Dynamixor
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Bob
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Aspen Orson
There is definitely an excellent idea hidden in the background of the film. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find it.
Michael Ledo
The film takes place in Broomfield, Michigan 1984 (filmed in Canada, okay.). GO LANCERS! Four teen couples take off for a nearby cabin, but run out of gas along the way, making their way to the minor subplot home of the proverbial feral slasher cannibal. The opening of the film attempts to do an old grindhouse film by having film marks ingrained in it, something that didn't work really great in "Planet Terror." However, instead of doing the entire feature this way, they just do the opening scene, while the rest of the film is in crisp digital, except for one critical scene where they pull the "scene missing" film burning nonsense. The movie uses stuff from the 80's such as a Rubik's Cube, mix cassette tape, LPs decorating the wall, T-shirts, magazines, clothes with studs, pot that requires a few joints to get high, and a picture of Reagan. Robert Patrick plays a politically incorrect principal. Perhaps he was another 80's throwback.The film had the token Black Guy (Stephan James) and virgin (Kendra Leigh Timmins) so we know who dies first and who survives...right? After they discover the slasher, the plan is to wait it out in his house until morning rather than to run away in different directions. Otherwise the film would be too short. It does contain some humor, but only when you consider it as a spoof of 80's slashers.Guide; F-bomb. Implied oral sex. No nudity.
ezra-52172
****THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS****Were do I begin? I'll start with the plot.A bunch of high school kids ditch the school dance to steal a bus and drive to a cabin for weekend of fun and drinking. The cabin is owned by one of the characters who is ridding in the bus. The bus breaks down, or does it run out of gas? This movie is so bad it doesn't matter.This ordinary slasher movie has some really dumb characters in it. Question. If Jeffrey Dahmer were alive today, and you knew he was a serial killer, and you where he lived, would you go to his residence? I hope the answer is no. Logic would dictate that you don't!These characters kept going back to the place where a cannibalistic, homicidal killer was residing and doing all the killing. Basically saying, "here I am, come and kill me please." Also, there was little to no effort put in to try and fight the killer. Even with crude weapons at their disposal. I've heard of strength in numbers, but not rank stupidity in numbers.My gosh. That's an hour and some change I'll never get back. Do yourself a favor. Stay away from this stinker!
ashjame-92510
I've got to say, as someone who grew up in the 80's watching almost every horror movie that came out (BIIIG thank you to sharing a room with my sister, who was 7 years older...) when I saw that they were calling this an homage to those movies I was very leery. One hour in I decided to, after years of using IMDb, make an account just to review the movie!! From the cheesy cliché characters to the cliché plot line.. Totally brought me back to those awful movies my sister would force me to watch growing up. The only thing I didn't really like was the overly played 'Nam vet (yes, also an awesome cliché!!!) Mr.C played by the sadly underused Robert Patrick! All in all, actually not to bad of a movie
HorrorOverEverything
I love 80's slasher movies, so the trailer for this this flick really caught my eye. I loved the idea of making a homage to 80's slashers without being a full blown spoof.So once we are introduced to all our characters things start to move at a snails pace, the film creates some chemistry between a few of the characters but then completely ditches that in an effort to surprise us with the kill order. I like that they decided first kill off the characters that you would expect to make it to the end, but they kill everyone off pretty rapidly the kill order really doesn't matter.That's the main thing I disliked about this, things really don't get going until the last 20 minutes and when they finally do it all just happens so fast, characters are killed off left and right and not really in any interesting or cool ways. It's like they focused way too much on trying to make this feel 80's but then remembered at the last minute that this is suppose to be a slasher movie.I think most people will dislike this movie, there isn't really a whole lot to like. But I love slashers and I love 80's slashers even more so I enjoyed this a bit, still not a very good movie though.4/10
