This review can be short. As some of you know, the Asylum Home Entertainment team jumps on the trends of the now. Take a look at there catalog, you’ll know what I mean. This is prime example, only it’s not Leigh Scott helming the lense this time. It’s good ole Peter “ DEAD MAN WALKING“ Mervis, so we’ll be talking about an intense flick. Leigh scares are more subtle and doesn’t work as well as Peter’s. This is another great example.
Rebekah Kochan plays Trish, a babysitter awaiting the most hellish night of her life. Before she gets to her destination of death, the killer is off dispatching a woman and her 2 kids in a glorious splatter-ific display. Trish gets to the Walkers house, and that’s the last time she sees them till they meet their doom later on. Bodies are strewn in gory ways. Now the intensity heightens………… Calls are coming in………… Text messages……………. Photos of his last victims. She plays along until it becomes too much. The boyfriend shows up with a few other mishaps tagging along. Now this sets up the rivers of blood. The killer arrives, now he is inside. Hell, I’m ruining the whole movie and this was a pretty savage beast. Just think WHEN A STRANGER CALLS (original and remake). Same plot and so on.
The thing with Asylum movies, they will kill anybody and anything. Kids die by the handfuls in this. If you want the brutality of it all, then a few kids is a heart breaker. The lead did very well for being freaked out, then chased around. I might have gripped the seat a few times throughout, but no one was there to witness. Nice blood and guts, the way it should be. The lighting was terrific on certain scenes, the blue gel gave a slight Argento in parts, really moody. Music was kind of sub par, it kind of killed it in certain scenes. Way to generic.
Overall, the commentary, always interesting behind the scenes featurette, outtakes and trailers round out this fantastic rip off.
-Cannibal Cam
- Interview with J.R. Bookwalter - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Andrew J. Rausch - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Rick Popko and Dan West - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Director Stevan Mena (Malevolence) - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Screenwriter Jeffery Reddick (Day of the Dead 2007) - January 22, 2015
- Teleconference interview with Mick Garris (Masters of Horror) - January 22, 2015
- A Day at the Morgue with Corri English (Unrest) - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Writer/Director Nacho Cerda (The Abandoned, Aftermath) - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Actress Thora Birch (Dark Corners, The Hole, American Beauty) - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Actor Jason Behr, Plus Skinwalkers Press Coverage - January 22, 2015
