Although, I have to agree that the movie was little low budget, for what M. Flaman did in such a short period of time and with a $100,000 budget, wasn't too bad for his first movie. The plot of this movie was a good one and I can see what his intentions were. He had a good story going, I just found that the movie progressed a little slowly. Instead of throwing in a ton of gore, horror, etc... I found that most of the movie was a build-up of suspense toward a twisted, yet clever, ending. In my opinion, he was trying to show us the background behind each of the characters and throw in some side-stories in order to allow us to slowly put the pieces of the plot together. Some of the corky one-liners weren't too bad either. The movie did have a lot of filler, in the sense that, instead of focusing on actual horrific events/scenes, it seemed to over-explain the sub-plot of the story (a bunch of teenagers/young adults getting themselves into ridiculous situations while camping on a lake). I also didn't really enjoy how a lot of the scenes cut-out. I get that he was trying to build suspense, but a little blood in a horror movie doesn't hurt. I did enjoy the ending very much. It tied up MOST of the loose ends in the story. If the whole movie were more like the ending, it for sure would have gone places. I will definitely watch for this writers/directors future projects.
Review of The White Dog Sacrifice
