Home Sweet Home (1981 film)

Home Sweet Home
Original poster
Directed by	Nettie Peña
Screenplay by	Thomas Bush
Story by	Thomas Bush
Produced by	Don Edmonds
Starring	Jake Steinfeld Vinessa Shaw Peter De Paula
Cinematography	Don Stern
Edited by	Nettie Peña
Music by	Richard Tufo
Production companies	Movies Anonymous Partnership Intercontinental Releasing Corporation
Distributed by	Intercontinental Releasing Corporation
Release date	1981 (1981) (United States)
Running time	83 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Home Sweet Home (also known as Slasher in the House) is a 1981 American slasher film directed by Nettie Peña, and written by Thomas Bush. It stars Jake Steinfeld, Peter De Paula, and Vinessa Shaw in her film debut, and the plot focuses on a PCP-addicted killer who terrorizes a family in their remote home on Thanksgiving. Along with Blood Rage and the faux Thanksgiving trailer from Grindhouse which would later be fully adapted as Thanksgiving, it is one of the few slasher films centered on the Thanksgiving holiday, and one of the few to be directed by a woman.^[1]

While not prosecuted for obscenity, the film was seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty panic.^{[citation needed]}