Fourth wall-smashing Goth high school student Beth (Lyndsey Craine, Book of Monsters) has dipped her terror toes in everything from self-mutilation, to demonic possession, to suicide, so you’d think there wouldn’t be many more dark recesses to explore… but you’d be wrong, my dear mother fuckers!
You see, our heroine soon encounters her school’s new English teacher, Miss Campbell (Lala Barlow), who she not only falls in love with, but shares a taste for human flesh! See, I told you!
Being as this is from bonkers filmmaker Liam Regan (My Bloody Banjo) and legendary insane asylum/film company Troma (The Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke ‘Em High) you can bet Eating Miss Campbell is creative, outrageous, and hilarious… often simultaneously… and it sure as hell is!
I mean, high school horror comedy involving cannibalism is an attention grabber for sure, but this one takes darkly satirical (and often purposefully imbecilic) jabs at horror tropes, teen flicks, and mass shootings as well (your mileage on that last one may vary, but remember all here is lodged firmly in the usual terrifically tacky Troma territory… in other words, akin to being the unholy offspring of MAD magazine and Fangoria).
The cast assembled here is more than game for such cinematic lunacy, with Craine making for a morally dubious (to say the least) but incredibly relatable heroine… and she’s aided and abetted by an absolutely off-the-wall company of supporting players who’s ranks include The Human Centipede 2 (and III)’s Laurence R. Harvey (as the perverted principal of Beth’s school) and Troma co-founder Lloyd Kaufman (in a suitably offensive and ridiculous appearance!).
If you are interested in how this people-munchin’ madness came to be, Troma have included a “making of” documentary that helps sum it all up… especially when combined with the optional audio commentary featuring Regan (along with Jack Hayes and Finn Blackard (dude, I hope I got your name right), the head of post-production sound) that accompanies the feature.
Also included are a duo of intros for the film, deleted scenes & outtakes, a gore reel, raw B-roll (and behind-the-scenes) footage, cast interviews, footage from Eating Miss Campbell’s FrightFest premiere, and a VFX reel.
This being a Troma release you can bet your ass we will be seeing some self promotion which appears here in the form of a collection of trailers of other Troma flicks (Eating Miss Campbell’s trailer is present as well, the omnipresent Radiation March, a commercial for Troma’s streaming service, and a selection labeled “INNARDS” which is a music video for a song called Tromatized.
If you only see one high school-set cannibal comedy this year, let it be Eating Miss Campbell, a surreal, hilarious, one-of-a-kind horror comedy that features everything we love about Troma flicks!
