A group of annoying young adults are out in the woods being hunted by a gang of random albino killers.
This starts off as what could be a fun movie. It wasn't reinventing the wheel...but it had all of the pieces needed to make a fun movie in a genre that doesn't have many good films in the past few years. Unfortunately, it collapsed under the sheer laziness of the writer/director.
The production values are actually really good! They used pro gear to film this (apparently thanks to a VERY successful kickstarter campaign)! HOWEVER (because even the good aspects have their negatives)...this film is way too dark...ESPECIALLY considering that the main point seems to be to show off female flesh (which can barely be seen due to the lighting).
The girls are mostly legitimately hot and most of them find a reason to get naked or in their underwear. In this type of movie, sexy girls who repel clothing is practically a must, and this certainly has that. Unfortunately, even this turns into a negative. Eventually I got the impression that this film only exists so that the director could ogle women's bodies. One woman in the bathroom of a bar has an extended scene where she is trying on different lingerie, trying to decide which one she looks hottest in...because women carry around giant collections of lingerie everywhere they go??? This isn't funny...and I don't think its meant to be. A few characters show up out of nowhere, take their clothes off, and are never seen again.
A few of the cast members treated this film like it mattered. What the movie had them doing was terrible, but that isn't their fault. I'm not awarding any Oscars...but I appreciate that some (not all) of the cast threw themselves into their very shallow roles. Other actors, as expected, are terrible.
Early in the film there is a brief scene that tries to be Scream. You'll know it when it happens.
In fact, I think that the film maker REALLY believes that his movie is witty...but it's not. Every time I cringed at bad, out of place dialogue I could practically hear the writer/director patting himself on the back.
I wish there was a character worth liking. Arguing is a cheap and easy replacement for character development, and I hate it. Also, there's the standard cliche of characters doing things that no one would ever do. One guy runs off to get help...and at some point just seems to lose any sense that his friends are in grave danger. After ordering a round of shots (seriously), he DOES make the call for help (to the least reliable person on Earth)...but he seems bored of it all by the time he gets him on the phone and can't be bothered to stress how desperately his friends need help. On his way back to his friends, he stops to stare at a sexy woman who is changing her clothes in her home (and that is the extent of her involvement in the film). It's hard to take the guy's emotions seriously when he does stuff like this.
) to John Carpenter's Halloween was really cool. It wasn't quite the movie I was expecting though, and I didn't find any of it particularly scary.
