Famine
Director: Ryan Nicholson
2011
Horror
This is kind
of a slasher flick, but it’s not. It’s also kind of a splatter movie, but it’s
not. You might compare it to a rape/revenge fcli but there’s no rape. I guess
you could say it’s something right in between. The actors are quite bad, but
that’s to be expected. The story is ok I guess and the script does what it’s supposed
to do – except… There are sexual tensions throughout the entire movie, actresses
with huge tits and low angel camera shots but there´s not enough real sleaze! I
feel that we get fooled out of our rightful share of skin and compared to what Ryan did in Hanger and Gutterballs
this is a bit lame in that sense.
The gore
is nice though! It’s not overdone and it mostly looks realistic. I like when it’s
like that. When there are too much intestines the comic effect is more disturbing
than anything else. Here is just one scene (that I can remember) where guts are
spilled in that manner and even then it looks fine! The makeup effects are also
quite good and serve the movie well. Especially when we get to see the acid
burned teacher Balszak which might or
might not be behind the entire smorgasbord of killing in the movie. He’s definite
a suspect!
But it’s
not very important who’s exposed as the killer in the end. We should be more
interesting in the way there than the final solution of things. There are a few
entertaining murders on the way and that’s where the entertaining lies. The
killer is masked as the school’s mascot by the way, a very cool mask for the
murderer I would say!
And even
though the actors are really bad and we get fooled out of the nudity (there’s
only one short topless scene) I still like it. I don’t quiver with joy over it
but it’s good fun and cool murders!
6/10
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