Butchers Book Two: Raghorn

Too bad that era of quality hixploitaion and exploitation films is sadly irretrievably gone and I'm glad I caught it in my horror heyday. Butchers Book Two: Raghorn is not even a B-movie, it’s cheap C-flick, and while it tries to pay homage to better pieces with its classic proprieties, it's not enough. We have two brothers, one is a proper Hillbilly (here I have to admit the guy played the sleazy redneck perfectly and is probably the best thing about the film), and the other is a classic inbreed grunt. After running over a deer, three unlikeable protagonists (who unfortunately can't act at all) get stuck, and the have a transsexual person tied in the trunk (?!) and of course they cross paths with the rednecks. It has a pretty nice dirty look, but there's very few characters to slaughter and overall the inventiveness of the deaths and the gore are lacking. There's one nasty penis snip and one half-shot head, but that's it. There's no rape, no proper dismemberment (why is there such a nice cleaver on the poster if they don't even use it?) and the cannibalism is only skimmed over, so we're sadly deprived of the best bits. It was watchable, but when I think back to movies from 15 years ago, it's really a bummer. Is it so fucking hard to make a proper rape and revenge flick? 4/10. (03/13/2024)