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Summary: from Fringe Video Fanzine Issue #005
Review: At first glance of the packaging I thought that this film might be another straight to video amateur quickie. After popping it in the DVD player and seeing the not very Vegitarian friendly beginning, I soon realized that this was the classic eighties slasher, that I have seen many times before. An OK story about a new high-tech mechanized pig farm that needs to expand to fulfil a large contract. They get some help from the city to foreclose on an existing, almost bankrupt slaughterhouse. This wouldn't be such a big deal except for the old man who owns the place and his very large hillbilly mute son Buddy [Joe Barton]. "...When businessmen (who will soon become giblets under Buddy's knife) make an offer for the scuzzy rundown place, the father and son refuse..." The stupid and dumb Buddy sqeals and gruts like a pig and wields a really cool looking cleaver which was used during promotion at various drive-ins throughout the USA. Borrowing ideas from films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) Young Buddy... ala' Leatherface kills all his dads enemies as well as a few teenage kids who venture into the Slaughterhouse to film a low budget horror film. High on intensity, yet low on gore, the movie is a good timepiece on eighties youth culture, with all the bad music to go along with it. The only disappointment with Slaughterhouse is that it ends with the typical eighties freeze frame ending. The DVD is loaded with extras including: The Making of Slaugherhouse, and an interesting featurette on the Financing and Distribution of Independent Horror Films. The movie is a bit above the average eighties slasher, and one which I was happy to enjoy one more time thanks to the fine people at www.programpower.com
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Summary: from Fringe Video Fanzine Issue #005
Review: At first glance of the packaging I thought that this film might be another straight to video amateur quickie. After popping it in the DVD player and seeing the not very Vegitarian friendly beginning, I soon realized that this was the classic eighties slasher, that I have seen many times before. An OK story about a new high-tech mechanized pig farm that needs to expand to fulfil a large contract. They get some help from the city to foreclose on an existing, almost bankrupt slaughterhouse. This wouldn't be such a big deal except for the old man who owns the place and his very large hillbilly mute son Buddy [Joe Barton]. "...When businessmen (who will soon become giblets under Buddy's knife) make an offer for the scuzzy rundown place, the father and son refuse..." The stupid and dumb Buddy sqeals and gruts like a pig and wields a really cool looking cleaver which was used during promotion at various drive-ins throughout the USA. Borrowing ideas from films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) Young Buddy... ala' Leatherface kills all his dads enemies as well as a few teenage kids who venture into the Slaughterhouse to film a low budget horror film. High on intensity, yet low on gore, the movie is a good timepiece on eighties youth culture, with all the bad music to go along with it. The only disappointment with Slaughterhouse is that it ends with the typical eighties freeze frame ending. The DVD is loaded with extras including: The Making of Slaugherhouse, and an interesting featurette on the Financing and Distribution of Independent Horror Films. The movie is a bit above the average eighties slasher, and one which I was happy to enjoy one more time thanks to the fine people at www.programpower.com
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Summary: Nice and fun
Review: Buddy lives with his father, the two of them run an old Slaughterhouse but Buddy is a little bit of a retard. When people mess with Buddies hogs, they get butchered. Then a group of busness people warn Buddy's father that they are going to tear down the slaughterhouse, the two hatch a plan, the bring them in and then butcher them one by one. Also a bunch of teenagers plan to make a horror movie in the Slaughterhouse as well. Slaughterhouse is a nice slasher movie that came out in the late 80s. The killer Buddy runs around with some sort of Axe/Meat cleaver and he sure knows how to use it but that isn't the only weapon used as lots of items come into play. The plot is nothing special it's your basic kill kill kill movie but there is a sense of fun here. Slaughterhouse is not a movie to be taken to seriously, I know the makers didn't. There is lots of gore but probably nit as much as you might think of from a film with the title of Slaughterhouse. The only problems with Slaughterhouse is that it tends to be a little bit slow at times and the ending is really bad but other then that this is great.
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Summary: ULTIMATE HORROR CLASSIC!!!!!!!!
Review: by far one of the greatest horror movies ever made!!!! like so few this is a perfect example of useing TOBE HOOPER'S "TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE" as a "BLUEPRINT" for making a good backwoods horror flick!!!while it respectfuly pays homage to TOBE HOOPERS BLUEPRINT MASTERPIECE it also contains a pinch of cheeze from the 80's wich just adds to the fun! this is a true horror CLASSIC!! a must see for any true horror fan!!! its the 80's version of "TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE" !!!!! "SLAUGHTERHOUSE" is one of my very favorite horror movies & your horror collection is not complete without this classic!!!!!!!!!!! later on fellow horror fanz!!!!
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Summary: This are being grand moviepicture to be watching.
Review: I are liking the part were Butty is being dressed up like a sheriff with a sheriffs star and everything. I are wishing all bodys of people could be seeing this picture. This movie is funny because all work and no play makes jack a dull boy. I are having to go now.
Your Pal,
THE SEANOID
Rating:
Summary: This are being grand moviepicture to be watching.
Review: I are liking the part were Butty is being dressed up like a sheriff with a sheriffs star and everything. I are wishing all bodys of people could be seeing this picture. This movie is funny because all work and no play makes jack a dull boy. I are having to go now.
Your Pal,
THE SEANOID
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Summary: Not brilliant, but fun
Review: I saw this film for the second time last night, when I found it on a tape along with Zombie. People look at me in horror when I tell them I like this film, but honestly, it's fun. In what other movie can you see a huge, greasy man-child make pig noises while chopping screaming teenagers into itty bitty pieces? Probabaly several, but there is a fair amount of gore as well as a lot of humor that makes for campy fun when you're in the mood for this sort of thing.
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Summary: ONE OF MY FAVES!
Review: I won't bother going into the plot, it's all been said. I will say if you are a fan of 1980's horror, this is for you!A fun film about a now defunct slaughterhouse owner, his interesting son (who can't talk, he only makes pig noises) and the people trying to get him to sell his slaughterhouse to a guy who's only interest is profits from selling bad pork. The death scenes are good and sometimes very funny. The acting at times is very cliche' for 1980's, but still fun.
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Summary: HOGS ARE BEAUTIFUL
Review: if you see only one movie in your life it should be slaughterhouse. the combination of suspense, horror, and romance makes it one of the classics. liz borden and her b slash f skip get into much mischief when they go to a comdemned slaughterhouse to film a horror movie. they are also accompanied by their two friends. lester bacon, the owner of the slaughterhouse, meanwhile finds that his son, buddy, has killed two teens b/c they were "messing with his hogs", something intolerable. lester then begins to plot how to kill his enemies by cleverly inviting them over. "im sorry. would u come over and we can talk about it." the romance between skip and liz is at a peek when they play a intense game of frisby in which liz confesses that she likes "his style"
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Summary: No where is safe.
Review: No where is safe...not even a * cute, little abandoned slaughterhouse * on the edge of town. Well, that's what a group of teens thought when they brought their video camera to the slaughterhouse to create a horror movie. Little do they know, the owner of the slaughter house is being thrown off the property, and his insane, snorting son is a major basketcase. Now, I am not a vegetarian, but I love pigs as animals...and there are a couple processing scenes. That is the only drawback. The film is fun and funny. Just stay away from the pigs! Bring on Buddy Bacon! I am beginning to question why I watch these films.
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