Vacations Gone Bad!!!

An extremely well crafted and solid slasher from 1983. The killings are slow and brutal, with some of the best make up effects I've seen ever in a slasher movie with this low a budget. The film starts out with one of the most bizarre scenes ever when a house wife frosting a birthday cake accidentally gets shot by her 10 year old son while cleaning his fathers gun, then his father returns home for his birthday.He discovers his dead wife then trys to strangle his son....and doesn't kill him but lets his son just kinda run away. He then decides to drink some Jack Daniels while laying with his dead wife.
One hell of a way to open a cheesy slasher huh? The film then switches gears when it focuses on 6 teens on break from school (one of them the boy who killed his mother) he finds out he has to tend to his fathers hunting cabin. The film really picks up once teens get to the cabin, full of bloody brutal murders (one including a giant fish hook) that will satisfy any gore hound, done by some crazy drifter who lives in the garage of the beach house.The murders are very creative and with characters who you just absolutely hate...it makes it all worth the while when they finally die. Not gonna spoil anything but what an ending...wow
so if you're in the market for a GOOD obscure 80s slasher...you can't go wrong with the Mutilator.

This was a somewhat decent but lacking home invasion/rape revenge movie, that was kinda lacking that key ingredient....Rape. I'm not saying that's something I need in my movies, but when its advertised as a rape revenge and the most the female character gets is felt up under the shirt....it kinda takes the danger and suspense outta a film like this. This was a good example of mid 70s Canucksploitation that showed off a decent concept that was muddled down with over acting and overly long silly scenes that go nowhere. The main female lead DIane played by Brenda Vaccaro(who is mainly a comedy/musical actress) did a pretty good job as the tough,glamorous city chick. When her character is out cruising the country side with her male dentist friend in his corvette, a group of local dirt bags decide to chase them and throw bottles at their car. When Diane drives them off the road, they swear revenge on the two of them.
Her male dentist friend brings Diane up to his house by the lake, where he plans on seducing her with lies and liquor...but Diane figures this out and isn't having it. After a brief kinda silly argument, their relationship is strained to say the least. The five dirt bag friends led by Dan Stroud who plays Lep, find a local gas station where the two drunk attendants blab about who the dentist is and where his house is.
The rest goes from there but you can guess what happens when they invade the home, I thought I could have guessed but wasn't even close. To say I was alittle let down by the actual home invasion would be an understatement. First of all the five guys just spend more time talking and being abnoxious than actual physical or sexual assault. There are a couple sexual type assaults but they are very tame in comparison to movies such as Last house on the left or House on the edge of the park. The dentist friend gets his ass handed to him more than a couple times with beatings, and having his home destroyed.
The actual action and major violence takes such a long time to actually happen, so in the half hour before you just get super annoyed with the thugs and just hope for them to die, so you don't have to listen to their retardly awful jokes about farting and what not.
Diane does a great ass kicking job when she finally does fight back and shows you that a tough, city raised broad can do more than a pussy, candy ass, ivy league educated man, who knows nothing about fending for himself.
I sound alittle hard about this movie but it was a decent watch for what it was, but don't expect anything like the rape revenge/home invasion classics like straw dogs,last house,or house on the edge of the park. Its also has a really short running time which is good, because I couldn't deal with the "Thug" characters for another half hour. This is a pretty good weekend watch if you can catch it online or something but I wouldn't go out of my way to track it down if you're a fan of these type of movies.