 
A young woman named Lisa
(Linda Blair) hopes to have a relaxing
time at her parents house up in their
remote cabin in the snowy mountains along
with her friend Kathy (Donna Wilkes) but
they run into trouble along their drive
with a bunch of punks but eventually
manage to drive away.
However, they followed her as they
slaughter her family but she manages to
get away. Another person with a grotesque
looking face was watching them and
manages to kill most of the gang
especially after he finds out that Lisa
was murdered in cold blood in the wooded
area.
The police accidentally kills this person
and a close family member named Orville
Kruger (Guy Stockwell) takes the law in
his own hands since he has a deadly
secret to reveal to the punk leader named
Scratch (Brad Wilson).
This film looked
promising and does delivers in many parts
but other times it was pointless too and
makes you think where is this story
going?
It is disturbing and intense with a great
revenge plot to it in this action-horror
plus it's a very Tales from the
Crypt type of story too.
The acting is in
average shape but some of it wasn't too
terrible. Guy Stockwell tries
his best as a vengeful man against the
punks and can almost have you convincing
too.
Former Exorcist scream
queen Linda Blair however,
didn't do much for me as a frightened
victim to her slaughtered family but she
wasn't terrible. Just nothing too
special.
Brad Wilson can seem to pull off
well as a vicious punk leader Scratch but
he overly does it alot and seems
melodramatic too.
Charles Dierkop is good playing a
good cop/bad cop type of character and is
extremely energetic.
Another Van Patten family clan
named Nels seems well remembered
as one of the insane punks who cackles
alot.
Supporting actor the late Chuck
Morrell brings alot of humor to the
film as the father who created horror
films. Bless his soul.
A father head is
bashed
Some bloody stabbings
A deranged retarded man's face is blown
off
Joe Tornatore
is a little cheesy with his work in this
film but yet he does pick it up in many
scene's.
He really lacks with Brad Wilson when
he freaks out that his van broke down in
the middle of the road with his gang.
Chuck Morrell does well with his wit
by trying to scare everyone with his
freaky costumes but it does look phony
when he tries to creep up on people as
the setting is supposed to make out that
a cold blooded killer is on the loose and
then later it's all a joke.
There are nice camera shots with the
creepy displays in the cabin during a
thunderstorm.
However, the direction is incredibly
disturbing when the punks invade the
house and kills people in it which makes
you squirm mainly performed by Wilson
himself and both Linda Blair and
Donna Wilkes do well at acting
intense with all of this happening.
There's great camera shots on Blair
running away in the snow.
Both supporting actors Tab Hunter
and Charles Dierkop do well at
being good cop, bad cop towards both
Wilson and Michelle Benosoussan's character's
as all of their reactions towards one
another were very convincing.
Guy Stockwell showed a descent
intensity towards Wilson and Benosoussan
after he kidnaps them.
Alot of the direction in this film was
cheesy but in a well done way.
Jack Cookerly
and Bill Loose both perform
great keyboard to sum up the suspense and
action in this film as they prooved they
can do fine with it.
Gibbs:
You gotta choice. You can either face the
maniac or freeze your ass off (Cackles)
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