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Pretty good B horror that ended with a nice set up for the sequel.

I was hard pressed to find a slasher movie that I hadn't seen before and didn't suck and this worked out well. Decent story, it was acted well and it didn't try too hard to be something it wasn't (I. E. it didn't take itself too seriously) good gore/good violence/simple plot, what's not to like?!?!??

After reading the reviews I decided to make up my own. Yeah the killing scenes aren't very gory and you'll wonder why the girl does certain things. Overall the actors are great, the killings simple and the ending was not what I expected. Definitely worth a watch 🎬

With an 80s vibe and soundtrack it's not a bad film, if you know your horror this film is pretty much zipper face with a car. Worth an hour and half of your time albeit very predictable.

In a small New Mexico town, a 17-year-old high school girl (Makenzie Vega) who just got her driver's license gets into her first fender bender, innocently exchanging her personal information with an apologetic stranger (Bill Sage).

When listing off the so-called masters of horror, the name Mark Pavia does not typically come up. But Pavia did make a great horror film -- "The Night Flier" -- and has finally returned to the director's chair for "Fender Bender". Where were you, Mark? We missed you! This time, in cooperation with Scream! Factory and Chiller, Pavia takes on the slasher film. This is his baby, through and through: he wrote the script based on his original idea, he directs and he helped produce. And what we get is a pretty decent addition to the genre. Although this is more of a PG-13 horror (no nudity or cursing), it still has its share of gore and it really excels in the way it handles pacing. Cinematography Tyler Cushing lets his camera hover on various things just long enough to build suspense and keep us on edge.

The story also has a nice subplot. Although the identity of the killer is firmly established early on, a cheating boyfriend (or ex-boyfriend) also plays a significant role... and leaves the audience guessing who is going to be the one showing up at the door. And who is more dangerous, a stalking killer or a drunk and emotional ex-boyfriend? While "Fender Bender" is definitely not going to be as big of a hit as "Night Flier", it is still far better than basically every made-for-TV horror and sci-fi film out there. Pavia relies on classic storytelling and shies away from cheap scares and terrible CGI. With the exception of perhaps the "Sharknado" series, SyFy has never come close to what Chiller is unveiling with this.

Welcome back, Mark Pavia. Please don't be a stranger.

I have seen some reviews claiming this is a 'return to the slasher era'. Well, that about says it all. Cheap, badly written script, poor direction and old hat. It takes 49 minutes for our slasher friend to actually do something at all. He is the most unbelievable slasher of all time. Looks like a bank teller, moves and speaks like he has a brain malfunction and might as well have had a red neon arrow on his head saying 'weirdo', but no one notices. He likes to kill people with what looks like a sharp door-handle, come plasterer's trowel and is so slow a snail could escape him. His victims deserve to die, because they are utter and complete morons. The plot is obvious and the end is even more so. The acting isn't half bad, to say the script was appalling, but the sheer absurdity of it all is laughable. A better title for this farce would have been 'gender bender', because, for reasons never apparent, the killer chooses to carry out his crimes dressed as a gimp. My grandmother could have outrun this douche and she had one leg (ok out-hopped). If you have a feeble mind you may enjoy this drivel, but if you have a brain, don't waste your time and/or money watching this Halloween-clichéd, boring, poor excuse for a movie.

I recently viewed Fender Bender (2016) on Shudder. The plot revolves around a young lady driver involved in a car accident who, after exchanging contact information, finds herself entangled in a series of murders. As the body count rises, she may regret sharing her contact information...

This film is written and directed by Mark Pavia (The Night Flier) and features Cassidy Freeman (The Forever Purge), Makenzie Vega (The Good Wife), Bill Sage (We Are What We Are) and Dre Davis (Pretty Little Liars).

Surprisingly, I enjoyed this movie more than I expected. The circumstances felt authentic, and the acting was relatable. The cinematography was crisp, providing a realistic aesthetic. The overall vibe of the film is reminiscent of '90s slashers, with a notable slasher costume and intense kill scenes. The gore and brutality add to the film's impact, and the ending pleasantly defies clichés, avoiding a cop-out conclusion. I would welcome a sequel.

In summary, Fender Bender proves to be a noteworthy addition to the slasher genre. I'd give this a 6/10 and recommend a giving it a shot.

Excellent production values and performances make this film worth the watch. The electronic music is great and the ending is original. I've seen this film a few times and could see it easily becoming a cult classic. Good, scary, and fast paced. Enjoy it.

By now I think all horror fans know what to expect when they turn on a slasher movie, 99% of the time you aren't gonna get anything ground breaking that does anything new for the genre, we know it's going to be a killer that slowly picks off some dumb kids one by one until there is one left who may or may not survive the night. So really the best we can hope for is some not so annoying characters, a somewhat intriguing killer, and some brutal kills. "Fender Bender" delivers somewhat in those aspects.

Our main character is a naive 17 year old girl who finds out that her boyfriend is cheating on her, shortly after that her bad day gets worse when her car is hit from behind while she is stopped at a stop sign, she is un-harmed and there isn't much damage to her car so here and the driver who hit her exchange info and go on their ways. I thought this was an OK way to kick off a slasher movie, and a fairly interesting way to introduce our killer (not a spoiler, they make it pretty evident that he is the killer from the get go), it was kind of cool to see the main character interact with the killer before all the killing began.

So after a little bit of story development the killing starts, one thing some slasher movies do wrong is wait way too long before they start killing people off but "Fender Bender" does a good job of getting started right as the set up is starting to feel tired. The kills were actually pretty good too, fairly graphic with a decent amount of gore and the effects were well done for sure. The actors weren't the best though and the characters really weren't all that interesting so I didn't care all they much when they died, but at least the kills were entertaining. Everything leads up to a rather familiar finale with a slightly emotional twist which I thought was well done.

I think fans of slasher movies who aren't bothered too much by the usual clichés and the not so great acting will be able to find things to like in the movie. It doesn't really try anything new but it does a good job of delivering what we expect to see from a slasher flick.

6/10

Just to sum up the movie in a few words here, I recently saw this movie and trust me I WAS NOT ASSOCIATED IN ANY ASPECT OF THIS MOVIE'S MAKING, PRODUCTION OR ACTING DEPARTMENT.So , this is not a forced recommendation when i say just watch this one. You will enjoy it , it has a nice touch to it , the screenplay, direction & story by Mark Pavia is quite well executed. Without getting too much into the plot, cause the director makes it pretty obvious when the first credits start to role that this one is going to be a slasher. Yes their is a nice plot to the movie,its not just duh what is going on here.??The acting department with less and meaningful characters is well handled too, no Oscars here, but who cares.. If you love the good ol slasher movies of the 80's and 90's you will like this one, and with a run time of just 1 hour and 30 mins its well worth your time. A good background and end credit score with a nice hint for a sequel ends this movie... ENJOY IT

I'm gonna have to discuss some spoilers so for those that are looking for a general review to help you decide whether or not to watch it, I'm gonna handle that right here.

This film is about a teenage girl who's car is rear ended by a serial killer who uses insurance information to stalk and kill his victims. Will she survive? This is the plot for this B movie. It has some problems but if you enjoy B movies you know they can't all be winners. This film teeters on a fine line between forgivable and unforgivable moments. I think this is one that you have to watch and judge for yourself. Some folks are more tolerable than others. You'll just have to chance it with this one.

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Here are my gripes with this film.

There were times when I thought that some of the actors showed some potential that might be reached with more time and practice.

The script was not good. They had the girl going between acting responsible for her age and clinging and talking to a teddy bear like a 4 year old. She finds pictures taken while she was in the shower along with muddy footprints, that she somehow managed to avoid stepping in, just outside the bathroom entry. She hears things, goes into her bedroom and simply gets dressed to come out of the room with a bat. This is nonsensical. She had her phone but didn't call the cops. She also finds a weird cake with the word sorry on it, sitting on the roof of her car. She doesn't know who it is from but she keeps it rather than tossing it out. When she gains access to the car, she turns it on just so she can heat the cigarette lighter rather than getting the hell out of there. Another nonsensical moment but this one kinda repeats itself when she knocks dude out and didn't leave the property then.

The setting, OMG! I can not be the only person to notice that there was enough thunder, wind and lightning to make you believe that a storm of biblical devastation was about to happen. There was never a single drop of rain and you could even see a layer of dust on the killer's vehicle. When considering that, it leaves you to asked how the killer left muddy shoe prints outside the bathroom entry. Why?

The only thing that I really, really liked about this was the killer's knife. It was unique to me and I liked that. Everything else just seemed to have lacked good editing and an eye for detail.

After getting into a car accident, a teen finds that the driver she gave the insurance information to is a vicious serial killer intent on targeting victims in the same manner and tries to help her friends visiting her for the weekend when he shows up to finish the job.

This one here wasn't all that great of a slasher. The main issue with this one is the fact that this one just seems to go about itself so slowly that there's just a dreadful and dull pace to it. Even though there's the tell-tale accident quite early in the film, this one really ends to go on forever before it does any kind of slashing antics with it featuring the nearly endless scenes of her around the house doing nothing of any real substance during them as it just consists of variations of her complaining about her shabby treatment by her parents and simply wandering around the house trying to pass the time which is tedious, endless and just not that interesting to watch it happen. That leaves the killer with so little screen-time that he finally appears only in the final half of the film do it also really affects two other key areas in a slasher film about not having too many stalking scenes as well as having quite a low body-count featured here. This one has just a couple stalking scenes overall here as the film's taken up with so many non-slasher scenes there's not really any time for it to engage in these once we get there, and a part of that also comes from the fact that there's just such a flimsy story here to support this kind of slasher film so it's pacing is off quite significantly here with all that blandness up front as well as the extended prologue at the end showing him cleaning up his crimes that also manages to take up plenty of time here since the story is weak and the pacing off. Likewise, the dullness here also tends to make the film simply packed in the one section with kills but nothing else anywhere in the film so there's another major flaw here in the amount of kills it features featuring some of the weakest kills possible anyway. These here really troubling and lower this one significantly. When this one works it's got quite a lot of impressive stalking moments found in the later half here as the scenes of the killer going after the friends which gives this the kind of tense, impressive stalking throughout here as the immediate appearance to let them know he's there gives this a truly dynamic chase here. The darkened house is a fine setting which the stalking takes full advantage of with plenty of set-pieces within the house of him stalking the group and taking the encounters to the different rooms and locations as he goes through his paces hunting them down. That even leads into the traditional final-girl chase here which is a thrilling, action- packed set-piece that is far more interesting than anything else in the film as she pulls off a truly enjoyable fight against him and takes it to him which is what makes this a fantastic finish and really saves this one. It's just that the problems here really hold this one down.

Rated Unrated/R: Violence and Language.

This movie is not worth your time. Main character is implausibly dumb. An automotive cigarette lighter does not spark. This movie will frustrate you and is ultimately unsatisfying in its predictability. You've been warned.

Just awful. Do not do it. I'll go on. It's so bad it's a real shame it was made at all. There were a couple minutes, where we thought "maybe it'll be alright" we were wrong. It was not alright. It was really, truly awful. I've never left a review for a movie before, but I had to express my displeasure with this one.

A tale as old as time: an older creepy male lures on unsuspecting female victims to kill them, only this time the method differs. For whatever reason this guy likes rear ending womens' cars in order to get their personal information, to in turn send text messages on their phone and show up at their houses and murder them. There was some buildup, but I thought the ending was too subdued.

The main actress Mackenzie Vega is quite beautiful, bright, and charming. The Apple doesn't fall far from the tree; her older sister Alexa also is a star. Mackenzie's character, the ex boyfriend, and the two friends are lackadaisical, but they somehow make this a legitimate film.

I will say this is the first slasher movies I've seen that's remotely entertaining. It just needed a stronger backstory for the killer, and perhaps some kind of reaction from the parents as they get home to see the carnage.

A dreadfully boring slasher with a particularly unconvincing actor for the killer, who when not masked, looks a normal guy trying real hard to be creepy and scary and it's not working. The lead victim (& and the first victim) is braindead and does sheerly unrealistic things, carrying a cellphone around all the time and not doing anything with it, not even to text her local friends that she talked to earlier in the same day. There is zero connection to any character because they're just going through the shallow motions of a bare script. There is no redeeming quality in this horror flick, because there is barely any blood, and no gore, so even the killing is boring. The acting is bad by everyone involved, the music is decent, but you hear the same 80s basic electronic riffs in so many other horror films that at least have some blood and guts to it.

Very 80s style slasher film, which I like so I enjoyed.

These films always were quite stupid so no surprises but a decent job by all in quite a low budget film.