Linda Blair (who despite being barely in it gets top billing, probably because she was an associate producer) and her friend go off to the mountains to stay with her parents (her dad was a former Hollywood make-up effects guy) only for things to go completely wrong when a gang of punks breaks-in looking for money and terrorizes them. But wait! It gets even more messed-up when it turns out there's a deformed son living in the house who gets free and starts to kill the punks off. And there's even more! The film shifts into a revenge picture in the final third as uncle Tab Hunter goes for vengeance on the surviving baddies.

The main thing you'll get from this movie is confused since the script is trying to be two movies in one; at first this is your typical horror flick with an unpleasant mood hanging all over it (and stereotypical punk villains, most of which are over-acted) and a couple of okay deaths (I like the "tree backbreaker" moment) before shifting gears and becoming an even poorer acted revenge epic.

This is just a complete misfire that won't please horror fans, alienates its audience by abruptly changing gears and has a finale with a truly weak twists. Maniac Cop, Robert Z'Dar, plays one of the punkers.

Directed By: Joe Tornatore.
Written By: Mikel Angel.

Starring: Linda Blair, Tab Hunter, Donna Wilkes, Brad Wilson.