Rabid Grannies

     Two eccentric old aunts are having a birthday party. All the party guests are family members that are just after the two old bat's money and intend to use the birthday party to both make themselves look better as well as make each other look as bad as possible. The oddball family ensemble consists of a bumbling cowardly priest, a married couple with obnoxious kids, a fat cousin with a very young stripper wife, a female cousin with her lesbian girlfriend, a horny dipstick in a Trans Am, and a frigid old cousin that is so conservative she makes Mother Theresa look like a $2 whore. 

      As the aunts start receiving their birthday gifts, a knock at the door sounds like the arrival of someone else. The cook's helper answers the door and there stands a gothic-looking grandma with a gift sent by the black sheep of the family, a nephew that was banned from the family and written out of the will for becoming the leader of a Satanic cult. Through the note on the gift he shmoozes the aunts by saying that he wants forgiveness, he knows his presence is not wanted but still desires to give them a unique gift for their birthday. They open the package which contains a pretty box. Thinking that it's a lovely gift, they open it and some demons come out and possess the aunts, who then begin attacking all the members of the family and most of the relatives are killed off in various comical ways. Eventually, the frigid cousin and the lesbian are the only two people left. They assume that if they destroy the box they can destroy the demons that came out of it. It works and the aunts return to normal (borrrrrrring!). 

      The next morning police arrive and start collecting the bodies. One of the two kids (the other one got torn apart by one of the demon-possessed aunts) wants to go live with the lesbian because even though his mother survived, she's now a basket case in a straight jacket. In the last scene, Bertha the frigid cousin starts puking up green slime on the cab ride home then gets all possessed looking and tears off the cab driver's arm... the end. 

      I have to say that the first half of this movie is slower than dial-up internet, almost enough to give up on it before the fun even begins. The second half of the movie picks up with some gruesome special effects and some pretty bloody murders. Well worth the wait...I guess. Don't try and make too much sense out of the story, because it's completely insignificant. The only fun in this film is watching two demons run around in flowery dresses killing people in comically terrifying ways that are very reminiscent of "Evil Dead". Ironically, despite the title, the grannies in this film are the victims of demon possession and rabies is never even mentioned at all. I guess they just needed a punchier title. An enjoyable flick... if you really have absolutely nothing else to do.