SLAUGHTERHOUSE (1987)
Starring Joe Barton and Don Barrett
Entertaining slasher film from the late 1980s, directed in the spirit of "Motel Hell" with maybe a little bit of "Mother's Day" thrown in for good measure.
The film opens with fat, meatcleaver-wielding psychopath killing a teenage party queen in an abandoned bus near the local slaughterhouse. The opening credits, with its incredibly goofy music and footage of real pigs being cut up in an actual pig factory, puts the spirit of the film in perspective: It takes itself about as seriously as a Russ Meyer movie.
Barrett plays the demented owner of a closed-down slaughterhouse who sicks his fat, psychotic and homicidal son Buddy (Barton) on some local enemies who hope to get his land. Naturally a group of teens show up at the slaughterhouse to party one night, and they get killed off too.
The funnier moments of the film feature Reagan-era kids dancing to ludicrous New Wave synth music, before heading off to the Slaughterhouse for a party, which we all know is going to end in disaster. Some bad acting also provides some comic nuggets. This was the kind of movie kids loved in the 1980s. It's too bad more like them aren't in demand in the politically correct 1990s.
The DVD is loaded with extras, including footage of fatboy Buddy's visits to college campuses to promote the movie back in the late 1980s, a "no smoking allowed in this theater" ad featuring the two killers and much more. This is the kind of cult movie DVD that we need to see more of.
Recommended if you're into this kind of stuff. It was once a very tough-to-find movie.