Crimson Screens takes a field trip to "Wolf Creek" and unfortunately decides to make a stop at the "Motor Home Massacre"...
Crimson Screens takes a field trip to 'Wolf Creek" and unfortunately decides to make a stop at the "Motor Home Massacre"...
Hey! Sorry it has been a while without an update. Relocating to another part of the country sure eats up a lot of your time! But I'm getting settled and maximum movie time is on the horizon.
Anyways, onto the movies...
Wolf Creek is a little Australian film which was the subject of a bidding war after it was screened in various film festivals. Some "big name" Hollywood people hailed it as the scariest thing since the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the leader of the new breed of horror movies. Well, "big name" Hollywood people's opinions don't mean much so me, so I decided to see for myself.
A group of three travelers, one guy and two girls, are travelling through the Austrralian outback and they visit Wolf Creek, an area where a meteor once landed and which is now supposedly the site of alien activity. Well, we get no alien activity. But we do get a car that mysteriously won't start. Someone comes along, a seemingly cool dude, and off they go to get their car fixed. Luckily for us, and unfortunately for the travellers, things are about to take a nasty turn for the worse.
Ok, first I must say that the guy who playes the bad guy here, John Jarret, he is one of the best onscreen bad guys that I have seen in a while. There is this scene where he shows how, in Vietnam, people were disabled but kept alive so information couldf still be retrieved from them. That scene is so subtle yet mean spirited, I will say that it holds its own against anything in a classic such as Last House On The Left. The scene is made even more disturbing by who it happens to, especially after all they have been through up to that point. Fantastic! Besides that, that guy, his whole aura is scary, once he reveals who he really is. I was loving it. There is another scene with all the characters sitting around a camp fire and that guy looks at the male traveller after he makes a potentially offensive comment, and the look he gives, it part joking and part scary and all menacing and it is by and far the best mean mugging scary look of the last decade.
The rest of the cast is sufficient, capable of their tasks as well, but the bad guy, I give him an A+.
A lot of people complained that the first half of the movie was bad because not a whole lot happens, just the travelers travelling and talking and doing things and being who they are. That is true, but in my opinion, it is some fantastic buildup to an amazing second half. In fact, I did not find the first half boring, but if you do, I say that it is worth sitting through just to see the amazing second half. This is my favorite horror movie in the last few years. A+!!!
On the other hand, Motor Home Massacre, is a perfect subject to the amazing ability of a good editor. The trailer for this one made it look so cool, like bloody version of Just Before Dawn perhaps. And since trailers are supposed to make you want to see the movie, this one succeeds on all levels. But it is the only thing that succeeds about this movie. I'm glad I only rented this one! Some kids, who are all absolutely horrible actors and actresses, take a motor home for a trip into the woods. Someone starts killing them. Yay!
First, this movie opens with a tent sex murders, which is replayed later on. It isn't even really switched around but rather just replayed with added nudity. The kill special effects aren't special at all, just blood splattered on people and a laughable machete into the tent effect where half the time the machete doesn't even break through the tent. Ugh! The acting gets worse too, especially at the end. Oh yeah, there is a scene where someone gets an arm and a leg chopped off and it is so horribly edited and acted out and oh yeah, I watched half this shit on fast forward because it really was no possible to sit through this whole thing without stabing myself in the head with a fork.
It baffles me how this was released by Lions Gate, who releases a lot of the namer brand horror titles in theatres. I would have expected to see a Troma logo on the DVD case somewhere, but then again, Lloyd Kaufman probably saw this and said, "Hey, fuck that piece of shit! It's horrible!" I would have to agree with him one hundred percent.
Out...
Hey! Sorry it has been a while without an update. Relocating to another part of the country sure eats up a lot of your time! But I'm getting settled and maximum movie time is on the horizon.
Anyways, onto the movies...
Wolf Creek is a little Australian film which was the subject of a bidding war after it was screened in various film festivals. Some "big name" Hollywood people hailed it as the scariest thing since the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the leader of the new breed of horror movies. Well, "big name" Hollywood people's opinions don't mean much so me, so I decided to see for myself.
A group of three travelers, one guy and two girls, are travelling through the Austrralian outback and they visit Wolf Creek, an area where a meteor once landed and which is now supposedly the site of alien activity. Well, we get no alien activity. But we do get a car that mysteriously won't start. Someone comes along, a seemingly cool dude, and off they go to get their car fixed. Luckily for us, and unfortunately for the travellers, things are about to take a nasty turn for the worse.
Ok, first I must say that the guy who playes the bad guy here, John Jarret, he is one of the best onscreen bad guys that I have seen in a while. There is this scene where he shows how, in Vietnam, people were disabled but kept alive so information couldf still be retrieved from them. That scene is so subtle yet mean spirited, I will say that it holds its own against anything in a classic such as Last House On The Left. The scene is made even more disturbing by who it happens to, especially after all they have been through up to that point. Fantastic! Besides that, that guy, his whole aura is scary, once he reveals who he really is. I was loving it. There is another scene with all the characters sitting around a camp fire and that guy looks at the male traveller after he makes a potentially offensive comment, and the look he gives, it part joking and part scary and all menacing and it is by and far the best mean mugging scary look of the last decade.
The rest of the cast is sufficient, capable of their tasks as well, but the bad guy, I give him an A+.
A lot of people complained that the first half of the movie was bad because not a whole lot happens, just the travelers travelling and talking and doing things and being who they are. That is true, but in my opinion, it is some fantastic buildup to an amazing second half. In fact, I did not find the first half boring, but if you do, I say that it is worth sitting through just to see the amazing second half. This is my favorite horror movie in the last few years. A+!!!
On the other hand, Motor Home Massacre, is a perfect subject to the amazing ability of a good editor. The trailer for this one made it look so cool, like bloody version of Just Before Dawn perhaps. And since trailers are supposed to make you want to see the movie, this one succeeds on all levels. But it is the only thing that succeeds about this movie. I'm glad I only rented this one! Some kids, who are all absolutely horrible actors and actresses, take a motor home for a trip into the woods. Someone starts killing them. Yay!
First, this movie opens with a tent sex murders, which is replayed later on. It isn't even really switched around but rather just replayed with added nudity. The kill special effects aren't special at all, just blood splattered on people and a laughable machete into the tent effect where half the time the machete doesn't even break through the tent. Ugh! The acting gets worse too, especially at the end. Oh yeah, there is a scene where someone gets an arm and a leg chopped off and it is so horribly edited and acted out and oh yeah, I watched half this shit on fast forward because it really was no possible to sit through this whole thing without stabing myself in the head with a fork.
It baffles me how this was released by Lions Gate, who releases a lot of the namer brand horror titles in theatres. I would have expected to see a Troma logo on the DVD case somewhere, but then again, Lloyd Kaufman probably saw this and said, "Hey, fuck that piece of shit! It's horrible!" I would have to agree with him one hundred percent.
Out...
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