a walk on the property, and discover Jay's body hanging in the barn. Horrified, they rush back to the house. Meanwhile, an inebriated Shirley puts on a tango record and performs a striptease for Nicky. The two playfully dance together on the house's second floor, and apply makeup to each other's faces. The killer attacks Nicky upstairs, stabbing him through the head with a large sewing needle. Shirley is chased into the basement, where the killer ties her to a table saw and attempts to kill her with it, but cannot get power to the tool. Robert and Marie reach the house, and are confronted by the killer. Robert discovers Nicky's body upstairs, and is thrown to his death out of the second story window. The killer then returns to the ground floor, where he reveals himself to be Greg. He tells Marie that he plans on taking her out into the lake and committing a murder-suicide. The next morning, Mac arrives at the house, and finds it empty. As he goes to investigate the basement, he turns on a light switch which activates the table saw, inadvertently killing Shirley, who has been tied to the table all night. Mac flees the house, where he encounters Greg attempting to bring Marie to the lake to kill her. Greg and Mac begin fighting and tackle one another to the ground. Otis arrives upon the scene, and kills Greg with a chainsaw. Cast Production Screenplay Savage Weekend was written and directed by David Paulsen, in his directorial debut. The project originated after an investor who had agreed to fund a different film for Paulsen retracted the majority of the money he had promised, instead allotting $20,000. With such a small budget in mind, Paulsen wrote an original screenplay for a horror film that could be made with few resources. The screenplay was completed while Paulsen was staying in East Hampton, New York over a period of two weeks. Paulsen stated that he fashioned the script around a variety of bizarre and extravagant murder sequences. Filming Savage Weekend was shot in the Hudson River Valley on a remote lake location over a period of around three weeks. In addition to the initial $20,000 invested in the project, Paulsen was able to accrue an additional $38,000, resulting in a final budget of $58,000. Paulsen described the shoot as "hellish," and filming of exterior sequences