Carnage

Written, photographed, and directed in 1983 as HELL HOUSE, by Staten Island's favorite low-budget exploitation king, Milligan, this haunted-house/gore film is so bad it never saw a theatrical release and went straight to video. Shot in Milligan's usual home-movie style, CARNAGE opens with a bride and groom bidding each other a passionate goodbye before he shoots her in the head and then commits suicide. Three years later another newlywed couple, Den Dooven and Chiodo, move into the first couple's house, which of course is haunted. Tedious, talky, and incredibly inept, CARNAGE is laughably amateurish. Most scenes appear to be lit by one--very bright--light source, w...