''Las Vegas Bloodbath'' is a 1989 American

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written and directed by David M. Schwartz.

Plot

After a successful business deal in

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, Sam Butler returns to his

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home, and stumbles onto his pregnant wife, Ruth, in bed with a sheriff's deputy. Whipped into a homicidal rage, Sam grabs the deputy's discarded gun, and uses it to shoot him and Ruth. After cutting Ruth's head off, Sam leaves the house with it, and picks up a prostitute named Tina. Taking Tina to the back of a motel, Sam ties her up and stabs her in the jaw, then rips one of her legs off by tying it to the back of his car. Sam proceeds to shoot a bartender in the head, and follow a car advertising the Beautiful Lady Oil Wrestlers to an apartment complex, where he uses a shovel to crush the head of a gardener. Inside the apartment, the oil wrestlers are holding a

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for one of their members, Barbara, who is the first to be killed when Sam breaks in, having her unborn child cut out after Sam unsuccessfully attempts to rape her. Sam goes on to murder the other five wrestlers (as well as a man who tries to come to their aid) with various weapons, including a knife, a drill, a hammer, a gun, and his bare hands, topping the massacre off by beheading a visiting

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. Hours later, a police officer arrives, and finds Sam bathing in blood and body parts. Sam shoots the officer, and glares at the camera as the song "Las Vegas Blood Bath" plays.

Cast

* Ari Levin as Sam Butler * Rebecca Gandara as Wet & Wild Wendy * Barbara Bell as Barbara * Susanne Cidio as Suzanne * Tiffany Heisler as Tiffany * Leah Luchette as Bambi * Jennifer Quinn as Cherry Blossom * Elizabeth Anderson as Ruth Butler * Tina Prunty as Tina

Reception

Horror News had a lukewarm response to the film, writing, "''Las Vegas Bloodbath'' is one part S.O.V. and two parts P.O.S., with a handful of decent special effects and a surprisingly interesting ending thrown in for good measure" before concluding, "If this movie had been cut in half and made as a shot-on-video short, with all the filler scenes cut out and more time spent on the actors getting their lines down, I think we'd all be singing a different tune. The gore was there, as was the all-important desire and excitement to make a genre film. Unfortunately, as it stands, ''Las Vegas Bloodbath'' is a missed opportunity that feels like it goes on way too long". In a review written for

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, Evan Wade awarded the film a score of -40 out of -50, and wrote, "It saddens me to say that the rest of ''Las Vegas Blood Bath'' fails to live up to the makeshift

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scene. It's like crawling through a hallway covered in

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s, nailing a

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halfway through, and then realizing the remainder of the path is covered in dirty diapers and rusty

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". Retro Slashers called ''Las Vegas Bloodbath'' an "endurance test for even the most seasoned gorehounds" that was nevertheless still somewhat watchable "shlock" due to its audaciousness.

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* {{IMDb title, 0240670, Las Vegas Bloodbath 1989 independent films 1989 direct-to-video films 1989 films 1989 horror films 1980s American films 1980s English-language films 1980s slasher films Adultery in films American direct-to-video films American exploitation films American films about revenge American independent films American pregnancy films American slasher films American splatter films Camcorder films Crimes against sex workers in fiction Direct-to-video horror films English-language independent films Films about mass murder Films about misogyny Films about prostitution in the United States Films set in 1989 Films set in California Films set in the Las Vegas Valley Films shot in the Las Vegas Valley Home invasions in film Sport wrestling films Uxoricide in fiction

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