Writer-director-producer-editor-composer Stevan Mena bypassed the self-referential jokes and homages that suck the life out of many post-SCREAM (1996) horror pictures, instead crafting a straightforward throwback to old-school slasher movies that wears its influences on its bloody sleeve and delivers a solid ratio of suspense to shocks. 1989: Six-year-old Martin Bristol (David K. Guida II) is kidnapped and forced to watch his abductor murder a captive girl in a dark, cluttered basement. Ten years later: Somewhere in semi-rural Pennsylvania, Kurt (Richard Glover) and Max (Keith Chambers), who's fresh out of jail, plan to rob a small-town bank. Max's sister Marylin (He...
Released:
2004
Rated:
R
Length:
85 mins