#HOME SWEET HOME THE MOVIE PORTABLE#

In the morning, Jennifer awakens, and is assaulted by Jay when she ventures outside. Jay recovers, slits Scott's throat, and pursues Jennifer, who faints while hiding in Scott's room. Jay manages to break inside, and as he tries strangling Scott, Jennifer wounds him with a knife. Scott discovers Maria's body while collecting firewood, runs back to the ranch, and secures the building with Jennifer, and Harold's young daughter, Angel.

#HOME SWEET HOME THE MOVIE PORTABLE#

When Wayne's girlfriend Maria goes to the washroom, Jay stabs her, and proceeds to chase Harold's son 'Mistake' (a Kiss Army soldier) around the property, eventually catching and fatally shocking him with his own electric guitar and portable amplifier. Afterward, Jay returns to the house, where the remaining guests and members of the Bradley family have sat down to a turkey dinner. Jay slams Gail's head into a rock, and stabs Linda to death with a broken bottle. Linda and Gail, who had become lost, run out of gas, and as they try to find their way back to the ranch, they run into Jay. Jay severs the telephone line, and when Wayne goes out to look for Harold, he is garroted by Jay, who was hiding in the backseat of his car. As Harold tries to take the battery out of the car, Jay body splashes on the hood down on him, crushing his skull. Harold turns on the emergency generator, leaves to get more gasoline for it, and happens upon Jay's abandoned station wagon. As there is no wine in the house, Harold's girlfriend Linda and her friend Gail borrow Scott's car to go and get some, while Jay cuts off the house's power. Among the revelers are Harold's tenant Scott, and his girlfriend Jennifer. On the outskirts of the city, nine people have gathered to celebrate Thanksgiving at the ranch of Harold Bradley. Jay carjacks his victim, and runs down an old woman while driving through Los Angeles.

Aside for a few amusingly dumb moments, 'Home Sweet Home' is a lousily plain 80s slasher turkey.A parked motorist is strangled by escaped mental patient Jay Jones, a PCP addict who was institutionalized after bludgeoning his parents. 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). The rest of the cast give nothing more than disposable performances working with an inane script. 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. Director Nettie PeГ±a's handling is rough around the edges, as it's stingy budget shows and no tension whatsoever despite its rural forlorn location. Just making sure that you knew there was evil around. The overwrought music on the other-hand wanted to telegraph everything. But with such poor lighting and shooting it mostly in the dark, just made it hard to make out at times what was happening. While the kills were rather daft, then actually brutal. As for it being a slasher, it's fairly tame (after such a promising start) and predictably mundane. However this is disturbed when an escaped mental patient decides to crash the celebrations. The Bradley family and some of their friends are celebrating Thanksgiving in a remote country home. With these type of inclusions you just wonder if its definitely intentional in its attempts to raise your eye-brows. And what type of name is Mistake? Oddly creepy character with an identity crisis. A weird teenager decked out in what looks like mime makeup, while running around playing his electric guitar. However he's not the most irritating character. Watch this buffed lunatic shooting up on PCP, while crazily laughing at every bruising encounter. And Jake Seinfield's over-the-top killer's performance goes a long way to cementing that. That's even before the stalk and slash enters the picture. Some of the early death scenes are just laughable. But it's how ridiculously stupid and inept, you're just so bemused to what you're seeing on screen. What did I just watch?! Another holiday day themed slasher, but this one you gotta see, to believe.

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