The Mutilator (1985)

A teen meat screamer classic that spills some of the best NON-Tom Savini gore in the 80s. I’m talkin’ blood and guts all over the beach house. That’s where six college kids go to goof off and get killed during their fall break from school. First-time and only-time writer/director Buddy Cooper has the slasher formula down cold. He gives us The Chaste Final Girl. He gives us The Unreliable Car Engine. He gives us The Doomed Prankster. He gives us The Shocking Backstory Opening Scene. He gives us The Skinny-Dipping Scene. He gives us The Terrible Theme Song. He gives us The Killer Who Takes a Bashing and Keeps on Slashing. It’s nothing major, but it’s satisfying if you like the genre. Cooper never talks down to the audience or fills out the time with dull subplots. He merely gets in, makes the kids scream, scores a few well-placed laughs and then gets out. Best gross-out: the part where the car backs up into a guy and cuts him in half like a meatball sandwich.