Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

hyped garbage

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

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.

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.

Sometimes when you're watching an obscure low-keyed 80's slasher and the main characters are getting introduced one by one, you simply can't wait for them to die quick and most excruciatingly painful. "Home Sweet Home" is one of them movies that exclusively features two-time loser characters. More specifically we have a big raunchy ranch full of social outcasts celebrating Thanksgiving and one seriously frenzied killer. The latter, played by Jake Steinfield who apparently is some kind of acclaimed health and fitness guru in America, just escaped from the loony bin, ran over a defenseless old lady with a stolen station car (actually the best scene in the entire film) and now he's heading for the countryside to feast his maniacal lusts on a Thanksgiving gathering of dorks. It all sounds fair enough, but "Home Sweet Home" is just another dreadful and nearly unendurable stalk-n-slash movie with no suspense whatsoever, abominable performances and – worst of all – uninspired and lame killings. The most intolerable characters is actually named Mistake and he annoys everyone, especially the viewer, with his white-painted mime face, awful guitar music, lame jokes and imbecilic magic tricks. The psychopath isn't much better, because all he ever does is showing off his biceps (impressive, of course) and laugh moronically. The dialogs are absolutely horrible. Example: "Hey, who's this beautiful bitch?" "Hi, my name's Jennifer!". Half of the film you're staring at a black screen and yet the other half is even more boring. This totally dud and cheesy turkey was the debut of beauty Vanessa Shaw ("The Hills Have Eyes", "3:10 To Yuma") but, not surprisingly, it took her another decade to find work after starring in this garbage. If you're ever wondering why so many 80's horror movies ended up in total oblivion, watch this junk and just be glad they did.

A really dumb film about an escaped homicidal maniac (Steinfeld, better known for his infomercial 'Body by Jake') who randomly picks a house and kills the occupants who are having thanksgiving dinner. Yuck!