6.5 this is very good for a video nasty.. the only reason i give it a good rating is because i am rating it according to what it is, a cheaply produced video nasty. Video nasties are cheaply produced movies that rely on gags, novelty themes, shock or raunch because the producers cannot afford anything else. These novelties are used to paint a unique and effective ambiance to go with the story. If these novelties were not used, the movie would be so cheap and boring that you would be better off reading a book. The video nasty category often takes some getting used to but when you do it can be a very fun and interesting category.All this considered, this movie had a very good story line, good acting and good editing. It must have been a pretty decent b movie on cable for its time.

The 8 is given for those who get a kick out of purposefully raunchy comedy horror satire films. The film was originally filmed in 1981 by a UCLA student as part of a school project but wasn't released until 1983. The purpose of the school project was to write and film an exploitation movie. Well, apparently the guy got an "A" on his project. Microwave Massacre doesn't fail in the cheese department but that is its ultimate charm. It is misogynistic and corny. Poor Donald, the regular guy construction worker is tormented by his shrew wife and her insistence on having "gourmet" microwave meals. Donald is played by comedian Jackie Vernon and the movie is full of classic deadpan one-liners. Plenty of gratuitous nudity and crude, obvious humor. Horrible props and the boom mic is visible in several scenes. If you want a good laugh, give it a whirl. Maybe an hour and twenty minutes long. Awful late disco/early 80s music. For camp horror film fans, it doesn't disappoint.

Marla Simon and her bouncy tits, proudly showcased in a couple of scenes, really gets fourth billing for that walk-on role, which lasts about four minutes of the film's run time. Not only that, but Major Electric actually receives a screen credit, and IMDb credit, as the microwave oven. Mmm Hmmmm.Pretty silly movie about a guy who kills his wife because she's a bad cook, puts her in the freezer (which gets more screen time here than any microwave) and then accidentally begins eating her. Once he realises that he's eating her, and that he enjoys the taste of human flesh, he even shares it with nearby construction workers. He also bangs, then suffocates, a prostitute, covers her with lard and makes a sandwich out of her. She can be seen giggling and breathing, even though she is supposedly dead. So can the next girl he kills and then slices open. Stupid combo of slasher movies and satire of slasher movies, the scariest part of this movie is probably all of late 70s/ early 80s swinger-types with afro/ permed hair, looking like derelict rejects from The Village People. Idea might have worked better as a short film, running no more than twenty minutes in length, but even expanded to its scant 72-minutes run time, it falls flat quickly. The cast and crew are listed in the closing credits as though on a menu in a French restaurant: Le Chef, Donald: Jackie Vernon L'Aperatif, Knothole girl: Marla Simon. In Title Scene: Marla Simon's. (sic)La Menu (In order of consumption): La Specialite De La Maison, May: Claire Ginsberg. L'Hours D'oeuvre, Dee Dee Dee: Lou Ann Webber. La Poultry, Chick: Anna Marlowe. La Dessert, Susie Grubb, Cindy Gant. etc. etc. etc. .....Les Vibrators: Sticky Digits, Inc. Le Shadow: Only He Knows. La Danceur: Allison (Allison?) (sic)And Introducing Major Electronic as The Oven.The closing credits were probably the funniest part of this film, which isn't saying much.

Picture in your mind how the actor who did the voice of Frosty the Snowman might have looked. Now imagine that guy having dry-hump sex with random hookers ('Frosty' grunts and groans included), killing and dismembering them, and then cooking them up in the world's most ridiculously huge microwave oven. Or, you can skip that mental exercise and rent this film.MICROWAVE is light on actual gore but the one-liners are so corny and wooden you'll have plenty of blood shooting from your ears in no time. Here's an example: "I call this dish 'Peking Chick'" WOW.60-year old Jackie Vernon as the lead delivers his lines with Teddy Ruxpin-like painful deliberateness and all the charisma and sexiness of creamed beef at the senior center buffet. Vernon was a comedian with a trademark deadpan style but he's matched to a script with the comedic depth of a DVD Player's instruction manual. Throw in some editing that appears to have been done with a lighter and a can of hairspray and Vernon doesn't have a chance of making this one funny.MICROWAVE features a few ridiculous gags and setups, like a naked girl who gets slathered with mayo, covered with a giant piece of wonder bread and then sawed in half. It tries to be fun and light yet is so completely inept it can't even manage self-deprecation without revealing it's low IQ. It's like when the fat kid intentionally trips in gym class to make everyone laugh but ends up hurting himself for real. You don't know whether to laugh, feel sorry for him, or heck, give him a good kick while he's already down. My money is on door number 3. Definitely in the "so bad it's good" universe of films and requires a number of intoxicants coupled with a complete absence of self-respect to wade through.