While not a great film this movie was a pretty fun and gory ride.Maybe there isn't anything very original here but it does keep you interested all the way through.
A group of people on a scare tour of a New Orleans swamp get stuck out in the swamp after their boat runs aground.One of the people on board is a local who tells them of the legend of a boy,last name of Crowley, borned deformed who was killed with a hatchet by his daddy.Soon after his death people started disappearing in the swamp and our group of tourists have landed smack dab in the middle of Ol'Crowley's territory.You can probably figure out the rest.
OK so the DVD box at the rental store over-hyped this thing a mite,but it was still a decent horror flick.Like I said there is nothing terribly original here,the Crowley thing kinda looks like an uglier version of Jason and poor old Robert Englund makes yet another horror film cameo and it's a bunch of mostly 20 year olds running from a boogerman but still this film had some attitude.
While not the coolest gore I've seen ,the gore is gruesome ,hacking and tearing and all sorts of blood.The director, Adam Green,has a thing about throwing gobs of blood on a tree when someone gets killed,not sure what that represented,and as he explains in one of the DVD extras he also has a fascination with Dee Snider of Twisted Sister fame and I'm really not sure why we would care enough for him to go into such detail.Even Dee is there gushing about meeting Adam,you two get a room.
Anyway there were lots of blood and guts.One chick has most of her face taken off with a grinder and I wondered how you charge a grinder out in the middle of a swamp.Oh well,the little details....
The "eye-popping" nudity the DVD box promised turned out to be a few quick shots of chicks flashing their mammaries at Mardi Gras trying to get some beads.There were a couple of big sets but they were too far away and too quickly shown to make me happy.Why can't we ever see really huge all natural bigguns in horror movies instead of those A cups? I'm not sure if this movie was pretty decent or I was just relieved not to have rented yet another totally sucky horror film,I've had a long streak of losers lately ,but either way it was an OK movie.I gave it a six,which may be a little high but, doggone it, I'm tired of handing out threes all the time.
Not good enough to add to the collection but probably good enough to rent part two when it comes out.
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