(MINOR spoilers) This film was made locally (I know people who work at the school in which it's set, and my niece was married in the church where they hold the funeral) so I thought if I didn't support it, nobody would - low budget indie comedy horror is a bit of an acquired taste.
I went in knowing only that it was about a teenager who came back from the dead to get his own back on the bullies who'd made his life hell, and that it was a "comedy-horror".
I could make a very long list of where this film failed to impress, but I can summarise them in three words: plot, characters and dialogue.
The plot holes are big enough to drive a cart and horses through. To call the characters stereotypes is a dis-service to every cheap television sitcom, and the dialogue is risible.
One element I found delightful were the constant references to the malfunctioning art-room guillotine - it's obvious that it'll come in handy, and the payoff could have been bigger, but it's well drawn-out.
The film sells itself as belonging to the slasher horror tradition and two of the dispatches work very well, others less so. And of course where there's teenage slash horror, there has to be sex and we are given a couple of fair sex scenes, although for my money Tom Hopper's shower scene tops them both for erotic content.
If I had to come up with a short tagline for this mess, it'd have to be "A lesson in how NOT to make a teen slasher movie!"
I went in knowing only that it was about a teenager who came back from the dead to get his own back on the bullies who'd made his life hell, and that it was a "comedy-horror".
I could make a very long list of where this film failed to impress, but I can summarise them in three words: plot, characters and dialogue.
The plot holes are big enough to drive a cart and horses through. To call the characters stereotypes is a dis-service to every cheap television sitcom, and the dialogue is risible.
One element I found delightful were the constant references to the malfunctioning art-room guillotine - it's obvious that it'll come in handy, and the payoff could have been bigger, but it's well drawn-out.
The film sells itself as belonging to the slasher horror tradition and two of the dispatches work very well, others less so. And of course where there's teenage slash horror, there has to be sex and we are given a couple of fair sex scenes, although for my money Tom Hopper's shower scene tops them both for erotic content.
If I had to come up with a short tagline for this mess, it'd have to be "A lesson in how NOT to make a teen slasher movie!"