A group of teens sneak out of their high school dance to cruise around and have some unsupervised fun.
When their car runs out of gas on a deserted road, they discover an old farmhouse and the cannibal killer living inside.....
With the 1996 horror gem Scream, Wes Craven reinvented the horror genre for a third time. Before that groundbreaking movie, the nineties horror market were stuffed with straight to video slasher movies that were trying to recapture the stalk and slash gold that graced the eighties blood splattered cinema screens.
But with genius, there were also a slew of copycat style horror films, and it doesn't take a genius to know that they weren't very good, especially ones that knew the urban legend you told last summer. Simply because they were missing the irony.
Just lately, the horror genre is beginning to wane again, and this movie doesn't do the genre any favours.
Trying to homage the eighties style slasher, it misses the point of those films many times during its excruciating running time. The gang of teens are your atypical pack of gender, jock, fat comedian, your token ethnic person, and of course,the girl who's character is fleshed out just that little more than the rest (usually the heroine).
And just as your guessing who will get killed first to try and soften the mundaity of this rubbish, the makers do something very daring, and make you take notice. But then, as expected,they lose their bottle and decide to play it safe......to play it boring.
Robert Patrick turns up looking hideously old, putting in his best impression of the bald bloke from Back To The Future, but he's hardly in it, even though he's the best thing.
So all in all, it's a real waste of an opportunity, in the right hands, it could have, should have kick started a new trend in slasher movies, but no, it just hammers another nail in its coffin.
In fear that now Craven has left us, and Carpenter has gone AWOL, the horror genre will be just found footage movies.
Which is a shame, because through my journey of trudging through such abhorrent rubbish like this, I do come across a few gems.
Not many though.
When their car runs out of gas on a deserted road, they discover an old farmhouse and the cannibal killer living inside.....
With the 1996 horror gem Scream, Wes Craven reinvented the horror genre for a third time. Before that groundbreaking movie, the nineties horror market were stuffed with straight to video slasher movies that were trying to recapture the stalk and slash gold that graced the eighties blood splattered cinema screens.
But with genius, there were also a slew of copycat style horror films, and it doesn't take a genius to know that they weren't very good, especially ones that knew the urban legend you told last summer. Simply because they were missing the irony.
Just lately, the horror genre is beginning to wane again, and this movie doesn't do the genre any favours.
Trying to homage the eighties style slasher, it misses the point of those films many times during its excruciating running time. The gang of teens are your atypical pack of gender, jock, fat comedian, your token ethnic person, and of course,the girl who's character is fleshed out just that little more than the rest (usually the heroine).
And just as your guessing who will get killed first to try and soften the mundaity of this rubbish, the makers do something very daring, and make you take notice. But then, as expected,they lose their bottle and decide to play it safe......to play it boring.
Robert Patrick turns up looking hideously old, putting in his best impression of the bald bloke from Back To The Future, but he's hardly in it, even though he's the best thing.
So all in all, it's a real waste of an opportunity, in the right hands, it could have, should have kick started a new trend in slasher movies, but no, it just hammers another nail in its coffin.
In fear that now Craven has left us, and Carpenter has gone AWOL, the horror genre will be just found footage movies.
Which is a shame, because through my journey of trudging through such abhorrent rubbish like this, I do come across a few gems.
Not many though.