(re)Search my Trash

<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="592" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">    <p>Sam (Joey Mintz) invites some of his high school buddies (Jodi Lin, Leon Kirkland, Sean Deblat, Alexandra Mingione, Aya Beldi) from way back to his father's cabin deep in the woods, somewhere in Vermont where cellphones are not working and stuff. Basically the idea is have some beers, smoke some weed, party a bit and see what develops - but there is also a sadder aspect to this occasion: Sam has to put down his dog Porter, who's suffering from cancer - so he wants to at least throw him a decent good-bye party.<p>Of course, Sam and his friends from the city are in no way suited for life in the woods, even if it's just for the weekend, but fortunately, there's a caretaker (Patrick McGowan) on the grounds, who proves to be an angel in disguise, taking care of virtually everything, down to creating a ramp for wheelchair-bound Leon (Leon Kirkland), taking care of the generator, chopping wood for a fire, and so on and so forth. He even promises Sam to take down Porter, just so Sam doesn't do it himself ... so nobody suspects anything when he offers to take model Isabella (Aya Beldi) to town to make an important phonecall. He returns without Isabella, but tells Sam and friends she had to leave for home for an important acting gig immediately - while actually he tried to fondle her, killed her when she tried to make a getaway, then buried her in Porter's stead, as he just couldn't bring himself to shoot the dog.<p>When Sam and friends find a live Porter and Isabelle's ransacked handbag with the caretaker though, they begin putting two and two together - and soon it's war. Now sure, our heroes outnumber the caretaker, have youth on their side, but he's an experienced killer, and he's armed ...<p> <p><b>Hell's Caretaker</b> is a film that takes some time to kick into gear - basically it spends too much time setting up the situation and characters before it kicks into gear, even if the caretaker is identified as a psycho from very early on. However, once the film kicks into gear it goes really wild and tense, and remains totally unpredictable for the remainder - and even the set-up isn't actually bad, as the characters and their situations are interesting enough and well-portrayed, it just could have been trimmed and better paced for optimum effect. And in all, a totally worthwhile movie. <p>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2014"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>