Pickaxe

The first 5 minutes offer potential .The rest is just awful Avoid

Quite possibly the worst movie in every way imaginable. Terrible special effects, awful acting, bad script. The Title states that it is Part III. There is no Part I or Part II. Obviously, it is some lame attempt at humor and an even lamer attempt to suggest that two other movies of the same worthless nature were made before it. The acting is just bad all around, in every way, in every second of this movie. I'll mention a few things concerning the special effects. No, you cannot behead someone with a pick-axe. Its just not physically possible to swing it once and cut the head completely off. Second, human entrails do not look like ketchup covered sausage links. Not even close. The only redeeming part of this movie that even warrants watching is the first 5 minutes with the nude girl. Turn it off after that. Truly a worthless piece. Do not waste your time.

Heading out for a concert together, a group of friends picks up a group of hitchhikers also looking to attend the same concert and head out to a local cabin in the woods to party in preparation for it, but when they realize that a local legend involving a deranged indestructible serial killer is true they try to get away from the madman.

This was quite an enjoyable slasher throwback effort. The big thing about this one that works is the wholly enjoyable backstory setup which gives this a strong entry-point. The opening monologue about the history of the killer affecting the town and his rampages in the past gives the film an impressive enough backstory about the killer stalking the residents, while the first sequence about the couple resurrecting the killer out in the woods is a spectacular surprise with a shocking reveal and tons of fun occult rituals to get everything in motion. Given that everything is shown to have affected everyone in the town and explains their behavior manages to come across quite nicely, this has a solid starting point to get into. The other big plus to be had here is the enjoyably cheesy style of slashing scenes throughout here. The idea of the film eschewing the traditional stalking in favor of quick ambushes out of nowhere to deliver a brutal and rapid-fire attacks which offer up plenty of brutal, gory kills is a fun factor running through here. The series of attacks are enhanced at the end where it focuses on the stellar rampage at the concert and the subsequent attack at the house where he takes out the cast in fun fashion, mixing those quick ambushes and some much bigger stalking that takes place in the woods, providing a lot of fun. These are what hold the film up over it's few drawbacks that show up. There are a few minor flaws to be had here. One of its biggest issues is the disproportionate pacing that still keeps this one going nicely enough yet does have quite a lot of down-time in between the kill scenes. It comes off way too late in the film for them to understand the killer's loose as the film does run through a few extraneous subplots and side-stories that really stand-out as padding. From the unrealistic and grating scenes about the various couples cheating on each other or the arrival at the cabin playing games with each other that just goes too long, these end up keeping the killer's antics until quite late in the film which is short enough as it is that holding off for that long isn't all that worthwhile. With the obvious low-budget feel that comes up prominently in here, these are what hold the film overall.

Rated Unrated/R: Extreme Graphic Language, Full Nudity, Graphic Violence, sex scenes and heavy drug use.

Lots of fun. I'd like to see more of the series. Great job with a small budget. Lots of blood and practical effects.

This movie is a Friday The 13th wanna-be. God knows how many times I rolled my eyes at hearing how many try-hard references there was to the name Cunningham in this. However, being a Jason fan, and tolerating quite a lot of wanna-be and intentionally a tribute to F13th films, this one fails on many levels.

For starters, the cast is not believable, and I couldn't care less about them. One lead looks like Katherine Tate trying to pull off being a high school student again. Maybe if she was cast in Grease she could get away with it, but her age is as obvious to the veiwer as her non-existent acting skills. Then they have thrown in two guys who look like a cross between Artie Lang and John Belushi, without the charisma, and we're expected to beleive they're sexy leading men that all women can't get enough of. Then there is Poindexter and Mr Sweetchucks son who the plot tried to make you care and feel sorry for, but fails miserably at how forced and lame it was done.

Despite terrible actors and poor dialog, the cutting of the film seems rushed or unfinished. It cuts between one shot, to a shot that should have had a bit more in between to make it a smooth transition. But no, we get someone trying to drive away from the killer, to the killer hanging on the side of the van like he teleported there. It's just bad, and not even laugh out loud bad.

The gore effects are really amateurish. Apparently anyone who gets killed in this movie spits blood out their mouth and let's it flow down their chin. Even amatuers know to mix things up, not have everyone's death scene do the same spitting blood out routine.

With too many rushed cuts and bad edits, probably missing scenes needed, or ran out of money to shoot, mixed with the poor visual effects and pathetic acting, writing, directing, sound department, I can't really say anyone did a good job at anything on this film... Maybe just the cameraman/men. That's about it.

Even if you don't mind a F13th try-hard rip-off, don't bother with this one. It's not worth your time.