Over the weekend, I wanted to show my girlfriend three of the nastiest, ickiest, groddiest and lowest-budgeted gore films the '80s had to offer. So I picked Killing Spree the first night, Splatter Farm the following night and lastly, The Abomination for the remaining night. Three awesome-as-fuck, homegrown, backyard gorefests with a combined budget that is probably lower than your monthly car payment. I didn't think of it at the time, but all three feature horrific, LOL-worthy acting by old ladies and two of the three feature those ugly wood-panelled walls that were popular in homes at the time.

Killing Spree - dude (who's name is Asbestos Felt(!)) thinks his wife is cheating on him, so he begins dispatching of electricians, TV repairmen, delivery men and lawn maintenance in all sorts of wonderfully graphic ways with some of the best being a ceiling fan n*gger rigged with machetes and a chainsaw, but best of all, the nosy neighborhood grandma gets it in the film's wettest, most show-stopping gore effect. Killing Spree is easily the most professionally made of the three films, with lots of attention paid to detail, and all sorts of neat gimmicks (like the pink lighting), plus a cool, totally out-there surprise ending reminiscent of Don't Go in the House or Maniac.

Splatter Farm - here we enter SOV (shot-on-video) land. Movies really don't get much more amateur when they look like your family's homemade Christmas and birthday videos circa 1988. Nevertheless, there's a unique charm to these productions and to its benefit, a certain scuzziness that can't be found in bigger-budgeted productions shot on film stock. Quintessential '80s looking twin bros go to stay at their dear old aunt's farm for vacation. Almost immediately things seem amiss, especially when they meet their aunt's farmhand, Jeremy. Splatter Farm is the ickiest of the three movies we watched, with unflinching, cruel and sadistic scenes of graphic gore, incest and anal fisting (followed immediately by coprophagia(!)) Believe it or not, this was my gf's favorite movie of the weekend.

The Abomination - this one's a bit more slow-going than the preceding two movies, but it makes up for things with some truly gnarly creature and gore fx later in the film. Shot on (what appears to be) some really low-grade Super 8 film stock and without sound (all sound and dialogue was added later, I'm sure of it) it tells the tale of a coughed-up tumor that is in fact actually "the abomination," a creature that feeds on human flesh and has mind-control powers. Lots of sickening gore to be found in this cheapjack production with some pretty hilarious toilet humor, that literally involves a toilet! An Arkansas bred film, it also tackles a subplot of a TV evangelist and therefore seems to be maybe some kind of commentary on the Bible Belt, which is reasonably interesting and well-thought out enough for a film of this type.

All three are on YouBoob. To the uninitated, have your showers hot and ready - these three are about as gross, slimy and brain-fried as '80s horror gets.

Thoughts on the movies are of course, welcome.