This So-Bad-It's-Good Horror Slasher Cost Just $400 To Make

So-bad-it's-good films are a tricky proposition: if a movie is too bad it just becomes tiresome, while if it’s only a little bad it can be a “bad good” film. A true cult misfire tends to be self-serious to the point of parody, packed with hilariously poor dialogue, cheap effects and continuity errors, and yet earnest rather than knowingly bad.

Woodchipper Massacre fits that description, having been shot on a camcorder with a $400 budget. The film follows three siblings — Jon, Denice and Tom — left in the care of their aunt Tess, an aggressive religious extremist who disapproves of dating, staying up late, movies and music.

When Tom receives an Rambo Hunting Knife, a struggle with Tess ends with her being fatally stabbed. The kids decide to dismember her and feed the pieces into the wood chipper. Tess' son Kim later arrives; Denice and Tom trick him into taking the chipper, then turn it on and push him in, making him the second of only two people minced in the film.

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