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SLASHER MASTERPIECE!!!!

posted 17 years ago by bad_habitt
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I loved this film! clever writing, amazing casting, great acting and deaths supreme!

projectile-d battle axe to the back of the spine - OUCH!

(spoilers)

the only thing i didnt like so much was in the ending, we find that the killers mother did all the killings 20 years prior. however why did he end up killing people anyway in the present time after escaping the hospital? kinda weird but maybe someone can explain it.

either way - HIGHLY reccomended!

"how about... a royal flush!" *loren avedon kicks a cauldron of boiling water into the bad guys*

[–] apologizesoftware 17 years ago

The guy did all the killing probably because of all his built up rage about having to stay in a mental institute for all those years when he apparently did nothing wrong.

I'd be more than a little huffy myself, if it happenned to me.

[–] apologizesoftware 17 years ago

or he may have learned from his mama that it's okay to kill college girls. Either way, this is a great movie

[–] bad_habitt 17 years ago

indeed!

"how about... a royal flush!" *loren avedon kicks a cauldron of boiling water into the bad guys*

[–] petekrug17 17 years ago

Glad some of you guys feel the same way I do. What I really like about this film is the ending. (I'd give a spoiler warning here, but then anyone who's read this far has already gotten a spoiler warning and has either seen the film or shouldn't be reading right now.) Anyway, I like how this film DOESN'T have the already done-to-death-by-then slasher ending where the thought-to-be-dead killer suddenly springs back to life. The fact that it has a nice happy ending where the two heros end up alive and safe was a nice refreshing change of pace for me. That alone made the movie for me. (Though I did still enjoy the film throughout.)

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[–] Voodoo_Chilli 16 years ago

Got to agree with you on that. Falsly accused of a mass murder which ends up with him spending 17 years zipped up in a clear plastic body bag, hooked up to machines that that feed, sedate and remove bodily waste whilst under the care of a Dr who clearly couldn't care less for his well being would be enough to drive anyone insane.
Theres also the fact that he was mute an maybe mildly retarded and was abused by the young girls whose brutal murders he witnessed the hands of the one person he loved and trusted - his mother. That surely had to have some impact on his mental state.