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Now that we've the necessary disclaimer established, here was have yet another in a seemingly endless line of horror movies where all of the characters die. In the epic poem by Dante, he is counseled, while at the gates of Hell, to "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here". If you're going to watch this movie, you may wish to consider that same advice.
At the beginning, the characters are so shallow and cliché that you want them to all die, and most horribly. But as the movie progresses, some of them do exhibit at least a modicum of decency. They're still not particularly likable, but you do at least begin to pity them their plight.
The plot isn't particularly imaginative; there's nothing here that you likely haven't seen before. People go into the wilderness to party hearty. You have your requisite sex scene, although there is surprisingly little nudity in the movie. You've got your typical druggie skank, and so on and so on. It was rather interesting that the killer wasn't some hideously disfigured superhuman juggernaut. He's just some redneck living out in the woods who likes to skin people. Oh, he does like to stuff the skins with some other substance and then have sex with them. I haven't seen that one very often before.
As I said before, there's not a whole lot new here. This is just another in an increasingly long line of movies and titles where everyone in the movie dies. There's no hope for survival however hard they fight or struggle. Sometimes, that does make for an interesting movie, but now it's so overused that it's a boring plot device. At least in this movie, when the killer dies, he doesn't spring to his feet miraculously at the end, prepared to wreak havoc in the sequel.
Now that we've the necessary disclaimer established, here was have yet another in a seemingly endless line of horror movies where all of the characters die. In the epic poem by Dante, he is counseled, while at the gates of Hell, to "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here". If you're going to watch this movie, you may wish to consider that same advice.
At the beginning, the characters are so shallow and cliché that you want them to all die, and most horribly. But as the movie progresses, some of them do exhibit at least a modicum of decency. They're still not particularly likable, but you do at least begin to pity them their plight.
The plot isn't particularly imaginative; there's nothing here that you likely haven't seen before. People go into the wilderness to party hearty. You have your requisite sex scene, although there is surprisingly little nudity in the movie. You've got your typical druggie skank, and so on and so on. It was rather interesting that the killer wasn't some hideously disfigured superhuman juggernaut. He's just some redneck living out in the woods who likes to skin people. Oh, he does like to stuff the skins with some other substance and then have sex with them. I haven't seen that one very often before.
As I said before, there's not a whole lot new here. This is just another in an increasingly long line of movies and titles where everyone in the movie dies. There's no hope for survival however hard they fight or struggle. Sometimes, that does make for an interesting movie, but now it's so overused that it's a boring plot device. At least in this movie, when the killer dies, he doesn't spring to his feet miraculously at the end, prepared to wreak havoc in the sequel.