I was not expecting too much from this film, but I was immediately surprised by how gravely and nearly how bad the grandpa. Other than that, it was a pretty predictable ride for a slasher film with a very tacked on supernatural finish that one also could see coming from 5000 miles away. Could have been more entertaining with more supernatural features and taking away the reveal of the killer which was totally telegraphed way too hard to be surprising.
The story, a kindly grandpa delivers his favorite grandson his choice of pumpkin and a secret gift. The mother is infuriated when she finds this out and the dad goes to tell grandpa to lay off! Well, grandpa is a Satanic cult leader who kills off dad and the boy finds out later that grandpa gave him a Satanic trinket. Years later the mother is struggling to keep her family together to the point on not wanting her very grown children to ever live so they can be together and she seems quite obsessed with this idea and yeah, it is not grandpa doing the majority of the killings it is her. Too obvious, especially when you see her dirty in the scene after the guy is killed in a freshly dug grave. Then grandpa touches one of her other sons on the head and he becomes the leader of the cult!
We get very gravely grandpa, we get ever fretting and crazy mommy, a poser Satanist in the son who is grandpa's first choice, a deputy who is having sex on graves so I think he is the better choice at the end, clueless daughter and assorted friends! Fun cast! Not really, but all of these people are better than the random standup act in the middle of the movie...I still haven't figured that one out as people were laughing and what he said was absolutely not funny. I am talking not even funny for that time, not as someone who does not enjoy older comedy and standup acts...
So, the film is entertaining in its way, but clearly not in a way to make it a good horror movie. It is not scary, the mystery is rendered obsolete after the first kill and what comedy there is, is not funny. However, it moves at a fairly quick pace and there are some nice boobs and one heck of a nice swimming pool. A pool whose chlorine level needs in dire need of attention as it is so strong it fades a girl's butt tattoo!
The story, a kindly grandpa delivers his favorite grandson his choice of pumpkin and a secret gift. The mother is infuriated when she finds this out and the dad goes to tell grandpa to lay off! Well, grandpa is a Satanic cult leader who kills off dad and the boy finds out later that grandpa gave him a Satanic trinket. Years later the mother is struggling to keep her family together to the point on not wanting her very grown children to ever live so they can be together and she seems quite obsessed with this idea and yeah, it is not grandpa doing the majority of the killings it is her. Too obvious, especially when you see her dirty in the scene after the guy is killed in a freshly dug grave. Then grandpa touches one of her other sons on the head and he becomes the leader of the cult!
We get very gravely grandpa, we get ever fretting and crazy mommy, a poser Satanist in the son who is grandpa's first choice, a deputy who is having sex on graves so I think he is the better choice at the end, clueless daughter and assorted friends! Fun cast! Not really, but all of these people are better than the random standup act in the middle of the movie...I still haven't figured that one out as people were laughing and what he said was absolutely not funny. I am talking not even funny for that time, not as someone who does not enjoy older comedy and standup acts...
So, the film is entertaining in its way, but clearly not in a way to make it a good horror movie. It is not scary, the mystery is rendered obsolete after the first kill and what comedy there is, is not funny. However, it moves at a fairly quick pace and there are some nice boobs and one heck of a nice swimming pool. A pool whose chlorine level needs in dire need of attention as it is so strong it fades a girl's butt tattoo!