Director: James Ian Mair
Year: 2023
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Slasher
Plot:
Trying to get past the previous tragedy, a woman who survived a small-town serial killer's rampage tries to move to a new town to help heal, but when a series of incidents continue signaling the killer has returned she teams with the sheriff of her old home town to settle the score.
Review:
This one was a pretty enjoyable entry in the series that closes it out rather nicely. Like the previous entries in the series, this one gets a worthwhile enough setup for what’s going on involving the returning survivor trying to get past her past tragedies and hoping to start over in a new area which is interrupted by the arrival of the very killer that she as trying to get over conducting another rampage in the area where we get a good enough view of her physical but also emotional scars that have resulted from their encounter. This goes along nicely with the fine secondary story about the detective’s hunt for the killer who’s spurred along by the supposed father of the killer trying to end his son’s rampage which gives this a worthwhile enough storyline.
With this in place, it provides the film plenty of opportunity to launch into the typical kind of short shock ambushes typical of the indie style. Focusing on the same sort of random, nameless characters introduced simply to stumble upon the killer and then get dispatched in a gruesome fashion, this feels very in keeping with the formula established by the series as a whole. An unintended side effect of that is the most notably obvious use of this tactic anywhere in the series with very few genuine stalking scenes to bump up the running time or counterbalance it resulting in this being the shortest film in the series but feeling the longest since these short scenes leave little impact on the running. Again with no gore and a fairly obvious low budget on display, it’s what brings this down somewhat.
Overview: **.5/5
An overall enjoyable if slightly downgraded entry in the series, there’s enough to like here that it feels quite enjoyable in the franchise or as just a solid low-budget indie slasher effort. Those that enjoyed the previous entries in the series, appreciate this kind of indie slasher, or are fans of the creative crew will have the most to like here while most others that don’t enjoy these factors should heed caution.
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