A group of young adults attempting to enjoy life in a North Carolina town—attending a carnival, socializing by a river, and visiting an unsettling cemetery—find their leisure time cut short by the arrival of a machete-wielding killer. "Death Screams" (1982), also known as “House of Death,” borrows elements from films like "Friday the 13th" (1980), "The Funhouse" (1981) and "Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things…

This inexpensive slasher film from the eighties doesn’t have much going for it; I'd estimate that sixty or seventy percent of the runtime felt like padding. There was an extended scene set at a county fair—the kind of thing Red Letter Media would describe as "shooting the radio." The characters failed to leave any lasting impression, though the final fifteen minutes did offer a somewhat amusing feel, but it wasn't su…