his own electric guitar and portable amplifier. Scott discovers Maria's body while collecting firewood, runs back to the ranch, and secures the building with Jennifer and Angel. Jay manages to break inside, and as he tries strangling Scott, Jennifer wounds him with a knife. Jay recovers, slits Scott's throat, and pursues Jennifer, who faints while hiding in Scott's room. In the morning, Jennifer awakens, and is assaulted by Jay when she ventures outside. A pair of police officers, alerted to the situation by Angel, pull up, and blast Jay with a shotgun. As one officer places Jennifer in his car with Angel, the other checks on Jay, who suddenly opens his eyes. Cast Jake Steinfeld as Jay Jones Vinessa Shaw as Angel Bradley Peter De Paula as "Mistake" Bradley Don Edmonds as Harold Bradley Charles Hoyes as Wayne David Mielke as Scott Leia Naron as Gail Lisa Rodríguez as Maria Colette Trygg as Jennifer Sallee Young as Linda J. Kelly as Officer Jim R. Fouts as Officer Tom Victor Paddock as First Victim Rochelle Constanten as Old Woman Anne Cribbs as Witness Reception Retro Slashers wrote, "The film has heart. Sure, it's a kind of mindless and confused heart, but the acting is decent and there's a real feeling that the filmmakers were shooting for something". A 1 out of a possible 5 was awarded by Hysteria Lives!, which opined that "Home Sweet Home is a truly terrible movie. It's bad to the very core; but if you are in just the right mood and you're an aficionado of cheese then you might get a few kicks out of this fetid stinker". Film Bizarro deemed the film an obnoxious mess that was filled with annoying and stupid characters, awful attempts at comedy, poorly done gore, and a complete lack of originality or successful horror. Critical Condition found that Home Sweet Home was "one cop-out after another" marred by poor lighting and an antagonist who "hams it up so badly, you half expect bacon to fly off the screen". Film historian Adam Rockoff wrote of the film: "For being so irredeemably terrible, Home Sweet Home has a strangely compelling pedigree... I've heard that star Steinfeld has no sense of humor about involvement with the film, which makes watching this travesty almost worthwhile." References Bibliography External links 1981 films 1981 independent films 1980s slasher films American slasher films 1981 horror films 1980s