April 28: Nightmare USA — Celebrate Stephen Thrower’s book by picking a movie from it. Here’s all of them in a list.

Directed and written by Nathan Schiff when he was just 16 — following it with The Long Island Cannibal Massacre and They Don’t Cut the Grass Anymore — this is the best home movie you’ve ever seen, if the home movie had giant weasels in it.

What is it with those trips to space? This time, instead of a Jupiter probe, an errant NASA spacecraft on the way back from Venus transforms a rabid weasel into a giant that lives to kill.

Named for a Mothers of Invention album, this goes even further, as Dr. Sendam uses the weasel to kill his enemies while studying its regenerative blood. Also: Everyone has a mustache.

Also also: weasel men are made, I Drink Your Blood style, by injecting people with tainted rabies blood.

$400, high schoolers, making it their way with puppets and model kits. What else could you need? This moves fast, is pretty dumb in the best of ways and has giant weasels eating human beings and an ending that had to be stolen from My Brother Has Bad Dreams with a shark that came out of a garbage can.

You can watch this on YouTube.