Slaughterhouse is a 1987 horror

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

  comedy

Comedy film

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 film

Film

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Plot

An old farmer (a raving nutcase) and his beloved son (a 360 pound pig-man named Buddy who grunts and squeals and loves to chop, dice and skewer human beings) lament the fate of the old skilled hog farmer, now giving way to modern factory-type slaughterhouses. When businessmen make an offer for the scuzzy rundown place, the father and son refuse.

Cast

• Joe B. Barton as Buddy Bacon
• Don Barrett as Lester Bacon
• William Houck as Shefiff Borden
• Sherry Leigh (credited as Sherry Bendorf) as Liz Borden
• Jeff Wright as Deputy Dave
• Bill Brinsfield as Tom Sanford

Release

The film was given a limited release

Limited release

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 theatrically in the United States

United States

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 by the Manson International Pictures 1987 and was subsequently released on VHS

VHS

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 by Charter Entertainmet.

The film was released in a special edition

Special edition

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 DVD

DVD

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 in 1999 by Program Power Entertainment. This release is currently out of print

Out of print

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