Director: Paul Dale
Year: 2024
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Slasher; Horror/Comedy
Plot:
Deciding to honor a friend, a group of friends gathers for a special celebratory concert for an impersonator’s show but when they start to disappear one by one while having fun at the concert they find that a bird-headed killer is killing them off for not being true fans of the musician.
Review:
Overall, this was a seriously flawed genre effort. The central setup of the film about the group of fans coming together to celebrate the idea of a tribute concert taking place and everyone getting targeted because the killer assumes the target isn’t as big of a fan of the performer as they should be is a perfectly silly and goofy idea. The type of jokes and confrontations that are in place here are perfectly suited to fill this type of setup as the absurdity of the whole thing is so over-the-top and outrageous that they come about naturally in this type of environment including some of the kills in the second half which are somewhat fun.
Still, the whole thing is undone by a slew of issues including the lack of comedy in this type of film. As the whole thing is based on a one-note joke that’s incredibly stupid to begin with, the fact that it’s not fleshed out in the slightest makes for an infuriating time with the more amount of time spent on the group who are simply going through a series of lame, horrendously unfunny jokes. The inability to fix this shows off the kind of flimsy story structured around these jokes where the one-note joke of everything is highlighted to a point where the overall feeling is such that it should be kept as a short film rather than this feature-length one.
The other problem here is the inability of the film’s stalking scenes to delve into any kind of overt stalking scenes. Far too much of the few scenes show the creature coming up behind the unsuspecting victim to then either kill them off-screen or drag them into a position that renders it impossible to tell what’s going on. As none of it has any kind of blood or gore of any kind here due to these situations and a goofy, cheesy look to the killer which might be in keeping with the type of film that presents itself but doesn’t help overcome the appearance of it, these are what bring this one down.
Overview: */5
A disappointingly underwhelming and unfunny slasher spoof, there’s a few massive problems and just a couple of likable factors that tend to be more of a personal preference than genine likable points. Give this a shot if you’re a fan of the creative cew while most others out there should heed extreme caution here due to the issues.
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