Blood Shack

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!

Blood Shack is actually two films put together:

1. One story centers around a woman trying not to get killed by a madman hanging out at a shack in the desert. 2. The other film shows the sheer joy that can be had spending time at the rodeo on a hot summer's day.

Sadly all the action in the film takes place at the rodeo.

The filmaker(s) evidently ran out of story (or plot, or ideas etc...) about halfway through the film. So what we get is the protagonist will occasionally leave the crime scene and go to the rodeo where the viewer is treated (heh heh...) to scenes of bullriders frolicking about. These are the most frightening scenes in the film.

The horror action is cheeeesssyyyy and not imaginative. Everyone sleepwalks through this flick. No surprises, NO budget, no action, no acting, whew... just cheese.

Blood Shack is truly one of the worst films ever filmed. I still gave it a 4 though. I like the rodeo...

...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.

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.