Bob Sanderson is the mild mannered butcher of the small, sleepy town of Burquitlam. His motto is "Pleased to meet you, meat to please you." Bob's life is thrown into turmoil when he decides to hire Abdullah (The Big Meat Eater) - a massive human blockhouse of a man - as an apprentice in his butcher shop. Unbeknownst to Bob, Abdullah has just murdered the Mayor of Burquitlam in a fit of pique - and the corpse is hidden in Bob's freezer. 

An alien spacecraft arrives in search of a rare fuel - Bolonium - which is deposited in large quantities underneath Bob's butcher shop. Meanwhile, Jan, a boy genius, has stolen the Mayor's cadillac, installed a cyclotron and is set to launch it into outerspace... 

Abdullah sings the blues while he charcoal grills gangsters and turns dalmation dogs into spotted spam... Alien robots desperate for bolonium possess the defrosted Mayor as their zombie agent... Bob and Jan are in turn the victims of repulsive temporary mutations... and Burquitlam itself becomes just another excuse for a bizarre musical comedy sci-fi/horror film. 

"delightfully unpretentious musical comedy which defies classification  Variety

"a potential classic" 
The Globe and Mail

"madly wonderful" 
The Toronto Star 

"a soundtrack so stimulating and stylishly shot that the collection of jazz, punk, blues and schlock should be turned into a Big Miller video disc."
Edmonton Journal

"One of the best pictures of the year. " City Limits

"Here at last is the one we've all been waiting for - the instant 50s mondo schlocko sci-fi horror classic... Big Meat Eater's tackiness is only exceeded by a wackiness that transcends mere pastiche..." 
New Musical Express

"Too endearing and eccentric to be dismissed as trash, too smart to be dismissed as camp... a triumph of deliberate badness, downright stupidity and cheapskate invention that you will either love every minute of, or react to in astonishment. There are about ten different plots; none of which make any sense, and a handful of very endearing performances... It's not easy to explain why this is one of the best films of the year..." 
Time Out

"cheerfully inexpert, disarming, occasionally sharp in its pictures of small-town attitudes; and always a pleasure when the mountainous black singer, Big Miller is on the screen... 
The Times