A girl, Lauan, is worried about her sister whom jaunted off to a weekend getaway at a haunted prison with some friends. She enlists the help of her two friends and away they go. along the way they meet up with two local cats, a dumb deputy and a strapping wood cutter and former prison guard named Mason. The meeting of mason is perfect, they pull up and this shirtless guy is chopping up wood with an ax. Nice foreshadowing. They all go off and head to their doom! Now that the clunky exposition is out of the way we get to the really good stuff. right away Launa's two horny friends go off and have themselves a "conjugal visit" right next door to a rotten corpse... classic! If I had one thing to change about this movie it would be to have more of this and make it a zombified women in prison film. From there we have some nice blood and guts as well as some nice scares that really sneak up on you and get in your head. The ending was nice because it was not what you'd expect from a splatter flick like this. It was kind of touching which was cool. The main girl did a great job and I felt bad for her. I'm a big fan of maverick filmmakers going against the grain and making some off the wall stuff. That's exactly what these guys are doing. I'm looking forward to see what's next on their plate.
Review of The 8th Plague
