Director: Andrea M. Catinella
Year: 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Slasher
Plot:
Going on a trip together, a group of friends try to get a woman’s mind off the news that she’s the daughter of a notorious serial killer and not the person she thought was her father, but when the killer arrives to reclaim her love must stop his crazed rampage before he concludes it.
Review:
On the whole, this was a rather poor and generally underwhelming genre effort. The few positives with this one stem from the setup involving the killers’ escape from custody and stalking the group at the birthday party being thrown at the house. The actual reveal of the whole thing, from the backstory flashback discussing the implications of their background together that ties them together with the killer and taking the daughter as their own and sending the killer to prison so they can raise her in secret, and sending the killer on a rampage after her in retaliation for what happened, makes this a solid enough starting point. This brings about the search for the girls and their friends at the remote manor house, where the series of stalking scenes brings about the kind of cheesy indie-style ambush scenes featuring the killer striking out of nowhere, leading to some creative deaths.
There are several big issues here that hold this one back. The biggest drawback is the fact that this one works so well as a straightforward indie genre effort that it doesn’t serve much purpose being in the parody realm that it purports to be. So much of the original story is jettisoned beyond the character names, so it makes little sense connecting them as it does when this could’ve been told exactly the same, given the killer the same backstory and motivation, and done the exact same as it does, which makes all the more confusing why it focuses on the connecting story as it does. The elements to shoehorn that story into the real world are awkward and clumsy without any kind of genuine cohesion, so it feels far more brain-numbing than it should’ve been had it been left as a standalone feature, and with these brought out even further with a lousy mask for the killer and other low-budget limitations, it all comes to lower this one overall.
Overview: **.5/5
A likable if generally problematic adaptation, this one would've been a lot more digestible as a straightforward genre effort, as that tends to be among the biggest drawbacks with this one. Those who enjoy this kind of indie effort in general, are fans of the style of public-domain ripoffs, or who are curious about it, will have the most to like, while most others out there should heed caution.
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