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    • Clayton Connelly is the smug, apparent leader of the Broderick family ranch, using his guile to lure transients and hitchhikers to the farm where they are summarily enslaved by the family. Threatening heinous torture to anyone who tries to escape the farm or break any of its ridiculous rules, Clayton sics the hulking Junior onto any who displease him to be tortured or worse. Clayton at one point even forces a prisoner to stand atop an unbalanced stool with a noose around his neck for an entire night. Revealed to have no care for the rest of his cohorts, Clayton intends to sell them all out to police to secure himself a cushy paycheck by a land baron who wants to buy the Broderick farm from Clayton.
    • Weldon Broderick, the patriarch of the Brodericks, seems doddering and simple-minded at first, but he's the real brains behind the Brodericks' slaving and serial-killing operation. Letting the audience know the kind of man he is by running over a hitchhiker for fun in one of his first scenes, Weldon pays off the local authorities to round up any potential transients for him—those who aren't already captured by Clayton—so he can subject them to backbreaking labor and frequent, hour-long torture sessions that inevitably result in death. Bodies end up cooked up into jerky and sold to oblivious customers, while transients who stay with the family for long enough are shattered into "foremen", maimed shells of themselves who only serve as slaves. Weldon torture-murders a man named Archie in one of the movie's most prolonged kills, and when he finds out Clayton is planning to betray him, Weldon murders him as well before skipping off to restart his operation anew.
    • Junior Broderick is the brutish muscle of the Broderick family, who carries out his role with egotistical sadism. Junior regularly uses a cattle prod to torture any slaves who don't do their duties, and goes even further in the torments when given the go-ahead by his superiors. A wicked rapist on top of everything else, Junior drags a transient off to have his way with at one point, and later chains a prisoner down before torturing and raping her for fun.

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