United States

• The Backwoods Massacre

A blood curdling bestseller from John Russo, co-author of "Night of the Living Dead." A mother, her three sons and daughter, discover a screaming girl caught in an animal trap. Convinced she's a demon, the mother orders her young son Luke to club her unconscious. Later, at Midnight, the girl is sacrificed at a black mass. Years later young Nancy Johnson decides to hitch-hike to her sister's house. She's picked up by Tom and Hank, who also give a lift to a black minister, Reverend Carrington and his daughter. The Carringtons are later savagely murdered. The next morning, two "policemen" arrive and brutally kill Tom and Hank. On seeing Nancy, they chase her to a house where she's imprisoned in a cage along with another woman, Gwen. The devil is at work again. The "policemen" return along with their brother and sister, intending to use the women's blood to purify the rotted corpse of their mother. Sharon, another captured woman is sacrificed in a bizarre and bloody ritual, followed the next Midnight by Gwen. In a chilling climax, a terrified Nancy prays for her soul, as the true horror descends upon her...