American Gothic1987
“The family that slays together stays together.”
Directed by John Hough
🏆 1 win
The premise
When six friends fly off on a weekend getaway and are suddenly plagued by engine trouble, they're forced to land on a remote island. Looking for shelter, they're grateful to encounter Ma and Pa and their children - an eccentric family living in the island's backwoods. But what begins as simple hospitality turns into a terrifying race for survival as the friends start disappearing one by one ... and turning up dead.
Horror Vault's take
When a small plane is forced down on a remote Pacific Northwest island, six friends stumble upon what appears to be a backwoods family offering old-fashioned warmth and shelter. Ma and Pa and their peculiar adult children seem harmless — even charmingly anachronistic — until the visitors begin to realise something is deeply, lethally wrong. What follows is a relentless fight for survival against a clan whose idea of family values is profoundly warped. Rod Steiger and Yvonne De Carlo anchor this slow-burn nightmare with memorably unnerving performances.
Content: Sexual Violence / Rape, Necrophilia, Graphic Violence, Disturbing Content Involving Family Dysfunction
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