Traveling together to Vegas, a group of friends celebrating their upcoming graduation get stranded in the woods after taking a detour and find themselves stalked by a family of deformed killers living in a rural house in the area, forcing them to fight off the group to get away alive.
This here was quite an impressive and enjoyable slasher. One of the biggest pluses here is the strong action in the opening section which starts this off strongly as the roadside accident and repair, chase through the woods and the eventual accident that results in their friends' death get this started on a great note. That continues along nicely as the discovery of the other girl out there and their quest to get help brings them into contact with the family is some really fun scenes here with the foot-chase through the woods being pretty thrilling, the stalking in the basement is fun with the race to escape undetected and getting found-out leading to the brutal encounter between them as the remaining friends try to save him and the creepy encounter on the second floor of the house is a lot of fun with the use of the darkened room providing a fine hiding spot to launch the surprise ambush on the victims while letting their fighting here be quite exciting. These all allow for quite the exciting pace as there are plenty of enjoyable encounters spread throughout here to give this hardly any down-time as this all leads into the better action found in the finale. That is where this one gets plenty of fun encounters in a thrilling chase through the walls inside the house while he tries to break inside to et at them, a great brawl in the living room where they go after the policeman attempting to rescue them and a rather thrilling battle with the survivors out into the woods around his house that makes for a really enjoyable finish here. There are also a few chilling and suspenseful scenes here as they explore the house by themselves that injects some great atmosphere into the film. As all these give the film a big body count which also gives this one some decent deaths and gore as well which help this nicely, there's enough provided here to hold off the film's flaws. The main issue here is the film's rather obvious low-budget nature which trips itself up at times, especially in the beginning where this one tends to let them be front and center. From the way they showcase the closed-in atmosphere, weak camera-work that looks distinctly digital and the cheap feel here that all give away the low-budget nature, and while they're all problematic the digital camerawork becomes distracting here when the blurriness is featured constantly for numerous scenes and ruining their impact. The other issue here is that there's absolutely zero impact here against the main killer who isn't really that threatening as he's barely bigger than the other guys, the scar is ridiculously cheesy-looking instead of imposing and the lack of backstory until the final act makes for a simply confusing and makes for a truly lame and rather disappointing main villain. These here do hold this one back though there are enough positives here to make it enjoyable.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and Brief Nudity.
This here was quite an impressive and enjoyable slasher. One of the biggest pluses here is the strong action in the opening section which starts this off strongly as the roadside accident and repair, chase through the woods and the eventual accident that results in their friends' death get this started on a great note. That continues along nicely as the discovery of the other girl out there and their quest to get help brings them into contact with the family is some really fun scenes here with the foot-chase through the woods being pretty thrilling, the stalking in the basement is fun with the race to escape undetected and getting found-out leading to the brutal encounter between them as the remaining friends try to save him and the creepy encounter on the second floor of the house is a lot of fun with the use of the darkened room providing a fine hiding spot to launch the surprise ambush on the victims while letting their fighting here be quite exciting. These all allow for quite the exciting pace as there are plenty of enjoyable encounters spread throughout here to give this hardly any down-time as this all leads into the better action found in the finale. That is where this one gets plenty of fun encounters in a thrilling chase through the walls inside the house while he tries to break inside to et at them, a great brawl in the living room where they go after the policeman attempting to rescue them and a rather thrilling battle with the survivors out into the woods around his house that makes for a really enjoyable finish here. There are also a few chilling and suspenseful scenes here as they explore the house by themselves that injects some great atmosphere into the film. As all these give the film a big body count which also gives this one some decent deaths and gore as well which help this nicely, there's enough provided here to hold off the film's flaws. The main issue here is the film's rather obvious low-budget nature which trips itself up at times, especially in the beginning where this one tends to let them be front and center. From the way they showcase the closed-in atmosphere, weak camera-work that looks distinctly digital and the cheap feel here that all give away the low-budget nature, and while they're all problematic the digital camerawork becomes distracting here when the blurriness is featured constantly for numerous scenes and ruining their impact. The other issue here is that there's absolutely zero impact here against the main killer who isn't really that threatening as he's barely bigger than the other guys, the scar is ridiculously cheesy-looking instead of imposing and the lack of backstory until the final act makes for a simply confusing and makes for a truly lame and rather disappointing main villain. These here do hold this one back though there are enough positives here to make it enjoyable.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and Brief Nudity.