Home Sweet Home (1981)

Directed by

Nettie Peña

Genre

horror film, slasher film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 25m

Rating

4.3 of 10 from 24 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A drugged killer attacks a family in their isolated home on Thanksgiving. The family must fight to survive the holiday ordeal.

tensesuspensefulgrittybleakrelentlessviolentlow-budget

What happens

Home Sweet Home (also known as Slasher in the House) is a 1981 American slasher film directed by Nettie Peña, and written by Thomas Bush. It stars Jake Steinfeld, Peter De Paula, and Vinessa Shaw in her film debut, and the plot focuses on a PCP-addicted killer who terrorizes a family in their remote home on Thanksgiving. Along with Blood Rage and the faux Thanksgiving trailer from Grindhouse which would later be fully adapted as Thanksgiving, it is one of the few slasher films centered on the Thanksgiving holiday, and one of the few to be directed by a woman. While not prosecuted for obscenity, the film was seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty panic. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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