Slaughterhouse (1987)

Continuing my tradition of watching many horror films in the spirit of the Halloween season, the latest one I caught was this late 80's slasher about a slaughterhouse owner who is in debt and facing foreclosure of his property.

Lester has owned his slaughterhouse for many years. But due to increasing debt and competition from more modern facilities, he's being pressured by his lawyer Harold, Lester's ex employee Tom who now owns his own slaughterhouse, and Sheriff Fred Borden to sell his place to Tom or face foreclosure. After his mentally disabled son Buddy kills some teenagers who were trespassing on the property, Lester devises a plan to get rid of these three who he feels have betrayed him, by luring them to his place and having Buddy murder them. Meanwhile, a group of teenagers, including the Sheriff's daughter Liz, end up at the abandoned slaughterhouse to shoot a horror video there, unaware that they're about to cross paths with crazed Lester and his murderous son.

The movie was campy and fun, like a more humorous version of Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original 74 version, not the ultra campy sequel). The actor who plays Lester chews up the scenery with his speeches about vengeance, while the one who plays his son Buddy mostly walks around making weird animal noises. The teens are not as annoying as what you usually find in these retro 80’s horror, and the deaths are bloody and entertaining. This is one of the more entertaining slasher films of the 80's. I caught it on Tubi.

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