Alex has escaped the asylum 20 years ago and since, 28 people have gone missing in "his" neck of the woods, and yet his story has never become big news in the serialkiller-crazed USA. But then film student Roger (Michael Fischer) stumbles upon the story, and he and his associates Nicole (Paige Steakley) and Derick (Johnny Huang) decide to make a documentary about the subject for a film school assignment, and for a bit of fun on the side, they bring along their friends (Samantha Holland, Kayla Anderson, Dakota Millett, Santiago Sky) for some after hours partying. Now in Alex's hometown they get some interesting interviews, from the mother (Brinke Stevens) of a victim to one of Alex's former orderlies (Bill Johnson) to a creepy antique store owner (Bill Oberst jr), before the local sheriff (Paul T. Taylor) pretty much tells them off - but they find no actual evidence whether the urban legend about the Hogman has a grain of truth to it or not - until of course, the Hogman shows up on their doorstep, intent to make a killing or three ...

Now sure, Butchers Bluff doesn't exactly re-invent the slasher genre, but it has all the genre's elements in all the right places, from suspense scenes to jump scares, from macabre details to all-out gruesome killings, and the framing story about the hapless film students actually gives the proceedings some more depth, especially since it presents us with a bunch of fleshed-out characters that are more than just mere cannon fodder. So in all, this of course might not be a film for everybody, it's steeped too deeply in its genre for that, but at the same time it's pretty cool horror entertainment.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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