Director: Ryan Stacy
Horror
I did
things a bit backwards when it came to this. I watched the sequel first and
then this one (don’t ask). It may not have been my smartest move ever but there
was a reason for it. And trust me; you don’t have to have seen the sequel to
appreciate this! It doesn’t have the best actors and actresses in the world. Actually
there is a majority of the latter. On the other hand it’s not unusual in a
slasher. It’s often the women that get killed first and a woman who survives
the trauma too! It doesn’t have the densest plot either but there’s something
to it that gets to me. It seems honest and it doesn’t promise you anything that
it can’t deliver.
It’s a
bit slow-paced and too talky for my tastes. But at the end of the day it still
delivers some great scenes. It may not be a traditional slasher with a killer
on rampage going on in most of the movie but it has a killer in a cool mask and
there’s some torture in the end too! I wouldn’t say that the killer’s motives
are shallow but in the end it seems to be pretty farfetched. It works I guess.
The
movie is about 75 minutes. That’s long enough to tell the story and long enough
to get bored with the low pace. When we put on a slasher to watch we want some
blood and we want it now. Come to think of it, there’s a lack of blood in this.
There’s enough terror to be sure but not very much of that red. Maybe it should
be considered more of a thriller since all “action” is concentrated to the end
sequence. This is often true for the slasher too of course. Just look at the
most famous ones, Friday the 13th
and Halloween. There’s suspense right
‘til the very end when all hell breaks loose.
I
realize that comparing this amateurish movie to Halloween or even Friday the
13th is to put it in little too big shoes. But the main
principle is the same. In the end everything falls to place even if it is, as I
said before, a little farfetched. On the other hand, the famous movies in the
genre aren’t exactly realistic either. You could say that this actually wins
that completion easy as it’s far more realistic than the famous slasher. Maybe
that’s what I like about it? It’s not gory and it’s not scary, but I’ll be
damned – it’s realistic!
6/10
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