Talon Falls

As a local, I was wanting to hate this movie. I live within 3 miles of this haunted house, and have been to the new one as well as the old one they had in Paducah, Ky. From the very beginning I had a good laugh with the country store. A store my boys went to at least once a month from pre-k to 6th grade with the elementary school across the street. Then the drive from the store to the haunted house, with it getting dark on the 3 1/2 minute drive from one place to the other. But, as I said i was expecting to hate it, but it was redeeming. It has a decent story line. Much more then I was expecting. The acting was not horrible. Again as a local and running across abandoned trailer parks out in the middle of no where, missing people that haven't been found in years, it makes you wonder what may be going on in the area....... It makes you stop and think about some of these rural haunted houses you go to out in the middle of no where. Some of them credit cards are not excepted. Hmmmm i wonder why. Can't trace you back if no name involved. Your in the country, you think they don't have connections with the local tow company, just around the corner from the country store. Cell phones, what service?????? You're not within reach of a tower. Some haunted houses are scary. Sometimes the area around you is scarier.

It's a rip off of Funhouse Massacre, but it's still enjoyable. The music definitely elevates it significantly. If you haven't checked out Mr. Strange yet, you definitely need to give them a listen. This movie is free on Prime right now, so if your options are watching a repeat or this, give Talon Falls a try.

Oh boy, here we go again, the all so typical mixed group of all American kids on a road trip or a jaunt in the country, the girls with fun on their minds, and the guys with the girls on theirs. And they end up in a house of horrors, except this one is a fake house of horrors that turns out to be a real one.

They are trapped and are doomed to be murdered in gruesome fashion by a group of faceless psychopaths. How many if any will escape? By the end, the house of horrors has become a morgue. How did so many people end up dead there without anyone raising a suspicion? As most of the action takes place in the dark or semi-dark, you won't miss much if you close your eyes and simply listen to the screams. This was 2017, you'd have thought they'd have produced something a bit more watchable by then. One point for the soundtrack.

It starts out like a typical horny-teens-take-a-road-trip-to-a-backwater-town horror flick and initially I only stuck around because the guy playing Lance is a hottie but it actually turned out to be a pretty decent movie. What also helps is its relatively short running time of less than an hour and a quarter. The acting is typical of this genre but that's not necessarily a distraction.

This was a solid, if not unremarkable, crazy backwoods people horror movie. I liked the set, which I understand is a real haunted house attraction in Kentucky. The setting had a lot of great atmosphere. I also liked the choice of music that played a significant role in the story.

Where I think this movie struggles in the acting by the leads and the story. The two main actresses don't do much more than scream throughout most of the story. Neither really does much to make her character different or memorable. In fact, the screaming was so annoying by the time we arrived at the climax of the story, that I did not feel bad for their disposition. The supportive acting wasn't so much acting as walking and swinging an axe. The bad guys had no development whatsoever.

This leads to the bigger issue - the story. It borrows heavily from the "House of 1000 Corpses" which itself borrowed from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and other slasher movies. The scheme is so complex that it makes the puzzles in "Saw" seem practical. If you think about why this haunted house exists or how it can sustain itself or how the killers could have video tapes of victims going back for years without anyone figuring this out, the story falls apart.

I watched the whole movie and it was kind of fun, but it is dumb as a box of hammers.