Bloody Homecoming

To be honest, I made it through 10 minutes of this disaster. I wasn't sure who was in charge of casting, but the teens all looked about 35. There was better acting in community children's theatre and no one was remotely likable. I am currently watching this just to produce enough characters to publish this review because the world should know absolutely terrible this movie is. Seriously his old are these actors? I can't tell the difference between these people and the teachers. She just said "too school for cool". Who wrote this? Did they supply their own costumes? Was this a class project? Ugh I made it. Thank God.

I am a huge horror fan, so when I saw the score of 6/10 on this and the glowing review (ok so it only had 1 review, and that should have been a huge red flag), I jumped at the chance to watch Bloody Homecoming. I thought it would be a fun, prom-night-esque type of movie.

Wrong. So Wrong.

This is one of the worst movies I have seen in a long time. I only gave it a 1/10 because that's the lowest rating you can give.

The acting was flat and forced. There was no natural talent in this. I realize most of the actors and actresses in this are young, but the absolute worst actor was the one that played the principal. He's about as exciting as watching paint dry.

The script itself was like something I saw in an episode of Scooby Doo back in the 70s. The only thing missing was a line similar to "and I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for those meddling kids". I have absolutely no problem with similar types of story lines being used in multiple movies, but this was just horrible.

If you're looking to fill and hour and a half of your time, I would suggest a root canal before watching this.

In the UK, and probably further afield, Kim Newman is known as an expert on the horror/slasher genre. His book 'Nightmare Movies' is a classic. And his video dungeon column in Empire magazine has pointed me in the direction of many films I would have missed. I trust his judgement implicitly.

Unfortunately this month he (sort of) praised this film, although admittedly it was in comparison to another. Sorry Kim, but I didn't get the point of this film at all.

It was played straight, it wasn't a parody of 80s slashers although it freely stole the clichés of movies of the era, it didn't have any twist on the subject, so why would anyone want to see a bad 80s film made in 2012?

There has been a defence of this film on the basis that the victims were sympathetic and not a**holes you want to see killed. But when the acting is this bad, every character in it lived way too long for my liking.

Decent whodunnit? I don't think so. You'll know early on, even though a proper whodunnit requires at least enough clues to make an educated guess.

I'm giving it 2/10 only because I can never give a 1.

"Blood Homecoming" is definitely in the lower end of the scale as regarding slasher movies.

Why?

Well, because it was rather uninteresting. The characters were one-dimensional and you never got close to anyone, as there was no character development in any way. And once there was a hint of some backbone showing to a character, he or she got murdered.

So you might ask, getting murdered in a slasher movie is boring?

Yeah, it is when the ways of killing people is unimaginative, dull and rather tedious. And having a killer running around in a fireman's uniform, complete with gas mask and helmet, doesn't really add any flavor to an otherwise plain movie. There was absolutely nothing scary or menacing about the killer in anyway.

Now, I am not American, but I would guess that a high school homecoming would draw more than 20 unenthusiastic teenagers to the festivities. It was just so hard to buy into the event that were to take place, with so few people around, and even less heart and soul put into the effort there.

The bright point of the movie is the revealing of the killer. That was an unseen turn of events, but the enjoyment was short-lived, because the scenes that followed were quite anti-climatic. And the way the movie ended was just so downright idiotic.

The actors and actresses in the movie were doing good enough jobs with their performances, they were just struggling a losing uphill battle against a horrible script and even worse one-dimensional characters.

"Bloody Homecoming" gets a 3 out of 10 rating from me, solely based on the production value to the movie. Everything else in the movie was basically below average. There are far better slasher movies out there, and it is hard to find anything to point out as a selling point to this movie.

Well , it's not the worst slasher movie that I have seen, I seen a lot worse then this movie.

This movie did have a lot of flaws, to many. too many to talk about at the mo.

The main flaw was the acting, the acting just got worse and worse as the movie went on

There seem some- what bloody at first but the deaths were little kinda the same.

The killers mask was almost just like My Bloody Valentin, one and some scenes in this movie remind me of scream, I know what you did last summer and added bit of Prom night in there as well.

Even with all these flaws , It still got me to watch until the end to find out who the killer was.

I had no idea who the killer was this movie, that did surprise me.

it kinda of funny really, in way.

3 out of 10 poor movie