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Fireworks explode amongst a group of sexy high school graduates, stoked for a weekend of partying at a remote campground. With alcohol flowing and hormones raging, the future has never looked brighter. Bus behind them a deadly past follows hot on their heels. Four years ago, an entire family was killed in a terrible fire and now someone out there carries a grudge...and an axe. As darkness falls, a murderer begins hacking away at a grisly secret that binds the friends together. Blood soaked and guilt-ridden, the surviving parties better fight for their lives or they're all going down in flames.
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Review by Chad
Added: July 12, 2005
Stop me if you've heard this one before. Eight teenagers decide to go camping in order to celebrate their high-school graduation. We've got all of the slasher film requirements in this group: Seth (Kevin Robson), the loser virgin who tries much too hard to score with the ladies, Yvonne (Erica Cerra), the snobby brunette, Matt (Brody Harms), the wise-cracking jock, the pretty girl Evelyn (Barbara Kottmeier), leading man Adam (Sean Arnfinson), and finally, Adam's girlfriend Yvette (Lynsey Brothers). (There's also another couple whose names I missed). So then, this group heads out to a remote campground in order to drink some beer and have a little premarital sex. They stop at a bar in order to get directions, where they hear that there is a mass murderer roaming these woods. The sheriff, who happens to be in this bar shooting some pool, quickly shushes the woman (his wife) who is telling these tales and sends the kids off on their way. Cue up a few Dawson's Creek'esque "happy teens" moments in which we watch them run around, goof off, and swim in the lake for a bit. Upon returning from the lake, they find one member of the group is dead. To make a long story short: the cars are dead, their cell-phones don't work, they're in the middle of nowhere, and there's a murderer stalking them.
I love cheesy slasher films. It's an insanely easy formula, a formula which is quite difficult to fuck up. You can throw a bunch of half-naked, no-talent actresses in a house, have a man in a mask stalk them with a butcher knife, and it'd probably get a good review from yours truly. Storylines, acting abilities, a rational explanation? Pffft... not in those cheesy slasher films that I love so much. So what I'm wondering is, how in the hell could director Andrew Van Slee completely fuck this formula up?
The main problem here is the script. Yes, I did say up above that a good storyline is not a requirement for a good slasher film, but this is just beyond awful. I consider myself a pretty smart guy... I can watch just about any of those complex foreign films and see what the director was going for with the storylines and such, and I've never had much of a problem "getting" a movie. This one just completely blew my mind with the plot-holes, the impossible and unexplained revelations, and that incessant valley-girl / skater-boi speak.
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So you want some examples of these impossible and unexplained revelations, eh? How about this for starters: the remaining members of the group decide to split up, with two members going to the state troopers office to the north while another two head back to the bar which is eight miles south. Upon arriving at the bar, those two people find the serial killer waiting for them. Cutting over to the other group, we find that they've come across the serial killer as well. Given that the bar group has traveled eight miles south, how in the world could the killer also be (roughly) eight miles to the north at the same time? For those curious, there's only one killer in the movie... I think. I say that "I think" because we plainly see a guy in a mask murder two people, but at the end, he's revealed to be a hero. Was he a serial killer? Who in the hell knows. The final twist that completely blows my mind is Adam's history. He's tormented by the fact that he accidentally murdered a family by throwing a roman candle into their house (yes, he seriously claims that this was an accident). Then, the murderer (which is not Adam) reveals that they were the one who threw the candle and that they threw it in order to get revenge on the family. So is Adam psycho? Who in the hell knows.
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This movie honestly has nothing going on for it. I watch slasher films to see some mindless T&A with some decent gore effects, and I watch horror films for a good storyline. This movie has about three seconds of nudity, ten seconds of god-awful gore, and the storyline is complete and utter trash. With the exception of caretaker Clint (Jeffrey Fisher), each of the actors and actresses involved should never be allowed in front of a camera again. The soundtrack sounds like something out of a romantic-comedy, the audio levels are all screwed up, and whoever was holding the camera couldn't get a decent shot if their life depended on it. Watching this movie from beginning to end was just a little more painful than shoving a rusty nail down my urethra.
The only thing good about this movie is the cover art on the Velocity Home Entertainment release. Other than that, I couldn't find a single positive thing to say about this movie. Avoid. 0/10.
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