Saturday, 26 December 2009

ADVENTURES IN POUNDLAND HORROR - No 13 - MEMORIAL DAY KILLER


MEMORIAL DAY KILLER
BEERS. BURGERS, BLOODSHED, IT'S GOING TO BE A SCREAM
Straight up rip off of FRIDAY THE 13th complete with drowned in a lake evil mask wearing lunatic.
A group of teens going to a woodland cabin to get drunk and partay! It's the anniversary of the death during a similar party of a slightly retarded son of junkie parents. Its all so familiar...
The deaths are quite imaginative and gory which raises it slightly above yer bog average slasher, but with the normal quota of irritating teens and bad acting.
Shot on a budget of $7,000 this is true indie horror and for that reason I'll cut it some slack
Its not truly bad, just derivative at times but suffers from a lack of pace at times which you really need at times of running throught the woods screaming!
Twist at the end - but well telegraphed - Lisafer had got it well before the end (but the twist ending doesn't make any bloody sense at all!).
Warning - this movie contains the following: 10 minutes of bickering in a car about taking a piss stop, 10 minutes of whinging teen asking "has anybody seen my keys?", and an amazing blooper: guy takes his shirt off, cut to a scene where he decides he needs to look in his trouser pockets for something, lo and behold his shirt is magically on!   
2 stars and a hockey mask (made of papier mache).

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