Splatter Farm

1987 American film
  • 1987 (1987)
Running time
70 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Splatter Farm is a 1987 horror film directed by the Polonia Brothers and starring them along with Todd Smith.[1]

Plot

Twin brothers Alan and Joseph spend the summer visiting their Aunt Lacey at her secluded, run-down property, not knowing that she has a necrophilic attraction to her deceased husband, whose body she keeps in her house, and that her farmhand Jeremy dismembers local townsfolk and stores their body parts in the barn for uses later on.

Production

Splatter Farm was part of the direct-to-video movement of the 1980s, which allowed film-makers with limited resources the ability to market their product.

Release

The film was released on VHS in 1987 by Donna Michele Productions, and again on DVD by Camp Motion Pictures in 2007 in a somewhat modified format. A review on DVD Talk stated that the film had "an audacity that was startling in a film made by teenagers."[2]

Reception

The film is said to have been deliberately shot so as to seem amateurish.[3]

Sequel

The sequel Return to Splatter Farm was produced in Pennsylvania in 2019. It was directed by Mark Polonia and Jeff Kirkendall. The film was released on 11/10/2020. The story picks up 33 years after the events of the first film.

References

  1. ^ Albright, Brian (2012-11-07). Regional Horror Films, 1958-1990: A State-by-State Guide with Interviews. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-7227-7.
  2. ^ "DVD Talk".
  3. ^ Albarano, Vincent A. (2020-01-01). Aesthetic Deviations: A Critical View of American Shot-on-Video Horror, 1984-1994. SCB Distributors. ISBN 978-1-915316-24-0.
  • Mark Polonia on Twitter
  • Splatter Farm at IMDb
  • [1] complete film on YouTube
  • Return to Splatter Farm on IMDb
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Films directed by Mark Polonia
  • Church of the Damned (1985)
  • Hallucinations (1986)
  • Splatter Farm (1987)
  • Lethal Nightmare (1991)
  • How to Slay a Vampire (1993)
  • Hellspawn (1993)
  • Saurians (1994)
  • Night Crawlers (1996)
  • Feeders (1996)
  • Terror House (1998)
  • Feeders 2: Slay Bells (1998)
  • Bad Magic (1998)
  • The House That Screamed (2000)
  • Blood Red Planet (2000)
  • Dweller (2001)
  • Hellgate: The House That Screamed 2 (2001)
  • Gorilla Warfare: Battle of the Apes (2002)
  • Holla If I Kill You (2003)
  • Among Us (2004)
  • Dinosaur Chronicles (2004)
  • Razorteeth (2005)
  • Black Mass (2005)
  • Splatter Beach (2007)
  • Wildcat (2007)
  • Forest Primeval (2008)
  • Monster Movie (2008)
  • Halloweenight (2009)
  • E.V.E. of Destruction (2012)
  • Empire of the Apes (2013)
  • Camp Blood First Slaughter (2014)
  • Amityville Death House (2015)
  • Jurassic Prey (2015)
  • Bigfoot vs. Zombies (2016)
  • Sharkenstein (2016)
  • Amityville Exorcism (2017)
  • Land Shark (2017)
  • Nightmare Vacation (2017)
  • Revolt of the Empire of the Apes (2017)
  • Ghost of Camp Blood (2018)
  • War Raiders (2018)
  • Frozen Sasquatch (2018)
  • Alien Surveillance (2018)
  • Camp Blood Kills (2019)
  • Deadly Playthings (2019)
  • Bride of the Werewolf (2019)
  • Amityville Island (2020)
  • Shark Encounters of the Third Kind (2020)
  • Return to Splatter Farm (2020)
  • Children of Camp Blood (2020)
  • Virus Shark (2021)
  • Invasion of the Empire of the Apes (2021)
  • Dune World (2021)
  • Camp Murder (2021)
  • Jurassic Shark 2: Aquapocalypse (2021)
  • Noah's Shark (2021)
  • Sister Krampus (2021)
  • Hell on the Shelf (2021)
  • RIP (2022)
  • Reel Monsters (2022)
  • House Squatch (2022)
  • Feeders 3: The Final Meal (2022)
  • Sharkula (2022)
  • Amityville in Space (2022)
  • Doll Shark (2022)
  • R.I.P. Van Winkle Part 2 (2023)
  • R.I.P. Van Winkle Part 3 (2023)
  • Cocaine Shark (2023)
  • Jurassic Shark 3: Seavenge (2023)


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