The Slaughter

2006
R
1h 36m

IMDb RATING

3.7/10

1.2K

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Jay Lee and Gino Domenico in The Slaughter (2006)

When six college students take a job cleaning up an abandoned house, their plans are to work hard by day and play hard by night. However, their nonstop funfest becomes a race for survival when they discover an ancient tomb and inadvertently awake Cthulha, a vengeful and bloodthirsty female demon.

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When six college students take a job cleaning up an abandoned house their plans to work hard by day and play hard by night are interrupted when they awake an ancient evil demon.When six college students take a job cleaning up an abandoned house their plans to work hard by day and play hard by night are interrupted when they awake an ancient evil demon.When six college students take a job cleaning up an abandoned house their plans to work hard by day and play hard by night are interrupted when they awake an ancient evil demon.

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IMDb RATING

3.7/10

1.2K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 3 wins total

Madame Eliza
(as Penny Drake)

Jessica Custodio

Dana
(as Jessica Ellis)

Terry Erioski

Tyler

Adriana Mejia

She-Demon
(as Adriana Esquivel)

Jen Alex

Alexandra
(as Jen Alex Gonzalez)

Zak Kilberg

Iggy

Carmit Levité

Julia Carter

Brad Milne

Carl

Laura Bach

Heather
(as Laura Stein)

Travis Wood

Brandon

Elana Blank

The Madames

Jessica Elder

The Madames

Ellyn Daniels

The Madames
(as Elizabeth Goddard)

Jess Harbeck

The Madames
(as Jessica Harbeck)

Tiffany Hayden

The Madames

Director
- Jay Lee
Writer
- Jay Lee
All cast & crew
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Trivia
The incantation heard in the opening sequence sounds like "Cthulhu fhtagn R'lyeh," a bastardized version of an incantation in the H.P. Lovecraft story 'The Call of Cthulhu'. "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn", which translates as "In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."

Goofs
At various points in the film we can see that the nude, dead She-Demon has panties on, which are the same color as her skin. When Brandon tries to escape through the chimney, we can see the panties at the bottom of the mid-shots of the She-Demon. Though moments later when Brandon is actually going up the chimney, the camera pans down her body and you can clearly see that she's nude. Later, when Heather stops looking for Brandon and goes into the bathroom; when the She-Demon rises out of the bathtub at a 90 degree angle, she most clearly has panties on.

Quotes
Carl Stevens: [to She Demon] Holy shit... spirit made flesh, huh? Uhm. I'm rich. You seem a woman of means. Let's talk business. With my money, and your, well-uh... hell-spun powers of evil, we could go places, babe. Think about it.

Connections
References The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Soundtracks
Knock on Would
Written and Performed by Catero
Published by Cool Ace Cat Music Works (ASCAP)
Courtesy of Cool Ace Cat Music Works

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Review

Featured review

5/10

Enjoyable Z-Movie

Dana (Jessica Ellis) and her boyfriend Tyler (Terry Erioski) own a cleaning company and they travel with his stepbrother Iggy (Zak Kilberg) to clean up an old house for the arrogant real state agent Carl (Brad Milne). They invite the promiscuous Heather (Laura Stein); her boyfriend Brandon (Travis Wood) and the pothead Razz (Billy Beck) that are their friends, to help them. They meet Carl and his secretary Alexandra (Jen Alex Gonzalez) in the house and when they clean the basement, there is a bad smell and they find a book made of flesh. Iggy translates the text and discovers that the place is a portal to an evil female demon that was summoned one hundred years ago. He also discovers that a sin would be capable to awake the She Demon (Adriana Esquivel) and the group decides to have no sex in the house. But it is too late since Heather and Brandon are alone in a bedroom. Now the She Demon is unleashed and they find that they are trapped in the house.

"The Slaughter" is a low-budget movie with flawed characters (Carl and Alexandra are unbearable; Brandon and Razz are douchebags); poor locations and special effects; and a screenplay that should be improved. The makeup and the camera work are good and in the end, considering the budget, this Z-movie is enjoyable and entertains. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "O Massacre" ("The Slaughter")