10 Slasher Horror Movie Openings That Get Worse The More You Think About It

Full disclosure, your writer will take any and all opportunity to spotlight 1984's The Mutilator, aka Fall Break.

Helmed by John S. Douglas and Buddy Cooper - with Cooper having likewise penned the picture and served as the main producer - this offering sees a group of college kids stalked by a vicious killer when they visit one of the group's family beach home. The seafront locale belongs to the Eds - Ed Sr. and Ed Jr - and its Jr. who's tasked with checking the house is securely locked up.

As it ever the case, a pile of dead bodies quickly amass once our central characters end up at this beach home, and it's immediately shown how the heavy-drinking Ed Sr. is the person behind this bloodshed.

Of course, the opening to The Mutilator is key to why Big Ed has murder on his mind. There, we see Ed Jnr. as a young boy who's polishing his father's guns. You see, it's Ed Sr.'s birthday and the youngster is cleaning these weapons as a present to his old man... all while an unnamed mother bakes a cake for her beau.

When one of these guns accidentally unloads and kills Sr.'s wife, he snaps. After just about stopping himself from killing his son, Big Ed tries to get his wife's corpse to drink a bourbon.

You have to think, with such a hair-trigger temper, what other traumas has Big Ed put his son - and wife, for that matter - prior to this tragedy. Were these abusive relationships, and how many times has Ed Sr. come close to beating his offspring?