Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

bababear I'm in a good mood, so I gave this a 5. If this gotten into the hands of a strong screenwriter, that score would have doubled.We start with the standard teenagers in lovers' lane. Blood, guts, you've seen it all before.The setting is a small town in Illinois, population between 500 and 500,000. Since we never get a sense of the town, we don't get a sense of what binds the characters together. It seems that pretty well everyone knows everyone else.One of the victims was the brother of a Sheriff's Deputy. Charlie has Father Issues: dad was prouder of his younger son, now deceased, and Charlie feels that he's been a disappointment to his dad, Bill.A detective begins investigating the crime. The detective is a young woman who looks to be about 19 years old. we don't know what law enforcement agency she's affiliated with. She shows up with a badge and a partner, introducing herself as Detective Rodgers. That doesn't help.Eventually the script stumbles into William Inge territory. This is a Small Town with a Secret. Before he got married, Charlie's dad (now a widower) was involved with Mary Burns, a local tart (played in the third act by Scream Queen Linnea Quigley, now 52 years old). He got Mary pregnant. She had the baby and left town and hasn't been seen since. It turns out that Charlie is her son.OK. Bill shows up with a baby boy. Mom goes ahead and marries Bill, raises Charlie as her own, gives birth to another boy, nobody in town questions where the bonus son came from. Uh, I'm from a small town. Ain't gonna happen.But I digress. Bodies continue to pile up. Charlie is a suspect, but it can't be him. But there's such a shortage of other suspects that there's nobody else (the detective? the sheriff?) to suspect.Then the cardinal rule of mystery writing is broken. Yea, shattered. A very major character is clumsily introduced in the third act.We find that Mary Burns is out of the mental hospital, and she has a friend with her, B-movie veteran Robert Z'Dar (fondly remembered from MANIAC COP). Playing The Man (it's too much trouble to give a brand new character a name) he's been the killer all along.The plot is whipped into some semblance of order at the end. Charlie's dad and the sheriff are killed by The Man, Charlie is wounded, the detective is unconscious but manages to kill The Man first, and Mary wanders into the night just before the police get to the house.In a peculiar and very limp coda Charlie puts his dad's house up for sale, says goodbye to the detective, and drives away.These are not bad actors. They're actors working with substandard material. Performances are primarily at a level I'd call pretty good for community theater, but this isn't the stage at the American Legion hall.Film is a very unforgiving medium. Houses are houses. Cars are cars. Bars are bars. Motel rooms are motel rooms. This isn't an actor in ROMEO AND JULIET announcing "This is Verona," and our imaginations filling in the rest. Realistic settings call for realistic performances.These very same actors might have delivered compelling performances if the material had been shaped by stronger hands. But as is, this is a interesting Amateur Night that should have been much better.These are young actors. I wish them all the very best, and would urge them to do as much stage work as possible so as to have the experience of working with really strong material.Better luck next time, guys.THE ROCKVILLE SLAYER is definitely worth watching, but don't expect too much for it.

drhumblephd C R A P PURE CRAP COULD NOT BE WORSE WATCHING ELEPHANTS TAKE A CRAP FOR 3 HOURS WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE ENTERTAINING.this movie was a piece of trash. one star is generous (because IMDb requires you rate, minimum being one star). with virtually no redeeming qualities, the movie drones on and on and on...do not waste your time and watch this made-for-TV pile of crap; the acting sucked (everyone was terrible), and, as i heard from the grapevine, no one got paid. in fact several of the actors paid to be in the film for the sake of posterity and bragging rights.DO NOT WATCH THIS WASTE OF FILM

Scarecrow-88 Just plain rotten "thriller"{..well, that's what it's called anyway}about three teens supposedly murdered by an escaped convict. There was a fourth "victim" named Steve who knows more about the mysterious happenings that night than meets the eye. Also unearthed is the unfortunate secrets withheld from policeman Charlie. His mother was a looney played by cult-queen Linnea Quigley(..who must've REALLY needed the money)and he slowly begins to see bad memories of visiting the asylum for which his nutjob mother was being kept. Sheriff Duncan(Joe Estevez who needed to speak up a little louder so we, the viewer, might understand what the hell he was saying)and Charlie's dad(Bob Farster, whose acting is a farce)finally come right out and spill the beans about why he was never told about his real mom. Meanwhile, Det. Amy Rodgers(Nicole Bueher, who might need to keep her career options opened) can not shake the feeling that the case of nutzoid Jessica(Amy Brown)isn't as guilty as laid out in the perfect package as it seems that the one remaining survivor of that fateful night, Steve(Michael Kessler, who needs to try out those wonderful acting schools that have the ability to shine turds like this actor)might know more than he has spoken. On and on this deadened paced movie goes, but I left my enthusiasm to care around the opening credits..they moved like a turtle just as the film does. Nothing about this film is professional. I felt like some supposed filmmakers and their friends got the bright idea to make a movie. Perhaps they had friends in low, low places such a Robert Z'Dar and Quigley who both never get enough screen time to build strong enough characters. Quigley does bare her breasts momentarily and the film shows moments of blood, but even the crime scenes are uninspired. The shoddy script and limp acting, bad editing..all lead to one thing, a director who just doesn't know how to tell an interesting thriller or inspire a viewer to care.

collinzo Thought the film was OK. Z'Dar as always makes a silk purse out of a sows ear. If he wasn't in this flick I'd have given it maybe an 8/10. The amount of films this man has rescued is staggering. He was great as ass-face in Tyrone, a bad film lifted by him Even when his coasting like in Guns of El Chupacabra he lifts the film. incidentally his name in that, Z-Man Lord Invader is one of the all time great cinema monikers. I don't want to sound like I like everything that Z'Dar has been in. Frogtown 2 was nowhere near as good the original, he was partly to blame for this sadly. I also have too say his big break, sadly headlining a well respected horror franchise doesn't seem top count, but thats another issue. His big break in the brat pack mafia Mobsters. Well the film was such a stinker that all those involved suffered some career damage, sadly as the lowly goon Robert was bound to suffer more than most. Real shame.