The Slaughter (2006)

When six college students take a job cleaning up an abandoned house their plans to work hard by day and play hard by night are interrupted when they awake an ancient evil demon.

Director:

Jay Lee

Writer:

Jay Lee

Stars:

Jessica Custodio, Zak Kilberg, Terry Erioski

3 wins.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jessica Custodio	...	Dana (as Jessica Ellis)
Zak Kilberg	...	Iggy
Terry Erioski	...	Tyler
Laura Bach	...	Heather (as Laura Stein)
Travis Wood	...	Brandon
Jen Alex	...	Alexandra (as Jen Alex Gonzalez)
Brad Milne	...	Carl Stevens
Billy Beck	...	Razz
Adriana Mejia	...	She Demon (as Adriana Esquivel)
Carmit Levité	...	Julia Carter
Cheyenne Ault	...	Denise Carter
Eva Derrek	...	Madam Izriah
Penny Vital	...	Madame Eliza (as Penny Drake)
Elana Blank	...	Witch
Jessica Elder	...	Witch

Storyline

Dana and her boyfriend Tyler own a cleaning company and they travel with his stepbrother Iggy to clean up an old house for the arrogant real state agent Carl. They invite the promiscuous Heather; her boyfriend Brandon and the pothead Razz, who are their friends, to help them. They meet Carl and his secretary Alexandra in the house and when they clean the basement, there is a bad smell and they find a book made of flesh. Iggy translates the text and discovers that the place is a portal to an evil female demon that was summoned one hundred years ago. He also discovers that a sin would be capable to awake the She Demon and the group decides to have no sex in the house. But it is too late since Heather and Brandon are alone in a bedroom. Now the She Demon is unleashed and they find that they are trapped in the house.

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Plot Keywords:

abandoned house | female demon | killed in a basement | dripping blood | falling off a balcony | 

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Taglines:

Welcome Home.

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Genres:

Comedy | Horror

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

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

Did You Know?

Trivia

The incantation heard in the opening sequence sounds like "Cthulhu fhtagn R'lyeh," a bastardized version of an incantation in the H.P. Lovecraft story 'The Call of Cthulhu'. "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn", which translates as "In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."

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Goofs

At various points in the film we can see that the nude, dead She-Demon has panties on, which are the same color as her skin. When Brandon tries to escape through the chimney, we can see the panties at the bottom of the mid-shots of the She-Demon. Though moments later when Brandon is actually going up the chimney, the camera pans down her body and you can clearly see that she's nude. Later, when Heather stops looking for Brandon and goes into the bathroom; when the She-Demon rises out of the bathtub at a 90 degree angle, she most clearly has panties on.

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Quotes

Dana: [after just escaping into the attic from a small zombie horde] I think we lost them. Where's Alexandra?
Iggy: They ate her!
Dana: ...so we're the only ones left?
Iggy: I think it's just you and me, two mere mortals against evil unknown fighting the preternatural powers of a hell-spawn succubus!
Dana: F**k her! F**k her and the forces of darkness that created her, f**kin' she-bitch from hell. Hateful, evil murderous bitch with no friends and BAD SKIN!
[inhales sharply and slaps her bicep]
Dana: We can DO THIS! What do we have?
Iggy: For ...
[...]

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Connections

References Star Trek: The Original Series (1966)

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Soundtracks

Barrel of Monkeys
Written and Performed by Universal Thought Process
Published by Thomas Allen Williams
Courtesy of Thomas Allen Williams

User Reviews

Almost works

Caught this at the "Another Hole in the Head" festival in San Francisco. The director and cast appeared after the show talked about the film. Jay Lee, the director, stated that he wanted to create a horror/comedy to separate his film from all the other cheap horror films being made. Well, he almost did it.

Unfortunately, much of the humor is poorly timed or is over the top, and for every moment that works there's two or three that fall flat as the director does everything short of standing on screen shouting, "Look! Isn't this funny?" In spite of this I think the film does have potential, and Jay Lee can use this film as lessons learned for his next project. The main weakness was in the writing, but I liked the concept and the camera-work was good. Next time Jay Lee needs to let his script go through another draft review before he shoots.

Details

Official Sites:

MySpace site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

10 June 2006 (USA)

Also Known As:

O Massacre

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$25,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Production Headquarters, Scream HQ

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1