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.

slayrrr666 "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

zeppo-2 Wouldn't say this is the worst horror film I've ever watched but it's certainly in the running! Most truly awful films are let down in one or two departments, i.e. bad script, acting, direction, special effects, overall budget, etc. This film goes for a full house, bad in every single one!I assume that most of the dialogue is improvised or if not, the scriptwriter is barely literate, incoherent and non-sensible. The escaped mental patient who goes on the killing spree is one of the most inane of all time. To show how deep his madness is, he just laughs insanely all the time. This points out how as an actor, just how good a bodybuilder he is.The rest of the cast are just as bad, weekend friends who are so irritating and annoying,the guy with the Kiss make-up and guitar been the worst, how you will cheer when the killer gets hold of him. You are quite pleased when they are eventually dispatched by the killer. The ones who survive are so bland it almost defies description, when they are supposedly fighting for their lives, the raw emotion displayed is akin to rigor mortis setting in.And the final death scene is probably the worst I've yet seen, remember when you were kids and playing cowboys & indians or soldiers, etc, and when you were shot, some kids would roll over and over as they pretended to die? This is on that level. Truly pathetic.These people involved with this debacle should never be allowed within 100 feet of a camera ever again.Avoid at all cost.

horrorcritic Another killer. Another group of victims. Only this time around the story takes place on Thanksgiving to a Spanish family. The opening of this film suggest where in for one heck of a ride. The opening takes no prisioners in the selection of it's victims, it's brutal and it's even tacky, but it shows a lot of promise. After the opening though, the film settles into predictability. The film's pacing is dramatically slowed down, with your standard stalking scenes and routine murder sequences. A total washout.