Five college kids head to Fairlake, West Virginia for the "Mountain Man" festival on Halloween. They don't make it as they almost hit a man on the road and crash their car. The man, Maynard Odets (Doug Bradley), attacks them and soon everyone is arrested by Sheriff Angela Carter (Camilla Arfwedson). This is bad news because Maynard is a serial killer who just happens to live with our mutant hillbilly trio and, before you can say Assault on Precinct 13, they are descending upon the jail to free him.
I thought this one might have a chance when the title card had the 5 in the form of a severed hand. Funny. After this shot, Bradley asks the cannibals for a hand and one picks it up to hand to him (wahwah). He says, "With the body!" (wahwahwah) showing the film has all the subtlety of Leatherface with a hammer. It is kind of amazing that returning director Declan O'Brien shot this back-to-back with part 4 and it looks so much cheaper. For example, they skimp on the rednecks make up with Saw Tooth and One Eye looking like they are wearing cheap masks. Also, they look like cheap Geico caveman masks. There is gore, but it is cheap too.
Speaking of cheap, Bradley must have been held in glass box in the Bulgarian back lot that said "break in case of unnecessary sequel" and he sometimes attempts a West Virginia accent as his finds 50 ways to say, "Y'all gonna die." His character refers to the rednecks as "my boys" but it is never really clear if he is related to them or a character from the earlier films (remember, 4 &5 are prequels to parts 1-3; you will be quizzed on this). Some people theorize he is their father, but that can't be as 4 opened stating that as teens they killed their parents. Ah, jeez, someone get me a chalk board.
I thought this one might have a chance when the title card had the 5 in the form of a severed hand. Funny. After this shot, Bradley asks the cannibals for a hand and one picks it up to hand to him (wahwah). He says, "With the body!" (wahwahwah) showing the film has all the subtlety of Leatherface with a hammer. It is kind of amazing that returning director Declan O'Brien shot this back-to-back with part 4 and it looks so much cheaper. For example, they skimp on the rednecks make up with Saw Tooth and One Eye looking like they are wearing cheap masks. Also, they look like cheap Geico caveman masks. There is gore, but it is cheap too.
Speaking of cheap, Bradley must have been held in glass box in the Bulgarian back lot that said "break in case of unnecessary sequel" and he sometimes attempts a West Virginia accent as his finds 50 ways to say, "Y'all gonna die." His character refers to the rednecks as "my boys" but it is never really clear if he is related to them or a character from the earlier films (remember, 4 &5 are prequels to parts 1-3; you will be quizzed on this). Some people theorize he is their father, but that can't be as 4 opened stating that as teens they killed their parents. Ah, jeez, someone get me a chalk board.