Everyone get hung up over the content of this film and it's become a rock solid horror cult classic. Except I disagree.
I've seen much better films than this made for less money (it apparently cost $650,000.) Despite the fact that it had a large budget by the standards of underground films (if I can use that term) it looks atrociously cheap. Being made in an earlier decade doesn't save it either Tetsuo was made in the late eighties and for what must have been a fraction of this budget.
I admit I hate the seventies, but even considering that, it's execution, not just it's appearance is disappointment for a film that's been cited so much. Romero himself made a better film in Night of the Living Dead. I didn't even watch it long enough to see the bit when they're in the mall but doubt I would have been impressed.
