The Mutilator

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So far, it outdoes Three on a Meathook.


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The Mutilator is a 1985 Slasher Movie.

As a child, young Ed, Jr. accidentally kills his mother while goofing around with his dad's shotgun (on the patriarch's birthday, no less). Big Ed nonverbally threatens to use the weapon on his child, who runs off.

Years later, the boy and his friends have nothing to do while on break from school, but Big Ed calls to ask his son for a favor; apparently his beach condo needs cleaning out and Ed Jr. is just the man for the job. So Ed takes his pals off to the house. When they get there, Ed's dad is nowhere to be found. Neither is his battle axe.

Uh-oh.


Tropes used in The Mutilator include:


  • Sweater Girl: Pam and Sue.
  • Tentative Light: At the pool.
  • This Is Gonna Suck: "I've got a bad feeling about this..."
  • Traumatic C-Section: Ed tells his friends about how his father once caught a shark and slit it open, causing a dozen or so baby sharks to come flopping out.
  • Trophy Room: Big Ed's is filled with animals, weapons, random stuff he's picked up, and pictures (including one of a swimmer he accidentally hit... the first sign of his instability).
  • Under Crank: Used when Ralph rushes out of the bedroom to look for Mike and Linda, after Pam promises him she has "something" to show him when he gets back.
  • Vader Breath
  • The Voiceless: Big Ed.
  • Weapon of Choice: An axe.
  • Why Are We Whispering?: "Why am I whispering? There's absolutely no one on this island but us."