Synopsis
This year, it's not the turkey being carved for Thanksgiving
An escaped mental patient steals a station wagon and makes his way to the Bradleys' Thanksgiving celebration, where he plans to make them a little less thankful...
1981 Directed by Nettie Peña
An escaped mental patient steals a station wagon and makes his way to the Bradleys' Thanksgiving celebration, where he plans to make them a little less thankful...
Slasher in the House
This was soooo dumb and ridiculous that there was no way I wasn’t going to have fun with it. We are introduced to a bunch of really goofy characters like a kid who dresses up like a mime and shreds on his electric guitar. They’re all insanely bad actors and they’re slowly killed off by Jake of “Body by Jake” after he shoots PCP into his tongue and runs over an old woman crossing the street. Lol what I love it.
The main reason I decided to watch this was that I saw Vinessa Shaw was in it and I like her but it didn’t occur to me that she was only 4 when she made this. She also disappears…
Wow this one really opens with a bang! We are introduced to our Lou Ferrigno looking killer as he steals a car and speeds down the highway. Suddenly an old lady appears up ahead. They wouldn't go there would they??? BAM freeze frame of the old ladies face just as she's struck by the car! Seconds later the killer is laughing like a maniac as he stares through the giant puddle of blood on the windshield!
Home Sweet Home is a real oddball 80s slasher. Managing to be both goofy and dull it really does a number on the ol brainer! The characters aren't very likeable and everyone acts like a dramatic dingus. There's an eccentric teenager who has his…
Home Sweet Home is a Thanksgiving slasher flick from 1981 made on a budget not even enough to buy a ham sandwich or even a shoestring. And if you've been following me long enough, I'm always down to scrape the bottom of the barrel! As long as I get something good out of it, of course. And though Home Sweet Home may not be great, I enjoyed it for what it was.
Yeah, like I said, very low budget! The lighting is...not great. There were a few kills that I had to squint just to see them and as a matter of fact, most scenes that took place outside during the night I had to squint to see what was…
I thought I was getting a generic Thanksgiving slasher but instead I got a movie where a horny mime with a guitar annoys the shit out of everyone *and* theres a subplot where an escaped mental patient is killing people; uneven and not gory enough to sate rabid genre fans but never uninteresting
The premise for this has the potential to be quite scary. A jacked, escaped mental patient off his head on PCP goes on a killing spree. Not a million miles from something you might see in the headlines.
Instead you get the goofiest looking meathead laughing hurr-durr style as he slices his way through an equally annoying family on Thanksgiving.
There's absolutely no motive or plot for any of it. Just one badly staged kill after another.
That one guy who couldn't decide if he was a member of Kiss or a French mime though?
Could have watched him die all day.
I was debating whether or not the mime-faced peeping tom wearing an amplifer backpack and shredding hot licks on his electric guitar was one of the best characters in the history of horror movies, but then he started performing magic tricks and erased any doubt in my mind... Which is kind of a shame, because Jake "Bodies by Jake" Steinfeld, who looks like a genetic mashup of Lous Ferrigno and Reed with Nick Frost's bucktoothy grin, is pretty dang fantastic as well what with his injecting PCP in his tongue, gleeful vehicular homicide, ADR'd grunting, titular tattoo, and proclivity for arriving in the frame by jumping in, grinning the whole time like a beefcake manchild Erol Flynn. Ooh boy, I have a lot to be thankful for this Thursday!
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If you're not looking forward to spending time with the family this holiday season, watch this movie and you'll probably appreciate your family a whole lot more. At least your family doesn't have an annoying kid with mime face paint on, playing obnoxious guitar solos and being an all round a**hole-ish dick....or at least I assume your family doesn't have that.
This movie started out well. Muscle bound dude escapes from a mental institution, cackles a lot (because he's CRAZEEEEEE!), takes pcp orally, and then runs over an old lady in the street. Great start.
Then we…
1981 In Review - November
#6
An escaped mental patient steals a station wagon and makes his way to the Bradleys' Thanksgiving celebration, where he plans to make them a little less thankful….
This truly is bottom of the barrel stuff for a slasher film and without doubt one of the worst movies I have seen from 1981. It’s another one of those themed slasher films, this time is set at Thanksgiving.
It's bad, beyond bad. But it's just so ridiculously stupid and inept, you're just so bemused to what you're seeing on screen. Some of the early death scenes are just laughable. Jake Seinfield's over-the-top killer's performance goes a long way to cementing that. Watch this buffed lunatic shooting…
Sheesh, between the pacing and lighting for night scenes, this lackluster slasher remains such a chore. I wonder if the original negative for a decent transfer could even be found or if this would even be worth the effort. I told my daughter this is what we used to deal with renting low budget slashers on VHS. If ever there was a slasher I would prefer during the day of Thanksgiving, it is this slasher. Almost every character leaves the house never to return. This is the very example Randy from "Scream" was talking about.
Mistake reminded me of my brother at ten, since he was just as obnoxiously intrusive and always in need of constant attention.
OK......... the five stars is for the splash onto the car roof - which is the SINGLE GREATEST MURDER IN THE HISTORY OF SLASHERS. No hyperbole. Well the rating, yes thats a little hard to stomach, but the reason for it - completely justified.
Home Sweet Home (1981) tells the story of Harold (Don Edmonds - director of Ilsa Shewolf of the SS) a man so incredibly unpleasant he can't get a lot of family to visit his remote house for Thanksgiving, so invites a bunch of incredibly seedy friends. Straight up, I thought this was an attempt at respectability by an adult film crew & stars in the downtime from an orgy... yet only director Nettie Pena comes from that…
A homicidal Lou Ferringo lookalike shoots pcp into his tongue and proceeds to go on a Thanksgiving killing spree. The cast of canon fodder are all rather generic aside from the most annoying of the bunch. A young fella that walks around in mime face paint playing an electric guitar. The Ferringo lookalike laughs maniacally throughout the film. It only has an 80 minute runtime but still meanders a bit at times.
Far from essential 80s slasher viewing but I enjoyed it for what it was. A blu ray upgrade would be nice around Thanksgiving.