In 1984, writer and director Buddy Cooper made the slasher film Fall Break. Eventually rebranded as The Mutilator, the movie is a criminally underseen blindspot for many horror fans. The story follows a group of college students who are dispatched one by one at their holiday cabin during school break. Released in 1984, The Mutilator got lost in waves of the other thousand slasher films that were being made. Buddy Cooper however, never forgot about the project, and now forty years later, he returns to the directing chair for Mutilator 2.
Many years after its initial 1984 release, the slasher classic – The Mutilator – is being remade. A wrap party has been scheduled for the night following the final day of shooting. Cast members of the original film have been invited, and everyone is excited. Unfortunately, they are besieged by an unknown killer who favours the use of the same, or similarly-flavoured, nautical implements of death as used by Big Ed, the original grief-crazed Mutilator maniac. Let the gore and glee begin with a vengeance.
Mutilator 2 received its international premiere at this year’s 25th anniversary edition of Pigeon Shrine FrightFest. The festival was the perfect host for the screening, with the film being a hot ticket for attendees that had grown up with Buddy Cooper’s original movie. Rightly playing in the late night slot, ahead of Mutilator 2’s screening THN were able to speak with Buddy Cooper, along with Mutilator 2 actor Carl J Grasso. We spoke about first experiences with The Mutilator, returning to the source material after a forty year hiatus, and exactly how Jen and Sylvia Soska were involved with the production. Watch the full media wall video now.
Mutilator 2 screened at Pigeon Shrine FrightFest.
