On Bloody Sunday

Director - Christian Sesma (Shoot the Hero)
Starring - Annemarie Pazmino (The Terror at Big Bear Lake: Thrillogy), Yousef Abu-Taleb (Bite Me), and Mike Hatton (Shoot the Hero)
Release Date - 2007
Genre - Horror
Tagline - "Who's on your friends list?"

Rating (out of 5):

     I never heard about this one but with the popularity of Myspace and Facebook I'm surprised more flicks are not made with a similar plot.  I was on one of my many trips to FYE and was looking through the clearance section where I find a lot of shitty flicks for just a few dollars.  Found this one for less than $2 and grabbed it.  Not because it was a horror flick but because it had Danny Trejo in it.  I figured for a shitty, low budget flick about a social media site, that he was only in it for a brief cameo.  I'm fine with that and I still wanted it for my collection even if he is in it for a few moments.

     This movie follows a young journalist in high school as her fellow classmates are being abducted by a masked man.  The man behind the abductions uses religion as his basis for committing the murders.  Those that have sinned are tortured and murdered.  Like most journalist, she is naturally inquisitive and begins her own investigation to find out who is behind the abductions.  Her investigation into the teen murders draws the attention of the killer where he becomes infatuated with her.  The young journalist has to expose who the killer really is before she is next.

     I did not expect much from this movie and that is what I got.  This movie offers nothing new and nothing entertaining.  I wanted to try something different with this review.  So first I will tell ya what I liked about it and then what I did not.  What I did like about the movie is the scenery in the Jesus Freak's torture chamber and the small cameo by Danny Trejo.  I also liked a few of the kills.  At one point a guy is fed viagra and gets his boner cut off by the religious fanatic.  It is disgusting and has nothing to do with the story but it was cool and very different.   One of the things I did not like about the flick was the story.  If the movie would have just been a straight forward slasher and did not try to throw in plot twists and the whole mystery/thriller angle it would have been pretty solid.  Unfortunately, they did throw in the plot twists and the mystery/thriller angles and it did not work out at all.  I also did not like the acting by some of the cast.  Others did an awesome job while others were just horrible.  Overall, this is a pretty bad flick and you can definitely find something better to watch.