Week 3 (July 5 – 11) – Maverick Entertainment Group

One of the most overlooked and consistent low-budget film companies of the 21st century, they’ve been full steam ahead in the streaming era while other indies have cratered. From the Maverick Entertainment Group website:

Founded in 1997, Maverick continues to be a leading distributor and producer of niche independent and Black Cinema content. Having released more than 1,300 films over the past 26 years, Maverick currently distributes the world’s largest library of feature-length Black Cinema.

Dr. Andrew Casey (David Fine) is a man of refined tastes—refined, that is, if your palate runs toward human flesh. Known as The Chef, Casey was locked away at the Marathon County Asylum for 11 years after his wife stumbled upon his secret ingredient list.

Fast forward to his release: he’s declared rehabilitated and relocates to Los Angeles under the alias Mr. Jack Conway. Enter Johnathon Poe (Stelio Savante), a descendant of the legendary Edgar Allan Poe, whose own writing career is currently hitting a wall. His agent hooks him up with a contract to shadow the good doctor for a biography. Johnathon quickly realizes that Casey hasn’t exactly sworn off his dietary habits. Before long, our struggling writer is being forced to document a brand new spree of abductions and cannibalism.

I have to tell you that everyone says Casey like Cayce; The Chef has a bunch of women in love with him that beg him to eat them in a sexually tone, Big Guido from The FBI (Full Blooded Italians) in ECW is a henchman, The Chef is apt to drop c bombs and say sexual stuff to the point that if these were ad libs he should be in jail, the color palette of Saw, long speeches that go on for such a length that they may still be happening now and I’m dead and just dreaming of the infinite, a vibe that is totally “The Case of Harry Billings” from Night Train to Terror, a pimp story shoehorned in and a black sex worker who says, “I am one black bitch you’ve never get to eat, you maniac!” and a nurse in an Andrew Lloyd Webber Phantom mask. 

No notes. Just stars.

You can watch this on Tubi.