The Slaughterhouse Massacre (2005) (V)

User Rating:

2.6/10   

Director:

Paul Gagné

Writer:

Paul Gagné (writer)

Release Date:

28 June 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

Will Stacey and the gang escape the slaughterhouse and the legend of Marty Sickle?

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Texas | Football Player | Meat Hook | Dallas Texas | College Professor

Cast

Stephani Wells	...	Mandy
Cory Nelson	...	Darwin
Paul Gagné	...	Marty Sickle (as Paul Cagney)
Shaila Vaidya	...	Stacey
Stacey Denson	...	Tina
Robert May	...	College Teacher
Gillian Shure	...	Cherry
Genevieve Lee Howell	...	Amber
Jeff Connell	...	College Student
Maurizio Rasti	...	Justin (as Maurizio Farhad)
Vaedynn Orland	...	Bobby Spender
Chris Morgan	...	College Student
Sue Lynn	...	College Student
Kelly S. Hurley	...	Naked Girl #1
Angelica Costello	...	Naked Girl #2 (as Venus)

Also Known As:

Sickle (Australia) (UK) (DVD title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong sexuality and nudity, violence, some language and drug use.

Runtime:

USA:97 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

UK:18 | USA:R | Australia:R

Company:

4 What Its Worth Inc.

Movie Connections:

References The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Gorgeous girls and grotty gore.

Nobody could accuse Paul Gagné, the writer/director of teen slasher The Slaughterhouse Massacre, of being particularly imaginative or original with his debut effort: his supernatural killer armed with a sickle is named Marty Sickle, whilst his blunt-toking stoner is called Stoner (in fact, I was surprised that there weren't characters called Victim One, Victim Two and Total Slut!). In fact, the whole story is a mish-mash of overused ideas stolen from umpteen other genre favourites.

However, despite being totally uninspired and formulaic in the extreme, this trashy low-budget horror manages to be fairly entertaining fun for its duration, helped considerably by plenty of gratuitous nudity (always a slasher essential) from several rather gorgeous girls and some really hokey gore effects.

A brief prologue sees a tasty death-obsessed slut convincing her boyfriend to take her to the local slaughterhouse (she slips her hand inside her panties and promises him some action when they get there); staying true to her word, once inside the abattoir, she proceeds to get nekkid and have it off with her lucky beau on the floor. Their sexy time is soon cut short, however, by the slaughterhouse's resident psycho, Marty Sickle.

The film then skips to the present day, where we are introduced to a bunch of good looking high-school kids who love nothing more than to party hard. Whilst at one of their outrageous evening bashes (which includes a poolside lesbian floor-show, natch!), the pals begin to talk about the Sickle legend: apparently, after killing the couple seen in the opening scene, Marty was attacked by a lynch mob and had his neck stretched. Now, anyone stupid enough to visit the abandoned slaughterhouse and repeat a rhyme three times will resurrect the murderous spirit of the maniacal murderer. Guess what happens next....

Yup... the teens do just that and get massacred. Unconvincingly.

Particularly dreadful effects include a laughably bad beheading (achieved via extremely ropey CGI), a victim split vertically in half (always a winner, but it's a blink and you'll miss it gag), a terrible crotch stabbing, and a sickle through the cheek. A body which is discovered torn in half (with the entrails hanging out of the thoracic cavity) is fairly juicy, but we don't get to see the actual death.

Fortunately, the supply of eye-candy is pretty much constant throughout the film, with gorgeous final survivor Stacey (Shaila Vaidya) losing the buttons on her blouse and (inexplicably) removing her mini skirt before the movie's finalé. It's not great film-making, but it kept me happy!