All Tommy (Michael Elyanow) wants is to bang his girlfriend Katie
(Christine McNamara) in some cabin in the woods, but Katie plays hard to
get from square one - and when she hears some maniac (Robert W.Allen) has
broken out of the local loonie bin, she goes into total shutdown and tells
Tommy to drive her back home. Tommy tells her there's nothing to worry
about - but of course there is something to worry about, because the
maniac, who has a hook for his right hand, has made it his habit to kill
everyone in his path, and he's awfully nearby. Finally, Katie convinces
Tommy to drive her back to town, when his car breaks down, and he has to
go to the next house for some help. Of course, he crosses path with the
maniac ... and fights and defeats him. But once he has, he drops his guard
and lets the maniac kill him after all. Then the maniac goes after Katie
and chases her all the way to town where he catches up with her and
prepares to slaughter her in broad daylight - when someone shoots him in
the head. Quite a few sources describe this blend of slasher
motives and urban legend as some sort of genre parody - which it actually
isn't. It's just your typical genre movie, made on a tight budget and by
amateur filmmakers - who certainly have the genre rules down to the t I
might want to add. Basically, the film is as successful on the gore and
shock level as you'd expect it to be, but also as surprise free on a
narrative level as your typical slasher fodder, and its main saving grace
is probably that at a mere 40 minutes it's trimmed down enough plotwise to
remain remotely entertaining and short enough not to outstay its welcome -
which isn't much, but it's something ...
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