Director: Tom Devlin
Year: 2024
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Slasher
Plot:
Following a special football game, a group of friends decides to rekindle their old feelings by hosting a special party at the supposedly abandoned slaughterhouse they used to frequent, but when the area is found to be the home of a vicious serial killer running wild on the site must get away alive.
Review:
This was a pretty disappointing slasher without a lot going for it. About the only thing worthwhile here concerns the series of encounters with the killer running wild in the slaughterhouse as that lets this focus on its main selling point. The imposing physique and creepy mask are enough on their own to get a lot to like here before focusing on the ingredient brutality present that offers an absolutely stellar series of graphic kills that provide a solid series of low-budget kills. From decapitations, intestines being torn out, throats ripped away, and all manner of stabbings or impalings with any blunt object possible, this comes together for a lot to like with plenty of great kills to follow up on the viciousness displayed here.
Beyond that, though, there’s not much to this one. The main factor here is the generally lackluster pacing that keeps the film from ever really taking off with a sluggish tempo waiting around for quite a while getting the group’s issues out so we have a chance to get to know them. While ordinarily, it would be great to get the detail given here about the history they share, the legend of the slaughterhouse, and the different interconnecting backgrounds they have, that it’s all done in such an extended amount of time in the first half of a film this short makes it take forever to get going and then rush through the final half with the killer because of the time spent on the first half.
As well, that also brings about the secondary issue where, even if the time spent on getting to know the group at first happened faster, it’s still insanely hard to care about them once we start to do so. They’re generally not that interesting with far more focus on the group cheating on their partners, getting drunk, or just blindly reliving perceived high school glory days with each other that they either come off as losers that peaked without advancing further in life or scheming cheaters for what’s supposedly a group that’s been together for years. It’s not interesting to watch this during such a shorter effort like this and to then go along with problematic characters like this is an issue, and are all that brings it down.
Overview: */5
An underwhelming and generally disappointing feature, there are a few uplifting positives that are just enough to lift this one up despite a series of overpowering flaws that bring it down. Those who are fine with these factors or are curious about it will have the most to like here, while most others who don’t appreciate this kind of feature will want to heed extreme caution with it.
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