directed by: Krist Rufty
starring: Raine Brown, Trent Haaga, Vanelle, Billy Garberina, Nicole Blessing, Ash Bowan, Steve Golla, Jarrod Crooks, Don Prentiss
Format: NTSC 1 Personal Collection
Tagline: "When a dream vacation turns into a nightmare of madness and macabre!"
Here we go with another "throwback" movie of the grindhouse style films of the 70s. While I did enjoy the movie very much it had a few poor dialogue moments and one effect in particular was just silly...the bottle up the bum scene. I'm sorry but our fake butt here didn't even look like an ass and
how the movie can have such great previous effects in every scene I'm just kind of dumbfounded here. The plot goes very simple six friends lead by one of my favorite indie actresses Raine Brown who plays Talina and her boyfriend Mark played by Billy Garberina are off for a camping trip in the deep woods where they have a cabin. On the way to the cabin the radio has newscasts going regarding people going missing and bodies being found. The six of them then happen upon a crime scene and this is where I'm sorry I had to laugh at the actions and dialogue of our group. They start talking to the cops and Talina asks if the cops need any help. Let me explain why this is so dumb. Um number one who asks cops at a crime scene if they can help? And help what? They were digging up bodies that were rotted and nasty. Then one of the six gets out to take a piss and pisses on some bones and the cops say nothing. It wasn't funny, it was stupid. This scene knocked my rating down cause other than this scene the film was pretty cool and realistic. Well there was another dialogue flub when the van pulls up to a dead tree across the road and one of the says, "Can we move it?" Then another one of them says...as they are looking right at it. "Depends on how big it is?" While it had me laughing it wasn't a positive laugh.
It's at this moment we run into who is obviously one of the "bad guys" in the movie played by Trent Haaga as Buddy the leader of three very deranged ex-military men who have gone completely nuts and start murdering people and digging up graves to make their own movies. Anywho my favorite role in the film aside from Ms. Brown was Haaga. This guy really turns on the energy of the film in a big way. He's nutso, he's a good actor, and he's one of those facial expression guys who can make you smile just by making a face. The other actors in the film weren't terrible by any means I've seen much worse but Haaga just took the talent to the next level and I'm gonna have to check this guy out hopefully this wasn't his only movie.
As it turns out there are three baddies in this movie and I fully enjoyed the antics between them throughout the film. Buddy was in charge, Face the man in the mask was the brute, and Carp the wannabe who fumbles around and ends up getting his winky cut off and run over haha. The three of them capture and torture and kill almost all of our six, who dies and who lives in the end I'll leave up in the air for now but the movie does not skimp on gore and torture. They really get down hard on the young band of friends. At one point it seems as if Buddy is sickened by his own ordered torture but that doesn't stop him from completing the job in the end. With the exception of a few flubs in dialogue, story-line, and fx I really enjoyed this one. If rape bothers you my recommendation is to skip it just to add.
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