Are they going to make a sequel? SlasherPool slammed this flick and after watching it, I understand why, the usual wooden awful acting, but bad production, out of focus cameras. I'm wondering what the budget was on this one. They fool you with great cover art, but this should have never seen the likes of distribution even from direct to dvd standards.
They just labeld it wrong. This is *beep* comedy!!! whoever put horror there, apperantly didn't watch any scary movie in his life! I was just expecting somebody to show up in the movie and say "this is just a part of the comedy Scary Movie V, Enjoy!"
My favorite part was when they found Chopper's "Hideout": "Those are human skulls!" "Yeah, I guess they are." And then when the nurses come runnig out from behind the trees with ****ing bats....oh my god, I was laughing so hard.
People! Your judging this like it's some legit flick. Hello? This is B-movie perfection. Reminds me of great 80s slashers. The cheese factor overfloweth.
I mean, the first time you see this ashy old man leatherbound on a chopper trying to fit the ominous "Dr. Chopper" image....I don't know. I still chuckle at the first siting whenever I catch it on skinamax.
"B movie"? How dare you! B movies are competently made, professional appearing stories with second rank stars. Bruce Campbell makes B Movies. Michael Pare and Dolph Lundgren make B movies. And none of those worthy gentlemen would have appeared in this piece of crap for all the money in the world. Costas Mandylor looked heavily sedated and clinically depressed throughout his entire performance and he clearly had reason for that. Appearing in this movie is tacit acknowledgment that your career has entered the Jan Michael Vincent depths of acting and personal integrity hell.
The movie made absolutely no sense. We never learned why Dr. Chopper went crazy in the first place, why the loser nurses threw their lives away in order to live in filth and degredation near the good doctor or what "magical" medical procedures the Doctor had developed to keep him semi-preserved. We also never learn why the son continued ACTING sane while he was swiftly decending into an unexplained and unlikely insanity. And how those pathetic nurses could kill ANYONE, much less healthy young men and women is just given to us with no attempt to make it logical. And remember when the park ranger got killed? How? How did that pathetic middle-aged woman overcome him? And afterwards, why was the the head ranger, our very own Costas Mandylor so completely and overwhelmingly TERRIFIED of the one feeble nurse?
Nothing about this thing showed any trace of competent screenwriting. Or competent directing. Or competent acting. This wasn't a movie; it was a student-made project at a third-rate film program and it wasn't even a passing grade.
Movies like this are what kept the drive-ins alive in the 60-70's. Today we hear everyone talk about the cool old grindhouse flicks....WELL, that's exactly what this is! 30 years from now, someone will have memory of this and it will sound like an "era charm". Take it for what it is. It's both cheese and attempted horror. If it gets too bad, I still have my good old fast forward.
the only reason i saw this was because costas mandylor was in it.... and now i think i like him just a bit less. he was the only one who can act, yes even if it was that bad. those kids were horrible. the one that played dr. choppers son especially. god when he started to speak my ears felt like they wanted to jump off my head.