Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Stephen Abell This is a truly bad film though it had a hypnotic effect on me... I just couldn't stop watching. This is an awesome film in its alarming subject matter. As a youngster, Billy Lynch is left with his Aunty Cheryl as his parents take a trip into the city. There's an accident and Billy's parents are killed so for the next fourteen years his Aunt takes care of him and brings him up. Then one day his Aunt kills a handyman who she claims tried to rape her. Billy affirms her story, though Detective Joe Carlson doesn't believe them. It's in the course of his investigation that things begin to unravel for Billy and Aunt Cheryl.There are plenty of twists and turns in the story which keeps the viewer entertained and interested. Though it's the earnestness of the acting from Bo Svenson's portrayal of the over-the-top testosteroned bullish boor of a man in Detective Carlson that makes this humorous and enthralling. I have known people who are homophobic, to the point of brutishness, but this character could be the archetype.Then there's the wonderful Susan Tyrell who's maniacal and lunatic portrayal of Aunty Cheryl is skin-crawlingly bizarre and creepy.As the film progressed and grew more florid I was surprised to see Julia Duffy and, one of my favourite actors, Bill Paxton appear. Julia Duffy does a good job as Billy's love interest Julia and is one of the main characters that aren't too unnatural. One of the strongest and realistic characters in the movie is that of the homosexual Coach Tom Landers. When viewed in respect to the homophobic actions of Carlson I thought we'd get to see more of Landers. It is actually a shame that we don'tThis film is bad enough, weird enough, crazy enough, and strangely entertaining enough to be a cult film. If you have time to spare and like a film to fascinate and delight then this is one worth a watch. I loved it...

BA_Harrison Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (AKA Night Warning AKA The Evil Protégé) opens with a great car accident that results in the driver's head being pulverised by a log falling from the back of a lorry, and his blood-spattered wife screaming helplessly as the vehicle careers off the road and over a cliff; it's an excellent start to what proves to be one of the better official Video Nasties, a macabre psycho killer thriller that benefits from a delightfully twisted plot, lots of gruesome murders, and fine performances, especially from Susan Tyrell and Bo Svenson, doing what they do best, playing a complete loony and a bigoted cop respectively.Tyrell is 'Aunt' Cheryl, who has raised Billy (Jimmy McNichol) since the age of two, after his parents were killed in the aforementioned car crash. Billy is now 17, and is looking forward to attending Denver University with his girlfriend Julia (Julia Duffy), but Cheryl has grown a little too attached to her nephew over the years and is determined to do whatever is necessary to make him stay with her.Svenson's narrow-minded detective, Joe Carlson, appears on the scene after Cheryl kills a man who she claims tried to rape her. Carlson's investigation leads him to suspect that Billy killed the man and that his aunt is covering for him, but the detective couldn't be further from the truth: Cheryl is barking mad and this isn't the first time she has killed... and it won't be the last! As Cheryl spirals out of control, she drugs Billy to keep him under control, hacks a couple of people to death with a machete, and bludgeons Julie with a meat tenderiser, throwing her in the basement where the poor girl discovers the remains of Cheryl's first victim, including his severed head preserved in a pickle jar. On top of all this violence, the plot also introduces elements of homophobia and incest, and throws in a sex scene for Billy and Julie, thereby getting in its quota of nudity.Even if all of this death and deviancy had somehow managed to escape the BBFC's attention during the Video Nasty era, the provocative image on the video cover was guaranteed to make them sit up and take notice: it depicted a gore-drenched Tyrell, top open to expose her bloody cleavage. Copies were seized, the film was banned, and has remained unavailable in the UK ever since—a shame, 'cos it really deserves better.

tomgillespie2002 Jimmy Lynch (Billy McNichol) is a promising high school basketball player. When he was a child, his parents were both killed in a freak road accident, and has since then been looked after by his loving, but slightly overbearing aunt Cheryl (Susan Tyrrell). He returns home one night to find his aunt holding a knife after killing a maintenance man. She had desperately groped him, shouting that she needs a man, only for him to reject her. Det. Carlson (Bo Svenson) is assigned to investigate, and when the bigoted detective finds out that the maintenance man was gay, he suspects Jimmy of also being a homosexual. He then discovers that Jimmy's basketball coach is also gay, and suspects the murder is a result of a big gay love triangle.When I was deciding which Video Nasty to watch next by reading up about them on Wikipedia, this film, also known as Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker, certainly caught my eye and sounded more interesting than the likes of Faces of Death. A Video Nasty exploring homophobia and incest, whilst mixed with a bit of gruesome violence? I was sold! As usual though, I was left disappointed. While the film certainly raises itself above tedium every now and then, it is no more than a standard psycho- biddy film, and those aforementioned themes left relatively unexplored. However Tyrrell turns in an effective performance, and Bo Svenson is certainly very funny (although I doubt that was the intention) as his rather dated gay-bashing cop. Not the worst Nasty by a long, long way, but certainly a missed opportunity. And watch out for a young Bill (listed here as William) Paxton.www.the-wrath-of-blog.blogspot.com

jonathan-577 The director of "Gidget" and the Beach Party movies - united with the writer of the uber-crappy hinterland rape plod "Abducted" - here bring you SUSAN TYRRELL! Doing a nightmare riff off Piper Laurie's psycho mom in "Carrie," making the original look like Gidget in the process! You have never seen anything like it - even, I'm assured, if you think you've seen Tyrrell go over-the-top in other roles. Plainly bat-wacky from the first exchange, padding around the manse muttering under her breath, lurching toward total meltdown in unexpected but definitive bursts, this is an absolute high camp masterpiece of a performance, one for the ages. And damned if the movie doesn't do its best to keep up - with good pacing, adequate attention to logic and larger amounts of creative gore splooshed around than you would have thought absolutely necessary. Newhart's Julia Duffy is cute as the interloping teen photog, Jimmy McNichol is kinda bland and stupid, but does what he needs to do, and Bo Svensson is a fabulous opposite number for Tyrrell - coiled and menacing as a homophobic megalomaniac police chief. Out of nowhere, he turns the movie into a treatise about the relative perversion of the 'normal' nuclear family - bet Robin Wood loves this one. The movie can't touch Tyrrell - the Christian subtext is a propos of nothing but market placement, again cf. "Carrie" - but all she needs is a steady platform to careen across, and she gets more than that.