Blood Massacre (1991)

A group of deranged Vietnam vets start a robbery and murder spree at a local store and breaking into an isolated house they take a family hostage. As they terrorize the captive family, they don't realize they are soon in for a surprise.

Director:

Don Dohler

Writers:

Barry Gold, Dan Buehl

Stars:

George Stover, Robin London, James DiAngelo

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
George Stover	...	Rizzo
Robin London	...	Liz Parker
James DiAngelo	...	Jimmy
Thomas Humes	...	Pauly
Lisa DeFuso	...	Monica
Richard Ruxton	...	Howard Parker
Grace Stahl	...	Chrissy Parker
Anne Frith	...	Frances Parker
Lucille Joile	...	Bonnie
Herb Otter Jr.	...	Det. McGuire
Lucie Poirier	...	Bar Dancer
Ted Hakim	...	Vinnie
Barry Gold	...	Country Guy
Karl Otter	...	Cop 2
Gerard Vanik	...	Mr. Winston

Storyline

A group of deranged Vietnam vets start a robbery and murder spree at a local store and breaking into an isolated house they take a family hostage. As they terrorize the captive family, they don't realize they are soon in for a surprise.

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Plot Keywords:

vietnam war veteran | disturbed war veteran | dead body in a car trunk | woman showering | war buddy | 

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Taglines:

The Hunters Become The Hunted ...

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Genres:

Horror

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

73 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

When filming on the movie almost completed, director Don Dohler sent what had been made up until that point to his investors (as a show of progress). The investors then requested that he re-shoot the entire movie on lower-quality film. When Dohler completed the film the second time, the investors took the master-print and disappeared. They (and the film) resurfaced years later, when they attempted to present the film with a different title (and poor-quality editing, as well as unnecessary padding). After that, the director begrudgingly released the film, and made no attempts to fix what the investors ruined; he said in an interview that he wasn't in the mood to, "...shoot the film a third time.".

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Quotes

Det. McGuire: How do I get there?
Man: Go back about two miles, to a place where four roads meet. But be sure you just take one of them!

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Alternate Versions

The Mill Creek/Pendulum Pictures DVD release of this film features alternative opening and ending credits, and adds scene transitions.

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Connections

References Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (1978)

User Reviews

Almost worth watching just for its baffling twist ending.

This long shelved ( filmed sometime in the mid 1980s ) shot-on-video horror begins with Cinemagic Visual Effects logo staying on screen seemingly endlessly, while mashing down random keys on a low quality synthesiser, before crummy 80s music from no-name bar band. Everything in this opening scene in the bar is filmed in close-up, and with a fog machine being used to simulate smoky atmosphere, making it difficult to follow what is going on, or to notice the cash register, which is seemingly left over from an old western from the 1940s. Lead guy then orders " Beer ". Not, for example, a Heineken ( my preference ) , he just orders a beer. I love it when a movie does this, as though there is only one single type of beer on Earth.

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After drinking his * beer * , bar guy kills people, later meets up with a trio of thugs, they debate what to do next. " I don't give a f***, let's just do something! ". Indeed.

So, they rob a video store! While wearing their Kim Carnes '81 Tour shirts, with a Freddy Krueger standee watching, these morons rob a mom and pop video store, and kill one​ person in the process. The entire robbery sequence is silent, with more terrible, almost comical, music dubbed in.

Later, a witness by the name of Captain Obvious tells police, the killers are " gonna hurt somebody! " , after they've already committed murder.

The Last House On The Left plot elements kick in, as the quartet of killers hold up in farmhouse with a family held hostage, but the hostages turn out to be cannibalistic killers, more dangerous than the original quartet of killers, and the family hunts them down and kills them one by one, in slightly gory fashion.

Film then switches gears, and becomes a wilderness survival horror in final fifteen minutes, as the original killer bar guy is the only survivor, ( making the presence of the other three villain characters completely pointless ) and he must fight for his life in the woods, against this cannibal family.

This film then features one of the most baffling, " What the f***? " plot twists I've ever seen, as the cannibal family peels their flesh off, to reveal not only are they cannibalistic killers, but also unkillable skeletal aliens!

* speechless *