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Again another 1.50 spent on a film from me and Joe Swatman, OK where to begin with this film, withing 20 mins i thought we had bought a porn film, what party have u ever been to where girls get naked and kiss for 5 mins straight, buy this if u want a cheap thrill, not the thrill we were looking for. I couldn't take killer seriously daft voice and bad lines, sickle once, sickle twice, sickle made me take my OWN life. again the acting was very poor, some guy cheating on his girl then 10 mins later he loves her, the only good thing coming from this was stoner the only half decent actor, but he was probably too stoned to remember. Seriously don't see this film.

Take a porno, minus anything hardcore, downgrade the acting and insert really bad horror, and you get this movie.

Basic plot - Slight Spoilers Some guy rapes a girl at a slaughterhouse(not filmed, told in flashback), then is lynched. He either doesn't die or does but comes back in a Freddy Grueger style, and than kills anyone that goes to the slaughterhouse and/or says specific lines.

First in 1993? a couple go there to get it on (opening sequence). Guy dies and the chick beheads Sickle and flees (but his body disappears). Then the major part of the movie starts. A bunch of drunk teens years later go there for a prank, but they stumble upon 'Sickle'. There are some major incontinuities with what will / won't kill Sickle and what brings him out.

As for the porn: There were, from memory, 3 topless chicks in the movie, however 2 of them had a 5 minute lesbian kissing seen at a party that had no plot piece, just titillation. Other great points were when one chick (but to keep the surprise, I won't tell you who), ends up with her shirt ripped and runs around breasts a bouncing, later to remove her skirt luring the savage Sickle. Purely for titillation this movie delivers.

Final thoughts. The movie also set up some plot points that simply went nowhere. What was the go with the "town bike" chick, or that project the kids just HAD to pass at school? Nope, nothing red herrings or just empty nothings. The horror was incredibly bad, only to be beaten by the D-grade acting itself. The gore was, well, non existent and very very crude (digital animation at it's junior high school level). I think there may have been one or 2 drops of blood somewhere. The acting and "empty" scenes which weren't needed except to take up space were, basically, the entire film. Looks like, and probably was, filmed by a bunch of friends on a non existent budget.

You know what your getting here. A movie to watch with your mates, argue over the hot chicks and crack up as people get killed. It's a D grade version of what could have been a decent B grade movie, but watch it for what it is and you should be happy.

3/10.

OK where to start when wasting oxygen on reviewing this movie. I guess the positives were that it only cost me 26 cents to rent this movie from family video, you have to love the half price rentals. But come on! The movie itself looks like the media club at some small university decided to shoot this movie for a project. And if this is the case I pray for the grade they may have received. The acting was pretty poor, but I wasn't expecting an Oscar worthy effort when I rented it. The scene/chapter changes we awful. At times it looked like they had forget that a change was coming and quickly had to cut to the desired scene. And at times there is even moments of complete darkness. Did someone in editing decide to leave extra time in between to extend the movies running time?

The idea behind the movie wasn't bad with the back ground information on killer and the typical urban legend that applies to the area. But the thing that tricked me into renting the movie was on the outside it actually looked as if it had some potential for a decent slasher film. The first opening minutes resemble that of a badly shot adult film. And then of course this is topped later on in the movie and much more film and time is wasted. It is a wonder how this project was even green lighted in the first place.

The digital effects probably were the last nail in this movies coffin. And in the scenes where the deaths do occur are either completely digital and wouldn't fool the common five year old or you can see that they used a dummy. (Watch when the killer gets his head chopped off at the end)

I wouldn't waste your time with this one folks. Sitting through this movie was probably the most painful thing I've done in a long time. I would glad break my arm again and deal with rehabbing the injury with pain medications than subjection my senses to this garbage.

This has got to be the worst film i have ever seen in my entire life. It looks like a group of 10 year old film students made it with their pocket money. Who gives people permission to make films as bad as this one. The supposed " actors " cant actually act. In the middle of shots people just stop talking as if they have forgotten their lines and so they all just stand in silence for a while. And why is it when someone is attacked by the not scary killer they just stand their and don't scream and don't run. And why is it at the party which only has about five guests in an empty house that two girls just decide to get naked and stand in front of everyone and kiss for about five minutes. please people don't watch this, the directer should be shot ! there is no gore, no scares, no purpose. Please, instead go watch Bambi, its scarier.

It's really gory and a great movie to watch with a bunch of people and a lot of drinks. It has terrible acting but great special FX. check it out. With a storyline that almost everyone has seen and a fair amount of nudity, it can be a riot or terrible. watch it just before a comedy, it's an interesting storyish. watched it expecting something corny, definitely not, you don't find that many movies like this anymore. No ghosts, just a zombie, that is after a bunch of good looking kids and girls in high heels, skirts and tube tops. The ending hardly makes sense but it's pretty great. You should watch it just to see what a real horror movie is like.

Where to begin? I really tried to be objective with this movie. The first time I watched it I wanted to bash it with bitter reviews so I decided to watch it again and the result isn't very different. Just to clear things up, I always support the B-movie production industry. I thank people who try to make "something different" with low budget.

Anyways, "The Slaughter House Massacre" is poorly produced, directed, and acted. A little effort wouldn't harm! The movie starts with the murder of a couple who entered a slaughter house. Both, while having sex are murdered (in the likes of "Friday the 13th part 2") by an unseen maniac. Of course, the death is off-screen but later is showed in flashbacks (it was better off-screen!). After that incident, sorority teens decide to go there for fun.. that's what I think because why would someone else would go to the exact same place where a murder was committed? And OF COURSE, one by one these dumb kids are killed by a maniac. Who is behind this murders and why? what's the secret behind the slaughter house?

Join our ill fated teens and discover it yourself. Now, this movie takes a lot of things from the obvious reference "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". Sadly, it only copies the setting (which is pretty good) and some murder ideas. The rest of the movie is a disaster because it's boring; the situations lead to nowhere and the ending is really cheap. At least they could've used some imagination to resolve the situation! But no, we just get a stupid escape. On the positive side, we get gratuitous nudity and sex. This movie has really beautiful girls. Yes, each of them are really hot. So that may be the only reason to watch the movie. Who cares about the plot if there are some hot girls taking off their clothes?

Don't buy this movie please. Don't waste your money unless it's on a $1 bargain , or buy it used. This isn't a good B-movie or even a decent Slasher. Be honest, you are going to watch because of the nudity.

The start is like something out of a soft porn shop, the lighting's crap, the acting's crap. Simple as - how people can give it a 9/10 I have no idea, I've just bought it from EBay for £2.99 - straight in the bin, I can assure you! Don't rent it, don't buy it - as soon as you open the case you see why. The front cover is deceptive, and looks as though it could be moderately good but the disk itself 'Sickle' and that's it. It looks fake. Awful, it really was. I know it's only £2.99 but I could have spent it on something GOOD! Another point - it has no adverts at the start. That tells you all! So my advice - don't rent it. Or buy it. Or go anywhere near it!

Perfectly dreadful, no budget slaughterhouse slasher that's sluggishly paced, with poorly executed gore attacks and wretched performances from a talentless cast. The director, Paul Gagné(emphasis on GAG)also stars as the killer, Marty, whose been dead for 10 years thanks to a group of college kids who hung him in revenge for his murder of their friend(..barely surviving this, he also beheaded by a naked girl whose sex partner was stabbed in the back with a sickle). Marty is conjured back to life thanks to a rhyme, spoken by four college students within the chalk outline of his fallen body. He stalks them throughout his darkened slaughterhouse, sickle in hand, killing each when they're at the most vulnerable. The only way, according to some myth, to stop Marty is to behead him. Lame story-line apes the Bloody Mary tale, to bad effect, and Gagné shoots a lengthly walk through of the slaughterhouse hoping to build dread, instead inducing the viewer into a comatose state..dare to try not to nod off as the four students, football stars Bobby(Vaedynn Orland)& Justin(Maurizio Rasti)and their girls, Tina(Stacey Denson)& Stacey(Shaila Vaidya)trip through the abattoir for several minutes, screaming multiple times, before locating the place where the killer was finished off. Marty mines Freddy Krueger, cracking wise, as he pursues his prey. The film has an opening sex session with a couple in '93, who are to be attacked by Marty, which then segues to a class room where a teacher warns Justin and Bobby of passing a class assignment or else suffer a failing grade(..this whole scene could've been left on the cutting room floor, only servicing the plot in regards to them being college students), retreating into a rather pointless and annoyingly long party with drinks, weed-smoking, and naked lesbian chicks kissing. Finally, after half an hour of tedious filler, does the film finally find itself in the abattoir where the slasher formula develops. Skip this one and save yourself an enormous amount of boredom and aggravation..SLAUGHTERHOUSE MASSACRE is a taxing experience that just isn't worth it. Attractive leads, Vaidya and Denson, do provide nice eye candy, though.

I'm definitely an advocate for low budget filmmakers, but suggest at least finding enough funding to adequately deliver decent production values and effectively executed graphic violence. Of course it also takes talent and many low budget directors have actually created a real sense of dread and spooky atmosphere..in SLAUGHTERHOUSE MASSACRE, such is not the case.

this movie isn't at all bad. granted the effects can be poor as well as the acting but lets face it, its a horror movie so this can be expected. the director didn't do bad considering the obvious low budget. and granted there does seem to be nudity which appears to be added afterwards as an attempt to bump up the ratings to something a lot higher than it really deserves, but for all the bad reviews its been getting no one seems to spot that it was reasonably well made with its tongue firmly in its cheek and some inadvertent comedy sections to it. Basically if you enjoy random horror rent it or buy it its makes for a semi decent night in

The Slaughterhouse Massacre starts at a Dallas college during 2003 where everyone is about to break up for the spring break, two couples Bobby (Vaedynn Orland) & Tina (Stacey Denson) plus Justin (Maurizio Rasti) & Stacey (Shaila Vaidya) decide to have a party that night. At the party their friend Stoner (Jacob Baily) tells them about an urban myth revolving around a slaughterhouse in the town of Allen in Texas, apparently ten years ago this very night a worker called Marty Sickle (Paul Cagney) was killed by a gang of thugs & if you say his rhyme three times in the slaughterhouse Marty will come back from the dead & kill everyone. Justin & Bobby think it would be fun to take their girlfriends to the slaughterhouse & play a trick on them using the myth, unfortunately for them the myth turns out to be true & before they know it they are running for their lives as the undead Marty kills them one-by-one...

Known under the title Sickle here in the UK & in Australia while the Japanese apparently know it as Texas Slaughter this unbearably bad teen slasher was co-produced, written & directed by Paul Gagné & one really does have to say right from the start that The Slaughterhouse Massacre is a terrible film in every single way. To be honest after the first few minutes I thought it could have turned out to be a decent gory slasher, I mean a slasher set in a slaughterhouse has potential right? All the dark mucky corridors, all the animal carcasses & of course all the knives, bone saw's, meat hooks & various equipment used to slaughter & slice up the animals would have made for a great setting. Unfortunately I don't think the film was shot in a real slaughterhouse since it doesn't look like a slaughterhouse & everything about the film is uniformly terrible even for a low budget teen slasher, the character's are awful (after an expensive video camera falls into a tub of muddy water they just leave it, these are the sort of people who can't walk in a straight line with falling over, tripping over something, bumping into something or twisting their ankle & when one finally escapes instead of going for help she heads straight back to the slaughterhouse), the storyline rips-off various other slasher films like the rhyme from A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), the whole say his name three times & he will appear scenario from Candyman (1992) & the whole wise-cracking undead killer from beyond the grave has been done to death. At almost 100 minutes in length the film is also incredibly boring, most viewers will lose the will to live long before the end credits roll, I know I did.

The first five minutes or so had potential, first there's the title 'The Slaughterhouse Massacre' which is very evocative. I mean the word 'slaughterhouse' conjures up a place of blood, gore, suffering & death, the word 'massacre' again gives one the impression lots of people are going to die but I wouldn't exactly call four people killed a massacre, would you? Then there's that crazy chick at the start, the very first line of dialogue in the film is some teenage blonde girl saying 'I want to make love where they slaughter all of those animals', right lets just think about that statement. Why would anyone want to have sex in a slaughterhouse? At this point the film should go for a light hearted tone but the whole film takes itself very seriously & it just falls apart because of how moronic it is. The gore levels are disappointing, there's no slaughterhouse footage, two people are cut in half, one vertically the other horizontally, someone gets a sickle in the back, there are a couple of quick decapitations & that's about it.

With a supposed budget of about $250,000 The Slaughterhouse Massacere is extremely poorly made, the editing is horrible & it's sometimes impossible to work out whats happening although that could be down to the production team not shooting enough footage. The effects are poor, the cinematography is awful with huge changes in lighting between shots & camera angles which barely let you see anything. The acting is terrible too although the girls look quite nice I suppose.

The Slaughterhouse Massacre is a truly terrible film in every conceivable way, there are one or two unintentionally funny moments which made me chuckle but overall sitting through 100 odd minutes of this in one go turned out to be a painful experience. You have been warned.