Bargain basement horror doesn’t get much stranger than this unusual little effort from 1985. Ostensibly unfolding as another entry in the long-running 80’s slasher canon, that label only applies to a piece of these truly wacked out proceedings as there’s so much oddity on display throughout Horror House on Highway 5 that it truly needs to be experienced more than once in order to catch everything.
Making sense out of the convoluted storyline is almost impossible, but we open up firmly in John Carpenter territory (complete with a Halloween-esque sting) with a brutal - and slowwwwww - stalk and slash murder involving a prankster in Richard Nixon mask. When his girlfriend rejects his sexual advances and sends him to the store to get ”some stuff” (what stuff she actually needs is never specified), the poor sod finds himself strangled by a psycho killer hiding in the back of his car.
Making sense out of the convoluted storyline is almost impossible, but we open up firmly in John Carpenter territory (complete with a Halloween-esque sting) with a brutal - and slowwwwww - stalk and slash murder involving a prankster in Richard Nixon mask. When his girlfriend rejects his sexual advances and sends him to the store to get ”some stuff” (what stuff she actually needs is never specified), the poor sod finds himself strangled by a psycho killer hiding in the back of his car.
- 8/21/2010
- by Masked Slasher
- DreadCentral.com
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