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No
sir, the knowledge that this movie is loose on the world is my
worst nightmare!
First off, let me begin by saying that I was fully prepared to
love this movie, based on the trailers I had seen on other Brain
Damage DVD’s, I was in no way expecting the movie to turn out
this bad.
Linda and Brad are both peeing at the beginning of Massacre;
suddenly I get the urge to do the same. That is, the inexplicable
urge to urinate all over this one, as I can’t seem to shake the
feeling that’s all it's gonna be good for. So Linda and Brad both
zip up and head off on a trail through the forest and exchange
some damn funny dialog about each other’s families, I don’t want
to spoil it, but let me say that the term “fuckwad” is used, and
that my friends, is pure independent cinema gold.
Soon Brad tells Linda not to come any further up the trail, because
you can tell by the pained look on Brad’s face that he’s come
upon something disturbing. Is it a giant bear turd? Could it be
a gut pile left by some inconsiderate hunters? Or maybe they’ve
happened upon a couple of inbred, forest-dwelling polesmokers
stopped for a nooner? Nope, you’ve probably guessed it by now,
it’s a dead body with a big freakin’ chef’s knife stuck in his
chest. Much to my chagrin, the 2 or 3 minutes of Linda and Brad
are about the only pieces of this movie (if I may call it that)
that don’t absolutely suck balls.
As is with plenty of horror these days, we are then whisked back
3 days prior to Linda and Brad’s grisly discovery. We find ourselves
cruising along in a minivan full of guys and gals (who I’m thinking
will be the flesh donors) obviously heading out for some kind
of camping trip or picnic. The blonde bimbo in the van is doing
a poor job making it look like she’s drinking a beer while asking
a bunch of asinine celebrity deathmatch type questions, all the
while bouncing back and forth to a supposed beat, but it looks
more like she has a really bad case of ADHD.
The next 6 minutes are completely wasted in some type of surreal
dream sequence scene where one of the girls wakes up in the van,
stopped sideways on the freeway, to find her co-passengers dead
on the freeway (with not a drop of blood on them by the way) and
the girl is carrying a hatchet that is covered in blood as well
as her arms and hands. She then stands there in the middle of
the road, staring into oblivion for at least another minute or
two while we wait for a strange bloody old man to pull up in another
minivan and pick her up. 6 minutes of my life wasted. That’s 6
minutes I could have spent watching my female beagle try to hump
my female Australian shepherd. 6 minutes that could have been
spent investigating the pus seeping from the scabs on my arm that
are leftover from my brush with the pavement a couple weeks ago.
Either way, it was 6 minutes that could have been better spent
doing ANYTHING other than watch that scene. Yes my friends a new
urge has surfaced, 16 minutes in and I’m checking the run time
to once again see how much longer I need to suppress the dire
need to end my life quickly.
As if that wasn’t enough, we have to endure another 2 minutes
of ADHD chick walking around topless with scenes switching between
her walking in some kind of junkyard, and another with her walking
down some train tracks, all while in the Jesus Christ pose and
while listening to the background noise of someone fucking around
with the tuning dial on a radio. We also quickly figure out that
the director fancies himself some kind of David Lynch wannabe.
Now just for the record, I really can’t fucking stand anything
that David Lynch has ever done, and he gets a budget to work with,
comprende? Any more of this, and I’ll be coroner fodder.
Nope, no rest for the weary, we then get treated to a catfight
that breaks out in the van between dreaming chick, and ugly blonde
chick, they go at it and call each other every catty name in the
book; bitch, cunt, slut, whore, slut-ho, bitch, bitch, you get
the picture. The guys unconvincingly break it up and we go back
to some more scenes that have already been recycled 3 times and
we’re only 21 minutes into the movie. The van then runs out of
gas, and Jeff heads off with a gas can, the movie then cuts to
what’s supposed to be a music video of a song called “Outta Gas
(Goin for More)” which is some shitty metal guitar playing set
to Jeff walking around with his gas can. Jeff luckily finds gas
at an old house, inhabited by some kind of witch who just asks
to read Jeff’s aura in return for the gas. Witchy woman (sorry
Eagles had to do it) sees the massacre coming, then freaks out
and begs Jeff “don’t go there.” What is this, the Jerry Springer
show? “Don’t go there!” How’s that for some dialog!?
Jeff makes it to a gas station on what the witch gave him, they
fuel up and FINALLY get to where they’re going camping. They break
out the booze and the football and we get treated to some drunken
home movie type cinematography. This just keeps getting better
and better. But what can we expect, the guy who plays Jeff IS
the director and he’s too busy starring in the movie, and putting
up a tent, and tying a girls bikini top to realize that he hired
a crack whore to be his camera person.
If you want to see any gore whatsoever, fast forward to about
58 minutes into the movie, this is pretty much where the gore
starts, and it isn’t even that good, the violence is suggestive,
and the gore comes in the form of badly done computer graphics
to make limbs appear to be missing and blood spurt from the stumps,
it really is pretty laughable. At 1hr and 4sec in we get a ridiculously
drawn out and goofy ass chainsawing, followed by some more poorly
CGI’d heads on sticks, a bloodless Achilles tendon clipping with
some pruners, followed by a bloodless mallet blow to the head,
a promise of torture while waving an auger bit over a girl that
delivers absolutely squat, this is followed by a few more bits
that are barely even worth this mention. Nothing, nada, zip, zilch,
not one small bit of gore anywhere in this heap that’s even worth
a damn. Just someone who’s doing some testing on his computer
or something. I doubt this movie cost even $100 to make, it’s
that bad.
Also I am fully convinced that Joseph Clark is bigtime into “watersports”
because there is absolutely waaaay too much emphasis on pissing
in this movie, Clark has about 3 or 4 pissing scenes himself,
WTF??!! Just about everyone is shown taking a piss, hell the movie
starts out with a couple pissing for Christ sakes!
In the end, Mister Clark tries to dump an M. Knight Shyamalan
twist on us and fails miserably. What he does is create a totally
incoherent, confusing, and illogical ending that’s got more holes
in it than a wheel of swiss cheese. I won’t go into it and spoil
it for anyone foolish enough to seek this one out after a review
like this. If you really must know how it ends, e-mail me, and
I'll muster up the strength, supress my gag reflex and recall
the ending to explain to you.
The quote of a critic on the DVD's jacket says "A combination
of American Psycho, Friday the 13th and Evil Dead!" That quote
right there is enough proof to me that the person who wrote it
should permanently have their eyes and fingers violently removed.
In closing, I’d just like to say a single thing to Joseph Clark
and I’ll actually borrow from the dialog of this horrible movie.
You sir, are a complete and total “fuckwad.”
Yep, even worse than House of the Dead! So with that I
have to go into the negatives
-3 out of 10 scenes of true horror in the form of a fat hairy
dude baring his ass WAY too many times!
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