ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

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.

gwnightscream This 1981 horror film stars muscle trainer, Jake Steinfeld (Body By Jake) as escaped mental patient, Jay Jones who goes on a killing spree and stalks a group of people celebrating Thanksgiving. Steinfeld is creepy and humorous as the drugged up, psychotic killer with his maniacal laughing and growling. The film as well as the acting is bad, but slightly amusing which is expected by early 80's slasher/horror flicks. There are some moments which may be unintentionally funny, like the beginning with our psycho driving through an elderly woman crossing the street. I'd probably watch this at least once if you're a fan of slashers.

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.

Woodyanders Just what the world needs: a hilariously horrendous early 80's seasonal slasher fright flick about a brawny, berserk, bug-eyed chortling homicidal lunatic who escapes from an asylum and heads for the hills to bump off an extremely obnoxious dysfunctional family celebrating Thanksgiving in some remote woodland cabin (said family members include a loutish drunken uncle with a severe gambling habit, one hot tamale of a sexy Mexican maid, and an especially irritating KISS-loving wannabe rock musician teenage spazz sporting pasty white mime make-up and a portable electric guitar). Wow, what a shockingly novel and original premise for a slice'n'dice film! Can you say blatant "Halloween" rip-off? Yeah, so can I. Anyway, what makes this terrifically tacky'n'terrible turkey (a bad pun I know, but I just couldn't resist) such a gut-busting unintentional laugh riot is the fact that the crazed killer is wildly overplayed with considerable unrestrained scenery-scarfing hambone relish by famous musclehead Jake "Bodybuilder to the Stars" Steinfeld. Yep, you got it: Dead bodies by Jake! Big Brother Jake goes bonkers and gets bloodthirsty! Jake's introduction scene alone is an absolute hoot: Jake strangles some guy drinking beer in his car, shoots PCP into the underside of his tongue with a needle (gross!), and gleefully mows down a little old lady crossing the street while cutting loose with this unbearably annoying and high-pitched teeth-rattling demented cackle the whole time. Best-ever murder set piece: Jake fries the KISS kid with his own electric guitar. If only Anchor Bay would release a gorgeous widescreen digitally remastered Special Edition DVD -- preferably with an interview with and/or commentary by Big Jake -- then my life would be complete.