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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★ 8

  Another film that apparently predates both Halloween and Friday The 13th, while also setting many of the templates for both movies. You know the drill: (cool looking) masked killer, sex scenes (at times the whole movie feels like a softcore slasher hybrid) and some kills. The performances leave a lot to be desired, but I guess they are serviceable enough, they certainly fit the whole dreamlike vibe the movie goes for. The kills themselves are fine. The killer is pretty deranged and the design of the mask looks pretty cool, from certain perspective it almost gives the impression as if that was the killer’s real face - though when we get the reveal of who was behind it, I was…

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  Review by clare ★★★★ 6

  Hoop-Tober #10

  See, in the 80s, slashers were literal, concrete, tangible. But jump back to the mid-70s and things were wilder. If you get too close the psionic smoke coming off this thing will melt your brain. It reminds me of Let's Scare Jessica to Death. Slow and meandering and hypnotic. Banjos swirl around electronic bubbling and drones.

  Marie is nearly emotionless and model beautiful, like she has wandered in from an Antonioni film. She feels only fear, she says, nothing else. She lies be-swimsuited on a small boat as a strange lumber man, Mac, (David Gale) recalls how one of the locals branded a straying mistress with the letter "H." Her yuppie boyfriend steps on a fishing hook that…

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  Review by Tony the Terror ★★★½ 2

  I can understand people complaining that this early slasher is too slow and sure it’s definitely not action packed, but I love the atmosphere and big mood the backwoods retreat setting creates. There’s a surreal, dreamlike vibe to everything that the slowness actually helps and it really reminded me of a less bananas version of The Redeemer. It’s low on blood, but the killer wears a super creepy mask so for me it evened out.

  Also, one of the characters is an effeminate gay guy and in one scene he’s sitting in a bar and two rednecks start harassing him so he puts down his drink and promptly kicks both of their asses and it was pretty great.

  Bananameter: 🍌 william sanderson’s entire performance 🍌

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  Review by Todd Gaines ★★ 17

  A weekend trip for a group of friends doesn't go as planned in this old school erotic Giallo-esque slasher. Dueling banjos. Pocket pool. The awesomeness of Nicky. Bigot beatdown. Nut kick. Don't fuck with people from the South Bronx. Blood drool. Branding your kill. Otis knows spelling. Erotic splinter removal. Sheriff Dearborn before Bon Temps. Tit rub. Nicky's yellow undershirt. 3 pump chump. Nicky could've won Dancing With The Stars. Bedtime boobs. Canoe screw. Creepy mask. Cow squirt. Is this a slasher or a porno? The men's mustaches and funky musical score scream porno. Hangman. Dirty dinner talk. Vinyl record player. Staircase striptease. Sharing makeup. The mask the killer wears is creepy as a motherfucker. Nicky's eyeshadow. Killer gloves. Little…

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  Review by Sofa Sinema ★★★★ 5

  Prepare yourself for... a deliriously twisted psychosexual barn burner pitched somewhere between Straw Dogs and Madman. Seventies Eurotrash sleaze crosses streams with American backwoods slasher mean-spiritedness. That trippy music is dreamlike and disarming at times, slowly reeling you in for the next angry kill. Adding the song "The Upstage Man" to my playlist of memorably odd tunes from horror flicks. A sexy and unsettling drive-in flick that's best served late, as a nightcap. Don't forget the gin.

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  Review by haley ★

  this is about as dull as dirt. you can actually see the boom mic in multiple shots...

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  Review by BeardofTsu ★★

  This has a scene where a woman "erotically" caresses a cow udder to intise the local handyman which was quite a disturbing visual. I will say that! More softcore porn than horror although there is a weirdo in a mask stalking the couples between the scenes of people fucking. It's a familiar setup a bunch of friends decide to go to upstate New York even though it's presented more like Hicksville with chainsaw and machete-wielding oddballs around every corner. While there is plenty of nudity it really does lack in the gore department for what is supposed to be a slasher, it takes around the hour mark for the first kill to come so maybe one to skip if you're…

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  Review by The Horror of Marna Larsen ★★★★★ 2

  I think about Nicky and Shirley: dancing in heaven. This is what happens when privilaged white dudes don't get what they are owed. Perfectly good burlesque tangos are destroyed because I'm supposed to be a big shot! Last year I got 37!

  This was fun post TCM with a mask. But also like, that 70s made for tv drama. It's gruesome but the drama is the tedious kind. How dare u not treat me like I'm awesome. When really, it sounds like he was a posessive ass. Not that he's capable of seeing that. Watched this after Island of Death (which is going on my patreon because I have deep thoughts about it) but...that cow didn't consent to that, either…

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  Review by belial_carboni ★★★

  Late 70s sleazy psychedelic backwoods slasher? Yesssss please!

  Films like this are a great reminder that there's still a bunch of unique slashers out there waiting for belial to make love to...I mean watch normally.

  Savage Weekend is an odd little confusious that combines a lot of great qualities from its 70s counterparts. It's raw and gritty while having some slight arthouse vibes. Progressive in nature one of our leads is a gay fellow who completely manhandles a bar full of rednecks in one scene. Love it! He also busts some mad jokes about dead bats and I was definitely dying 🤣

  This banjo driven, mustache infused nightmare is a real time capsule of late 70s horror. Things get bloody,…

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  Review by Ian West ★★½

  Early slow burn grimy slasher has its moments, with a tv drama vibe and plenty of tropes that would soon be slasher lore as the genre grew. I liked the cast, the stupid boat building backdrop, the setting, and decent weirdo atmosphere.

  A twisted little delight for fans of the pre Halloween boom.

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  Review by nathaxnne [hiatus] ★★½ 6

  Weird and loose early slasher which seems to be rooted in as much Straw Dogs and Deliverance as anything else. Vacationing NYC elites go 'upstate' where the vibes between themselves and the locals in their employ get heavy and off-putting due to socioeconomic inequalities, etc. I was not so transfixed by this movie, but would love a prequel spinoff about Nicky's youthful escapades in the South Bronx.

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  Review by FKAGoregirl ★★★ 1

  It's cheap and sleazy exploitation at it's ridiculous finest. It's by no means a good movie, but it is most certainly enjoyable. It has copious amounts of nudity, a fight between a dude with a chainsaw and a knife, lots of bizarre music including freestyle banjo...it's quite something. It's about a weekend with a group of people who want to have sex and one can only assume die. It's not well made, oh heck no think so-bad-it's good but it is actually entertaining. I found myself treating this as a comedy, and if you can do the same you'll probably have a good time.