Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

BA_Harrison A group of New Yorkers travel upstate for the weekend where they upset the locals and find themselves stalked by a deranged killer wearing a rubber horror mask.The moment screaming queen Nicky (Christopher Allport) started kicking redneck ass in a bar room brawl, I guessed that Savage Weekend wasn't going to be just another average everyday backwoods slice 'n' dice horror; scenes like that don't happen in 'normal' slashers. Sure enough, although the film delivers several of the expected genre clichés (gratuitous nudity, a masked killer, suspicious hillbillies etc.), there is simply too much off-kilter weirdness and sleaze on display to pigeon-hole this one as a routine slasher flick.Take the movie's collection of characters, for example, whose behaviour is far from predictable...Middle-aged stockbroker Robert Fathwood (Jim Doerr) is dating sexy Marie Sales (Marilyn Hamlin), who is on the rebound having just split with her husband Greg (Jeff Pomerantz), who is having a personal crisis after his boss committed suicide. Marie, however, still fantasises about Greg during sex, and also likes to flirt with local bit of rough Mac Macauley (David Gale) by suggestively stroking his tractor's hydraulics. Macauley eventually succumbs to Marie's advances (after she suggestively fondles one of his cow's udders) but discovers that she is just being a tease. Marie's hot-to-trot sister Shirley (Caitlin O'Heaney), on the other hand, is a genuine goer: she enjoys sunbathing nude and has impromptu outdoor sex with Jay (Devin Goldenberg), one of Robert's employees, under the watchful gaze of the group's only gay member Nicky, who she later tries to seduce by doing a sexy tango for him in her undies. Meanwhile, local weirdo Otis (William Sanderson), who allegedly branded his unfaithful wife with the letter 'H' (for 'whore'), spends his spare time in the graveyard chatting to his dead brother!After an hour of watching these characters interacting (i.e. mostly flirting and having sex)—and dodging the boom mic (which makes regular appearances)—the mysterious killer turns up to off the city folk one by one, via hanging, hat-pin in the ear, table saw activated by light switch (that old chestnut), and defenestration. The identity of the killer is then revealed (I won't say who it is, but it's not too hard to figure out), Marie gets chased a bit, and there's a chainsaw/machete fight.Like I said… not just another average everyday backwoods slice 'n' dice horror.

artpf Several couples head upstate to the country to watch a boat being built. Unfortunately they are stalked by a murderer behind a ghoulish mask.Firstly the movie opens to hillbilly music even tho it's NY state. The twanging gets faster and faster and then stops and just restarts! Huh?We see a woman dressed in white running then stopping. For some reason in the middle of the forest, there is a running Buzz Saw! Huh.2?Then there is a guy with longish hair and binoculars who picks up the buzz saw. Huh.3? The woman doesn't bother to run as the buzz saw man gets closer and closer. She just stands there! Huh.4?Cut to NYC.This 2 minute scene tells you where you are headed. And it won't be good. It's a very slow, complete with an extended slow moving gay scene in a bar that ends in a fight which no one tries to stop, and leaves you hoping the gay guy is the first to be killed because he's so freaking annoying. He's a poor version of a gay man playing it way over the top and being so condescending in the process.I should also mention that the movie was supposedly made in '79 but looks very much like it was made circa '72.So there seems to be a crazy man in the woods and no one will hear you as you scream even tho they are like 50 feet away. This part of the movie does produce some decent T&A, but that's not saying much for the film's improvement.Oh, and BTW, be sure to look for the one actor who has the hard-on that you can see right through his clothes! No joke.The film just sort of rambles and is so slow and nobody seems to really run away when the killer is after them...and why that hillbilly banjo keeps coming in when the film is set in NY is beyond me. It's not until 2/3s into he movie that the masked killer dude is introduced. By this time, you just hope an atomic bomb explodes and gets rid of the whole lot. It was a complete waste of celluloid. And a bigger waste of my time.

qormi Not bad....very low production values, obvious cheap budget, but the acting is okay and the plot and pace are okay, too. One of the country bumpkins was of "Larry, Darryl, and Darryl" fame from the Bob Newhart Show; this time playing a much edgier Darryl. The lead actress, Marilyn Hammel, is very hot and a very good actress. Why she had virtually no career aside from this is a mystery. The ending was not predictable,but the light switch was. The violence was understated, but very unnerving. Much better than many of the subsequent slasher flicks. One thing - the fights were very phony. They should have used stunt doubles or hired a fight choreographer and ran a few takes until they got it right.

theambroziak This is an awesome horror movie that does not receive the recognition it deserves. I also recommend that you also view the sequel, Not Another Savage Weekend, which was produced as an independent film in January, 1994. I have not seen this short film in a long time because it is very rare. It did develop a huge cult following amongst independent film fans and college campuses in the mid to late 1990s, but I have no idea where to obtain a copy today. I do know that it took place 20 years after the original Savage Weekend. It turned out that the lead character of "Mother" Nicky had not really died, but rather fell into some sort of coma. He awakens one day, not knowing that years have passed, and when he discovers that his friends have been murdered, he begins to search for the killer. He even visits a couple of bars. If anyone knows where to find a copy of this film and how we can get it properly listed here at the IMDb please let me know.