It is October 30, 1977 and two couples are on a road trip for their book.  They soon run out of gas and have to go to a place called Captain Spaulding's Museum of Monsters and Madmen.  There they get gas and meet the crazy Captain Spaulding.  He takes them on a theme park ride, called the murder ride, where he tells them the story of Dr. Satan.  After the ride is over, they decide to try and find the tree where Dr. Satan was hung, so they get Captain Spaulding to write them a map to where it was.  Soon they pick up a hitchhiker since it's pouring down rain.  While they are driving her to her home, their car breaks down and they are forced to stay at her place for the night.  Little do they know that her family is planning a huge Halloween party, where these two couples are the guests of honor. The movie opens with us being introduced to Captain Spaulding and his co-worker.  Two robbers break in and pull a gun to Captain Spaulding and his co-worker's heads.  Captain Spaulding dares them to attack him and soon ends up killing both of the robbers.  ...

After more than two years of build up, delays, and hype we have finally been graced with this long awaited and assumed new classic of horror. Albeit by the powers of peer to peer file sharing we have finally got to see the movie I once described as my hope film. Hope that it would drag the horror genre out of the teen riddled MTV generation rut that it is currently in.  Did the movie live up to the hype?  More to the point, could any movie live up to the hype we put on it? So lets take a look at the plot shall we. Have you seen Texas Chainsaw Massacre? Yes, then you can pretty much skip this part you know the plot. If you haven’t then here we go. Car full of teens low on gas pull into pay a visit to Captain Spaulding, an eccentric and very over the top owner of a gas/fried chicken and murder ride store. After hearing about the ride the teens partake in this extravaganza which focuses mainly on local madman and killer Dr. Satan ( how original is that name yo ).  After seeing the story the teens decide they want ...