![]() ![]() The first 60 minutes or so is pure horror-free PG-13 rated teen-drama nonsense, to the point there’s even a gratuitously inept teenybopper titillation scene. It isn’t long before the gang are being stalked by a not-so-mysterious killer and the predictably gruesome secret of the House’s models becomes apparent.Īnother of the movie’s annoying traits is that it seems to be a movie of two halves. I see a great future for this movie on DVD as a drinking game if nothing else.Ī broken fan belt results in a trip into a creepy local town which soon goes wrong as the group stumble across a deserted House of Wax featuring frighteningly realistic wax models and encounter a rather creepy garage owner. ![]() No, if you stop and camp in a horror movie, there’s a 99.9% that you’ve just parked up in the most backward, Deliverance-style hick neighbourhood for miles around. To ram this fact home, our hapless bunch decides to camp out for the night and, consulting our book again, this can’t be cheery Smallville-style rural farmland country. It’s like the writers had The Big Book Of Slasher Cliches™ on their office desk and decided that despite countless post-modern trashings of the formula, you can never have too many. You really don’t need to know the characters by their screen names in this movie, just their caricature personas. Present and correct are the heroine, the heroine’s chump boyfriend, the goof-off, the angry but misunderstood one, the slut and the token black guy. Our movie opens like countless thousands have since the mid-70s a group of oversexed and generally unlikeable college kids heading off on a road trip.
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