The film is a slightly modified in small strokes remake of the independent low-budget horror film Blood Massacre by Don Dohler. The director of the original is now the co-writer of the script and the cameraman, and the main one in the production is his friend and associate Joe Ripple, who also plays one of the roles of a police detective, by the way, in real life equally wearing a badge, and on weekends shooting bloody horror films. I must say that absolutely all busy people are amateurs and make films solely as a hobby. So it turns out that this movie is intended purely for devoted viewers of thrashing “terrible” direction, pre-guessing the lack of special professionalism and not waiting to find it.
However, distinguishes it from similar modern horror with a minimum budget the presence of several honored veterans of the genre, working in it on bare enthusiasm with the help of improvised means for more than one year, but rather for life. This is the said Doler, who, due to his age and the impending illness that caused his sudden departure, could no longer cope with his directing duties, but supported another like-minded eccentric from his native Baltimore, Rippi. In addition, he gave his own dwelling and backyard to the scene, however, as always happened in his paintings, which then forced them to be cleaned of fake blood for a long time. Also the actor is a regular thrash George Stover (George Stover), ironically in the remake tried on the opposite image than played in the original. Then he was completely "frozen" leader of a gang fighting a family of psychopaths, but now he became the head of the house. It’s really fun to see such a big change. Here you can see another representative, the so-called mandatory actor’s backbone of Doler’s former years – Richard Ruxton (Richard Ruxton), in the first film, the former center villain-cannibal, who is now very old and has already starred only in a small episode of the owner of a store that will be robbed. So it turns out that for viewers who appreciate b-movie from Don Doler, this work will be quite curious when the average person will not be able to notice the interesting details of the tape, of course, designed purely for thrash fans.
Purely the plot tells in principle a familiar story about a gang of criminals hiding from the police, simultaneously committing atrocities. However, everything is no longer run by a psychotic Vietnam War veteran, but by a war lady. Being on the run, the villains are stuck on a forest road, and, meeting a passing car with a girl, take her hostage. Having decided to wait out the night at her, the bandits invade the girl’s house, taking the gun of her father, stepmother, brother and sister. But only in appearance, an ordinary decent family actually has terrible bloodthirsty secrets, which makes the overzealous gang soon regret that it came to them! . .
For those who remember the original version, you can find an almost detailed reshoot of familiar scenes in a different actor’s performance, but the creators of the picture took care of them, eliminating the expected presence of monsters in the finale and cannibal themes, focusing directly on the real humanized aspect of evil, oriented by criminal overtones. Talking about the scenario twist at the end is not appropriate, so as not to deprive you of a special surprise. There will be an impressively expanded background line about the police investigation, apparently thanks to the participation of the character left for himself by the director.
Touching the "minuses" of the film, as a remake, it is worth noting the significantly inferior acting game of almost the entire new generation in comparison with the former lyceums. Definitely the former village girl-maniac, correctly portrayed by intuition Robin London, the modern equivalent can not outshine. Unless it pleases the replacement of a crazy mom now very old Anne Frith (Anne Frith), whose frightening image portrayed Lianna Chamish (Leanna Chamish), showing the funny fanatical madness of a crazy housewife with a terrible secret. Timekeeping is sometimes stagnant, and visualization has declined in the demonstration of bloody horror only in the most insignificant manifestations. The drawbacks of the film, as a standalone artistic completed work, will be trivial for a production on an extremely low budget, I think, not requiring much reminder.
As a result, the remade story will bring a certain restrained pleasure to loving the original, and treating with respect to the people involved in the shooting by name, who gave the genre of amateur and naive “horror/science fiction” a lot and without commercial profit, and still give a part of their efforts as far as daily life at “normal” work, and health, sometimes already of retirement age, allows. For the rest of the audience, I would not recommend wasting my precious time watching.
5 out of 10