Savage Weekend is a 1979 slasher film

Slasher film

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 written, produced and directed by David Paulsen and starring Christopher Allport

Christopher Allport

Christopher Allport was an American actor.-Biography:Allport was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His acting life began at the age of nine in New Canaan, Connecticut at the Children's Theatre. While at Northwestern University, he worked with Paul Sills and Story Theatre...

, David Gale

David Gale (actor)

David Quentin Gale was a British actor.He is primarily known for his role as the evil, autocratic Dr. Carl Hill in the 1985 cult classic film Re-Animator, and its 1990 sequel Bride of Re-Animator...

, William Sanderson

William Sanderson

William Sanderson is an American character actor.-Early life:Sanderson was born in Memphis, Tennessee, to an elementary school teacher mother and a landscape designer father...

 and a young Yancy Butler

Yancy Butler

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.

Plot

A group of friends leave New York City

New York City

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 and head upstate to the country to watch a boat being built. Unfortunately, during their stay, they are stalked by a psychotic murderer wearing a ghoulish mask.

Cast

Christopher Allport

Christopher Allport

Christopher Allport was an American actor.-Biography:Allport was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His acting life began at the age of nine in New Canaan, Connecticut at the Children's Theatre. While at Northwestern University, he worked with Paul Sills and Story Theatre...

 ... "Mother" Nicky

Jim Doerr ... Robert Fathwood (as James Doerr)

David Gale

David Gale (actor)

David Quentin Gale was a British actor.He is primarily known for his role as the evil, autocratic Dr. Carl Hill in the 1985 cult classic film Re-Animator, and its 1990 sequel Bride of Re-Animator...

 ... Mac Macauley

Devin Goldenberg ... Jay Alsop

Marilyn Hamlin ... Marie Sales Pettis

Caitlin O'Heaney

Caitlin O'Heaney

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 ... Shirley Sales (as Kathleen Heaney)

Jeff Pomerantz ... Greg Pettis (as Jeffrey David Pomerantz)

William Sanderson

William Sanderson

William Sanderson is an American character actor.-Early life:Sanderson was born in Memphis, Tennessee, to an elementary school teacher mother and a landscape designer father...

 ... Otis

Yancy Butler

Yancy Butler

Yancy Victoria Butler is an American television and movie actress known for her roles as Natasha Binder in the 1993 John Woo film Hard Target and as Detective Sara Pezzini on the TNT supernatural drama Witchblade.-Early life:...

 ... 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 Dickison ... Waitress at Bar

Robert T. Henderson ... Bartender

Release

The film was released theatrically in the United States

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 by The Cannon Group in 1979.

The film was released on VHS

VHS

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 in the 1980s by various companies including Paragon Video Productions.

The film is available on DVD

DVD

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through various companies, but the legality of these releases in terms of proper licensing is in question.

Sequel

A sequel, in the form of an independent short film titled Not Another Savage Weekend, was produced in 1994.