On a romantic vacation at a lakeside cabin in Texas, pretty city gal Helen Fraser flees into the forest after a lurking, unseen psycho slays her husband with an axe. Lost and panicked, she runs into Odie Pickett, the mean, moonshine-swilling father to a degenerate clan of hillbillies. She winds up trapped in Pickett’s isolated rural shack, cruelly violated and exposed to the family’s wretched life of white-trash poverty, abuse and perversion. Meanwhile, the maniacal killer stalks the woods, striking again and again.
