Movie Review: Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981) – Severin 4K/Blu-ray combo
High school senior Billy (Jimmy McNichol) has been raised by his Aunt Cheryl (an absolutely dynamite Susan Tyrrell, Angel and it’s sequel Avenging Angel) since the death of his parents in an automobile accident… and let me just say, that particular incident is portrayed as some Final Destination-level shit, and with each passing frame the tragedy becomes side-splitting comedy as the film engages in the largest example of overkill you are ever likely to see! Any how Cheryl is psychotically possessive of Billy-boy… actually she’s just plain psychotic… and horny, an award-losing combination that results in her stabbing (and killing) a television repairman, Phil Brody (Caskey Swaim) by name, who refuses her amorous advances. Her excuse was that he was attempting to sexually assault her… a huge-ass lie that is soon proven to be absolute bullshit by the revelation that Brody was a homosexual. That particular factoid is uncovered by hard-ass bigot/extreme homophobe Detective Joe Carlson (Bo Svenson, Walking Tall,
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