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Plot: Five horror icons ditch an unprofitable autograph signing convention to earn some extra cash haunting an RV park, but find themselves being haunted instead.
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“Wake up and smell the corpse” (dialog)
A hard film to review, overall.First, as I have mentioned before in a few of my 1100+ reviews, most film-makers secretly yearn for the “trifecta” of movie making — which is low budget, small cast, single location. Since film (like everything else in our society, and I mean LITERALLY everything) is a business, even a moderate audience for such a low-budget film means profits, which means you are a hot ticket, which means you get new money for more product. Which means you have a new career.
So in this light Schneider (and I am a fan of his TV work) did the smart thing all the way. He not only went after the Holy Grail of film making (as above) but did so with a sharp concept (name horror stars hoisted on their own petard) with many of the cast playing against type. Clever. Very clever.
So what went wrong? Not much really. The problem is that, with such careful and meticulous preparation, this film can never aspire to be more than it was originally designed to be.
In other words, you have (perhaps) an instant “cult” film, designed to appeal to a youngish demographic that “gets” films that deconstruct themselves, and are looking to fill some two hours with harmless and forgettable fun.
On the other hand, this is not a true horror film (like Conjuring) not a true comedy (like the films Leslie Mann appears in) and is at best a super-lite version of the “ensemble films” that the late Robert Altman was known for.
Not bad for a first effort. But you are not going to see it mentioned at the Oscars.
Eat your heart with a plastic spork
During a horror-fest convention in Louisiana, a number of participants pay for their RV spot by scaring the residents of the park. However, things backfire as they are the ones getting scared and killed.The film is done in a grindhouse fashion. It uses 4 real horror film stars and supplements them with some fake ones. Michael Berryman played himself, but was not one of the four. Chunks (Rachel Alana Handler) is a woman who really lost her leg. Smothered was the preferred way to die as the M.O. of Dee Dee (Brea Grant) who had a huge fake chest attached to her torso…no those weren’t hers. Kane Hodder, R.A. Mihailoff, Malcolm Danare, and Don Shanks played themselves. Bill Moseley, who has been in enough horror films to have played himself, did not, but rather played the part reserved for Robert Englund.
The film had promise, but didn’t deliver. It needed a metal soundtrack for one thing. The humor didn’t work too well in this comedy/slasher.
Guide: F-word. Sex. Fake nudity.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 36 min (96 min)
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Rated Not Rated
Genre Comedy, Horror
Director John Schneider
Writer John Schneider
Actors Kane Hodder, R.A. Mihailoff, Bill Moseley
Country United States
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