potential sequel to be titled Teenage Mounties from Outer Space,^[5] but the film was never made. Windsor never had another film credit, while Keane and Savath went on to write and direct the vastly more conventional historical drama film Samuel Lount in 1986.^[6]

References

1. "Big Meat Eater illustrates just how good bad can be". The Globe and Mail, September 16, 1982.
2. "Big Meat Eater". Time Out London.
3. "Big Meat Eater on DVD". Turner Classic Movies.
4. "Top Genie prospects for Jack Miner move". The Globe and Mail, February 10, 1983.
5. "Big Meat Eater may have sequel". The Globe and Mail, November 4, 1982.
6. "A little-known Canadian hero gets his due". Ottawa Citizen, February 11, 1987.

External links

• Big Meat Eater at IMDb