The Mad Butcher [VHS]
After being released from a mental hospital, Otto returns to his old job as a butcher. He tries to adjust to his new life, but after a bitter argument with his wife, he accidentally kills her. Fearing he will be sent back to the hospital, he grinds up her body and sells it as sausages. As friends and relatives start asking questions about her disappearance, they too start ending up in the butcher’s display case.
“I’m the best butcher in Vienna.” From distributor Harry H. Novak, purveyor of fine, wholesome sleaze from all across the globe, among other things, comes The Mad Butcher (1974), originally released as Lo Strangolatore di Vienna (1971). Directed by John Zurli aka Guido Zurli (Slave Girls of Sheba, Black Deep Throat), this Italian production features Victor Buono (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte), probably known best as the portly, evil villain King Tut (“If the caped crumb is here, the cowled…
Master-butcher, Otto Lehman (Victor Buono) has just been released from the madhouse. He spent 3 years there for hitting a woman in the head w/ 2 lbs of liver. Otto was quite comfortable in confinement, and now has a hard time adjusting to the stress of the outside world. Thank goodness for his career in sausage-making! Otto goes right back to slicing and grinding his meats into tasty links of fleshy delight. He also finds that killing those who irritate him helps to relieve his tension, but…