Afouotos
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Lela
The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
Michael Ledo
During a horror-fest convention in Louisiana, a number of participants pay for their RV spot by scaring the residents of the park. However, things backfire as they are the ones getting scared and killed.The film is done in a grindhouse fashion. It uses 4 real horror film stars and supplements them with some fake ones. Michael Berryman played himself, but was not one of the four. Chunks (Rachel Alana Handler) is a woman who really lost her leg. Smothered was the preferred way to die as the M.O. of Dee Dee (Brea Grant) who had a huge fake chest attached to her torso...no those weren't hers. Kane Hodder, R.A. Mihailoff, Malcolm Danare, and Don Shanks played themselves. Bill Moseley, who has been in enough horror films to have played himself, did not, but rather played the part reserved for Robert Englund.The film had promise, but didn't deliver. It needed a metal soundtrack for one thing. The humor didn't work too well in this comedy/slasher.Guide: F-word. Sex. Fake nudity.
Philippe Breton
Horror that is, indeed, not in the way you might expect. Comical, not one bit, except if you are rotten inside or in a drug induce haze. I stop watching 46 minutes in, 24 of which where I try to justify the existence of such a piece. So tedious, badly done and overwhelmingly boring that I ended up laughing, laughing at the poor Scared Movie fan who paid $3.99 to buy it out of the leftover bin at the flee market delighted at the idea of such an epic actors reunion. John Schneider should have taken is buddies on a all you can eat buffet trip and spare us this garbage self indulgence. Editing with is non-linear story telling, post-production with is distasteful choice of music are serious contestants for a Golden Raspberry. 3.4 out of 10
A_Different_Drummer
A hard film to review, overall.First, as I have mentioned before in a few of my 1100+ reviews, most film-makers secretly yearn for the "trifecta" of movie making -- which is low budget, small cast, single location. Since film (like everything else in our society, and I mean LITERALLY everything) is a business, even a moderate audience for such a low-budget film means profits, which means you are a hot ticket, which means you get new money for more product. Which means you have a new career.So in this light Schneider (and I am a fan of his TV work) did the smart thing all the way. He not only went after the Holy Grail of film making (as above) but did so with a sharp concept (name horror stars hoisted on their own petard) with many of the cast playing against type. Clever. Very clever.So what went wrong? Not much really. The problem is that, with such careful and meticulous preparation, this film can never aspire to be more than it was originally designed to be.In other words, you have (perhaps) an instant "cult" film, designed to appeal to a youngish demographic that "gets" films that deconstruct themselves, and are looking to fill some two hours with harmless and forgettable fun.On the other hand, this is not a true horror film (like Conjuring) not a true comedy (like the films Leslie Mann appears in) and is at best a super-lite version of the "ensemble films" that the late Robert Altman was known for.Not bad for a first effort. But you are not going to see it mentioned at the Oscars.
Albert Muick
I had the great pleasure of watching the premier last night at the Scare-a-Con at the Turning Stone Casino in New York.The film was an absolute hoot, and had the audience laughing and gasping at the same time. The horror icons (too many to list - see the cast list) did their jobs admirably and with perfect execution. The camera work and post-production work was very well done. My only concern was the non-linear time line jumps, but as John Schneider pointed out in the subsequent Q&A session, it keeps one focused on the film, but in the same breath he assured us that a completely linear version will be on the DVD when it is released.In short, I'm probably going straight to Hell for laughing at a lot of this stuff, but I guess I'll see you all there. You'll know me, I'll be the guy in the trench coat black-marketing ice cubes!RR
