Director: Victor Bonacore
Year: 2026
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Slasher
Plot:
In a small Midwest town, citizens preparing for a special town celebration are overrun by a swarm of influencers looking to make content about the event, eventually finding themselves in the crosshairs of a vicious snuff-film-making serial killer trying to stop their plans.
Review:
Overall, this wasn’t that bad of a low-budget indie slasher. The film’s immensely effective atmosphere that captures a grimy, low-budget mindset quite well, ranging from the display of her videos that range from dominatrix, fetish play, or other forms of more extreme content, compares quite well to the rest of the town celebrations, and gives everything a strong starting point when talking about the various other influencers showing up around them. This allows for a fun, degenerate atmosphere here, where the performance videos, playing out these kinds of scenarios with their openness and willingness to engage in that kind of content, make the connection later on when the killer starts killing everyone, a far more intriguing option when the whole thing is presented as a series of random encounters of them running across the masked killer in various locations. This all ends up becoming a rather fun time throughout here.
However, it also highlights one of the main issues here in how one-note the whole thing is. The film is presented as a variety of skits involving the introduction of these random influencers looking to make content about the town and then coming across the killer, resulting in there being no real connection or storyline to what’s going on, and this takes forever to make its purpose apparent. While there are several citizens shown as a connecting throughline where they keep wondering where their friends are, it’s not enough to give this a purpose or much of a plot, as its random nature and lack of a backstory on the killer gives the rampage nothing to really grab onto. Even the rampage scenes themselves aren’t that impressive, being just a collection of cheap-looking slit throats and stage-blood drooling out of their mouths, completely giving away its production, while being so generic and lacking in deviation that there’s no real thrills generated from this kind of presentation. Overall, these all come together to give this a generally lower time than it should have.
Overview: **/5
A watchable enough one-note indie slasher, there’s enough here to not be a total waste, but there are some big issues here that keep this one down. Those with an appreciation for the approach taken here or who are fans of the creative crew will have the most to get out of this one, while most others out there should heed extreme caution.
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