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RES wrote on 01/14/2012:

"Cheap and tasteless" is the best description for this compendium film. As that seems to have been 'Chillerama's' aim, it succeeded. Yet it was at least half an hour too long, and the repulsive, deliberately threadbare sight gags wore very thin. Somehow the short conflating Hitler and Frankenstein wasn't quite as unpleasant as it might have been, but it was uncomfortable enough that I'd skip it if I ever watch this again. I suppose the best of the shorts, and the only one with gay content, was "I Was a Teenage Werebear," a somewhat cute musical trope on coming-out. But even that could have used editing. Sean Paul Lockhart again showed that he has acting talent, though so far, his real tour-de-force is 'Judas Kiss'; perhaps he's better in dramatic roles. One wishes him well and hopes for appearances in better projects than 'Chillerama."

Amos Lassen wrote on 09/25/2011:

I am using the films blurb for my first paragraph because it is so perfect: “It’s the closing night at the last drive-in theater in America and Cecil B. Kaufman (Hatchet’s Richard Riehle) has planned the ultimate marathon of lost film prints to unleash upon his faithful cinephile patrons. Four films so rare that they have never been exhibited publicly on American soil until this very night. What could possibly go wrong? In the spirit of classic anthology films like Creepshow and Twilight Zone: The Movie and containing films that not only celebrate the golden age of drive-in B horror shlock but also span over four decades of cinema, Chillerama offers something for every bad taste. With titles like Wadzilla, I Was a Teenage Werebear, The Diary of Anne Frankenstein and Zom-B-Movie”; you can just imagine what you will see here.

I love movies that are fun and that is what this collection is all about. We start by meeting Cecil Kaufman (Richard Riehle) who is facing his last night at his drive in theater and to close it down he decides to show four schlock films that have never been seen before. As he is about to begin showing the movies, a member of his staff discloses that he is infected with a virus…. (that you have to see yourselves).

“Wadzilla” will make you understand why this film has never been seen publicly. Miles has an unbelievably low sperm count, so low that each ejaculation produces only one sperm. And so, of course, the rest of the film deals with Dr. Weems trying to find a cure which creates a sperm monster and on it goes.

“I Was a Teenage Werebear” is the story of Ricky who is struggling with his homosexuality and cannot seem to control his urges. Talon enters his life and bites him (on the butt) and Ricky is forced into a gang of creatures from another world. This is one of the gayest films you will ever see with musical numbers to boot. It is total camp.

“The Diary of Anne Frankenstein” reminds me of Mel Brooks’ films and here Hitler kills Anne Frankenstein and her family and finds her grandfather, Victor Frankenstein’s diary and he learns how to build his own Jewish monster, The Meshugganuh but things go wrong and this is probably one of the most distasteful films ever made (but very, very funny).

Then comes a surprise that is not listed anywhere, “Deathecation” introduced by Fernando Phagabeefy and I am not going to say much more than that it is full of “shit”.

““Zom-B-Movie” is narrated by Cecil (Richard Reile) the drive-in projectionist who finds himself in the midst of being attacked by uber-horny zombies, turned that way by a very unlucky ex-husband who gets his trouser snake bitten off by his dead wife, and you thought the giant sperm was going to be the worst you see”.

I am not sure if I should say anything else so I won’t and let “Chillerama” speak for itself.