A film of three acts.
Act One is the talky part: Marjorie (Eva Hamilton) invites two exes -- pals Jon (Jody Barton) and Frank (Trae Ireland) -- to her woodland cabin where the guys intend to do some hunting. The three friends chat a lot, the dialogue either improvised or very badly written: it's largely incoherent rambling, with some terrible overdubbing. It's not a great start to the film.
Act Two is much more entertaining. The two men go hunting, but Jon is affected by a strange force and accidentally shoots Frank dead. Things take an even darker turn when a duplicate Frank, not happy with being shot, appears and stabs Jon in retaliation. Jon also returns from the dead, and the pair take it in turns to kill each other, a living duplicate of each man appearing shortly after. It's not clear what is causing this supernatural phenomenon, but it's a lot of fun, Frank shooting Jon and planting an axe in his skull, and Jon chopping off Frank's arm and chainsawing off his head.
Act Three is totally baffling: Marjorie turns into a bargain basement deadite (no prosthetic make-up, just bad face paint), shags Jon in the woods, and introduces him to a horned tree demon in a fur coat that promises immortality in exchange for consuming Frank -- or something like that.
4/10 -- just about worth watching for the middle act, which features some reasonable practical gore effects.
Act Two is much more entertaining. The two men go hunting, but Jon is affected by a strange force and accidentally shoots Frank dead. Things take an even darker turn when a duplicate Frank, not happy with being shot, appears and stabs Jon in retaliation. Jon also returns from the dead, and the pair take it in turns to kill each other, a living duplicate of each man appearing shortly after. It's not clear what is causing this supernatural phenomenon, but it's a lot of fun, Frank shooting Jon and planting an axe in his skull, and Jon chopping off Frank's arm and chainsawing off his head.
Act Three is totally baffling: Marjorie turns into a bargain basement deadite (no prosthetic make-up, just bad face paint), shags Jon in the woods, and introduces him to a horned tree demon in a fur coat that promises immortality in exchange for consuming Frank -- or something like that.
4/10 -- just about worth watching for the middle act, which features some reasonable practical gore effects.
- BA_Harrison
- Oct 29, 2022