The 1980s slasher craze saw the rise of independent horror filmmakers producing their own films on 16mm celluloid. One such movie was Scum Fair, a film about a traveling country carnival run by a murderous psychopath called “The Carnie,” who preyed on hapless attendees and sometimes used their corpses in his haunted house dark ride attractions. Scum Fair was directed by Matthew Berger and starred a cast of unknown actors. The film was purchased by Halfpenny Pictures for a modest amount of money and managed to break even at the box office, but no one in the cast or crew went on to make any other movies. A sequel was teased in the end credits, but never came to fruition.
