Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove

A rather jolly film if you pardon the pun, but not really very frightening. The plot is very reminiscent of "The Fog". A dead pirate comes back and kills descendants of his crew who mutinied against him 300 years earlier. It's a film to watch if there is nothing else on the TV. Don't take it too seriously and treat it as a bit of fun. The acting is not of a great standard. There would certainly not be any Oscar nominations for this picture. I haven't heard of any of the cast although the leading lady, Kristina Korn is quite pleasing on the eye. The decapitation scenes, of which there are many are humorous but certainly not scary.

Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove isn't without its redeeming qualities. The strip scenes are amusing, Kristina Korn is easy on the eyes and likable and, although his character is made too much of a wimp at times, the talented Rhett Giles does give a decent performance. Unfortunately, that's the only praise I can give. It is a cheap-looking film, though I've seen cheaper, with dull lighting, very annoyingly slipshod photography and special effects that are so fake and lacking in any finesse or technical value. The music is obvious, unfitting and has nothing memorable. Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove also has some of the most sophomoric dialogue I've heard in recent memory, the story holds no surprises, as we have seen it all before and executed far better, has no atmosphere or nail-biting suspense and is eye-rollingly ridiculous at times too. Some of the scenes are clearly repetitive of others in the film, but clumsily disguised to not make it look so. There are no likable characters, again I don't mind stereotypes and clichés as long as they are written well and interestingly, which Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove failed to do. Jolly Roger is the one character you sort of root for, though Korn does decently with really bad material, the others are obnoxious in the worst sense. There are many killings, but they offer no genuine sense of horror, they're bloody but crude-looking and unoriginal and they are often very randomly placed. The acting is generally awful, Tom Nagel is bland while everybody else, especially in the scene where the Mayor talks to the kids about LeChuck, overacts to the point of utter embarrassment. Korn and Giles are the only two exceptions. All in all, not terrible or the worst movie ever, but it is a good idea to skip this one. 3/10 Bethany Cox

My husband rented this DVD and said usually Asylum put out pretty good, low-budge campy movies. I said, "ok, let's watch it." You know, it was pretty good! It was no big epic, movie classic or anything, but for a "B" grade movie I enjoyed it. The casting seemed good, the young actors seemed to fit their parts well. The acting by everyone seemed good (again) and believable. The plot was something different, I would have called the Jolly Roger a serial killer but strangely nobody used that term. He really cut a swath through the town. There was plenty of murder/attacks/scary scenes etc. pretty much evenly distributed through the movie to keep your attention. It had a good flow to it. Like the other reviewer, I agree that the bar scene was a hoot, just trashy enough to be believable and humorous also. I had to laugh out loud at many of the bar scenes. You probably will too. I liked the town where the movie was set, it was kind of gloomy and rainy and dreary for some good pirate atmosphere. All in all it was enjoyable and I actually wouldn't mind watching it at a future date.

I'm a huge horror fan & can be pretty forgiving at times when the film has next to no budget, but tries its best to work with what its got. Some have managed to pull it off quite well (Ex. Hide & Creep (2004)). This movie is simply HORRIBLE...just HORRIBLE. The acting is non existent, the pacing has been stretched out to extremely BORING levels to flesh out what needed to be a full-length "film" (if you can call it that) & Jolly Roger's makeup is just laughable. Maybe the only redeeming quality are the hot STRIPPERS...but even a nice rack couldn't save this turkey! I regrettably watched this on a trip to Miami & wanted to gouge my own eyes out from how BAD it was! Complete Garbage! I implore you to stay FAR AWAY!

What happens when you combine the Lower-echelon (of) Actors Guild with what appears to be the masterful effects of a high school editing suite? You get this oh-so-very-bad film.

From the outset, you know it's bad and the producers don't seem to want to hide from this.

The heads bouncing around like basketballs were fab and the camera techniques were non-existent. One in particular took the cake, in which a CCTV camera captured the murders in a strip joint. Watching the replay of the murders, you'd expect the security camera's angle to be used. No way! The sequence is just a repeat of the murders (from all different camera angles), only in black-and-white.

Don't get me started on the fact our skeleton pirate's white skin can be seen in the final sequence.

Thar! This Blows!