WHY DID YOU PORTRAY SUE AS A GREASY FLAMING RED HAIRED MORON WITH A COCKNEY BRITISH ACCENT!? Number one, please don't shoot a film based on an incident that occurred in California with actors that have EXTREMELY THICK COCKNEY BRITISH ACCENTS then try to MASK said cockney accents with American southern accents. This took place in CALIFORNIA. Californians don't have southern accents in the first place and JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE BROKE DOES NOT RENDER YOU SUDDENLY WITH THE VERNACULAR OF A HILLBILLY. Sue Sharp was born in Springfield, Massachusetts (where I live, by the way, hint) and had just moved her family from Connecticut (which is on the boarder of Springfield, MA) to NORTHERN CALIFORNIA where no one sounds like a hick. The people involved with this story didn't sound like hicks. WHY WOULD YOU MAKE THEM APPEAR TO BE BRAINLESS HICKS? You've insulted their memory.
Next, if insulting their memory was not bad enough, this is the world's slowest moving film. Where did they get the idea that a lunatic wore a clown mask? And a white-faced fair haired child mask from The Village of The Damned? Back in 1981 AND YES, I WAS ALIVE IN 1981 masks such as were used in the movie didn't even exist yet save for special effect work and even then they were hundreds of dollars. It wasn't until the late 1990's to mid 2000's when masks like that made it to your local Hot Topic. RESEARCH ASSISTANTS EXIST FOR GOOD REASON, I SUGGEST THE DIRECTOR PROCURE ONE ASAP.
Next, the "slasher scenes" were absolutely absurd. While the series of events was somewhat SIMILAR to detectives' theories, the movie itself had absolutely no historical accuracy. The atmosphere and set design did not look anything like the cabin, the actors do not represent the actual victims and the actual backstory of what really went on that week and that night was completely ABSENT. They seemed to have taken a story, changed it up and created a slow moving pointless plot-less I don't know what this mess is.
While some films are low budget they can be excellent hidden gems this is just downright bad. Did you BOTHER TO RESEARCH THESE MURDERS or did you just watch a special on Unsolved Mysteries about it and decide to make a movie with a camcorder? If you want to know what actually happened at Keddie, just do some basic research and watch some actual interviews. This was just...bad.
