Home Sweet Home (1981 film)
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Home Sweet Home is a 1981
slasher film
written by Thomas Bush, produced by Don Edmonds, directed by Nettie Pena and stars Jake Steinfeld
and Vinessa Shaw
.
. But unknown to the Bradleys, they have an uninvited guest. A giggling, PCP
-addled, homicidal maniac has escaped from imprisonment to satisfy his pent-up lust for murder. And he has singled out their home for his psychopathic killing spree. One by one, the revelers will be methodically stalked and served up in the butcher's holiday blood feast. Until the Bradley's home becomes a grisly house of horrors.
1981 in film
-Events:*January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie Heaven's Gate, a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica to sell it....
slasher film
Slasher film
A slasher film is a type of horror film typically involving a psychopathic killer stalking and killing a sequence of victims in a graphically violent manner, often with a cutting tool such as a knife or axe...
written by Thomas Bush, produced by Don Edmonds, directed by Nettie Pena and stars Jake Steinfeld
Jake Steinfeld
Jake Steinfeld is an American actor and fitness personality. He has a line of fitness equipment called "Body by Jake" and also once hosted a Body by Jake TV show. He also starred on a sitcom on the Family Channel called Big Brother Jake. In 1985, he played a small role in the Jeff Goldblum comedy...
and Vinessa Shaw
Vinessa Shaw
Vinessa Elizabeth Shaw is an American actress and model. Shaw has starred in numerous motion pictures since the early 1990s, and is probably most well known for her performances in Disney's 1993 Halloween film Hocus Pocus, Ladybugs, the 2006 remake of Wes Craven's horror picture The Hills Have...
.
Plot
The Bradley family and their friends gather at an isolated country home to celebrate ThanksgivingThanksgiving
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. But unknown to the Bradleys, they have an uninvited guest. A giggling, PCP
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Phencyclidine , commonly initialized as PCP and known colloquially as angel dust, is a recreational dissociative drug...
-addled, homicidal maniac has escaped from imprisonment to satisfy his pent-up lust for murder. And he has singled out their home for his psychopathic killing spree. One by one, the revelers will be methodically stalked and served up in the butcher's holiday blood feast. Until the Bradley's home becomes a grisly house of horrors.
Cast
- Jake SteinfeldJake SteinfeldJake Steinfeld is an American actor and fitness personality. He has a line of fitness equipment called "Body by Jake" and also once hosted a Body by Jake TV show. He also starred on a sitcom on the Family Channel called Big Brother Jake. In 1985, he played a small role in the Jeff Goldblum comedy...
as Jay Jones - Vinessa ShawVinessa ShawVinessa Elizabeth Shaw is an American actress and model. Shaw has starred in numerous motion pictures since the early 1990s, and is probably most well known for her performances in Disney's 1993 Halloween film Hocus Pocus, Ladybugs, the 2006 remake of Wes Craven's horror picture The Hills Have...
as Angel Bradley - Peter De Paula as "Mistake" Bradley
- Don Edmonds as Harold Bradley
- Charles Hoyes as Wayne Bradley
- David Mielke as Scott
- Leia Naron as Gail
- Lisa Rodríguez as Maria
- Colette Trygg as Jennifer
- Sallee Young as Linda
- J. Kelly as Officer Jim
- R. Fouts as Officer Tom
- Victor Paddock as First Victim
- Rochelle Constanten as Old Woman
- Anne Cribbs as Witness