Director: Rob Collins
Year: 2025
Country: 2025
Alternate Titles: USA
Genre: Slasher
Plot:
Wanting to look into a local urban legend, a group of friends relate a series of stories about their town’s notorious serial killer, including a previous group who decide to visit the supposed campground where the serial killer was going around hunting everyone he came across at the site.
Review:
Overall, this was a decent enough and overall enjoyable slasher effort. Among the better factors with this one stems from the rather solid amount of old-school throwback atmosphere created by the action and storyline here. A solid enough setup involving the group heading out to the campground and staying there to look into the rumors of the killer that lived in the town, with a solid enough backstory involving how he became a tormented serial killer, serves as a fine way to introduce what’s going on with the rest of the group. As we gt to see them around the camp hanging out and enjoying games, smoking pot, and other forms of teenage shenanigans that are found in these kind of features, it starts the series of impressive stalking scenes involving the killer striking the victims left around the camp in a series of brutal, gruesome setpieces that are immensely fun in the sort of sudden indie encounters that leave quite a strong impression for this one.
That said, outside of this, the film does have some issues. The main drawback here is the seemingly confusing setup of the film, where it manages to make the whole thing take place over multiple plotlines that are hard to keep track of. Ihis one uses the ploy of the main group talking about the events of what’s going on in three different periods, from the backstory of the killer as a child to the first rampage that occurs in the woods and the main attack on the group heading out to the campground in slaughter that group, yet the constant interruptions for smart alec comments leave it a bit difficult to understand what period we’re in. Given that this means everything is twisted around into several different timelines, and it keeps switching back to the group discussing everything, only for that not to be the main storyline. Coupled with the lackluster finale that doesn’t mean it has a full ending, but rather just stops, and the low-budget nature here, these do hold it back slightly.
Overview: ***.5/5
A generally effective and likable indie slasher, there’s enough going on here that it makes for an enjoyable enough time, which is enough to keep it above the few minor flaws to be had. Those with an appreciation for this kind of genre fare, who enjoy indie slashers in general, or who are fans of the creative crew, will have the most to like, while most others out there should heed caution.
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