In MAXIE (aka: THE BUTCHERS), the title character (K.T. Baumann) sells newspapers around town. Meanwhile, the local butcher (Vic Tayback) is using his meat market to dispose of cadavers for certain "customers". Business is good.
Enter Sandy (Talia Shire), who works for the new doctor in town. Nothing much happens for quite a while in this film, unless you consider a broken toe or chicken murder to be exciting. Aside from the occasional cutting up of the odd body, it's more like a drama about small town America.
So, if you're expecting big scares, accentuated by gruesome shocks, forget it. That doesn't mean it's not watchable, it's just not a horror movie. At all. Any real thrills are saved for the final 20 minutes...