Years ago, Odessa (Dave Larsen) and Kyle James (David Gunn) killed their parents and became media darlings. But when they escape death row and break into the Ryan family’s home, they have no idea what they’re in for.

Sure, dad Charles (Burke Morgan) is weird and we expect him to be be a horrible person, but mother Rea (Damian Hoffer) is a murderous sex worker and daughters Jami (Nanette Bianchi) and Jenny (Renee Cohen) also have even more secrets. They may even be quite attracted to the James brothers.

And while we’re exploring hidden things, we must ask, what’s in the basement?

This is somehow Natural Born Killers mixed with a bit of The People Under the Stairs, but that gives away so many of the twists in this. Parts of it are clunky, the acting isn’t perfect and it seems like it wants to be edgelord Tarantino — do you remember the post-Reservoir Dogs 90s? — but that gives this a charm that won me over. There was once a time when movies like this were available at your video store and you’d wonder exactly what you were about to watch when you brought that blind rental home. I miss those opportunities and if you do as well, good news. Killers is easier to find now, thanks to its Synapse release. Unless you were in Germany reading this and then, you probably already know all about it.

This Synapse release features audio commentary with director Mike Mendez and horror scholar Michael Gingold, trailers, liner notes booklet by critic/writer Heather Drain and an alternate ending. You can get it from MVD.