- Director: Michael Moutsatsos
- Writer: Michael Moutsatsos
- Starring: Michael Moutsatsos, Maria Olsen, Noel Jason Scott
- Run time: 1 Hour, 15 Minutes
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Synopsis
We are told that this is a re-enactment of the mass-serial killer Thaddeus Hyatt, known as The Butcher. He killed over a hundred people in Los Angeles in 1995.
We see a guy in medical scrubs holding a drill talking to two tied-up prisoners. He puts down the drill and starts recording the two. He then drills the guy in the back of the head. He then cuts the girl’s throat and lays them side-by-side in a dark place. Credits roll. We see a real butcher cutting meat throughout the credits.
We flash back to Montana in 1970. Thaddeus’s parents return home from a night out to find him eating raw meat on the kitchen floor. It’s his own father.
Back in 1995, Thaddeus beats a guy to death in his motel room. He returns home and gets the shakes. Then he has a vision of his long-dead mother, who isn’t too thrilled with how her son turned out. She tells him to inject his blood into his victims to spread his disease around. It turns out that Thaddeus has mad cow disease, and he wears a cow mask when he attacks people. The mad cow explains the shaking symptoms.
Mr. Cremator talks to Mr. Khan, who is tied up. “Are you a gambling man?” Khan must call heads or tails and Cremator flips the coin. He guesses wrong, and Cremator turns on the electric carving knife. We then find Thaddeus carrying body parts, presumably those of Mr. Khan. Thaddeus goes into the restaurant and bakes the meat into various dishes.
We see another foreign tourist go into a building and get chained up in the back of the restaurant. He’s going to make a great Ecuadorian meal. Thaddeus explains that he’s cooking dishes from Japan, Greece, China, and Italy for Lisa’s birthday next week, and he wants all authentic meats. The rest of the film revolves around the antics and drama the occurs during the preparations for this meal…
Commentary
There’s a lot of real guts and gore used here, some of it is just restaurant footage, but others are bits of real butcher-work. The premise, that he needs all these international tourists for the exotic local flavors, is a pretty neat idea.
The sound in the film has some issues, the first scene, with the two people tied to a chair, sounds like it was recorded in a closet, and a lot of the other scenes don’t sound too much better. Other than the sound issues, I’d say it’s a pretty fair independent gorefest, with acting and direction about on-par with most other indie horror films.