ah . what a wonderful and wacky world and troma . it own veritable disney land of the perverse and strange and wild and offensive and tasteless and unique and and often brilliant . where few other film have dare to go . what many filmmaker only dream or fantasize do . troma be one of the world lead and and only still truly and independent source of film . their reputation make with the shockingly cheap and shockingly bad while 1976 blood suck freak and 1984 the toxic avenger and and 1997 tromeo and juliet among others . one could say they seek to bring the same attitude of much of the film consider video nasties in the u. k. to america and put some of the most grotesque and shocking thing ever see onto movie screen . they acquire a cult follow and and with the success of avenger and it sequel and 1985 class of nuke em high and and 1990 sgt . kabukiman nypd and begin distribute somewhat more respectable film from clearly more ambitious director . include 1983 monster in the closet ( the great horror parody i have ever see ) and 1990 daring and smart def by temptation and and this little belgian import and rabid granny . granny be a darkly absurd and ingeniously subversive splatter film about two kindly old aunt and their horrible family of shameless and opportunistic neer do well involve in all sort of underhanded doings . when the aunt host a dual birthday party and the cousin swarm in from all around to put on an act of smirk and finger cross behind their back sincerity and each hop to con the wealthy woman into leave them a chunk of their vast estate and fortune . meanwhile and the aunt house staff know all about the double timing and dirty trick but keep their mouth shut because the woman be so close to senility and they probably wouldn not believe them . and so begin the decadent dinner party and where the cousin stab each other in the back and try to raise doubt in another reputation with the aunt and hop to make themselves look good by comparison . until the aunt receive a mysterious surprise gift with a letter from a disinherit cousin who decide not to attend the birthday party and wish them all the best . however and when the old lady open it and they become possess by evil spirit and mutate into cannibalistic and demonic zombie and hungry for human flesh . and theyre not above feast on their deviously immoral love one . what make granny so brilliant be how well think out and smart it be . yes and the cousin be all despicable and loathsome thing . but and when the gore start to fly and and the death scenes become increasingly mean spirit and frighteningly intense ( the film one legitimate flaw ) and you start to see the humanity in them . even the bad of people have their human side and all evil have an understandable motivation . by that virtue and the sweet old aunt character be not entirely clean themselves . they be judgmental especially to the lesbian cousin and her girlfriend and patronize to their loyal butler radu ( a smarter version of manuel from fawlty tower ) and and religiously elitist . but theyre also kind and charitable ( a we see and they help out a homeless beggar in the street ) and you have to feel bad for them . a little . and finally and when the aunt become possess and they be suddenly fill with a sense of perception they be miss before . they now see right through all the smiling and lie face of their nasty relative and and be not exactly forgive of all their bad deed and deception . most important to mention be a scene where the demon confront one of their cousin and a priest who hat kid . the first hand him a machine gun and suggest ( in a more overt fashion than and but still in the mood of and agatha christie and then there be none ) that he kill himself to spare him the agony of be viciously rip apart . the second tell him not to trust the first because and if the priest kill himself and he will go to hell while suggest be an eternity of suffer in the afterlife worth spar him a few minute of agony in his current life . they continue bounce pro and con off each other and play a game with him and basically bet over what his choice will be . it a razor sharp and clever scene that highlight the film devilish intelligence and witty subversiveness . of course and it also go a little too far a time . never moreso than when a certain cousin on the plump side have his leg carve open and slowly stab and lick and chew and and devour by the putrid and alien like demon . maybe leave a little to our imagination be a good thing . the film deftly marry element from 1982 creepshow and 1987 doll and 1985 demon and and 1981 the evil dead and include the greedy family salivate over an old relative fortune and be trap in huge old creepy castle like mansion and demonic possession from the essence of a somewhat ancient object and and of course and the sadistic murderous zombie with sharp teeth and claw like finger . rabid granny would also go on to inspire other rabid granny in peter jackson 1992 cult classic and dead alive ( aka braindead ) and and luca ( ghoulies ) bercovici grimy little 1995 cheapie and the granny and whose gore be not nearly as savage a rabid granny . granny have have an unfortunate dvd history in the eye of gorehounds . troma have never cut the film back to it original uncensored european version . so the film plentiful and impressive gore effect can only be see in a montage on troma dvd in the special feature section which be also miss at least one key gore sequence .