Have a Nice Weekend

NR 3.9
1975 1 hr 22 min Horror

A group of family and friends assembling at a small New England island home for a weekend gathering at the behest of a war veteran. After their arrival, several members of the group are systematically picked off by an unknown psychopath.

  • Cast:
    Michael Miller , Patricia Joyce

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Reviews

Ploydsge
1975/01/01

just watch it!

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Reptileenbu
1975/01/02

Did you people see the same film I saw?

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Gurlyndrobb
1975/01/03

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

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Marva-nova
1975/01/04

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

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acidburn-10
1975/01/05

I came across this quite recently and to be honest I have never heard of this movie before, I read the tagline - a group of family and friends spend the weekend at a beach house and start to get picked off one by one. Sounded interesting but when I saw it I was sorely disappointed, for a start the body count is way too low, 3 people die.There's not a lot to recommend this film, unfortunately. I only watched it a couple of hours ago and I'm already having trouble remembering it (although the intrusive, mock-classical soundtrack gave me a headache)! Some unintentional humorous touches lifted this tedious affair, with the household walking round the house eyeing each other nervously, especially in daftly convoluted scenes where various characters happen to be holding a cut throat razor (a woman, no less!), and someone manages to get blood all over their hands after cutting themselves whilst chopping a grapefruit and endless sandwich making, I honestly don't know what this movie was going for or set out to do, but whatever it was, it fails.So all in all this moving well and truly deserves to be forgotten and buried and never to be heard from again.

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HumanoidOfFlesh
1975/01/06

"Have a Nice Weekend" is thoroughly dull mystery with elements of proto-slasher movie.Chris comes back from Vietnam war.After greeting him his family organizes a reunion at their remote island summerhouse.Then the murders take place.All three of them.One victim is stabbed to death with a butcher's knife,another is bludgeoned to death with a hoe,the third one is killed off-screen.The blood is kept to minimum and the action moves at the snail's pace.The script is full of repetitive dialogue and it bored me senseless.The killer is eventually revealed,but I didn't completely care."Have a Nice Weekend" is deservedly obscure.It was released in UK on VHS long time ago.4 out of 10.Recommended only for slasher completists.

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Tikkin
1975/01/07

Have a Nice Weekend reminded me of another dull slasher flick called Home Sweet Home, because they both have one thing in common - they're extremely boring. I disagree with the other comment, as this film is not really that 'obscure' - I've seen it floating around on ebay many times.The film itself is more of a mystery rather than a slasher film, as you have to guess who the killer is. To be fair, there were two 'ok' death scenes, they weren't gory, but made me laugh because they were so cheesy. The rest of the film is just endless talking inside a house. I ended up fast-forwarding through a lot of scenes because I just couldn't stand to waste any more of my life on such a dull film.This is a slasher flick to be avoided, no doubt about it, unless you're a masochist or need help getting to sleep.

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EyeAskance
1975/01/08

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND is one of those very independent American movies that might have been released to a theater in Arkansas for three days before burrowing itself into the ground, only to be exhumed years later by a rinky-dink video distributor. Once you manage to obtain a copy of this obscure film, however, you'll have no trouble understanding why it has been banished to the netherworld of forgotten cinema...it's because it sucks.Oh, yes, friends...this flick sucks HARD.Although it's pitched as a horror/slasher story, this is actually more along the lines of an underdeveloped Agatha Christie-style mystery. A group of nondescript characters are brought together on a small private island. Murders take place, characters side-glance each other suspiciously, and...does this sound familiar? Not only is the film working with stale trappings, it doesn't even deliver a substantial quantity of bloodshed...this is a tame, timid, unfurnished wipe-out, devoid of estimable qualities besides having a nice-sounding music score. The flatly written characters are played with understandable disinterest, and the film dog-paddles along toward an anti-climatic dud of a resolve.This will be of minor interest only to the most sworn archaeologists of proto-slasher cinema...anyone else might not have such a nice weekend.3/10

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