Murder Loves Killers Too

Does this movie work?
What starts out as a typical slasher where 5 teens head into the woods for a weekend getaway, turns VERY quickly into a nightmare. So quick does this nightmare ensue, that the music doesn't even have time to change tempo and for the most part is either inappropriate or ironic at best.

Before you figure out what is going on, we are already down to one victim left who is soon chased. She is our heroine of the story. We don't know this at the get-go because not one moment has been spent on getting to know anyone.

The ending is a bizarre twist of things which I wont reveal here, but certainly makes you shake your head and wonder what has really happened.

I did not like the film. Although I give it props for maybe changing up the patterns a little, in the end, I dont think it works. There is no set up, no character development, no location to identify, and no motivation or morality to adhere. There is nothing from a narrative point of view that adds up to...

45 minutes of tedium and then a halfway decent twist
Stop me if you've heard this one before. A group of buddies head for a cabin in the woods, their car breaks down and now a killer is picking them off one by one.

I was ready to turn this off when I realized we were down to the last girl and still had a half hour to go. There'd been no thrills, a bit of gore, a bit of nudity but really nothing to write home about.

But then, with about 30 minutes to go the movie abandoned the formula. The killer "Big Stevie" breaks character and starts chatting, and things get weird.

It's not enough to redeem this by the numbers slasher flick, but at least it's something.

TURGID TRIPE THAT`S TERRIBLE TRASH...
This movie sucked on all possible levels- (SPOILERS) - the plot revolves around 5 despicable twenty-something's who go to a great mountain resort, see a car in the driveway (yet no one is concerned), 4 of the 5 are killed within the first 20 minutes by a guy who looks like he came to fix the plumbing and doesn't utter a word or show an expression on his face the entire movie, then plays cat and mouse games with a girl who couldn't look mousier.

He captures her, but of course she escapes- after all, she's about 90 lbs. to his 240 lbs., so it's a no-brainer. He gets her again, knocks her out, throws her in his car trunk (the one no one was concerned about earlier), drives home to his pathetic life, cheating wife and nerdy daughter, goes to bed, gets up the following morning, has breakfast and heads off to work, and for some reason decides to open his trunk, and viola! The titmouse kills him in his driveway - the end.

I can't begin to tell you how tired I am of...

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