(2/10)
Really poor and uninteresting movie that seemed to have potential. A bunch of really uninteresting and
unlikeable college kids break into the town meat factory which used to be a hospital (or something like
that) to play some stupid game involving hiding and searching for their underwear when a killer starts
picking them off one by one in really violent ways. Meanwhile, an almost totally unrelated subplot as the
meat factory's head honcho Corbin Bernsen and his board of idiots squaring off against manipulative
conglomerate representative Dee Wallace Stone who's come to buy and shut down the plant. When they
refuse she suddenly (and confusingly) becomes a detective looking into the meat factory's dodgy past
which may or may not have something to do with whoever's killing off the college kids (whose dads all
make up the aforementioned board of idiots).
If that sounds confused and convoluted it's because it is. For what's basically a fairly run-of-the-mill
slasher that reminded me of a way inferior "Happy Birthday To Me" this is just too damn complicated for
it's own good. I couldn't decide whether the story was too complicated to follow or that I just didn't care
to give it more attention because I didn't care about anyone in the movie. The characters - the adults
and the children alike - are the most uniformly irritating, annoying, unlikeable bunch of characters I can
remember. There's not one person I liked or found even the least bit interesting.
I feel like there might be a good movie somewhere in here, but I'll be damned if I can find it. Wallace and
Bernsen are both good and lend a certain 'good movie' feel to the proceedings, but the movie is
struggling to find something for them to do. It feels like these characters were created simply because
they could get Wallace and Bernsen to play them. The younger actors are all pretty bad. Attractive jerks
who do very little that makes any sense - even before the killer shows up.
This is pretty bad. Nothing to really recommend unless you've always wanted to hear the mom from
"E.T." use the 'c' word. Not recommended as a good midnight movie since it's tough to stay awake for
even early in the day.
Really poor and uninteresting movie that seemed to have potential. A bunch of really uninteresting and
unlikeable college kids break into the town meat factory which used to be a hospital (or something like
that) to play some stupid game involving hiding and searching for their underwear when a killer starts
picking them off one by one in really violent ways. Meanwhile, an almost totally unrelated subplot as the
meat factory's head honcho Corbin Bernsen and his board of idiots squaring off against manipulative
conglomerate representative Dee Wallace Stone who's come to buy and shut down the plant. When they
refuse she suddenly (and confusingly) becomes a detective looking into the meat factory's dodgy past
which may or may not have something to do with whoever's killing off the college kids (whose dads all
make up the aforementioned board of idiots).
If that sounds confused and convoluted it's because it is. For what's basically a fairly run-of-the-mill
slasher that reminded me of a way inferior "Happy Birthday To Me" this is just too damn complicated for
it's own good. I couldn't decide whether the story was too complicated to follow or that I just didn't care
to give it more attention because I didn't care about anyone in the movie. The characters - the adults
and the children alike - are the most uniformly irritating, annoying, unlikeable bunch of characters I can
remember. There's not one person I liked or found even the least bit interesting.
I feel like there might be a good movie somewhere in here, but I'll be damned if I can find it. Wallace and
Bernsen are both good and lend a certain 'good movie' feel to the proceedings, but the movie is
struggling to find something for them to do. It feels like these characters were created simply because
they could get Wallace and Bernsen to play them. The younger actors are all pretty bad. Attractive jerks
who do very little that makes any sense - even before the killer shows up.
This is pretty bad. Nothing to really recommend unless you've always wanted to hear the mom from
"E.T." use the 'c' word. Not recommended as a good midnight movie since it's tough to stay awake for
even early in the day.
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Written by Jim Haggerty