Exploitation Retrospect | The Journal of Junk Culture and Fringe Media
Horror House on Highway 5 (1985)
Simitar Home Video | Review by Dan Taylor

Some people should not be allowed to make films.

This list would include: the guy that made TRUTH OR DARE (not the Madonna version); anyone invloved with ROCK & ROLL NIGHTMARE or MUTANT HUNT; and the producer, writer, director and stars of HORROR HOUSE ON HIGHWAY 5. It isn't bad like R&R NIGHTMARE or MUTANT HUNT, it's just that – like TRUTH OR DARE – it's genuinely brain-altering for anyone within a five mile fallout zone.

Some students are on a trip to research the experiments of a scientist who contributed to US rocket technology. Along the way, one of the students is kidnapped by the doctor's two sons: Mabusa, an abusive, unlicensed MD; and Gary, his half-wit younger brother who falls in love with Sally, the kidnapped student. The other kids run into the father... a maggot-infested, supposedly-dead Nazi psycho who runs around killing people while wearing a Richard Nixon mask.

Don't these people realize that there is such a thing as going WAY over the top? (I think they passed that point when they focused on the black and white photo of a woman in a Gestapo uniform masturbating while squating on a Nazi flag!)

Put this one in your VCR during your next party and count the number of people who pass by, look at the screen and stare back in utter disbelief. It has the potential for a ground-breaking number of jaw-droppers! Best of all, it's the kind of flick where you're not going to miss any important moments of dialogue or plot revelations... because there aren't any!

The flick tries to parody known genre cliches, and the guy that plays Mabusa is pretty funny, but it's tough to recommend this other than to folks who need to see a flick that simply goes way over the top (if you saw TRUTH OR DARE you know who you are).

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