History Film / ButcherBakerNightmareMaker

Billy Lynch is a young man raised by his aunt. He's about to turn eighteen, and is preparing to go away for school. However, his aunt has developed a possessive obsession with the boy that soon explodes into violence. With bodies piling up, Billy is being blamed for the madness, particularly by a homophobic detective who's undergoing SanitySlippage himself.

* NoBisexuals: It's possible that Phil Brody was bisexual, since he was married to a woman before his romance with Landers. Of course, this doesn't matter to Det. Carlson (and the police department) since he's wildly homophobic.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Both of the film's antagonists are homophobes, with secondary antagonist Det. Carlson being an active HeteronormativeCrusader and BigBad Aunt Cheryl mentioning that she views gay people as being very sick.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Coach Landers. He's shown to be a great coach that Billy looks up to, and the one person that [[spoiler: Billy calls after he murders Cheryl in self-defense]]. Unfortunately, he's unfairly targeted by Det. Carlson because of his homosexuality and relationship with Phil Brody, resulting in his resignation from the high school.

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: [[spoiler: It is mentioned that Billy was put on trial for his killing of Det. Carlson, though was acquitted on grounds of temporary insanity. He then goes to the University of Denver with his girlfriend Julie.]]

'''''Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker''''' is a 1982 American SlasherMovie.

* AllGaysArePedophiles: Det. Carlson invokes this after Coach Landers comes to his office to tell him about Phil Brody’s past, underscoring Carlson’s homophobia towards Landers.

* BuryYourGays: Phil Brody’s death starts off the plot, though he isn’t revealed to be gay until after his death. [[spoiler: Subverted with Coach Landers, who survives the film.]]

* DistantPrologue: The first scene takes place in 1967, detailing the death of Billy’s parents and how Billy came into the custody of Cheryl. The rest of the film takes place in 1981.

* EveryCarIsAPinto: The car belonging to Billy’s parents explodes after driving off a ravine into a river.

* FanDisservice: Cheryl is very attractive, and bears her breasts in one scene, but it's when she's stabbing a guy to death.

** Det. Carlson, who is homophobic and racist and targets Billy and Coach Landers as potential suspects in the murder of Phil Brody and, much later, [[spoiler: Cheryl Roberts]] because of his homophobia and not on any hard evidence. [[PoliceAreUseless Not to mention he dismisses other (much more valid) theories proposed by Sgt. Cook, simply because they don’t fit into his version of events.]] [[spoiler: Is it that big of a surprise that when Carlson tries to kill him and Coach Landers, that Billy kills the man in self-defense?]]

* NoBisexuals: It’s possible that Phil Brody was bisexual, since he was married to a woman before his romance with Landers. Of course, this doesn’t matter to Det. Carlson (and the police department) since he’s wildly homophobic.
* NosyNeighbor: Margie. [[spoiler: She gets killed after overhearing that Cheryl admitting to being Billy’s mother and being involved in the murders of her ex-lover and (implicitly) her sister and brother-in-law.]]

* PoliceAreUseless: Det. Carlson plays this damn straight for reasons listed in other trope examples on this page. On the flip side, there’s Sgt. Cook who seems to be the only officer on the case of Phil Brody’s murder to try to actively piece together what happened instead of basing his conclusions on solely homophobic premises, discovering interesting tidbits about Cheryl’s life in the process that might imply her guilt in the murder. [[spoiler: Both die at the end.]]

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Coach Landers. He’s shown to be a great coach that Billy looks up to, and the one person that [[spoiler: Billy calls after he murders Cheryl in self-defense]]. Unfortunately, he’s unfairly targeted by Det. Carlson because of his homosexuality and relationship with Phil Brody, resulting in his resignation from the high school.

* VehicularSabotage: [[spoiler: Cheryl tampered with the breaks of her sister and brother-in-law’s car, resulting in their deaths.]]

* AllGaysArePedophiles: Det. Carlson invokes this after Coach Landers comes to his office to tell him about Phil Brody’s past, implying to Landers that he thinks the latter molested a boy, underscoring Carlson’s homophobia towards Landers.

* VillainousIncest: [[spoiler:Cheryl declares that she's her son Billy's girlfriend after seemingly killing his real girlfriend.]]

* NosyNeighbor: Margie. [[spoiler: She gets killed after overhearing that Cheryl was actually Billy’s mother and her admission to the murder of her ex-lover and (implicitly) her sister and brother-in-law.]]

* PoliceAreUseless: Det. Carlson plays this damn straight for reasons listed in other trope examples on this page. On the flip side, there’s Sgt. Cook who seems to be the only officer on the case of Phil Brody’s murder to try to actively piece together what happens instead of basing his conclusions on solely homophobic premises, discovering interesting tidbits about Cheryl’s life in the process that might imply her guilt in the murder. [[spoiler: Both die at the end.]]

* AllGaysArePedophiles: Det. Carlson invokes this after Coach Landers comes to his office to tell him about Phil Brody’s past, implying to Landers that the latter molested a boy, underscoring Carlson’s homophobia towards Landers.

* WhereAreTheyNowEnding: [[spoiler: It is mentioned that Billy was put on trial for his killing of Det. Carlson, though was acquitted on grounds of temporary insanity. He then goes to the University of Denver with his girlfriend Julie.]]

** Det. Carlson, who is homophobic and racist and targets Billy and Coach Landers as potential suspects in the murder of Phil Brody and, much later, [[spoiler: Cheryl Roberts]] because of his homophobia. [[PoliceAreUseless Not to mention he dismisses other (much more valid) theories proposed by Sgt. Cook, simply because they don’t fit into his version of events.]] [[spoiler: Is it that big of a surprise that when Carlson tries to kill him and Coach Landers, that Billy kills the man in self-defense?]]

* PoliceAreUseless: Det. Carlson plays this damn straight for reasons listed in other trope examples on this page. On the flip side, there’s Sgt. Cook who seems to be the only officer on the case of Phil Brody’s murder to try to actively piece together what happens instead of basing his conclusions on solely homophobic premises, discovering interesting tidbits about Cheryl’s life in the process that might imply her guilt in the murder.

* RabidCop: Detective Carlson, the officer sent to investigate Cheryl's murders, brazenly ignores the Fifth Amendment right to remain silent and is [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain extremely homophobic]]. [[spoiler:At the end of the film, he's driven to murder.]]

* BiTheWay: Phil had a wife and later dates Coach Landis.

* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Billy lives with his aunt because his parents died in a car crash. The plot would never have happened without this event.