Home Sweet Home

1981 "This year, it's not the turkey being carved for Thanksgiving"
Home Sweet Home
3.5| 1h25m| en| More Info
Released: 01 January 1981 Released
Producted By: Intercontinental Releasing Corporation (IRC)
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An escaped mental patient steals a station wagon and makes his way to the Bradleys' Thanksgiving celebration, where he plans to make them a little less thankful...

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lost-in-limbo What did I just watch?! Another holiday day themed slasher, but this one you gotta see, to believe. It's bad, beyond bad. But it's how ridiculously stupid and inept, you're just so bemused to what you're seeing on screen. Some of the early death scenes are just laughable. That's even before the stalk and slash enters the picture. And Jake Seinfield's over-the-top killer's performance goes a long way to cementing that. Watch this buffed lunatic shooting up on PCP, while crazily laughing at every bruising encounter. However he's not the most irritating character. Yes, there's someone worse. A weird teenager decked out in what looks like mime makeup, while running around playing his electric guitar. And what type of name is Mistake? Oddly creepy character with an identity crisis. With these type of inclusions you just wonder if its definitely intentional in its attempts to raise your eye-brows.The Bradley family and some of their friends are celebrating Thanksgiving in a remote country home. However this is disturbed when an escaped mental patient decides to crash the celebrations. As for it being a slasher, it's fairly tame (after such a promising start) and predictably mundane. Some blood here and there. While the kills were rather daft, then actually brutal. Creativity was indeed lacking. But with such poor lighting and shooting it mostly in the dark, just made it hard to make out at times what was happening. The overwrought music on the other-hand wanted to telegraph everything. Just making sure that you knew there was evil around. Director Nettie Peña's handling is rough around the edges, as it's stingy budget shows and no tension whatsoever despite its rural forlorn location. It was dull, when it wasn't centering and using close-ups shots on the jacked-up, bodybuilding killer giggling away and carving up the guests. The rest of the cast give nothing more than disposable performances working with an inane script. There are some names like a very young Vinessa Shaw, Sallee Young (known for 1980 "Demented") and then you got all-rounder Don Edmonds (who's acting/producing on this one).Aside for a few amusingly dumb moments, "Home Sweet Home" is a lousily plain 80s slasher turkey.
Bezenby Surely telling you the annoying guy got killed isn't a spoiler! I mean, the film itself sets up all these potential sex scenes, and then this guy dressed like a KISS member, playing a guitar, shows up and ruins everything. I was more worried that he wouldn't survive until the killer turned up!The killer is a buffed up muscle man who shoots PCP under his tongue and laughs all the time. In the first few minutes he kills a drunkard and runs over an old woman. If you like watching serious slasher flicks then you might as well give up on this one because the tongue is rigid within the cheek. With the guitar playing moron (named Mistake), the fat business partner and the wailing Latin lady, this film is played for fun and not much else.Truly, it ain't a classic by all means, but when one of the potential 'heros' syphoned gasoline from another car, then gets crushed when the killer jumps on him, you're not talking about high class cinema, but I couldn't help but like this (really) stupid film. At least you can watch it in the knowledge that the really annoying characters (namely Mistake) are going to be killed. I was surprised the killer just didn't shove that guitar right up his arse, because that's what I wanted to do!An average slasher film, but it's aware of the cheese level, and wallows in it, and it's worth a watch at least.
HumanoidOfFlesh A muscled mental patient escapes from an asylum and promptly starts murdering people.The killer is played by Jake Seinfeld and wears no mask or costume of any kind.He laughs almost non-stop and becomes truly insane.A Thanksgiving meal of a 'normal' American family is going to be ruined by a slasher."Home Sweet Home" is one hell of a bad film.It's very cheaply made with atrocious acting and improvised dialogue.But the killings are plentiful including running over with a car or electrocution by electric guitar.The character of mime has to be seen to be believed.He carries the guitar around with him at all times,playing it loud as he annoys everyone around him at all times.I had some fun with this inept and plot less slasher,so let's bite this turkey on Thanksgiving Day.
acidburn-10 Oh my god what a bad bad movie, Christ out of all the bad 80's Slasher's I mean this has to be the worst, worse than stinkers like Don't Go Into The Woods Alone, Scream (1980), The Forest and well you get the idea. After seeing many Holiday Slashers, it occurred to me that I've never seen one about Thanksgiving yet and that's what attracted me to this disgrace of a movie.The acting well don't get me started, the killer whatever his name is was just awful not even a hammy campy awful, just plain awful and keeps making these stupid growling noises and as for the rest of the cast, well that guy who wears white make up and annoys everybody with a guitar was just terrible and I was only happy when he finally gets killed off, the only redeeming feature that this movie has. The movie also looks awful, definitely done on the cheap even though that's not always a bad things as several horror movies are low budget but still turn out to be great, but not this one. This one looks as if someone used a video camera and got a bunch of porn stars as actors, I mean are we really supposed to believe that these lot are related to each other, I mean I couldn't which one was which, and also the pacing and the murders are rubbish.All in all A definite thanksgiving turkey... Stay well clear.