I was surprised to see this on Tubi. I had rented it somewhere long ago. Made for $400, but that was in 1988 so it was more like $1,000 today. It may have cost more than El Mariachi if you subtract the cost of film and processing for the that movie and adjust for inflation.
Shot on S-VHS.
Jim McBride's first movie.
A father goes out of town and leaves his three children with an aged babysitter. The kids are 13 to 22. They accidentally kill the babysitter and dispose of her body in a woodchipper. Then her violent ex-convict son comes looking for her. Not much of a "massacre" really.
Picture quality isn't good. Sounds like they used the camcorder's built-in mic. The actors bellow out their lines. Maybe they were used to appearing on stage.
You know how the old PXL-2000 camcorders are coveted by artists and hipsters? I don't know why I find the S-VHS aesthetic so much less appealing.
Not much blood and no gore which is fine with me.
Tubi also has Cannibal Campout (1988) and Feeders (1996) both the normal and the Rifftrax version, from the same auteur.
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