While hitchhiking to escape an abusive home life, a teenage girl is picked up by a couple on a camping trip. The trip turns deadly when a group of Satanists, hellbent on resurrecting their dead mother, attack the campers.
Acting
Lawrence Tierney's unhinged father figure, barely contained menace.
Practical Effects
Gloriously cheap Satanic rituals and zombie makeup that aged like milk.
Director
John A. Russo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Russo co-wrote Night of the Living Dead yet somehow made this forgotten Satanic backwoods cousin. The '80s VHS boom let regional horror like this thrive on sheer box art audacity.
Lawrence Tierney was notoriously difficult—he once threatened a director with a knife on set. His barely-contained aggression here might not be entirely acting.
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