Home Sweet Home | |
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Directed by | Nettie Peña |
Screenplay by | Thomas Bush |
Story by | Thomas Bush |
Produced by | Don Edmonds |
Starring | Jake Steinfeld Vinessa Shaw Peter De Paula |
Cinematography | Don Stern |
Edited by | Nettie Peña |
Music by | Richard Tufo |
Production companies | Movies Anonymous Partnership Intercontinental Releasing Corporation |
Distributed by | Intercontinental Releasing Corporation |
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Running time | 83 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Home Sweet Home (also known as Slasher in the House) is a 1981 American slasher film directed by Nettie Peña, and written by Thomas Bush. It stars Jake Steinfeld, Peter De Paula, and Vinessa Shaw in her film debut, and the plot focuses on a PCP-addicted killer who terrorizes a family in their remote home on Thanksgiving. Along with Blood Rage and the faux Thanksgiving trailer from Grindhouse which would later be fully adapted as Thanksgiving, it is one of the few slasher films centered on the Thanksgiving holiday, and one of the few to be directed by a woman.[1]
While not prosecuted for obscenity, the film was seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty panic.[citation needed]