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A musclebound psycho jerk (Future trainer to the stars and bodybuilding guru Jake Steinfeld in a truly embarrassing performance) runs down grandmothers with his car and crashes a thanksgiving dinner party in the woods. If you look up "worthless slasher film" in the dictionary you may see this film listed there. This film has all the ingredients for a terrible slasher film. A truly ridiculous killer who yells and screams instead of stalks and slashes. Annoying characters played by grade Z actors. Not a drop of originality, inspiration, suspense, scares, tension, or effects. There isn't a moment of fear waiting inside this empty horror film for anyone. Jake Steinfeld as the slobbering killer would eventually challenge Hollywood's stars to be their best, in this film he challenges you to see if you can sit through all of it without busting your TV into a million pieces.
TeacupHorror
Home Sweet Home has its moments, but ultimately suffers from an awful story. It has some nice death scenes, but little else. Only watch if your in the mood not for a good movie but some fun scenes of death and blood. It's pretty awesome, but fails in the end. Watch only if in the mood. Most of the soundtrack s lifted from Mad Max. The plot is about a killer who escapes from the asylum and kills a bunch of people. Not much else. Very good if in the mood. A lot of good effects. Very bad acting. The killer is very buff. He is very creepy. Has a maniacal laugh. Shoots PCP in his tongue. Very bad movie, but good deaths. Fun for horror fans. I watched it on thanksgiving, where it takes place, and had a blast. No DVD available, but VHS is good.
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"Home Sweet Home" is a decent enough slasher when it tries to be.**SPOILERS**Traveling together for Thanksgiving dinner, Jennifer, (Colette Trygg) and Scott, (David Mielke) arrive at her house, where Angel, (Vinessa Shaw) Mistake, (Peter De Paula) Bradley, (Don Edmonds) Wayne, (Charles Hoyes) Gail, (Leia Naron) Maria, (Lisa Rodriguez) and Linda, (Sallee Young) have already gathered together. As they all get used to being around each other, they start to realize that a bunch of weird incidents have left them stranded in the house with no electricity and no phone. Venturing out to find help, they all mysteriously disappear throughout the night, and it soon dawns on them that Jay Jones, (Jake Steinfeld) a mental-asylum escapee is stalking and killing them all, and must find a way to band together and stop the madman's deadly rampage.The Good News: This one here wasn't so bad, and had a few things going for it. One of the main things positive here is that the film is simply weird, with the killer being one of the more memorable ones around. He's so muscular and wide that he looks just plain freakish, and add the shrill giggle and the perm then you have a one of a kind villain that remains memorable because of this. It also plays into a fun fact, as he is so hard, or so pumped full of PCP, that he takes the old cliché of the indestructible bogeyman to new levels. When he gets stabbed in the back he continues to stalk and giggle even with the knife handle protruding from his blood soaked t-shirt, still stalking his victims and throwing them around with reckless abandon. It creates a strong and unique killer that definitely makes this one better than it should be. The weirdness also extends into the interaction with the characters, especially at the beginning where everyone is attempting to chase around the one incredibly irritating character around the house, or even their relationship with the families, all make this one feel weirder than usual. There's a couple decent kills in here, which also add to the weirdness factor, where there's a strangling with a bare hands, thrown over a car landing headfirst onto a rock, a stabbing with a broken beer bottle and having the car hood crushing the body when the killer leaps onto it. There's also a couple of fine stalking scenes here at the end, where the killer goes after the family in the house and chases them around, making for a couple of tense moments. All together, these are the film's best moments.The Bad News: This one here did have a couple things wrong with it. The main thing here is that, to accommodate the weirdness factor, nothing much in the way of actual horror scenes happens. This one just doesn't really do a whole lot to keep the excitement up during the main part of the film, mainly just that nothing happens in here that keeps it interesting. The film does take a long time with it's set-up to get to the good parts of the film that there's too many periods of inactivity to really make it feel like anything interesting or exciting is happening and it just comes off as really dull, and why it feels like this is due to the film's habit of throwing the weirdness into it rather than doing anything else, leaving so many scenes to try to feel weird and come off as dull instead. When there's a long string of these scenes together, they come off as dull and lifeless, which is how the beginning of this one feels. The other flaw here is that the film is often-times so dark that it's impossible to see what's going on. The film darkens whenever it gets to the good parts, when there's a kill going on or preparing for one, the moments when it's trying to get sold, and to have them be flawed is a major mistake. It's impossible to be able to tell what happened during these scenes, where the strike happened and where it's taking place, and that is not a good sign in a slasher. These elements here are the film's problems.The Final Verdict: Not that this was a bad film of any kind, but it's merely the kind of films that slasher fans will enjoy more than anyone else. This is really recommended to those who prefer these kinds of slashers or fans of trashy cinema, while those who aren't big on this style should just ignore altogether.Rated R: Violence, Language and Nudity
