AFTER DARK HORRORFEST III:
SLAUGHTER
03/25/09
SYNOPSIS: Looking to
escape an abusive relationship, Faith moves in with Lola at
her family’s farm. Every night the girls go out, the young
sexy Lola brings home an older man. When Faith realizes
Lola’s one night stands are disappearing, she fears Lola’s
creepy family is killing more than just animals in the
slaughter house.
REVIEW: After Dark
Horror fest is suppose to be a compilation of the scariest
movies there are. It suppose to give the audience a never
ending feeling of fear, mistrust, or repugnance.
Unfortunately, in my case I have not seen a movie in this
series that have appeal this feelings, I had a laugh with
the Nightmare Man last year, and the year before I was not
impress with Reincarnation, so when they offer me this time
around the option to do one of the movies from this year‘s
edition, I had already lost faith in this series,
nonetheless I gave it a try, and I have to say that this
time around Horror fest managed to somewhat catch my
attention with Slaughter.
First of all, I got to say that of all horror fest movies I
have seen this one is the best. This does not mean that
Slaughter is a classic of horror genre, but at least it will
catch you attention for a good 80 minutes. The story without
a doubt is very basic and in one dimension. The first scene
opens with an interesting sequences that suggest to the
audience a completely different thing of what it is actually
about to happen. The characters are appealing to the
audience and are easy to relate to, and the storyline gives
the audience passages of surprising and shocking scenes and
a good dose of mystery.
Each actor in the movie did an acceptable job performing its
part, out of all of them the most impressive ones were Lucy
Holt, she really understood her character. Lola is one of
the reasons this movie does not lose its audience at the
middle of the movie and Amy Shields supports her perfectly
with her role as Faith. Which says a lot about the casting
director, since they found the perfect actresses, since not
only their skills were impressing, but their looks also play
a key role in the movie. Technically the movie is also
superior to last year’s features. The image is more clear
and the settings are much better worked this time than
previous movies. The sound and music also goes according to
the movie and adds somehow emotions to it. However the movie
lacks impact. There are parts of the movie where the story
somehow loses its momentum, also seems that the director
decided to work more the psychological than the visual
element, for a movie called Slaughter it seems that it does
not have enough blood in it, the characters are not that
original, and finally it is easily to predict loosing
interest at the ending.
Summarizing, Slaughter gives you some kind of hope, it is
not a most seen horror flick, but at least it causes some
anxiety in the audience, it was a good choice for a Horror
fest. This one unlike previous ones will not make you laugh
as much, it will show you some scenes of pure distress and
it has a good suggestive ending for a horror movie. It is
said that this movie is based in true events which also adds
some more value to it, since it manages to entertain and
disturb the audience keeping each situations real and
possible, something rare in horror movies based in true
stories. Keeping in mind of the kind of movie this is I
would recommend this movie for fans of the horror fest
series, horror in general or fans of movies like Inside, and
hostel.
VIDEO:
Widescreen (1.78:1)
AUDIO:
English 5.1 Dolby Digital
Subtitles - English Spanish
SPECIAL FEATURES: I was really surprise to the look
of the DVD, it seems that Lions Gate put a lot of thought to
this years look, as most of this year’s DVD it comes
beautifully resented in its holographic cover. However the
special features are not nothing of the ordinary it has the
usual making of, deleted scenes and miss horror fest which I
did not find as amusing as the previous ones.
Miss Horrorfest webisodes:Unlike
the previous Miss horror fest this featuratte lacks the
comedy the previous ones had, there are some funny skits but
they lose intensity with all the interruptions of the
credits, in my opinion this is not that funny to be this
long(57:45)
“The
Making of Slaughter” featurette: this is the usual
making of featuratte where the director, actresses, actors,
and special effects crew are interview about the movie. It
is somehow interesting for people into this kind of thing
but not a most seen feature (29:05)
Deleted Scenes: Four deleted scenes that add little
or nothing to the movie, they are not worth watching (3:57)
Review
By Milo
milo@smartcine.com
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