Blood Shack

...it was actually made before the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The copyright on the tape I saw read 1980; the first minute into it my wife had it pegged as a Chainsaw ripoff, and a bad one at that. One has to wonder if Tobe actually saw this waste of time and was inspired to craft his masterpiece in the same dusty-and-weird-shot-setup-and-editing kind of way. Alas, that quirky yet brilliant cinematography is limited to a total of about 30 seconds, and like the other person who commented (now I know at least 3 humans have suffered through watching this) I was outraged at how much stock rodeo footage is mixed in ... not enough plot to fill 90 minutes? No problem -- Head to the rodeo! The only other gem in here is Daniel's death scene, which is not only stupid but serves to leave the plot ... totally hanging shortly before the credits roll. What a treasure.

Because of intense passion for self loathing, I continue to watch these sort of films. Blood Shack is yet another link in the chain of bad b movies that are out there. This movie is b-movie purgatory. I will say that the lighting was done well. You could see the characters face to foot even in night shots. Also, the killer looks hilarious when he attacks. His monosyllabic grunt is worth a laugh or two. The acting was acceptable for a b-horror film. It's only 55 minutes. It's not even a feature length movie. But, the writer was clever and made the script so bad that it seemed like a 90 minute feature when it was over. They just teased. This whole movie was a mental cock tease. There was blood, but it wasn't gory. There was women but no nudity. There were children, and they lived. I tell you, some film makers take their titles too literally. There was blood, and there was a shack. That's about all you can say.

It's so bad your sides will split everytime you watch it. Classic lines like "i told you not you go in there, and now look at you, you're dead" combined with rodeo footage that has NOTHING to do with the rest of film means for anyone who's seen it, this film is tops. Recommended with a capital laugh!

Easily the best horror film ever made. Makes 'The Shining' look like a crappy B-Movie. The way in which the film turns into a rodeo home-movie half-way through, for no apparent reason, is nothing short of genius.

Proving that you can make a movie with a budget of about $20, Ray Dennis Steckler's BLOOD SHACK is a stark,minimalist film featuring a haunted shack that looks like it'd fall over if you breathed on it. The Chooper,however,is a killing machine. I liked this movie a lot.