Bloody Crayons

Here is a Filipino slasher movie. Having never seen such a thing from said country, and seeing that the movie features many pretty girls, I gave it a watch.

I shouldn't have bothered. It's pretty uninteresting - in fact the only thing the filmmakers do right is use an attractive cast. Other than that, the movie really taxed me. I was just waiting for it to end.

The plot - not that it matters - is a group of students who go stay in a house and start getting killed. Where have you heard that before?

The students are apparently amateur filmmakers, and perhaps they're in this house to film a movie. That doesn't really add anything to the story, and it's impossible to believe them as filmmakers, or anything else, really - other than soap opera actors and models slumming it in a horror film.

The movie may not be original. But who expects that in a slasher? It would help if, however, it were entertaining.

Another problem is that the movie fails to give you any sense of character. There are probably just too many people staying in the house, so you never get to know any of them, and none make an impression.

The movie is named after a weird game the characters play, like a variation of "truth or dare", which involves drawing on each other's faces with crayons. I didn't really get it. Mostly I was just wondering why anybody would do such a thing.

As for the first Philippine slasher movie that I have watched, this is a weak one. There's not that much to the story with a couple of friends going to shoot a short film on an island. It takes a very long time for the kills to happen because the movie mostly focuses on characters' drama. It's not a bad idea to have it because it can cause some development to the characters and their motive. But it is just the most generic stuff you see in any movies that isn't interesting enough to learn about. Also, the title is from a game they played called it, which is a form of truth and dare. It's interesting to learn about this take, but the results are pretty much the same type of drama. When it gets to the kills, there are some suspense to be found with the characters trying to survive against the killer, and some of them turn against each other. But the killer revealed it isn't that impressive, and the motive is rather weak. I didn't find any of these characters to be that interesting or good. Some of them do have drama between them and some development. They mostly play generic roles in this type of movie and aren't that good.

Bloody Crayons is a weak slasher movie that isn't enjoyable or good to remember about.