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Five girlfriends go camping in a national park to celebrate one's birthday. Unfortunately for them, there's a huge weed crop that someone is desperate to keep trespassers away from, and much bloodshed ensues.

I avoided this one for a long time because the title made me fear it was another stoner comedy masquerading as a horror homage but I'm happy to admit I was wrong. The biggest problem I had with 4/20 Massacre is that there are loooonnnng stretches of characters talking and then walking and then sitting and talking but things pick up by the third act. I was happy to see that the gore was plentiful and the kills were on camera; some of them were really mean-spirited which is always a plus. Is it great? No. But it's much better than many of the throwback slashers I've seen in recent years and I don't regret devoting 85 minutes to it.

The acting was better than I had anticipated and I actually liked the music. It was just kinda boring overall. If you're gonna have an entire movie out in the wilderness at least make it aesthetically pleasing. It was mainly just a bunch of dirt and some trees. Bleak.

What this film lacks in aesthetic it makes up for with weak acting. It really is amateur hour. But if you ever wanted to see a fresh from Burning Mam Swamp Thing pull a Jason on the cast of Ginger Snaps Back, this is your film.

The acting wasn't bad for the most part. The story and dialogue had a few interesting moments. I'll leave out how this movie develops and then turns out, to avoid spoilers, but I thought the last 40 minutes or so just plain sucked. Looked like the writers just phoned in the ending. The actors deserved a better script.

This one has been waiting in the watchlist since before it came out, for obvious reasons, and is to be watched under obvious circumstances. And, you know, it really wasn't all that bad this time around. Grantedly, it's cheap, deeply flawed, silly and not exactly very memorable, but as far as fun goes.. You can have some with "4/20 Massacre".

The plot: A group of five women go camping in the woods to celebrate a friend's birthday over 4/20 weekend. But when they cross the turf of an illegal marijuana grow operation they must struggle to survive the living nightmare.

All female characters for the group of main protagonists was an unexpected choice, but a welcome one - how many stoner flicks do You know where the main character aren't guys? The choice proved successful through decent acting and quite unexpected, by a lot of people possibly despised, melodrama. The 'boring' parts. The overall plot is extremely short and thin, and doesn't go beyond synopsis. Sure, there are couple minor twists, all of which will strongly remind of many slashers made before over decades. Where there isn't killing, there is a lot of filler, melodrama, including romance, between the characters, lots of 420 jokes and endorsement, and the thing is, it works, the filler makes the pacing consistent enough, and the acting helps to enjoy it. The five friends are all different enough, from a devoted-to-rastaman stoner to the restrained birthday girl, or the scream queen of "4/20 Massacre". The killer, the weed man, is hilarious, skipping around real sneaky like in backgrounds, hitting and brain bongs and such, fun guy, not a lot of character though.

"4/20" can be visually confusing, style-wise. It takes place entirely during bright daylight, and that's understandable, but the post-production saw that the blues are well jacked up. All black tones were way too blue, and contrast was overused at times. It's shot well enough for a micro budget feature, but the editing is flawed.

It is an amateur hour movie.. But an effortful one, filled with enough stuff to keep the stoned one engaged. You'll know whether to watch it. My rating: 4/10.

4/20 should be the rating of the film and the massacre was the hammy acting. One of the worst films I have seen in a long time!

How old is the director of this movie, 15? It really feels like a high school film class decided to make a horror movie. Very amateurish. Just dreadful.

The minute the girls(mid 30s women) talk to the sheriff, you just know this will be a shiatfest. The sheriff asks the girls for ONE beer, and one of the girls roll her eyes so hard she almost went cock eyed. Then he tells them to avoid the illegal grow ops, because these people are gangster and will kill you, but one stoner chick really thinks it's awesome that somehow she'll get some free weed. I'm not saying anything else, but if you can get pass that garbage, then you're one strong person.

If you can get pass the horrid acting in 2 minutes you're also a strong person.

Heading out into the forest, a group of friends looking for a secluded spot to camp out for a special celebration end up encountering a psychotic killer protecting a secret weed-patch rumored to grow in the area and forces them to come up with their own tactics to get away alive.

This one wasn't all that bad of a slasher. One of the better aspects to this one is the rather strong and engaging starting point to be had here where this one provides a rather intriguing slasher setup. The idea of a forest-bound hiking trip to celebrate a birthday and then stumbling upon the killer running wild in the area protecting his secret stash thinking they're going to intrude on his collection gives off a rather enjoyable setup to get this one going for the main series of slashing featured here. The actual payoff of those setups is the rather fun and brutal slasher scenes that are featured throughout here. The opening ambush on the hikers in the middle of the drug-stash offers up a fine starting point to the later scenes where the killer's penchant for surprise attacks leads into a series of fun creepy sequences. Launching out of the darkness of the forest to slice open the one victim's stomach, the sneak attack on the farmer out hunting in the middle of the woods and the first surprise appearance at their camp are some rather fun sequences, and with the final half getting the killer onboard more often here with some far more intensive chasing scenes and actual stalking there's plenty to like here. Getting far more brutal than expected with its kills and having a lot of fun with its main cast who are a lot of fun to be around even without the killing featured for a lot of the film, these here hold it up over it's one true problematic area. The one main issue to be had here is the film's rather struggling pacing that comes about here. With so much of the running time devoted to their romantic trips and pondering about the future of their relationships with each other, regardless of how much fun that is all holding up the slashing antics to those bare-minimum ambushes since that's all the time the film has for those sequences. The film's few sequences are spread so far apart that it really doesn't provide those kinds of relentless sequences with the few scattered moments here keeping him in that mindset just when he's about forgotten for those minor sections of the running time. However, it's really the main thing holding it back although it is somewhat detrimental.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and copious drug use.

I reeeeaaally hated the sound track, i normally don't pay THAT much attention to the music in a movie unless its really nice music but in this case the music was just awful in the movie to a point it was so bad it ruined the movie. The way they portrayed stoners was absolutely stupid, stereotypical and sooo wrong in so many ways but i guess thats the case with a lot of 'weed-themed' movies (i'm not a stoner myself but i can imagine it's offensive to people who enjoy weed)

On the other hand it was a classic slasher with not to much story and some cool kills, nothing special but still pretty okay and entertaining

Its still worth watching if u have seen everything already and wanna watch an average slasher you havent seen yet but its just really a shame they kinda ruined an okay movie with a horrible soundtrack.

So let me start this review like I start all my reviews. I love horror movies. I grew up watching them since I was a little kid.

Do not waste your time watching this movie. I do not smoke but I believe that is the only way you will enjoy this film.

I do want to give credit to one actress, Stacey Danger. If it wasn't for her, I don't think I would have laughed at all. She definitely reminded me of someone I used to know in college.

The one thing I didn't notice is that All these actors probably had a great time making this film.

I can't believe this movie was produced in 2018. I feel like I just watched a movie that was from the early 2000s based on the Overall movie.

So conclusion. Don't waste your time unless you're with a group of friends and you're completely wasted.

5 girls head out to the wilderness for a birthday party and run into some unexpected trouble along the way! They party, have some fun and laughs, and a few romantic moments, then things get really wild! This one has a little bit of everything, even for gore fans to enjoy! I watched it once, twice, and more. It popped up on Roku and here I am in 2025, still watching it! There are some funny moments, creepy and eerie ones too. It brings back memories of the of the B-slasher movies of the 80s. It packs a lot into a short script, limited plot, and small cast. But history has shown that some of the best films had very small casts. Give this one a look, and a 2nd...and you will be back for a 3rd, and more! Get your hot dogs and popcorn ready, for the 4/20 Massacre birthday party!

All you need to know is that the guy from the Bistro Huddy shorts on Youtube is in the opening scene and meets with a very foreseeable end! Dang! If he'd been the star of this movie, I'd have given it a 10 for sure! That was a fun little surprise! I don't even care what the rest of the movie is like.

Simply horrific. Same typical clueless not so bright women. No one has common sense. Who still does this and why the picture looks the same. If you wanna yell act the characters for being dumb.. then watch.

No pun intended and I really was not thinking about going that route and joke. But it really is there and ripe for the taking. Which kind of is another pun/wordplay considering what the movie is about. No power to drugs ... or those who want to punish you for taking them? I don't think there is really a message in here.

Quite amateurish things at play here. You'll either be down for that or you won't. Just be aware what the movie is trying to achieve. Acting might also be AWOL - but you did not expect too much from it I would hope ...

This was a very original movie experience, to say the least. I went into thinking it would be another run of the mill stoner movie and was surprised with a unique story that mixed the campiness of stoner movies with heart-racing horror/thriller. Jamie Bernadette, the new Indie Queen of Horror, leads this cast and puts in her usual mixture of physical acting and witty dialog. Must see!

It wasn't the worst movie ever. But it came close. If you have nothing else to do. Give this movie a watch. Actually just what you would expect in a cheap slasher movie. More like the 70s era type movie. Seen this movie on Showtime. Free month trial. Reasons why I only pay for HBO , Cinemax, Starz, Hulu and Netflix.

A movie that looks like a Z-grade horror and is. Weak, mindless plot, poor production values, acting that barely passes for acting.

At least I can't say I was disappointed.

Bottom line: This was alright, and we had a good time watching it around 420 with low expectations. Campy and cheesy as expected, but I don't think it's worth the watch unless you're after the theme.

I didn't expect this to be good, and it wasn't, but it was alright for what I wanted: a 420 themed horror movie.

The stoner characters felt like they were written by people who don't smoke weed. For the most part I think those characters and those jokes were not very funny, which was a let down.

However, I think just about every single murder was pretty funny and very enjoyable. They were all pretty gory and *creative*, which made them a blast to watch. They used some hokey sound effect that would normally feel "overdone", but did contribute to the charm and the humor of the whole thing.

Even though I rated it a 4, I had a good time, and you might have one too; it just is not a "good movie"

This movie is hard to judge because I liked some things about it. The premise is a pretty good idea but most the execution is flawed! There are so many cringe moments/performances, like the odd from the beginning ranger, the girl that is way too into weed to be an adult and the cliche white hunter dude but the biggest fault in it are the cringe lines by almost all the characters, one of which I had to rewind to make sure I heard correctly (you will almost certainly know the part). I don't want to be all negative cause I did enjoy and finish the movie somehow but that was a lot to do with only a couple pretty good performances and the overall attractiveness level of the cast (but even that was marred by the horrible 'surprised look' of the lead actress.