10 Trash Horror Movies With 1 Amazing Kill

8. Home Sweet Home - Harold Bradley

Home Sweet Home Harold Death
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Featuring beefy US fitness expert Jake Steinfeld - the uncle of Hawkeye's Hailee Steinfeld - as an escaped mental asylum patient with a thirst for blood, 1981's Home Sweet Home is, like, the rest of the movies on this list, incredibly ropey.

Admittedly put together on a shoestring budget, this low-end slasher has Jake's drug-addicted Jay Jones terrorising a family and their friends during Thanksgiving. This is as generic as generic can get in terms of paper-thin plot, forgettable characters (bar guitar-playing Mistake, of course), and the majority of its kills.

Still, the best (and most brilliantly bizarre) kill of this Nettie Peña-helmed picture sees Jay squish poor Harold Bradley with the sort of frog splash that Eddie Guerrero or Rob Van Dam would be proud of. You see, Harold had stopped to syphon some fuel from the car Jay had nicked as part of his escape.

Realising that his car battery was also knackered, Bradley returns to Jay's seemingly abandoned vehicle to swipe the battery. It's here where Steinfeld's hulking form appears from nowhere, jumping directly onto the raised car bonnet and squishing Harold underneath.

While the quality of the accompanying screenshot might be trash, you can thankfully check out this gloriously cheesy demise at around the 26:20 mark below:

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