The best horror film ever! This is my favorite horror movie ever for many reasons that should be obvious to anyone who has ever seen this. Low budget it may be, it shows that even without lots of money, special effects of incredible quality can be produced.
The opening sequence is one of my favorites. A woman is in the kitchen cooking as her husband and young son are upstairs preparing for their day. You don't actually see anything, but you just feel the evil entering the room. Then you hear a shriek, and father and son come running down the stairs. The woman is nowhere to be found, but the oven is shaking violently. Where could she be? So, of course, Daddy opens the oven to discover a skeleton inside it. Amazing how an oven, in a matter of seconds, can completely burn all the flesh, skin, hair, etc. off a full-grown person. This sets the tone for the overzealous cheese and idiocy that will follow.
So years after this, cheesy hair band Thor inhabits the farmhouse where the aformentioned atrocity happened, planning to rehearse and record their new album. Actually, I do like some of Thor's music. (Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste, but with the music featured in this movie, I think they really came into their own.)
I have to keep my comments brief, for two reasons: First, it would be a violation of any new viewer's rights if I gave away the incredible twist ending of the film (and it is a film, not just a movie. Second, I have to return some videotapes.
The film is like one great music video. The music really enhances the experience of the violence, horror and general treachery displayed on the screen. Not to mention the special effects that were decades ahead of everyone else (to say the least, the special effects industry as a whole probably won't reach this level of creativity and technical skill until at least 2015).
But enough of my yapping. Don't take my word for it. See this brilliant film yourself. But beware, you may never be the same afterward.