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When it comes to Low Budget Horror...


...there's a right way (the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and then there's a wrong way and this movie is a shining example of the wrong way to make a scary movie.

Within five seconds after this movie starts, you'll probably say to yourself, "Oh boy. Another bad Low Budget Horror." I've never made a movie myself, but whatever film was used to shoot this automatically gives off a cheap vibe. And classifying this movie as horror is a reach. The acting is bad, the scenes don't amount to much of anything and the bad guy is so utterly unconvincing. It's not scary, not intense, and watching it doesn't really elicit much of anything other than the feeling of knowing I can't get my money back when I'm not satisfied or entertained by crap movies. If only Blockbuster had a money back guarantee.

I actually gave this movie a chance but ten minutes in I was pressing fast forward trying to find anything to redeem this waste of time. One redeeming feature: at least the wife character shows a little skin at the end, but I'm guessing even that was part of some latex special effect for the stomach scene.

Bottom Line: don't even bother with this one. If this movie comes recommended by someone you know, you can damn well know for certain they've never really seen a truly scary movie. Show that person a really good horror movie and you can bet they'd be traumatized.

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