Patrick's (Adam Lemieux) going to get married the very next day, so his best friend and best man Teddy (Eric De Santis) has arranged a little bachelor party - against Patrick's express wishes -, and gets him out into the woods at Femur Creek for plenty of drinking and drugs with their best friends - from back in high school - Kevin (Conall Pendergast) and Dave (Brent Baird). Patrick doesn't feel it right from the beginning, as he has long lost touch with Kevin and Dave, has left their high school shenanigans long behind himself, and it's not exactly helping that both Kevin and Dave are rathr depressed over their current state of affairs and start whining after a little too much weed. And then Trinity (Cassidy Lawson), the stripper Teddy has hired, throws up all over Patrick as she has just found out she's pregnant, so this is pretty much the worst day of Patrick's life ... and he doesn't even know yet that there's a masked killer (John Migliore) roaming the woods who has already killed numerous people including a hot hitchhiker (August Kyss), a pretentious filmmaker (Seb Godin) and his actors (Gabrielle Forsey, David Kolenski), and a clueless painter (Luke Meneok), and he's heading right for where our heroes are camping ...

Now to claim Massacre at Femur Creek is an attempt to re-invent the slasher genre would be a gross exaggeration, in fact it moves well within genre confines and even seems to feel comfortable about it. But that doesn't mean the film fan't also be fun, and Massacre at Femur Creek is actually lots of fun, basically because it knows its genre limitations and pokes fun at genre tropes - without ever going moronic though and without giving up the film's horror roots for cheap jokes. The other thing that makes Massacre at Femur Creek special though is that it shows a lot of heart, something not usually found in this kind of film, and this way makes its story relatable even to non genre fans - and makes it a very enjoyable watch for that.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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