Staring: Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, Joel Moore, Tamara Feldman, Tony Todd
Director: Adam Green
Running Time: 83 Minutes
Plot:
It's Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and Ben (Joel Moore) has reached booze and boobs overload. Recently dumped and pining after his girlfriend, he enlists his pal Marcus (Deon Richmond) to accompany him on a swamp tour in a boat that travels the spooky murk surrounding the city. Marcus is less than enthused until the crew of the low budget movie "Bayou Beavers" signs on, including amateur cameraman Shapiro (Joel Murray), pneumatic Misty (Mercedes McNab) and ditzy Jenna (Joleigh Fioreavanti). Joining them on the rickety cruiser are the painfully wholesome couple Mr. and Mrs. Permatteo (Richard Riehle and Patrika Darbo) and the beautiful-but-sullen Marybeth (Tamara Feldman).
Led by the P.T. Barnum of the swamp tour industry, fast-talking but slow-thinking showboater Shawn (Parry Shen) the tourists are decidedly underwhelmed by the fog, low-hanging branches and aggressively quiet sounds that Shawn tries to pass off as frightening. He launches into the story of Victor Crowley - yup, a legend in these parts - who is known to haunt the swamp. The boaters wave off the story as part of Shawn's continuing nonsense - except for Marybeth, who is notably discomforted.
Review:
The movie starts of awesome very fast paced, in the first 10 minutes you get 2 deaths which is great because most of the time it takes along time to get into a movie.
The movie has a lot of suspense and some very creative death scenes that you wouldn’t believe, the characters are great in this movie and it’s a shame when they start being killed off because you like all of them, the acting is really good but like any typical slasher movie you get the odd bad acting, but it kind of blends into the back ground because the movie is so much fun.
I loved the background story to Victor Crowley who is played by Kane Hodder who also did a lot of Friday the 13th’s as Jason Voorhees, He also plays the role of Victor Crowley’s father which is the first time in a movie he is not wearing a mask and it shows us his real acting skills which are perfect for the role.
There is no Shying away from the gore, a few death scenes are some of the most brutal death scenes I have seen in slasher a movie of this type, a lot of this movie feels like a modern up to date version of Friday the 13th which is not a bad thing because it gives up a raw feeling of knowing what is to come and knowing that Victor Crowley is not going to just lay down and take a beating.
Personally I think the make up to Victor Crowley is brilliant and very detailed, it has a disturbing look to it, and I think it is very refreshing to see a new Horror icon which we haven’t had since Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers or Freddy Kruger.
The Bad things about this movie are very few, mainly the length of the movie, I could have easily watched this movie for another 30 or 40 minutes, and the only other thing is I wish they showed more of the back ground story to Victor Crowley because I think his story is brilliant.
Scores:
Overall I loved the movie think everyone should watch it.
For acting and characterization 8/10
Atmosphere and scares 7.5/10
Gore and death scenes 8/10
Overall rating for this movie I cant give it any less than 8/10 I thought it was very refreshing and inventive.
Written By
Evil Bob
It's Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and Ben (Joel Moore) has reached booze and boobs overload. Recently dumped and pining after his girlfriend, he enlists his pal Marcus (Deon Richmond) to accompany him on a swamp tour in a boat that travels the spooky murk surrounding the city. Marcus is less than enthused until the crew of the low budget movie "Bayou Beavers" signs on, including amateur cameraman Shapiro (Joel Murray), pneumatic Misty (Mercedes McNab) and ditzy Jenna (Joleigh Fioreavanti). Joining them on the rickety cruiser are the painfully wholesome couple Mr. and Mrs. Permatteo (Richard Riehle and Patrika Darbo) and the beautiful-but-sullen Marybeth (Tamara Feldman).
Led by the P.T. Barnum of the swamp tour industry, fast-talking but slow-thinking showboater Shawn (Parry Shen) the tourists are decidedly underwhelmed by the fog, low-hanging branches and aggressively quiet sounds that Shawn tries to pass off as frightening. He launches into the story of Victor Crowley - yup, a legend in these parts - who is known to haunt the swamp. The boaters wave off the story as part of Shawn's continuing nonsense - except for Marybeth, who is notably discomforted.
Review:
The movie starts of awesome very fast paced, in the first 10 minutes you get 2 deaths which is great because most of the time it takes along time to get into a movie.
The movie has a lot of suspense and some very creative death scenes that you wouldn’t believe, the characters are great in this movie and it’s a shame when they start being killed off because you like all of them, the acting is really good but like any typical slasher movie you get the odd bad acting, but it kind of blends into the back ground because the movie is so much fun.
I loved the background story to Victor Crowley who is played by Kane Hodder who also did a lot of Friday the 13th’s as Jason Voorhees, He also plays the role of Victor Crowley’s father which is the first time in a movie he is not wearing a mask and it shows us his real acting skills which are perfect for the role.
There is no Shying away from the gore, a few death scenes are some of the most brutal death scenes I have seen in slasher a movie of this type, a lot of this movie feels like a modern up to date version of Friday the 13th which is not a bad thing because it gives up a raw feeling of knowing what is to come and knowing that Victor Crowley is not going to just lay down and take a beating.
Personally I think the make up to Victor Crowley is brilliant and very detailed, it has a disturbing look to it, and I think it is very refreshing to see a new Horror icon which we haven’t had since Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers or Freddy Kruger.
The Bad things about this movie are very few, mainly the length of the movie, I could have easily watched this movie for another 30 or 40 minutes, and the only other thing is I wish they showed more of the back ground story to Victor Crowley because I think his story is brilliant.
Scores:
Overall I loved the movie think everyone should watch it.
For acting and characterization 8/10
Atmosphere and scares 7.5/10
Gore and death scenes 8/10
Overall rating for this movie I cant give it any less than 8/10 I thought it was very refreshing and inventive.
Written By
Evil Bob
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