artpf Four girls go on a romping weekend at a lake, and have car problems on the way home. A nice local boy takes them back to his farm, where he lives with his father. Something ghastly happens, but the father helps his son as he has in the past. When the boy meets a girl and begins falling in love, the father worries about a repeat performance.Hot girl nudity from frame one.Really low budget deal. There is one scene on a dock and the camera was going up and down with the waves. Very 70s schlock. This was the director's second film. He only made a few others for he died in Manilla in a plane accident at age 30. Who knows what other trash he could have made had he lived? There's actually a minute or two in the film where the frame is all blacked out but you can hear the girls talking!The film has a bit of the flavor of I Spit on your Grave, which is a classic.It's reasonably well directed for the genre. But unsure why this is called three on a meat hook. There aren't really any meat-hooks. And the film sort of disintegrates before you get to the middle. To bad. Could have been good.

alanmora If I had a dollar for every time I heard that phrase coined in horror film history I'd be a millionaire! Here is yet another schlock filled shocker that tries to cash in on the infamous true-life ghoul Ed Gein. Although this film can legitimately stand on it's own merit as well. It is a decent piece of grainy, drive-in style schlock with a "surprise" twist ending. The love-story angle is a bit drawn out and this film could use a bit more blood and guts but otherwise this isn't nearly as dreadful a film as you might expect. With a title like "Three on a Meathook" one expects to see lots of gore so the film is a slight let down in that department but it is definitely worth at least a one time glance.

lazarillo (Potential Spoilers)Although many might find the grindingly low-budgeted movie pretty tedious, it is much preferable to director William Girdler's later big-budget 70's horror movies (i.e. Grizzly, Day of the Animals, The Manitou)because at least here he isn't wasting a lot of money or any otherwise-talented name actors. This under-budgeted waste of time starts out without a couple of scenes that put the "gratuitous" in "gratuitous nudity". It then gets going with the story of three "coeds" (do they let people this stupid into college?)who take refuge in an old farm house after their car breaks down. The farm house is occupied by a weird son and even weirder father. One of the girls unaccountably falls in love with the son while the rest. . . well, they don't call it Three on a Meathook for nothing. The surprise killer isn't really all that surprising as there are only two possible suspects. Not very good, but you could do worse I guess.

lost1-1 What makes "Three on a Meathook" a balls-out real horror film? It's the fact that it looks like a home movie a serial killer would make. It looks like, after finding a 16mm camera in one of his victim's houses, some serial killer got a few of his demented buddy's together, put some ad in the paper for cheap talent, and tried to make a movie. In one of the earliest scenes where the father is berating the son you can see that, although the actors keep screwing up their lines they kept filming and left it in the final print. The grainy stock of the film, the inventive although cheap special effects, and the down-trodden feel of this picture really put you into the subconscious pocket of something brewing in a crude psychopath's mind. Scene after scene is dragged out mercilessly as the filmmakers try to fill the legal feature-length time. One scene has the son sitting in a bar watching the band AMERICAN XPRESS play through two lackluster 70's contemporary tunes. This had me wondering what ever happened to American Xpress, the band featured in some serial killer's home movie "Three on a Meathook"? I wont spoil the end for you, but I will say that you do not watch this movie with the expectation of being entertained: you watch it to experience something a blood-letter would dream.