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Sweet Meats Blu-ray Review: Country Songs, Cannibalism, and DIY Grindhouse Splatter

The folks at Troma have spent fifty years slinging some of the dirtiest, grossest, and most unhinged cinema in North America. You generally know what you’re getting when Lloyd Kaufman attaches his name to something: cheap prosthetic guts, aggressive camp, and a complete refusal to take anything seriously. Every now and then, though, a Troma release pops up that actually cares about its characters amidst the buckets of fake blood. Sweet Meats , directed by and starring Ricky Glore, is one of those rare surprises. It’s a low-budget, country-music horror comedy that essentially takes the core premise of Sweeney Todd or Motel Hell and drags it through a greasy roadside diner in Kentucky. Troma just dropped the physical release on Blu-ray, and while the movie itself runs a little long at a hundred minutes, the package as a whole is a surprisingly charming love letter to DIY filmmaking. The setup is delightfully straightforward. Bobby Sweet (Ricky Glore) is a delusional, wannabe country si...