YMMV / If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?

• Accidental Innuendo:
  • If footmen tire you, what will horses do?
  • There's also Reverend Pirkle's final words to the audience. It's supposed to be a call to arms for Jesus Christ, but the wording lends it a slightly...different interpretation.
  Rev. Pirkle: Will you come? Will you come? Will you come?
• Anvilicious: Communism is bad, mkay?
• Cult Classic: This movie and Pirkle's two other movies have received this status to the point where a digital restoration of all three of them was produced by Nicolas Winding Refn for his streaming website byNWR.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: That weird, gross, unintentionally Laughably Evil Commissar who shows up several times to Kick the Dog (... with implied rape of a woman after killing her husband, chopping off a kid's head and talking like Foghorn Leghorn doing a bad Dracula impression) seems to border on this.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Modern video gamers might get a chuckle from the name Estus.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • A military officer punishes a little boy by shoving pencils in the boy's ears. And then the boy throws up.
  • Estus W. Pirkle's ramblings get increasingly outlandish and disturbing as the film progresses, to the point where he almost sounds like the reverend Harry Powell at times. And to think there were people who ''agreed'' with him...
• Retroactive Recognition: Estus' son and future congressional candidate Greg Pirkle plays the little boy who's decapitated by a Communist soldier near the end of the movie.
• Sampled Up: Much of its notoriety comes from Negativland's sampling in the song "Christianity is Stupid".
• So Bad, It's Good: The whole movie, especially the Dirty Commies and particularly the main "Commissar" guy. He's as unintentionally silly and ridiculous as he is icky.
• Special Effects Failure: Most of the carnage is this, along with the bargain-basement acting. Among other cinematic atrocities, you have:
  • Some of the gunned-down people being played by mannequins.
  • Blood that looks like cherry dessert topping.
  • The boy's beheading involves a totally fake knife from the toy section at K-Mart and is cheesily portrayed.
  • The "Soviet" flags and insignias look like they were made from scratch by five-year-olds.
  • The news anchor's newsroom is an ugly wood-paneled wall with a map on it.
  • The flashback scenes where Rev. Pirkle muses fondly about the McGuffey Readers are supposedly set in the turn of the 20th Century but everybody still dresses like it's The '70s.

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