Demon Ted, aka DEMENTED is Ded. Go ahead, GRIND HIS CORPSE

Who is THIS pompous asshole with the idiotic 'stache?  
TURN ME ON, DEAD MAN. 



His name WAS Theodore Mikacevich but, pompous butthole that he WAS, he chose the nom-de-spume Ted V. Mikels. And the rest, as they say, is vomitatious excess. 

In this 21st Century of Slime, people LOVE their B-movies and their D-listers and actually take "exploitation" movies seriously. People write books about this shit. College courses are offered. Jerks like Mikels get to lecture about their low-budget lowlife loser "epics." 

The memorabilia conventions are LOADED with obese ugly dweebs waddling around hoping to get an autographed photo of some old whore who was in one of Ted's films, or some alkie who played a ghoul in one of them, or, (up till now) Ted himself. 

Oh, did I mention, Teddy Boy croaked the other day. He lived to the ripe (if not rancid) old age of 87 (April 29, 1929 – October 16, 2016),

IF I'M BEING HONEST, I have seen NONE of this jerk's movies. I haven't seen any from other "goremeister" slobs either. I don't find anything entertaining about poorly done "splatter" movies loaded with bad acting and worse sadism. 

The idea is to come up with a title that will sell, and THEN make the movie. So Teddy Boy made: "The Corpse Grinders" and "The Worm Eaters" and "Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things" and chuckled all the way to the bank. 

Nerds and dweebs could tell you why these films "are really good," and why it's so much fun to watch cheesy, sleazy garbage. I'm not a nerd or a dweeb, so all I can say is that it's SO SAD that a few zombies will be farting and sweating at Chiller on the Oct 28th weekend, muttering to each other, "Didja hear about Ted V. Mikels??" 

I digress: Russ Meyer was another asshole. I did see a few of his films, like "Faster Pussycat Kill Kill," and they were awful, disturbing and depressing. And badly made. The acting sucked, the writing sucked and the directing was worse. Russ had this annoying habit of cutting very fast between the big-tit-bouncing and the splatter and the car chases. How do you ruin a movie that features women with enormous boobs? Russ found a way. PS, the combo of sex and violence IS dubious, because too often, it makes it seem like the two should be connected for REAL fun. Yeah, beat up the woman as you fuck her. Real nice.

At one time there were quality guys who happened to be stuck making B-movies. Edgar G. Ulmer was one of those. You might watch a cheapie like "Invaders from Mars" or "Indestructible Man" or "Horror Hotel" and be surprised by some good acting, some redeeming moments of drama, or valiant camera angles. You might legitimately call something "noir," or declare that "Dementia" or "Carnival of Souls" is a low-budget gem.

But then there's vulgarity. And Ted VULGARITY Mikels and his bunch. If a measure of a man is whether he left the world a little better than he found it, then Ted died a maggot.