Kim Henkel
Kim Henkel
TCM: The Next Generation (1994)
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Wow, This movie.... This movie....WOW.
Have you ever seen a movie that was just TRYING to be bad? This is one of those.
This movie is so fucking standard in the sense of horror its disgusting. It also turns out to be one of the most memorable and funny bad horror movies I've ever seen. I had heard about this gem a long while back in legend only. One night, on Comcast On Demand, I finally saw the prize itself.....Oh boy....
It stars Renee Zellweger in one of her first roles and Matthew Ma-kinda-gay (McConaughey) as well. The plot revolves around a group of kids on prom night (real big twist there) and they get lost in the woods (how shocking) and end up being chased around by a maniac family.
There's plenty of gratuitous tits along the way including a bizarre scene where an older woman flashes her breasts to passing cars for absolutely no reason. All of the teenagers, except Zellweger, are eventually butchered by either Ma-kinda-gay's character (the patriarch of the family) or Leather-face. The movie culminates in an outlandish dinner scene where they eat pizza off of the floor, lick Renee Zellweger's face, get Leather-face in drag, show a random corpse get up and leave the room, picking up a knife on the way, and the ever popular scene where the young heroine uses the TV remote to stop McConaughey’s robotic leg from working.
A lot of scenes in this movie just make you say "what the fuck?" The random corpse getting up I have no idea about. I assume they must have forgotten to put the actor into the later scenes and needed a shot to cover their mistake, but it just looks ridiculous. The movie has some awful cliché's. At the beginning Zellweger has glasses and her hair is tied up (geek girl) halfway through the flick, her hair comes down and she ditches the glasses (hot chick). Also the movie provides no reason why the two couples in the movie would be with each other. It makes it obvious in the bare bones exposition that they hate each other, but inexplicably after the prom scene Renee and her beau just randomly sit up in the back seat.
As far as acting goes...Well, Leather-face gave the best performance.. lets just put it that way.
The effects were pretty bad as well.. Most awful movies excel in one area (usually makeup effects) but this turd basically fails on all fronts. However I think that the movie itself is worth watching if only looking for a dumb movie to laugh at, but it still sucks.
2/10
Review by: Scott Abrams