Horror House on Highway Five (1985)

A van full of college students traveling down a highway is terrorized by a psycho killer in a Richard Nixon mask.

Director:

Richard Casey

Writer:

Richard Casey

Stars:

Phil Therrien, Max Manthey, Irene F.

Cast

Cast overview:
Phil Therrien	...	Dr. Marbuse
Max Manthey	...	Gary
Irene F.	...	Sally Smith
Michael Castagnolia	...	The Pothead
Susan Leslie	...	Louise
Randy Daitch	...	Teacher
Bill Pope	...	Gentleman (as William Pope)
Richard Meltzer	...	Tough Guy
Kathleen Battersby	...	Housewife
Ronald Reagan	...	Richard Nixon
Steve DeVorkin	...	Van Driver
Robert Gaulin	...	Student
S. Eisenstein	...	Student

Storyline

As part of a project are sent to a place called Littletown to investigate and research a supposedly deceased German (and possible Nazi) ex-patriot rocket scientist, named Frederick Bartholomew who it seems was supposedly responsible for the V2 rocket before embarking on a murderous rampage slaying all who he worked with in his final days spent here in America. In Honor of this achievement our project student group have got to make replicas of the rockets whilst at that location. A trio of this select members wind up stumbling across a pair of demented brothers, one, Mabuser is an unlicensed doctor, who's become mentally unhinged due to being convince destructive parasites have infested his brain, while his stuttering teenage brother Gary, is a shy and lonely psychopath with a thing for Tarot cards and concealed necrophiliac tendencies. All the while their father prowls the nights' lonely highways, dressed in one of his previous victims...as of all things Richard Nixon (complete with ...

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Plot Keywords:

student | mask | highway | van | psychopath | 

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Taglines:

See It Or Die!

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Genres:

Horror

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Quotes

Female Passenger: [to Joe on encountering the Nixon faced nutter] You better be careful, he looks like a big Mutha

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Connections

References The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

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Soundtracks

"Neurotic Reply"
by Abyss (Brett Ericson, Pat Millius, Pat Lydon, & Andy Sykora)

User Reviews

Bad Trip

It is hard to describe what my feeling on this movie is. To put it simply, this might be one of the most bizarre horror films of the 1980's. Were the makers of the film on drugs when they filmed and wrote the script? Did they even have a script at that? Was this all filmed in one night? Who knows? All I know is that as bad as this flick is it is hard to pull your face away from it.

I will try my hardest to sum up what the movie is about so bear with me. Basically, some college kids have to do some research on a Nazi named Bartholomew who was making some wild experiments many years ago. Supposedly he is dead and all that is left are his 2 grown children, who grew up to be Nazi's, also. Apparently, the experiments were being performed at a house off of highway 5 (where ever highway 5 is). One of the girl college students is kidnapped by the Nazi brothers and is brought to the house to perform a human sacrifice for some odd reason. The other college kids go to the house, get creeped out, and camp out somewhere else. While all this is going on we have a guy in a Richard Nixon mask played by a guy listed in the cast as Ronald Reagon running around killing everybody.

The incoherent storyline is only one of the many things that make this one of the most bizarre movies out there. Misplaced music ranging from trippy 60's music to an organ is what fills the movie up. The whole atmosphere of it all is down right weird and hypnotic. Of course, the acting is bad and the filming is even worse. But, I guess that is one of the things that gives this movie its charm. And what is the deal with having a guy in the cast go by the name of the Ronald Reagon?

I don't really have a lot to say about this movie. It is just one of those flicks that need to be seen to be believed. Check it out. 6/10