Identical blonde twins Todd and Terry are at the drive-in with their mother, who is making out with her boyfriend in the front seat. Seeing so many people having sex -- including his mom -- from the back seat flips out Terry, who starts killing people with a hatchet. He smears the blood all over his brother, because that's how forensics worked in the 1980's, and he escapes scot free. That's how Blood Rage -- one of the few films to be set on Thanksgiving -- begins.
Ten years later, Terry (Mark Soper in a dual role) lives with this mother (Mary Hartman, Mart Hartman star Louise Lasser). On the night of Thanksgiving, mom reveals that she's about to marry Brad and we also learn that Todd has escaped from the mental hospital. Terry doubles down to keep his brother locked up by killing Brad by chopping off his right hand -- which still clutches a can of Old Style -- before splitting his head in half with a machete.
Todd's doctor and her assistant are looking for him, but run into Terry, who stabs and dismembers both of them before hooking up with new neighbor Andrea who is planning a house party.
Meanwhile, mom is freaking out learning that Todd is getting closer, but Terry is the one we should be worried about. He's on a real year, wiping out all sorts of people, like a tennis-playing couple. All manner of mistaken identity occurs, ending with a swimming pool battle between the twin brothers and mom kills Terry when she really wanted to kill Todd. And oh yeah -- her incestual relationship with her son is revealed as the reason for his insanity. She blows her brains out and Todd just stands there as the police close in.
This movie is also Nightmare at Shadow Woods, with none of the gore left. You should avoid that one as the real reason to enjoy this -- I mean, unless you enjoy 1980's films about incest -- is the rampant gore.
Come for Ted Raimi as a condom salesman. Stay for hatchets to the face and a doctor's assistant sliced in half, as well as rampant synth music from Richard Einhorn, who also scored Shock Waves and Don't Go in the House. And it's directed by John Grissmer, who was also behind 1973's The Bride (Last House on Massacre Street).
Ten years later, Terry (Mark Soper in a dual role) lives with this mother (Mary Hartman, Mart Hartman star Louise Lasser). On the night of Thanksgiving, mom reveals that she's about to marry Brad and we also learn that Todd has escaped from the mental hospital. Terry doubles down to keep his brother locked up by killing Brad by chopping off his right hand -- which still clutches a can of Old Style -- before splitting his head in half with a machete.
Todd's doctor and her assistant are looking for him, but run into Terry, who stabs and dismembers both of them before hooking up with new neighbor Andrea who is planning a house party.
Meanwhile, mom is freaking out learning that Todd is getting closer, but Terry is the one we should be worried about. He's on a real year, wiping out all sorts of people, like a tennis-playing couple. All manner of mistaken identity occurs, ending with a swimming pool battle between the twin brothers and mom kills Terry when she really wanted to kill Todd. And oh yeah -- her incestual relationship with her son is revealed as the reason for his insanity. She blows her brains out and Todd just stands there as the police close in.
This movie is also Nightmare at Shadow Woods, with none of the gore left. You should avoid that one as the real reason to enjoy this -- I mean, unless you enjoy 1980's films about incest -- is the rampant gore.
Come for Ted Raimi as a condom salesman. Stay for hatchets to the face and a doctor's assistant sliced in half, as well as rampant synth music from Richard Einhorn, who also scored Shock Waves and Don't Go in the House. And it's directed by John Grissmer, who was also behind 1973's The Bride (Last House on Massacre Street).