Product Details

• Actors: Stephani Wells, Cory Nelson, Paul Cagney, Shaila Vaidya, Stacey Denson
• Directors: Paul Gagné
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: June 28, 2005
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0009A40AC
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #81,357 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Marty Sickle was accused of murdering a young girl inside the old slaughterhouse where he quietly lived and worked, but Marty was acquitted due to lack of evidence. Soon after, four college kids brutally hung Marty in revenge of the girl’s death, but his body was never found. Now legend has it that every year on the anniversary of Marty’s death, that if you sit near the spot where he was hung and say a rhyme three times, Marty will come back and kill anyone who steps foot in his slaughterhouse, but nobody has ever tried it UNTIL NOW

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars sUckle, July 11, 2005

By	Micheal Hunt (Hellbourne) - See all my reviews

This films Australian release title is "Sickle"...but I call it SUCKle. I had trouble finding it on IMDB to find out its US title. It's not surprising when no one who has seen this would bother to care.

The plot is about a group of unsupervised misfit teenagers who go to a slaughterhouse where ten years ago a guy named Sickle killed someone and was killed in return. The kids go up there ten years later and do a magic chant and bring him back and then he starts stalking them in a building they cant escape from.

This movie sucks to high heaven. I was bored stupid from the beginning to the end. The idea for the thing could have worked, but EVERYTHING about this movie was done wrong. The acting is terrible, the lighting is pathetic, the score doesn't work, the sound department should realise a car backing up slowly on gravel does not make a skidding/spinning/burnout noise and the editing draws out the longest most boring scenes imaginable and inserts absolute crap for no reason that just makes this thing seem to go forever and ever getting more boring by the minute.

The only people I would recommend this DVD to would be to film makers who wanna see an example of how NOT to make a movie. Overall there is not one single thing in this entire film that I can say anything positive about. The worst thing in the entire movie is a lesbian scene at a party that goes for about 5 minutes that has absolutely no tie in, relative, or anything to do with the plot. It's just a party where 2 dikes start making out and stripping, in the middle of the main room at a party! It goes from a bad Z-grade horror movie to a C-grade porno scene then back to a bad movie. PLEASE, done think it would be interesting to see, it's not... it doesn't match the film at all. It is easy to tell this was the directors first movie, and it shows how much they need to learn about editing, cutting things down, and improving the scene because it's just too long and boring and it needs more gore then just showing shadows.

This movie is terrible, you'd have to be seriously f****d in the head or have a seriously low I.Q to enjoy this movie. Everything is bad about this film. Ever category there is in making a movie is done badly with this film that tries too hard to be a Friday The 13th / Scream / I know what you did last summer combination that does not come off as anything but a try-hard rip off.

My advice to whoever put this thing together... figure out what the cutting room floor is about, pick up the pace and you might have got a half star from me. I only give it a 1 star here 'cause Amazon doesn't give an option for -10 stars.

This is the worst film of 2005.
Rent it if you must, but don't say I didn't warn you...and for the love of Pete, DONT BUY IT.... it's not even laughable at when watching it's so bad.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bad bad bad bad bad. , June 30, 2005

By	The Scream Queen "www.nightmarevue.com" (Toronto, ON Canada) - See all my reviews

This doesn't even deserve 1 star.

There is no good reason for this movie to exist. The title is deceptive - it actually sounded decent, and well, gory.

At no time in this movie was there a massacre. There was a bad guy, supposedly dead, who looked kinda like Brad Dourif with rubber teeth and rosacea (which, I believe, was supposed to be thermal burns). He kills a few people. Well, we see a meat hook, and a machete. We don't see them actually strike or spear anyone, we just see a few drops of theatre blood after the fact. Oh, and we know the killer is near, because all of a sudden someone plugs in a red light. And plays a thump-thump thump-thump soundtrack.

The Slaughterhouse Massacre must be horrorporn for HBO. At any given moment there are leggy blondes (and redheads, and brunettes) naked and writhing around, simulating sex, and engaging in lesbian kissing scenes. But if that sounds like an endorsement, it isn't. If I rented this to get off to, I would be very disappointed.

I have all the usual B movie complaints - corny dialogue, pathetic acting, crappy effects and shoddy cinematography... it's all there. The movie has no redeeming value even as a B movie. If Uwe Boll had to work with a smaller budget, this is what you would get.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Only the price tag is scary, August 18, 2005

By	S. Boone "freddykroger" (Louisville, KY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

So Lion's Gate slaps a list price of $29 on this? Amazing the juevos people have these days. Considering what a horror this movie is, that absolutely amazes me. We have the usual stoned and drunk teenagers, oversexed and under-brained, and out for a good time. So of course they go to see where Mr. Sickle the slaughterhouse worker was killed 10 years ago & he comes back to wreak havoc like a recycled Freddy Krueger or something. We have a long long scene where two chicks feel each other up while partygoers stand and watch, whee. Is it a rule to put bi/lesbian scenes in stupid horror movies these days? One would think so. Anyway back to the marginally more interesting part: some dude called Stoner is enlisted to show up at the slaughterhouse & dress like the killer to scare the chicks, he gets mad (or stoned, hard to tell) and decides not to do it. During the course of the movie he smokes enough weed to immobilize a small country but still remains conscious, or at least what passes for concious in this movie. The viewer may have problems remaining conscious though. One almost decent effect has one hapless idiot "split" but I saw that already in Ichi the Killer & it was done much better & is a movie more worthy of your attention. Let's not forget the one chick that's sort of the "heroine" of the movie, she of the strident personality that also announces to her boyfriend that she's pregnant, so of course he shoves her head first out a tiny window to go for help. But help isn't coming, not for the teens nor for the viewer. A truly pathetic piece of garbage and I guess I "took one for the team" on this. Bleah.