Please don't spend money on this.

The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

An isolated farmhouse, a surly middle-aged redneck who smokes an unusual kind of meat ("It's the only meat like it in these parts," avers his troubled son), and lots of slinky female victims are the ingredients of this dreary, no-budget "Psycho" knockoff. It's awkwardly funny in spots, but not fun: without all the horror props that played such a major part in his previous film "Asylum of Satan", director William Girdler's limitations are painfully evident. Charles Kissinger turns in a decent performance as the aforementioned purveyor of smoked meat, and there are some appropriately low-rent gore effects by former Herschell Gordon Lewis acolyte Pat Patterson, but the film loses steam about twenty minutes in and never recovers. If you grew up renting horror movies every Friday night at your local VHS outlet, you might be able to muster some affection for "Three on a Meathook"; if not, you'll probably just feel mildly annoyed.

Four girls go on a romping weekend at a lake, and have car problems on the way home. A nice local boy takes them back to his farm, where he lives with his father. Something ghastly happens, but the father helps his son as he has in the past. When the boy meets a girl and begins falling in love, the father worries about a repeat performance.Hot girl nudity from frame one.Really low budget deal. There is one scene on a dock and the camera was going up and down with the waves. Very 70s schlock. This was the director's second film. He only made a few others for he died in Manilla in a plane accident at age 30. Who knows what other trash he could have made had he lived? There's actually a minute or two in the film where the frame is all blacked out but you can hear the girls talking!The film has a bit of the flavor of I Spit on your Grave, which is a classic.It's reasonably well directed for the genre. But unsure why this is called three on a meat hook. There aren't really any meat-hooks. And the film sort of disintegrates before you get to the middle. To bad. Could have been good.

A badly sunburnt chick in a badly simulated sex scene opens this one, filling me not with hope for good horror/ exploitation fare, but with indigestion. Terribly out of sync audio ( which cuts to the next scene's audio many seconds too early, many times throughout ) didn't help, either. A lame skinny dipping scene goes on for several minutes, before several minutes in near total darkness, as this barely introduced quartet of female characters' car runs out of gas. Our future lead character, Billy, drives by, in his truck which comes with its own​ thunderstorm sound effects, and offers to let them stay at his creepy looking farmhouse overnight. We never learn these girls names ( except for when they're introduced , off camera! ) and it doesn't matter, because they're all killed in a Psycho-inspired twist within the first twenty minutes ( by the father, blaming his adult son, who is bonkers ) Spoiler alert, I guess. Psycho's infamous shower scene is ripped off here as a " bathtub scene ", to far lesser effect. Film awkwardly cuts to black at random times for a scene transition, and it looks as though ambient lighting only was used. Then, it's off to a bar, to listen to the awful local yokel bar band perform, and pad out the film's run time a bit further. ( "You gotta be free, cant you see, you gotta be free" for six minutes ) A dippy little love story between Billy and the admittedly attractive Sheree takes over the proceedings, and the film fritters away at least another half an hour of the run time on that issue, and melodramatics between Billy and his dad, before dad hacks away at anyone in sight in the penultimate scene. Finally, we even get a psychiatrist explaining the father's mania, and what drove him to kill, just like the final scene of Psycho. The meathooks ( more than the single meathook suggested by the film's title ) do not even appear until an hour and ten minutes into the film, and are only on screen for a couple of seconds. Speaking of that title, does it mean there are three people on a single meathook? If so, that never happens in this movie. On one hand, I'm surprised this isn't regarded as a minor cult classic, as this film might be taken as a sort of blueprint for later horror/ exploitation titles. I spotted inspiration for scenes later in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and Amityville Horror. At the same time, though, I can understand why it's not. It's a very grimy, yellow looking movie, filled with plenty of padding, and decent enough gore, but not enough of it. Wiith more of a budget, more nudity and gore, this might have been a fun little exploitation title, but as it is, it's just a slowly paced grindhouse flick, with little to recommend it. Seriously, if you want to watch a movie loosely based on Ed Gein, watch Psycho, watch The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. There are far better titles inspired by him. This particular movie is a curio, at best.

Definitely cheaply-made, bad horror film from the early 1970s that is oddly fascinating as when one catches a forest on fire and cannot turn away. Director William Girdler's first feature is interesting to say the least and problematic as well. Girdler you may remember directed those wonderful cheesy 70s horror films such as The Manitou, Asylum of Satan, Day of the Animals, and Grizzly. His films often have lamentable qualities but are always watchable. Three on a Meathook is no exception though still largely unpolished as it is his first. The film is very - grainy - of course I was going to use that word! The set designs, on-location shots, costumes, and what little special effects we are given pale in comparison to other Girdler films(okay, maybe NOT Asylum of Satan!). The acting is sub-par with no one really giving a good performance but the two male leads - James Pickett as Billy a boy told that he cannot stay around women otherwise he will butcher them and Charles Kissenger as his Pa - alcoholic and seemingly in a trance through much of the film - do fair enough work. The girls that die are, well, basically talentless though all beautiful. Watch for Elvis squeeze Linda Thompson looking ever so delicious(no pun here either). You get what you would expect in a movie like this: gratuitous sex, nudity, and violence. The nudity is almost immediate and stays the course throughout; however, the violence is not nearly as hyperbolic as the title Three on a Meathook might suggest. There are a lot of talking scenes with long drawn points being made. I particularly loved the scene where Billy's girlfriend Sherry and her friend Becky come up to the farm and run through fields and Becky fakes falling down and hiding while some ridiculous music plays. She falls then again and laughs. Sickening. Or how about the speech Becky gives us about her camp counselor husband going to fight in the war? Man, that was Oscar worthy! Okay, I am being facetious. The corny scenes and dialog abound and wait until you see that hokey ending that makes little sense. Or how about the band that plays two whole songs just to make the movie long enough? It is easy to go on and on, but for what it is Three on a Meathook is fun if anything in a so-bad-its-good vein. I was entertained and given a few hearty laughs as well.