Director: Gabriel Carrer
Year: 2026
Country: Canada
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Slasher
Plot:
Following a devastating car accident, the sole survivor of the incident tries to turn to a former police officer to investigate the connections to a prominent political family, assumed to be responsible for the incident, while a biker-clad killer goes around killing those responsible.
Review:
On the whole, this was an okay if somewhat flawed throwback. One of the main likable factors here comes from the striking and generally fun revenge-based storyline that allows this to go for a fun series of encounters and interactions. With the initial accident and subsequent gruesome interaction that leaves one woman dead and the other one crippled is a fun starting point that's quite likable at setting the stage for the eventual series of ambushes to come later on that give this a necessary starting point. It leads nicely into the actual scenes of the biker-masked killer stalking the family that caused the incident. The series of attacks here, from the encounter at the gym, the brother's mansion house, or the mother finding the killer stalking her in her highly-secure compound, all manage to give off the kind of graphic kills that provide a fun throwline for the revenge storyline, as everything is based on fulfilling the revenge part of the rampage.
This serves the film well enough, but there's not much else to this one that works. The main factor here is that there's just nothing coherent about the storyline that just goes around in random circumstances that have very little connection to anything that happens here. The structure of this one represents the kind of randomized approach where she keeps mentioning the next members of the family that need to be knocked off, and then switching over to show the killer appearing to that individual and following through on the attack before moving to the next conversation with the journalist about the next one to get attacked. This causes the general approach to be episodic and incredibly choppy without much consistency as it keeps moving to the next one, so there's little structure to what's going on, and when mixed together with the low-budget approach that comes off rather obviously at points, it all holds this one down.
Overview: **.5/5
A solid but troublesome slasher effort, this one comes off well enough for what it is while still being let down by enough flaws that it ends up being held back by the series of issues present. Those with an interest in this kind of genre fare or who are fine with the issues here will have the most to like here, while most others out there might want to heed caution.
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