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      Slaughterhouse

      R Released Aug 28, 1987 1h 25m Horror List
      Reviews 36% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings Lester Bacon (Don Barrett) has run into financial trouble and is now facing the grim possibility that he might have to shut down the slaughterhouse he runs. Unwilling to lose his family business but unable to pay down his debt, Lester becomes desperate. So, when a crew of people come to the slaughterhouse thinking they might buy the place, Lester instructs his overweight and mentally disabled son, Buddy (Joe B. Barton), to kill anyone who comes onto their property. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Jan 16 Buy Now

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      john g It is your typical teens partying and getting offed one by one but if u like 80s slashers it will tickle your gore muscle. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member For the most part it's a rip off of the Texas chainsaw massacre. But it does add some comedy. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 07/10/22 Full Review Audience Member This movie has gone hog wild!! Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member "You won't feel a thing; we do things kosher!" A slaughterhouse goes out of business and is foreclosed on. In order to prevent repossession, the owner tells his giant of a son to kill anyone who comes on the property. The son, being on the spectrum misinterprets his father's words, goes on a killing spree, cleaving and axing anyone near the abattoir. One highlight is when Lennie assumes the role of the deputy in his pursuit of more human meat. A lot of dialogue, some pretty funny in this comedic slasher. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member That was actually a really fun lost slasher. Can't believe I've missed this all these years. Awesomely cheesy 80s music, likeable characters, and a couple interesting antagonists. Nothing original, but it's quite fun. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/26/18 Full Review Audience Member By 1987 the slasher genre of horror was starting to lose its stride, mainly descending into sequels of already established monsters committing mayhem throughout the countryside or the suburb. Apparently the makers of Slaughterhouse not only missed the memo on how horror films were progressing as the decade headed for its inevitable end, but they also decided to make no attempt at making anything new, otherwise relying on not only the standard tropes of horror films for the last decade, they out and out steal them. The film does open with something unusual- the processing of pigs at a slaughterhouse. We get a nice look at the shocker and the saws and all of those fun things that go along with a slaughterhouse. Now I'm far from being a vegetarian and I also know that this is a horror movie, but this is a bit much to start with. What the film amounts to is random people stumbling on the Bacon family's slaughterhouse (Yes, I know the irony of them being called "Bacon") and being wiped out by the resident psycho Buddy (Joe B. Barton), a large hulking man that snorts like a pig and eagerly uses his splitter to dispatch his victims. As progress has taken over the old slaughterhouse looks to be going to either sale or foreclosure the patriarch of the Bacon family Lester (Don Barrett) decides to use Buddy's skills to take care of the people that he feels are trying to steal is property and livelihood from him, while forgetting that even by killing these people I'm sure that's not going to stop the sale of the property for back taxes. You probably get the idea of how the film progresses from this point. People get killed, other people look for them, and people stumble by and so on and so forth. There are attempts to make a deeper plot to Slaughterhouse, such as the deputy that is having an affair and the local Pig celebration that gets a half hearted build up and an even less enthusiastic execution. It's your basic kill, kill, kill, which is fine if you have something new to say. Slaughterhouse doesn't do that. If you have seen Texas Chainsaw Massacre or My Bloody Valentine you have seen this film as they are the two main victims to the theft that is the plot of Slaughterhouse. Slaughterhouse was lost in a sea of horror slasher boogey men that were roaming the Cineplex's and few remaining drive ins during the 1980's. A C bill film in a genre that at the time was B level at best. There are a few parts that standout, such as one special effect and a line about being kosher before that effect, but this film winds up being a pedestrian endeavor at a horror film. Doing a bit of research shows that a sequel was planned and it was set up (ala Friday the 13th), but that film never materialized. A person should wonder why there hasn't been an attempt to re-make this film, especially after seeing the glut of horror films that fill or VOD streams (I watched this on Vudu for free). It would be the perfect film to polish up, make with very little money and put a few dollars in your pocket. Maybe that version would be a better film, but we're talking about this film not an imaginary re-make. This film is mostly a waste of time and will be of interest only to people that have exhausted all of the other horror films that use the same formula. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Lester Bacon (Don Barrett) has run into financial trouble and is now facing the grim possibility that he might have to shut down the slaughterhouse he runs. Unwilling to lose his family business but unable to pay down his debt, Lester becomes desperate. So, when a crew of people come to the slaughterhouse thinking they might buy the place, Lester instructs his overweight and mentally disabled son, Buddy (Joe B. Barton), to kill anyone who comes onto their property.
      Director
      Rick Roessler
      Production Co
      American Artists
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Horror
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Aug 28, 1987, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      May 23, 2017
      Runtime
      1h 25m
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