Witness to a violent shootout between drug-dealers, pizza delivery boy Alden (Liam Cundill) decides to lay low for a while by joining his friends Brian (Terence Reis) and Vickie (Michelle Constant) on a country break at an old mansion. When they arrive there they are disappointed to find that the property is dilapidated, and that it has also been rented out to a group of tourists. Deciding to make the most of a bad situation, the occupants set about trying to have fun in the manky mansion, unaware that the place was once home to serial killer The Family Man, who has just escaped and is heading their way.
Somewhere in Return of the Family Man there's a decent slasher movie trying to get out: the film has a classic set up, a seriously sick killer (who butchered his own family for the insurance money), and a high body count. The problem is that the film doesn't take itself seriously enough to be scary, with comical characters who are always larking about, while most of the deaths occur off-screen, resulting in a frustratingly low gore quotient. Also, despite the potential victims including a tarty blonde, tour-guide Libby (Debra Kaye), and a hot French girl, Sylvie (Dominique Moser), there's no gratuitous sex scene, no skinny dipping scene, and no shower scene!
Writer/director John Murlowski does manage a few effectively unsettling moments that hint at what might've been had he gone down a more serious route: the slaughter of an entire family is amazingly mean-spirited, the discovery of a roomful of corpses is wonderfully macabre, and some of the kills are quite nasty in spirit (face on a food blender blade, lump hammer to the head)- if only Murlowski hadn't shied away from showing us the splatter.
Shot in South Africa, masquerading as the U. S. A., with Adrian Galley doing a really terrible English accent as blonde-haired punk Weasel.