Slaughterhouse Movie Review

Slaughterhouse is a 1987 horror movie directed by Rick Roessler and starring Joe B Barton, Don Barrett,Sherry Bendorf and William Houck.

A group of teens meet their end in a creepy area. A man called Lester Bacon(Barrett) lives with his son, Buddy(Barton) on a site. There is an old slaughterhouse attached to it. He has been offered money to sell his site. A man called Tom( Bill Brinsfield) is the man who wants it. He owns a meat packaging plant. Tom brings Sheriff Borden(Houck) and Lester's attorney, Harold(Lee Robinson) to talk some sense into Lester, who is refusing to sell it. He is stubborn. The Sheriff gives him thirty days to leave the property. Buddy hears all of this and he is angry.

Sheriff Borden has a daughter called Liz(Bendorf). She wants to make a movie and she brings her friends to the slaughterhouse to film it. What they don't know is that local kids have been disappearing. Buddy has been disposing of them and putting them in the slaughterhouse. The Sheriff's deputy, Dave, is investigating the disappearances. He arrives at the slaughterhouse and he has a look around. He meets Buddy who cuts Dave's arm off. Lester sees what Buddy has done and he isn't happy about it. Harold arrives at the slaughterhouse. Lester confronts him. Buddy takes care of him also. Sheriff Borden can't find Dave. Buddy drives around in Dave's car and meets Dave's girlfriend, who he attacks. The Sheriff is getting worried now. Tom goes to the slaughterhouse and guess what? He gets killed there. Is there no end to the slaughter in the slaughterhouse???

Liz and her friends go to the slaughterhouse late and the boys play a trick on the girls by putting masks on and trying to scare them. Unfortunately for them. Buddy is not in the mood for tricks and he starts killing. The Sheriff is on the way out there. Liz is left wandering around and she meets Lester, who has lots of bodies hanging on meat hooks. He decides that she will have to die too. Her father is there though, and Liz manages to get away from Lester. He gets injured. Buddy chases Liz but her father finds her and together, they try to escape. Lester stabs the Sheriff and Liz shoots Lester.
She and her injured father get into his patrol car and drive off. Buddy just happens to be in the back and the movie ends with him attacking them.

This film wasn't bad. It wasn't great either. The setting of the slaughterhouse was creepy and the story wasn't terrible. There were some decent scenes in it, I have to say. It is one of those middle of the road slasher films. I wanted to like it more than I did. I found it just okay. I will say that it is fun overall, though, and it will pass ninety minutes quite nicely if you enjoy 1980's slashers, as I do. I will give this one a 5/10.