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Bobbi (Danielle Donahue) has inherited a farm in the middle of nowhere,
and to celebrate this she has brought her friends - hunky Brad (Nico
Bryant), his girlfriend Liz (Mel Heflin), heavy metal geek Gopher (James
Kelly) and beer-guzzling Daphne (Marie DeLorenzo) - up to the place for a
party. What she has forgotten to tell her friends though was that more
than 30 years ago, a few murders happened on the premises, and the
probable killer Jeremy (Jeff Kirkendall) has never been caught. She
thought that this just wasn't a big deal, but the locals sure do - however
insead of saying what they know, they at best hint at it (and for those
inclined, what happened earlier is of course chronicled in the Polonia
brothers' 1987 film Splatter Farm). When walking the premises,
Bobbi and Daphne fail to properly interpret all warning signs like an
abandoned tent or human bones by the wayside - while back at the house,
Jeremy is already busy to take out all of their friends and whoever else
comes about, then even has time to hide the bodies and clean up to prepare
an unpleasant surprise when Bobbi and Daphne do come back ... Now
Return to Splatter Farm is hardly a work of art and much more a
throwback to the days of early S.O.V. slashers - like of course the first Splatter
Farm - and co-director Mark Polonia, who with his late brother John
has long become a figurehead of that movement, is of course the right man
to do such a throwback. And thus the film has all the right parts in the
right places, from gruesome murders to the occasional set of bare boobies,
wild chases and bits of comedy (that thankfully stays away from all
post-modern humour), a menacing killer and some lovely ladies, all rolled
into a very unpretentious pack that might not be after everyone's taste
but that's sure to highly entertain its target audience.
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