A strip-joint owner and a manicurist find that they have many things in common, the foremost being that they are psychotic serial killers. They fall in love and are happy being the family that slays together, until one day they come up against a plumber who also happens to be a cannibal.
Carmine Capobianco Debi Thibeault Frank Stewart Cecelia Wilde Ruth Collins Donna Davidge LeeAnne Baker Angela Nicholas Professor Morono Eric Lutes Irma St. Paule Patti Chambers Carla Bragoli Carrie Gordon Robert Suttile Lum Chang Pang Danny Noyes Herb Klinger Wally Gribauskas Peach Gribauskas Ed Powers Frank Christopher Shawn Light Scott Sears Tressa Zannino
Végzetes vágyak bárja, Влюбленные психопаты, Amor asesino, 杀人狂恋爱中, Zakochani psychopaci
USA
USA
With loopy misfit humor and a 4th-wall-defying attitude, a blood-soaked slasher/love story that buzzes along on it's uniquely slack wavelength. Artful touches veer into bizarro detours, and somehow, it's still a gorefest radiating substantial charm. There's a classic "Repo Man" vibe here, a playful subversion, and a win in Bechard's truly eccentric filmography.
SOV/16mm train!
Um, I f*cking loved this crazy cheap ass horror comedy about 2 serial killers falling in love. It’s cute and the titular grape-hating psychos really do grow on you! It looks like it costs about $10 to make and that just adds to the charm. There’s even a scene that takes place at a video store which seems to be a thing for Gorman Bechard and I am completely ok with that.
I’d love to drivel on and on about this gem, but I’m currently drunk enough to make Betty Ford throw some side eye so it’s been super hard to even type this much correctly. I loved this, ThAts really all you need to know and of…
Weird combination of no-budget 16mm splatter movie and goofy domestic romcom. Works more than you'd think it would.
I HATE GRAPES!
I CAN'T STAND GRAPES!
I LOATHE GRAPES!
ALL KINDS OF GRAPES!
I HATE PURPLE GRAPES!
I HATE GREEN GRAPES!
I HATE GRAPES WITH SEEDS!
I HATE GRAPES WITHOUT SEEDS!
I HATE THEM PEELED AND NON PEELED!
I HATE GRAPES IN BUNCHES, ONE AT A TIME,
OR IN TWOS OR THREES!
I FUCKIN HATE GRAPES!
🔪🔪🔪🔪🫒🫒🫒🫒🫒
Closing out my Vinegar Syndrome marathon with one of my faves - PSYCHOS IN LOVE! A complete assault on logic and normalcy this one throws conventional film making out the window and goes by it's own zany rhythm. A perfectly quirky and witty movie that succeeds at doing whatever the hell it wants!
A grape hating serial killer couple enjoy the ups and downs of their relationship as they go on a gory rampage throughout town. There's no shortage of practical FX and blood as people are stabbed, dismembered and mutilated with body parts flying all over the dang place! The couple is tested when their mutual passion toward killing begins to fade...
Psychos in Love is piled to the…
Thee Classic Anti-Grape Horror Comedy of the 80's! An epic sloppy joe of goopy kills and goofy gags, like Eating Raoul's party got crashed by a sleazy SOV slasher. Love love love it.
Making good on the ambition he hinted at with Disconnected, Gorman Bechard delivers an even more entertaining flick following two psycho killers that fall deeply in love together. Joe, the stripclub owner, and Kate, the manicurist, both find equal exuberance when slashing the flesh of fresh victims. This is how they found each other and romantic absurdity ensued.
What a dang hoot. First time I watched this, my good buddy Belial_Carboni dropped his rare DVD copy of it when we were downing a few brews together almost…
This, right here, is how you fucking make a low-budget horror comedy. I mean, finding gems like this is why I wade through a sea of trash in the first place. A movie that isn't trying to be anything more than what it is. It's not trying to win an Oscar or compete with Schindler's List. It just sets out to be as fun as possible for its intended audience. A film that's just crammed full of gore, sleaze, juvenile humor, Casio abuse, and an insane amount of charm. A film that doesn't just repeatedly break the fourth wall so much as it demolishes it with a fucking sledgehammer.
I had so much fun watching this nonsense that I wanted…
"Psychos in Love" is a 1987 dark comedy directed by Gorman Bechard. Playing on the themeology of a Woody Allen or Al Brooks subtyped self-conscious romance yarn (a very popular genre of the time), "Psychos in Love" seemingly tells the story of love at first sight for two very unique individuals. On the exterior of things everything seems to be surrounded by normalcy, but deep-down Joe and Kate ironically share the same deep dark secret in common. The two would call it something of a quirk... normal people would call it psychopathic tendencies to commit murder. As they say, "Tomato, Tomâto"
I would have to say that I loved almost every bit of this charming, low-budget, romantic comedy slasher. Completely…
Watched the Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray.
Well, psychos sure as hell loathe grapes!
Male psycho Joe (Carmine Capobianco) and cute female psycho Kate (Patti Chambers) meet at a bar. They both hate grapes (and grape-loving people). It's a match made in hell!
Low budget 16mm shenanigans taking more inspiration from the Marx Brothers, Woody Allen (Especially Annie Hall), Monty Python and Charlie Chaplin than from slasher movie contemporaries. Those are of course tributed, the Psycho shower scene is revered TWICE, but it's the amalgamation of all these comedic influences with extreme violence, gore and well-written characters that made this a highly enjoyable watch.
After "Bloodsuckers from Space (1984)", this is the second watch in a row that's self-aware and breaking the…
“Would you maybe, like to be unstable together?”
Vinegar Syndrome made my heart skip a beat with their announcement of the upcoming Valentine’s Day sale, so I decided to watch the ultimate grape hatin’ serial killer love story ever told.💕
Psychos in Love is the perfect blend of sleazy, cute & dysfunctional, the dry humor and witty banter never gets old and if you’re into psychotic love stories with exceptional amounts of gore and glorious killings, topped with a handful of rants of how someone could hate grapes and how life is so fucking boring!! then this is a must see.
The VS slipcover is still one of the best from their catalog.💕💕💕
I was discussing with my niece this morning (a fellow Letterboxd fan who turned me onto this site) that star ratings factor into my movie viewing choices and that I’m often deceived by the high marks given to them because they’re “so bad they’re good”. She asked how I rate movies like this and I explained that if it’s bad - even if I actually enjoyed it because it was hilariously inept - I give it low marks, and I’ll try to mention somewhere that I found it “so bad that it’s good” in a side text.
My go-to example of this is Birdemic: Shock And Terror. My rating for Birdemic is 1/2 star, but I LOVE IT. I’ve watched…
A creative, original horror comedy that mixes a sleazy, violent slasher movie with romantic comedy as two mad slashers fall in love. It's a concept that could have easily failed but Psychos in Love has a clever script, likable cast and gory practical effects. It has a quirky style that includes breaking the fourth wall, keeping in scenes that probably should be outtakes and occasionally lingering on a scene so long that the actors appear to break character. That may sound like poor filmmaking but it all adds to the charm and uniqueness of it, and helps create a genuinely funny and endearing movie.
