Disengage The Simulator

If you’re a fan of old school slashers like Friday The 13th or Halloween this movie is a must have. Go to your local Wal-Mart and pick it up it’s the best $9.98 I’ve spent in a while. I would go out on a limb and say that this is the best slasher film since Friday The 13th Part 4 or Halloween 5. The DVD cover describes it as Old School American Horror and I cannot agree any more. At the bottom it also says,”The next icon of horror” I can do nothing but pray they make a sequel but i really doubt they do.

Story:

Victor Crowley was born horribly deformed in a little shed in the middle of a swap in New Orleans. Victor was always very sheltered and didn’t go anywhere due to the fact of all the kids laughing and making fun of him because of the way he looked. The kids continued picking on him up into his teens but one of their pranks went terribly wrong. One night they were throwing fire crackers onto his porch to get him to look out so they could see his face but the fire crackers caught the house on fire. Victors father gets home just in time to grab a hatchet to try and chop the door down but what he doesn’t know is his son Victors face is pressed up against the door trying to get out while hes chopping it. Mr. Crowley dies 10 years later very quietly from a “broken heart” from the grief of killing his only son Victor. The movie begins with 2 alligator hunters being killed. Cut to Mardi-Gras tons of half naked girls and partying. Here we meet the victims a young man is miserable and his friends only brought him here to get his ex-girlfriend off his mind but it isn’t working. The only thing he wants to do is go on a haunted boat ride that his friends told him about. So he drags his friend on to this boat ride where we meet the other characters. Things go wrong the boat hits a rock and begins to sink the people go onto the little island in the middle of the swamp and here we learn about Victor Crowley and the legend of how his “ghost” haunts this island. Turns out this ghost is very real and begins to pick the people off one by one. I’m not going to ruin this movie for you but it’s very a-la Friday The 13th.

Casting:

None of the actors from this movie is very well known but they did a wonderful job. There were brief appearances by Robert Englund being one of the first fishermen killed in the beginning. Tony Todd from Candyman also has a very brief appearance playing a very corny voodoo man in a novelty shop. The real star of the movie is Kane Hodder as Victor Crowley famous for his roles as Jason Vorhees in Friday The 13th Part 7,8, Jason Goes To Hell, and Jason X. Tamara Feldman is the main heroine in the movie playing Marybeth the daughter of Robert Englunds characters daughter out for answers for her fathers disappearance.

Visual Effects:

This movie was extremly creative with its killings. First theres Victors appearance in general which is incredibly done. No CGI is used in this movie and everything looks amazingly done. The most memorable kill I remember is a power sander to the face and then impaling with the wooden end of a shovel. This sort-of makes me wonder where did he plug the sander but it looks so amazing logic doesn’t matter. Another memorable kill is when he completely rips a guy in half or when he cuts someone lengthwise with a hatchet.

Seeing this movie gives me have hope that great slasher films are not dead and not all movies need to be remade or a prequel. I do get a good laugh out of the poster that’s at the top of this post though.

Score:

5 Beltsanders to the face out of 5

thats right my first perfect score and it totally earned this movie might warrant a second watch through just for fun.