Motor Home Massacre

First off let me just say that this was the worst film i have ever seen in my life. It was purely an amateur film. Most of the actors are just awful stereotypes of stupid teens. I have never seen such terrible acting in my days. What is up with all of the nude scenes? I see this movie as light pornography. I have enjoyed all of the Lions gate films I have seen in the past, but the thought that Lions Gate could have produced a piece of garbage like this is just insane. I would like to know why the cover shows a man holding a chainsaw? There isn't a single chainsaw in the entire movie. Every video, every disk, EVERYTHING that has anything to do with this movie should be buried and forgotten. Don't even waste your time on this film.

This is why people think horror films are such a joke, this one proves it all. It's stupid characters, dumb bimbo women and stupid gore and a killer who right away is figured out. I swear this film had Lion's Gate behind it. I can't believe what is on the mind of some writers and directors. Could we once get back to what makes a horror film superb? Good character development, good story line, suspense, that too hard? I didn't have sympathy towards the victims, I cheered they were killed off. I can't believe some horror films direct to DVD or video. Take time writing out characters and brainstorm ideas. Even the old 80's were better than this one.

Wow this movie was probably one of the worst movies i've ever seen. It's really not hard to please me when it comes to movies because i like all kinds of movies. Horror and Dumb humor movies probably being my favorite.

I actually found this movie REALLY funny. I still thought it was terrible and i couldn't believe that blockbuster would actually rent out a movie THAT bad. The cover looked like it would be cool and i thought it sounded pretty good from the summary on the back. I laughed through the whole thing though. The ending was terrible and the facial expressions on their faces. I actually paused the TV on their faces making those stupid looks and took a picture. It was like they were trying really hard in the beginning of the movie and then just gave up at the end and decided to make it a comedy ending. (although their trying really isn't good at all)

I expected nothing from this film other than a way to help me recover from my three-day 35th birthday celebrating, a day I spent watching films in bed. I expected even less from it once that horrible "I'm a trucker" main titles song was played. The Roger character was the worst of the bunch for he was so over-the-top obnoxious and revolting that he'd not be anyone's polar-opposite friend at their age. Therefore, the very set up that these "types" (wigger, sexist pig, dweeb) would be still be friends as adults is ridiculous.

You have to understand that this is actually a comedy, which became evident once the dweeb fantasizes that when the girl in bed slowly, teasingly lowers the bed sheet, she reveals not her breasts but a report card featuring two A+'s.

However, it's a very trying film to sit through. I think I stopped it at one point to check e-mail. Even for low-budget, there are scenes which are just so stupid they're not even bad-enjoyable. Case in point: the convenience store scene. This seemed written by two 14-year-olds. Dreadful. And note how the owner tells them how there was a murder "last night" and concludes his tale by stating that "they never found out who did it." Ah, speed investigations...

In fact, I'd be surprised if the script HADn't been written by various persons for there seemed to be different styles of writing. In contrast, a tied-up-in-bed scene produces an amusing conversation during the fishing-out of a pocket knife from the male's pants.

Justin Geer, who played the dweeb, was fun to watch, for he actually can act. Tanya Fraser, the black girl whom is twice befriended, was good, and game even when being referred to as "tar baby." She has a very funny scene later in the film involving one of the blondes and a frying pan.

The film gets better, in its bad-self way, as it nears its conclusion for it becomes simply ludicrous and over-the-top. (If one wishes to be let in to the RV before it drives away, perhaps going to the FRONT of the RV where, you know, the WINDSHIELD is, is better than pounding on the back of it.) It's played as a joke by the remaining cast, and if you're drinking and/or toking with friends, you'll chuckle. This is simply a film one cannot take seriously as horror or as a full-on comedy, but I find myself liking it, in a limited way. I'd watch it again with friends on "Bad Movie Night," but skip past certain scenes.

When you go into a film like "Motor Home Massacre", you expect to see either: 1) A surprisingly well crafted film that actually delivers some genuine suspense, even if it is low budget. (Extremely unlikely.) or 2) A movie that makes you burst out in peals of laughter at the sheer ridiculousness of it all.

What we have here is a case of the second option. Basically, the story concerns a group of kids who are portrayed in the crudest possible stereotypes that you'd expect in a "dead teenager" film. They go camping, and have a fateful encounter with a machete wielding maniac.

That's it, pretty much. The villain doesn't even use a chainsaw for the killings, which was odd, being that there's a bloody chainsaw on the cover of the DVD. One of those little things that makes you go "Hmmm..." The direction, atmosphere, and acting in this film ranks somewhere in between a softcore porn film you'd see on Cinemax at two in the morning, and a film class project made by high school students.

That's not to say that there wasn't anything about "Motor Home Massacre" that I didn't enjoy. One memorable part involving a gas station cashier and the soon-to-be machete meat had me in stitches. "What kind of troubles?" "DEAD PEOPLE TROUBLES." Whoever wrote the script for this film was a mad genius.