Even though the excellent title promises a shocking feast of gore this weird little low budget attempt at black humor horror seems completely misdirected and off the mark but ends up satisfying in the end. Filmed in 1981 and directed by Wayne Berwick, the production team originally courted Rodney Dangerfield to star in the film but decided to go with stand up comedian Jackie Vernon in his last screen performance. Vernon, known to many as the voice of Frosty the Snowman in the Rankin/Bass productions, is likeable but awkward at first. Viewers may get turned off at the flurry of jokes that fall flat but after a while Vernon and his plight start to grow on you.

Vernon plays a construction worker with a wife who is a dedicated foodie. She buys a new industrial strength microwave oven to help with her culinary concoctions while Vernon longs to have a normal sandwich in his lunchbox instead of the exotic meals his wife prepares. Through a series of ridiculous events the wife ends up dead and Vernon becomes a cannibal and the bad jokes just keep coming. When the producers could not secure a distribution deal they resorted to shooting extra scenes including gratuitous gore and nudity and the film was finally released. Though the film is a little off putting comedy-wise, with the inserts intact Microwave Massacre works as a straight up piece of drive-in exploitation and in the end the performance by Vernon becomes endearing and makes the whole thing worthwhile to fans of weirdo low-budget film.

The Blu-ray by Arrow makes the film look outstanding for a low-budget feature shot so long ago. The accompanying documentary with interviews featuring the filmmakers and cast is fantastic and will make you want to revisit the film again, especially when you learn that this film is a distant relative of one of the granddaddies of exploitation The Monster Of Piedras Blancas.