Slaughterhouse

Plot synopsis:
Deputy Dave and Sally Jean go out parking, and Dave sees Skip's jeep and Kevin's car, both apparently abandoned. He hears screaming on the dock and pulls his gun, but it is only a group of friend, practicing for Liz's "horror video". After Dave and Sally leave, Liz, Skip, Annie and Buzz get in Skip's jeep and drive away. Michele and Kevin stick around, and she playfully runs and hides from him. Michele conceals herself in an old, rusty bus, as Kevin picks up and hits a shovel against a fence (containing squealing hogs). Just then, a huge, dirty man named Buddy arrives with a long-handled meat cleaver and chops Kevin's face in half. He enters the bus and slices Michele to death with the cleaver.The next day, Tom goes to see Harold, Lester Bacon's attorney and advisor and complains about Lester not selling his property. The two of them drive to Lester's house (next to a large meat-packing factory about to be shut down). There, Tom and Harold meet Sheriff Borden (who happens to be Liz's father). The old man Lester answers their knocking, and Tom makes a final offer of $55,000 to buy his property, allowing Lester to stay and work as a consultant. Lester is told that the demolition of the slaughterhouse would create employment opportunities for many people, as well as get the county tax assessor off his back. Lester grumbles about Tom's equipment and bad meat (claiming that it's 30% fat), and says that he could do better with his hands, knives and fewer men. The sheriff tells Lester that the assessor's office is foreclosing his property and he has 30 days to vacate.Meanwhile, the group of friends are at a local restaurant, talking about the party the other night and Liz's video.Back at on Lester Bacon's property, his son Buddy takes Lester to a room and shows him the dead Michele and Kevin. Lester is a bit unsettled, thinking that they are in a heap of trouble, but he tells Buddy: "at least you made good clean cuts". He also tells Buddy that Tom, Harold, and Sheriff Borden are the ones who deserve such a fate.At the restaurant, Liz tells her friends that she wants a "creepy" place to film, and Skip suggests the old slaughterhouse.Lester phones Harold and says that he has decided to work out the offer with Tom, and he invites the man over.Dave, after being told of the worried parents of Michele and Kevin who did not come home last night, checks out the dock and then goes to the slaughter house. He walks inside and calls for the two teenager. Dave soon finds a dead, hanging cat (Buddy had eyes the feline earlier while siting in the hog pen). A large metal sliding door is shoved on his gun-toting hand, chopping it off.Buddy shows Lester the dead Deputy Dave. Lester responds: "you've gone hog wild!" Soon after, Harold arrives and Lester takes him to a dark room of his house, where he asks the "jury" (the dead Michele, Kevin and Dave) if they believe Harold's claim that he has not deceived Lester. They raise their hands (with Lester's help) and Buddy squishes Harold's face in.Meanwhile, the sheriff goes to the Lakeside Hotel (where Dave has been spending his lunch time), and Sally tells him that she has not seen the deputy since that morning.Back at the slaughterhouse, Buddy puts on the dead Dave's policemans bloody shirt, hat, sunglasses, belt, gets in the cop's car and drives around the area. On the main road, Sally waves at the passing police car at "Dave" and is chased until the police car stops. She sees Buddy getting out of the car, screams and runs back to her car. Buddy hits her windshield with a nightstick and then drops a rock on it. Sally runs out of her car and tries to look for a place to hide, but Buddy grabs her and slits her throat with a knife.A little later, Tom arrives at the slaughterhouse where Lester meets with him and as they look at an old saw machine, Buddy appears and grabs Tom from behind. Tom tries to tell Lester that he is sorry about everything and that his motivation is "only business", but Lester just laughs as Buddy then casually picks up Tom and drops him into the machine. Tom is gorily sawed and chopped up into fleshy bloody parts.That evening at the Pig Out, a town dance, the power goes out (due to a storm), and many people leave. Buzz says that it is now the best time for filming at the slaughterhouse. Skip then makes a $20 bet that the girls cannot last one hour at the slaughterhouse. Liz and Annie are dropped off at the place while the boys are sneaking around with masked (used in Liz's video).Elsewhere, Sheriff Borden finds Sally's car with the damaged windshield and Dave's patrol car with the door standing open. The sheriff then goes back to his car and radios in to connect him to the county sheriff's department for backup.Back at the slaughterhouse, Liz and Annie realizes that the boys are outside trying to scare them. Liz looks for a way to get behind the two guys and scare them instead. The boys split up and Buzz gets inside the building. Skip is at the window, and Annie laughs until Buddy suddenly appears and whacks Skip. Annie screams and runs, but Lester appears and grabs her.Liz walks to the front door and sees that everyone is gone. At the same time, Buzz walks into a room, hears a noise, and is hit in the face by Buddy.Liz calls out her friends names and she eventually finds a hanging, still-living Annie, as well as the dead bodies of all the other people Buddy killed. The father-son duo are there and Buddy grabs Liz. Meanwhile, Sheriff Borden learns that Tom and Harold have mysteriously disappeared.Buddy and Lester hold Liz down on a table and Lester talks about "bucherin'", saying that a meat cutter like himself and Buddy have the skills like a surgeon. Lester slices one of Liz's fingertips to prove to her that it is one of the most sensitive part of the human body. When Lester turns and hears Sheriff Borden enter through the front door of the slaughterhouse, Liz kicks Lester and runs away. She finds her father and runs to him. Buddy appears and the sheriff tries to shoot him, but hits the blade of his meat cleaver. Sheriff Bordon and Liz run outside into the pouring rain. As Sheriff Borden pauses at his squad car door, Lester appears and stabs him in the back. Liz picks up her father's gun and uses it to shoot Lester. She then helps the wounded sheriff into his car. She also gets the keys to start up the car just as Lester rises and knocks at the car windows. She turns around, shifts the car into reverse, and runs over Lester, crushing his head and finally killing him. The sheriff tells Liz to drive away and radio for help. But in the final shot, Buddy suddenly sits up from the backseat where he had been hiding and swings his knife at Liz who screams....

Tags: cult, revenge, murder, violence

Review:
As for the plot, it was a typical slasher that had pretty good acting, great music, and a sadistic killer in Buddy.
I can only imagine what those freaky hillbillys from Deliverance would think of Buddy, the 300+ pound mentally handicapped killer who grunts like a pig rather than speaking normally.
The plot centers around old man Lester Bacon who gets his property, slaughterhouse and all, seized so a larger slaughtering factory can move in.
Lester isn't going to take this lying down, so he lures the foreclosing son's of guns to his slaughterhouse so son Buddy can slaughter them.Joe Barton, as the deranged swine-friendly killer, is the chief reason to watch this film.
The old butcher Lester Bacon is declared bankrupt and along with his seriously retarded son Buddy, he plans vengeance to all parties involved.
Clearly inspired by the notorious Texas Chainsaw Massacre, this Rick Roessler one-man-showed is one of the better slashers produced in the 80's.
'Slaughterhouse' has to be the greatest B-movie, horror slasher piece of cheese to come out of the 80s.
The only thing that differentiates "Slaughter House" from other "slasher" or "dead teenager" films is that in this one, the killer makes oinking and other pig noises whenever he appears.
Even for hardcore horror fans, there isn't much gore and absolutely no nudity (and if you're going to make a crappy R-Rated movie, at least give me something to garner my interest).
The story is so paint-by-numbers that you'll be able to predict every scene, making this an incredibly dull horror film.
This was one of the better horror films of the late 80's, While almost every other horror flick was played mainly for laughs, this one broke away form the norm and actually injected a little gore and dementia to it's characters.There are really a lot of cool aspects about the movie.
I couldn't recognize the old man mask, but I'm sure it's been used in some other horror flick, but I definitely recognized the cobra mask from terror train.The murders are also a bit gory for their time and not at all funny.
There are funny parts, but totally unintentional.The best part is the ending, I won't give it away, but it's a well known cliché in horror films.Final Words: Good old 80's Horror, just done the right way..
In this blood-drenched gore-soaked slasher a group of businessmen try to buy an abandoned slaughterhouse owned by Lester Bacon(Don Barrett) and his son Buddy(Joe Barton)who enjoys playing with filthy pigs and butchering people with meatcleaver.After a radio station promo prompts curious college students out to visit the abandoned facility,Lester and Buddy proceed to dispatch victims,who end up on meat hooks.Rick Roessler's "Slaughterhouse" is grisly slasher punctuated with some moments of black humour.Buddy looks like a hidden brother of deadly twins from "Just Before Dawn",the gore flows freely and Buddy seems a little more goofy and we get a hilarious moment where he is pretending to be a cop and drives around in the cop car.Its sequel "sLaughterhouse II" from 1988 actually doesn't exist..
Whilst not being the best slasher film around, Slaughterhouse is worth a watch as it has its fair share of splatter and a good atmosphere.
The slaughterhouse itself is a great setting for a slasher film, you can almost smell the atmosphere of death surrounding it.
Skip this one if you are looking for some serious frightening stuff, but don't miss it if you like this sort of movies..
The main story concerning two all-mod-cons (for 1987 anyway) small town businessmen and a gruff sheriff trying to underhandedly usurp an old school sausage factory owner, Lester Bacon (Don Barrett), and his psychotically wayward son, Buddy (Joe Barton), is pure EC horror comic pulp resulting inevitably as it does in gruesome murder.Wrapped around this is a fun quartet of teens in a Jeep who while away their time making rubber mask music videos in the slaughterhouse when they're not drowning their French fries in ketchup or cutting a rug to cheesy synth bands at the local Bacon disco dance.Both these strands are married up quite successfully with likable and reprehensible characters alike meeting grisly fates in the piggy execution chamber via Buddy's big cleaver.But Buddy's kind of a problem as he's played more for laughs than menace and comes over way too sweet and cuddly for a Leatherface wannabe.
Buddy's Pop is cartoonish in tone too but Don Barrett makes a fair old go of it in the eye rolling/teeth gnashing department, so some kudos is due there.The last third however, does make up for these shortcomings somewhat with an atmospheric climax in the meat plant chamber of horrors where most of the cast are quite harshly dispatched in brutal fashion before the freeze frame cliff-hanger brings us to an unexpected full stop.Keeping the murderous pig farmers in the shadows would have added a much needed air of mystery and surprise and may have pushed it toward the realm of 'minor classic' and, possibly, a higher rating.
But it's still a pretty decent, fun slasher that's well worth a look..
Lester Bacon (Don Barrett) and his grunting, meat-cleaver wielding son Buddy (Joe Barton) aren't very happy about the foreclosure of their abattoir and decide to use their slaughterhouse equipment and butchering skills to deal with the swine responsible.
The meat-hooks become even more crowded with bodies after a group of teens visit the old meat-packing factory during a thunderstorm for a dare.With its all-pervading aura of death and decay and its hulking mentally challenged killer (mentored by his demented father), Slaughterhouse is clearly aiming for a Texas Chain Saw Massacre vibe, but at the same time it also caters for the audience of the day, delivering inane teenage characters, predictable jump scares, some reasonable splatter, a few pig-related puns (Lester is described as 'pig-headed' and calls his son 'hog-wild'), and a couple of typically cheesy '80s scenes in which the youngsters act all wild and wacky, their zany antics accompanied by a tacky pop/rock soundtrack.The result is a fun slice of stalk 'n' slash, a spirited blend of mean-spirited nastiness and tongue-in-cheek silliness that ticks all of the genre boxes with the notable exception of gratuitous female nudity.
"The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" wields an enormous influence over this rural horror comedy; on the whole, "Slaughterhouse" manages to be a reasonably interesting and effectively atmospheric production.
Writer / director Rick Roessler gives us a taste of what's to come with his pre-credit sequence, then goes through a little bit of set-up, eventually delivering respectable bloody mayhem for 80s horror lovers.Don Barrett plays Lester Bacon, a demented old farmer about to lose his slaughterhouse to foreclosure.
Buddy also gets along much better with pigs than with people.
Lester finds that Buddy has a taste for murder, but implores him to save it for those who deserve it, namely those that are trying to take his business away from him.
Soon enough, he starts to enjoy the experience.Barrett is a delight, and Barton is quite fun to watch, especially in one scene where Buddy goes on a joyride after slaughtering a deputy.
The movie gets better as it goes along, culminating in what is actually a solid finale, as four friends that had been filming their own "horror" footage head right into danger by utilizing the slaughterhouse at night.
Pure fun to watch if you can dig low budgets, otherwise leave it on the shelves.Gore 1,5/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5.
In fact, it's one of the worst films I've seen recently and this is after watching SILO KILLER and SCARECROWS.
Being a big TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE fan, I had hopes that this film would be a fun rip-off.
That scene is the most pathetic example of acting I've ever seen in a film.
Let's get into why "Slaughterhouse" fails in every way and manner possible and why it's not even trying to be a horror flick.The acting is the worst thing you will ever see on screen.
Seriously, these kids do such a poor job in their roles and the characters are genuinely unlikable; However, the kids are the best actors, compared to Don Barrett as Lester Bacon.
A six year old could do a better job at writing a horror film.The kills are an absolute joke and the way they're executed is atrocious.
"Slaughterhouse" is a pathetic excuse for a horror film that feels like it's not even trying.
I'd definitely recommend this movie for slasher fans, as there were some pretty nice kills.
Not a lot of slasher films at the time would have attempted this.
And this movie got away with doing so pretty well.Other than that, great acting, which bad acting can sometimes be a problem in B-movie slashers; casting for "Buddy" was perfect.
Over the threat of his slaughterhouse being closed down, Lester chooses to send his boy, Buddy (Joe Barton), out to kill anyone that tries to take, or trespasses on, what's his.
Furthermore, I don't know why people are complaining about the slaughterhouse footage in the beginning, it didn't repulse me, just made me hungry.My Grade: C+ DVD Extras: Commentary Track; 5 Deleted Scenes; Making of; Executive Producer Interview; home video of Joe Barton and Director/writer Rick Roessler going to various cities to hype the film; Theatrical Trailer; Teaser; a smoking PSA; and 4 TV spots DVD-Rom: Sketches and clippings; the film budget documents; the Theatrical Distribution agreement; Stills Gallery, and the entire script all in PDF form.
Typical '80s slasher flick, with some authority figures threatening to shut down a slaughterhouse and so the owner gets his pig-like son to kill anyone who trespasses.
I figure that Archie would say that people in slasher movies deserve what happens to them because they act like hippies.Anyway, it's pretty fun to watch, just as long as you don't expect anything special..
Barton is actually pretty menacing as the son who does all the dirty work and for some reason makes pig noises.
The people who play the teens aren't really any good, but if they were they would probably be in another movie.
Now what really works in its favour, is there's an actual plot hanging off the meat hook than just focusing on a bunch of rowdy teens (which this film does have) being pointlessly slaughtered (and it does happen).
What is a little disappointing though, with a title like that is the lack of gore, as the most sickening (or yummy) scene can be found in the opening shots (take a lesson in the trade) of pigs going through the gruelling slaughterhouse procedures.
Director Rick Roessler (his one and only film) does a modest job, elevating some suspense, sticking in with energy, creating few moments of atmosphere and well-placed jarring sound effects.
Don Barrett was a treat as the old coot Les Bacon and Joe Barton dominates as his fat, mentally challenged son Buddy who expresses himself through pig noises.
Teenagers venture to a slaughterhouse to play a game of hide and seek, what they don't realize is that the twisted farmer and son duo who own it are mass murderers with plenty of bodies piled up in the place.
Buddy was the greatest slaughterer that ever worked in the abattoir until the day they shut it down and left him unemployed........This films greatest asset is the high level of production it affords despite it's low budget.Even with the one dimensional characters, telegraphed climaxes and the other usual slasher cliches, an 80's genre picture like this completely outclasses any of the similar 90's fare marketed to teenagers..
Now a former worker is trying to take his property so Lester decides to send his obese and mentally retarded son Buddy (Joe B.
Barton) out for revenge.Writer-director Rick Roessler only made one film in his career and this here was it.
SLAUGHTERHOUSE is your average slasher film that was way too common during this era.
The entire slaughterhouse stuff appears to have been influenced by THE Texas CHAIN SAW MASSACRE and the rest is your typical Friday THE 13TH stuff.There's really not too much plot here as those who harmed the owner, a bunch of cops, some teenagers and other find themselves at the old slaughterhouse where Buddy does them all in.
The murder scenes are certainly the highlight of the picture and while none of them come close to the work of someone like Tom Savini, they're at least good enough for this type of low-budget movie.
There's quite a bit of gore splashed around, which of course will please horror fans.Performances are pretty much what you'd expect from a film like this.
Instead, I got a movie were certain scenes bordered on comedy, if not, slapstick even (the one were Lester"Pigboy"Bacon started driving the police car).
Instead they threw in the pretty irrelevant subplot with the teenagers who want to shoot a horror-video at the isolated farmhouse, just to pad things out & up the body count (and most likely to try and give this film that popular 80's slasher vibe, to please a certain target audience).
After seeing this sick and gory teenage slasher film, the smartest thing I did is that I dropped it off to the video store the next day!!!.
This is a very lame attempt at a slasher film, and anyone looking for a scare or a good time should avoid "Slaugherhouse" like the plague, for it is horror for the mentally challenged.
Barton) a filthy fatso who runs a slaughterhouse and kills local interlopers.
Horror Movie about surrounding an old slaughterhouse.
Nice movie for horror fans.
I really like the scenes with Buddy.
The actor has obviously put some great effort in it and I like the fact that the movie does not end with some stupid kids escaping.I liked some of the extras as well but the quality of the film showing Buddy meeting some fans is poor.
~Spoiler~The Slaughterhouse box proclaims that it's "Good-Ole-Boy horror...like a country-western tune sung in the key of plasma."  That's a tad misleading because the scariest thing in the movie is probably the real slaughterhouse footage at the beginning of the movie.
Slaughterhouse tells the hard-luck story of the Bacon & Son's Hog Slaughtering company that's being forced to foreclose so a larger corporation can move in.
Instead of having a bake sale to make money, Bacon and Son, Buddy, go on a killing spree.
This 1987 horror comedy stars Joe Barton, Don Barrett, Sherry Leigh and William Houck.
This tells of a hog farmer, Lester (Barrett) who discovers that his mentally challenged son, Buddy (Barton) is hacking up trespassers in the area.
There weren't really any scares to be had, despite some enjoyably atmospheric eerie music.I would also have liked to have seen an added chase scene and a bit more thrust towards the climax.
Overall Slaughterhouse offers a slight, but fun time for 1980's slasher aficionados..
Teenagers, police, and other unfortunate folks are being stalked by a father and son who live on the land of a decrepit, abandoned abattoir, pressed into bankruptcy due to an evolved mechanized processing system which prospers more within the county.The star of the film is Buddy(Joe B Barton), a massive, unclean, mentally challenged son, in overalls, of demented slaughterhouse father Lester Bacon(Don Barrett) who kills people that threaten his pops or pigs.
He's very primitive in nature, and the film establishes his kinship with the porcine population..he even grunts like a pig instead of talk!
A group of teenagers are shooting an amateur horror movie, using the abandoned slaughterhouse as a setting which is how they come in contact with Buddy, sealing their fates.
The final girl is Lizzie Borden(Sherry Leigh), not joking, and her father is the county sheriff(William Houck).Generic characters(..the cast do their best but have little to work with)and plot, relatively little profanity and features no nudity.
The gore is at a minimum with director Rick Roessler having to find economic ways to make kill-scenes more cringe-worthy(..even without the graphic nature to back them up) due to lack of budget.
Besides his cleaver, Buddy uses other hog slaughtering equipment to kill his victims.
This is a perfect example of that.SLAUGHTERHOUSE tells the story of Lester Bacon, the owner of an old slaughterhouse that's seen better days and his illiterate son Buddy.
Perhaps the only problem with Buddy here is that he's supposed to be this tremendously ominous killer but comes off as a sympathetic character at times because of his mental health issues.
Bitter slaughterhouse owner Lester Bacon (robustly played with tremendous zest by Don Barrett) and his dim-witted hulking brute son Buddy (imposing behemoth Joe Barton) exact a harsh revenge on both young adult trespassers and several folks who want to foreclose on Lester's property.Writer/director Rick Roessler relates the familiar, but still enjoyable story at a brisk pace, makes excellent use of the sprawling abattoir main location, crafts a reasonable amount of creepy atmosphere, delivers a handy helping of graphic gore, and tops everything off with an amusing sense of pitch-black humor.
Saying people who kill animals for a living must be insane to begin with and that's just B.S. like the movie LARVA, SLAUGHTERHOUSE must have been written by a vegetarian or something.
I am an avid horror movie fan and this was just wasted film.
If you like listening to horrible music while teenagers run around or dance this is a great movie.
I don't know whether to love or to hate this movie because, despite it being a obvious ripoff or omen to "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" it wasn't all that bad.
The killer in this movie is a mentally challenged boy witch doesn't have anywhere close the the horror appear that "Leatherface does" and while running around he constantly makes pig noises which I thought was just stupid and didn't add to the scare factor of the movie.
If you like horror movies you MIGHT like this.