Slaughterhouse on the Hill

Following a special football game, a group of friends decides to rekindle their old feelings by hosting a special party at the supposedly abandoned slaughterhouse they used to frequent, but when the area is found to be the home of a vicious serial killer running wild on the site must get away alive.

This was a pretty disappointing slasher without a lot going for it. About the only thing worthwhile here concerns the series of encounters with the killer running wild in the slaughterhouse as that lets this focus on its main selling point. The imposing physique and creepy mask are enough on their own to get a lot to like here before focusing on the ingredient brutality present that offers an absolutely stellar series of graphic kills that provide a solid series of low-budget kills. From decapitations, intestines being torn out, throats ripped away, and all manner of stabbings or impalings with any blunt object possible, this comes together for a lot to like with plenty of great kills to follow up on the viciousness displayed here. Beyond that, though, there's nor much to this one. The main factor here is the generally lackluster pacing that keeps the film from ever really taking off with a sluggish tempo waiting around for quite a while getting the group's issues out so we have a chance to get to know them. While ordinarily it would be great to get the detail given here about the history they share, the legend of the slaughterhouse, and the different interconnecting backgrounds they have, that it's all done in such an extended amount of time in the first half of a film this short makes it take forever to get going and then rush through the final half with the killer because of the time spent on the first half, and with the problematic characters we're forced to follow are what bring it down.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Nudity, and a sex scene.

As I began to write this review, I had to remind myself that it was only a B movie. As the now grown up losers, gathered together one more time, now 20 years later, all ready to relive their high school glory days, their high school antics seemed followed them. Not to give too much away here, the rest you will need to watch if you dare and find out for yourselves. Again, remember this is B or even C movie. While the storyline is weak the acting is even worse. There is one standout, Ashley Balloumua. She is much younger than the rest of the people attending the reunion, but they seem to make her fit. The guy they paired her with would only happen in the movies. It was a hard watch, but I made it through it. If you have nothing better to do, have a couple of drinks, maybe a blunt 🤔 and give it, a watch. Nuff Said Mike Out.