Savage Weekend (1979)

User Rating:

3.9/10   

Director:

David Paulsen

Writer:

David Paulsen (writer)

Genre:

Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

You have been chosen. You are doomed. Prepare for.... SAVAGE WEEKEND

Plot:

Several couples head upstate to the country to watch a boat being built. Unfortunately they are stalked by a murderer behind a ghoulish mask. |

Plot Keywords:

Boat | Mask | Blood | Hook | Barn

Cast

Christopher Allport	...	Nicky
Jim Doerr	...	Robert Fathwood (as James Doerr)
David Gale	...	Mac Macauley
Devin Goldenberg	...	Jay Alsop
Marilyn Hamlin	...	Marie Sales Pettis
Caitlin O'Heaney	...	Shirley Sales (as Kathleen Heaney)
Jeff Pomerantz	...	Greg Pettis (as Jeffrey David Pomerantz)
William Sanderson	...	Otis
Yancy Butler	...	Little Girl (as Yancy Victoria Butler)
Adam Hirsch	...	Jeremy Pettis
Don Plumley	...	Pool Player
Ben Simon	...	Lumberman
Geraldine Chapin	...	Woman at Bar
Rae Chapin	...	Lumberman
Claude Paulsen	...	Waitress at Bar

Also Known As:

The Killer Behind the Mask (USA) (working title)
The Upstate Murders

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

UK:15 (re-rating) (2006) | UK:X (original rating) | Norway:18 (cut) | USA:R | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Company:

Cannon Group

Trivia:

Filmed in 1976 as "The Killer Behind the Mask" and released as Savage Weekend in 1981.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Marie is being led away from the house by the killer, she is wearing gold high heels, but after she escapes from him and then trips and falls she is now wearing black boots.

Movie Connections:

Featured in The Secret in the Stone (1999)

Sit Down You're Rocking the Boat

Low budget "slasher" film of a very odd, sometimes interesting nature about a group of people going to upstate New York for the weekend only to find death. It seems that the man who owns the property there is building/restoring a boat - which otherwise does not figure prominently into the story. While some of the scenes are very tense and horrific, the film also has oodles of gratuitous nudity, a homosexual man flaunting it and sticking sharp objects into himself for no apparent reasons, and some really strange locals that make upstate New York look like Hillbilly land. The cast is made up of unknowns, but most of them are adequate in their limited roles. There is a bizarre sexual current throughout the film. The first "real" death doesn't come for almost an hour, so this isn't that fast-paced in any way. Yet, despite its inadequacies, Savage Weekend is not your average, run-of-the-mill slasher film. There are, as previously mentioned, some very shockingly filmed scenes. The basement scene with the saw being one EXCEPT for the resolution of that scene. The film has a hanging, a duel with a machete and a chainsaw, an impaling, and one individual is needled in the most extreme manner. What was that whole scene with the hook about?