Starring | |
Brooke McCarter as Jackie Nevada Caldwell as Jill Burton Joel D. Wynkoop as Fred Finagler Krista Grotte as "Champange" Lauren Schimer as "Marie "Coco" Smith Jack Amos as Dean Kenny Rogers {actor not the late country singer of the same name} as Oscar Bruce Blauer as Ray Hemming Jarrett Ricker as Richard Lloyd Kaufman as The Pimp Trish Dempsey as Old Lady Blume Kenny DeMello as The Puppet Killer Herschell Gordon Lewis as Uncle Herschell/The Narrator | |
Director | |
Herschell Gordon Lewis | |
Movie Release | |
October 2009 | |
Packagers | |
Film Ranch International Lion's Kill Productions |
The Uh-Oh! Show or Herschell Gordon Lewis's The Uh-Oh! Show is a horror comedy film where it involves around a sadistic game show where contestants play to win money just by answering trivia questions, but appearing to be dismembered for every wrong answer given. A reporter named Jill Burton, suspects the gruesome attacks might not be fake.
(Keep in my that this has nothing to do the with the 1997-03 kids game show from Canada simply titled Uh-Oh!)
Plot[]
A reporter named Jill Burton (played by Nevada Caldwell) is investigating a gruesome television game show called The Uh-Oh! Show where contestants literally "get rich or die trying". Fred Finagler (played by Joel D. Wynkoop) is the creator of the show. While a few lucky contestants walk away with the money, most end up getting killed in gruesome ways. Meanwhile, Burton is suspicious about the supposedly fake deaths and becomes determined to find out if they are real or not.
Reception[]
The film won the Audience Choice Award at Texas Frightmare Weekend and Best Feature Horror Film at the Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival. In its reviews, film review site The Worldwide Celluloid Massacre describes the film as "the usual Lewis campy so-bad-its-good-stuff" and reports that "the splatter is over-the-top and all in the name of silly, bad, cheaply provocative fun". Writing in the Underground Film Journal, critic Mike Everleth wrote that the film "has a strong - if loopy and nonsensical - premise" and that "none of it makes much sense, but the energy is high and although the violence is in the realm of the cartoonish, the actual effects are good and grotesque".
Release[]
On October 26, 2009, Herschell premiered footage for The Uh-Oh! Show at the opening night of The Spooky Movie Film Festival at the AFI Silver Theatre outside Washington D.C., following the 45th anniversary screening of Two Thousand Maniacs!. The film was planned to have had its world premiere at Spooky Empire's Weekend of Horror in Orlando, Florida on October 11; However, according to Herschell Gordon Lewis's introduction to the film at the Abertoir Horror Festival in Aberystwyth, it wasn't ready by that time. the version shown at the Abertoir festival was the premiere but still an incomplete version of the film, lacking music, titles and some special effects.
A more complete version of the film was screened at the Cinema Wasteland movie convention in Strongville, Ohio in October 2010, with Mr. Lewis in attendance. He held a question and answer session with fans following the screening.
Merchandise[]
On August 30, 2011; the film was released on DVD.
Trivia[]
The film's original working title was called "Grim Fairy Tales". In Germany, it was called "The Splatter Show" as a "rerun title".
The tagline "Get Rich or Die Trying" is also a reference to the 2003 album and 2005 movie of the same names by rapper/actor 50 Cent (a.k.a. Curtis Jackson).