'Bullies' (1986) - Paul Lynch.

Criminally unsung British horror movie maverick Paul 'Prom Night' Lynch's super intense backwoods nightmare is not only blessed with another righteously slick Paul Zaza soundtrack and the deliciously luminous presence of Olivia D'Abo but is an usually bleak and mean-spirited red neck head-wrecker about the suburbanite Morris family moving to an altogether isolated ski-resort town and instead of enjoying the much hoped for respite from the withering stresses of the big bad city they unpleasantly discover that life in the country can present a uniquely unsettling array of threats all of its own!

Very soon all the members of the Morris family experience a series of increasingly violent confrontations with wealthy, profoundly inhospitable landowners The Cullens, a despotic clan of vicious thugs who run the town like it was their own personal fiefdom. The able director does a bravura job of raising the volatility of his bellicose 'Bullies' to a feverish pitch of white-hot intensity, delivering a truly exhilarating and breathlessly satisfying, highly combustible conclusion!

While the formulaic thriller is far from unpredictable, there is an undeniable primal viscerality to Lynch's laudably pacey, high-tension filmmaking which maintains rigorous interest throughout, cannily replacing narrative originality with unleavened emotional force. It must be added that preternaturally perky youngsters Jonathan Crombie and Olivia D'Abo truly make a delightful pair of greatly embattled lovers. 

A rousing B-Movie from video's golden age! Time for a remastered Blu-ray Please!!!!