Deathrow Gameshow. Mark Pirro, 1987.
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Edition screened: Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray #139, released 2016. English language. Runtime approximately 83 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Deathrow Gameshow is boringly atrocious in every way. No portion of the script is even a little bit funny or clever, the alleged horror elements are just clownish characters pretending to be electrocuted by vibrating and making screwy faces, and the sight gags fail limply to imitate Airplane!-style silliness. Robyn Blythe’s portrayal of an attractive up-scale social protester is by far the best performance and the most enjoyable part of the film. The last half of the movie is almost impossible to sit through due to a mafia gangster character who dominates most scenes with repulsive physical comedy.
The Vinegar Syndrome release also includes two early comedy shorts by Pirro, Buns (1978, 21 minutes) and The Spy Who Did It Better (1979, 46 minutes), both free of animal violence.