For only the second time did I revisit Slaughterhouse (1987; shot in the summer of 1986), this time available on Tubi. The first time was on IFC, of all places. Definitely of the Texas Chainsaw family, I was shocked this was mostly shot in California. It looks like it was shot in Texas, the Midwest, or rural South. I sometimes forget this is a big country. Anyway big Buddy, mostly with pigs in their cages, carrying around his cleaver (something that seemed to find its way off the set of "The Road Warrior"), doesn't like young adult trespassers on his butcher daddy's property, oinking and growling, swinging his sharp blade right into heads. His Dad has been driven off the deep end by a lawyer who betrayed him with bad advice, a sheriff who delivered bad news that his property (including a shut-down and degrading abattoir) was being taken by the county due to unpaid taxes, and a business adversary whose mechanized assembly meat cutting process put him out of business. The business rival plans to buy his property and expand his factory on it...a real slap in the face. When the teenage (well twenty year old actors starring as teens) camcorder movie locals arrive to goof off when lightning interrupts their radio sponsored dance party. The giant with crushing hug and hands not only uses his cleaver as a weapon. Daddy gets in on the fun, too. Plenty of bodies hanging from meat hooks.
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