The Hazing

The best sequence in "Butchered" occurs early on, when two girls are spanked with paddles by two other girls and then are forced to do "squishy" push-ups (you'll see what that means), as part of a sorority initiation. I must admit I found all of this quite a turn-on. But when the action moves on to the "haunted" house, the film offers nothing but derivative plotting, overacting, screaming, wandering around, watery blood and fake/exaggerated gore. I will give it * out of 4 for the effort; it's obvious that the people who made it do love horror flicks (they even included a double homage to "Halloween" and "Psycho" at the start). That doesn't mean they had enough talent to make one though!

Susan Smythe is wonderful to watch. Incredibly talented and charismatic as hell! Joe Castro and his special effects made me cheer loudly...probably scaring the neighbors. Pretty incredible FX for a low budget film.

Although not an Oscar winner, it's definitely a movie that would have made Herschell Gordon Lewis smile!

Thank you! t.v. cable cheap channels that have the courage to air this direct to video horror cheese flicks! When there's nothing to do at midnight on the week, these flicks air and believe me it's a pleasure for me to watch as I'm a lover of the low budget.

"Butchered" follows the same plot as in "HellNight", "The Initiation", and many more slasher flicks from the early 80's. The problem is that this flick from the year 2003 doesn't offers anything you haven't seen.

The "killer" kind of reminds me of the Garth Manion monsters from "HellNight" but not as near as scary. Ugh. This is a flick to booth from the trash can!.

The flick has cheap gore effects, scares, and a dull direction even for a direct to video mess! Watch it if you're like me, a hardcore fan of low budget horror flicks.

The acting in this debauched piece consists of the most wooden, uncharismatic performances of several of the most talentless actors one will ever have the misfortune to witness. The special effects are neither special nor effective. The plot is lazy, simplistic, predictable and riddled with more holes than many of the characters' bodies by the end of the film. Any of these things in a vacuum would usually warrant a one star rating, however this perfect blend of utter ridiculousness, which takes itself seriously enough to be amusing since it exceeds any parody one could attempt to make, is a delight from start to finish. The lacklustre futility of many of the characters' attempts at escape, the stilted dialogue and the over the top sets makes for a chucklesome pastiche of a 'horror' film. Here director (and special effects artist!-you can see where the focus lies) Joe Castro rivals the worst films of Ed Wood in the hall of shame and as such this film should be treasured. It is even good enough that I can safely say it is superior to the higher budget film Jumper, which you should avoid at all costs.

Now firstly I have to say that bad acting and dodgy plots have never really bothered me but I do get very bored with films that have nudity in them just for the sake of a little T&A now I know there are a lot of guys out there who like that and thats OK its just not my thing. When I first started to watch this I thought that is what this was gonna be about as the first 30 or so mins concentrate mainly on the two girls going through a Hazing for a local Sorority House and breasts are beared and the girls undergo a little light spanking but when it came to the cream in the bra's I thought forget this its gonna be a T&A show. Luckily I did stick with it and boy does it get quite good once all the characters get to the haunted house and begin to get picked off one by one I was surprised also that you could not really pick out which characters were gonna survive as the girl I though was gonna be the final one was killed first. The gore content is very high and if like me you like that then you will be happy. All in all a good rental and if like me you like taking chances and buying films go for it I think you might like it.