Killer Body Count

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The camera work and most of the acting is fine. There are certainly issues with budget and location. Part of it is due to the typical troupes used in modern feminist writings in full display here: Church bad Church has conversion camps Men are horny, selfish, and inadequate Orgasms and sex are empowerment Men and religion keep us from experiencing our pleasure and full sexual experience Only through women can we be fully realized as a person Yadda yadda blah blah blah. It tries to be funny but it's not. It tries to make statements about society, but they're so hamfisted and typical that you groan. It has good gore. The writing is typical modern clichés that would only be entertaining to people who isolate themselves and avoid human interaction.

I had a whole more nuanced and thought out review I was making notes for while watching this, but about 45 mins in the film began to lose my interest and then it went double time in the last act to not try and get it back. I also started watching this under the thought that this was a horror movie, not catching on that this was more of a snarky horror until part way though. When seeing the main character quickly 180º from being traumatized about seeing a boy killed and then gaslit to seem crazy (for being the only one to notice that 1 of the only 4 boys is missing) to suddenly creaming her shorts at the sight of the boys naked shower fun time. So I added "comedy" to its IMDb genre for others to be better aware going in. And it's with scenarios like that, the movie goes from interesting to incredulous with tonal shifts that hiccup throughout the movie from any one scene to the next. The main contributor to the jarring shifts in tone is how it has the cast (but mainly the lead actress) play their dramatic moments seriously with an effective, emotional display of anguish and glassy eyes, but then the next scene is some ludicrous (comedy?) scenario -- usually involving those very same characters who were just emotional -- that is in stark contrast to what happened before. HERE'S ANOTHER EXAMPLE: - Two girls see another girl get her face caved in with a bladed thurible and then the main girl's boy crush get speared to death. Then they run away from the killer and hide out in a cabin when suddenly... they become so rapt with passion they strip down to their undies while making out for some girl on girl time. One girl fiddles the other one's faddle until she orgasms (loud enough it must've alerted the killer who, not much later, Cosmo Kramer's inside to do some poking of his own)... And then the very scene after that it's devastatingly dramatic again when the main girl discovers a secret room with heartbreaking yada yada. And no part of any of that example is ever played for laughs, which is what makes the "comedy" aspect so odd, or awkward. What is the audience supposed to absorb from the story with such massive swings like that? Because of the dramatic scenes, the sudden goofball comedy is more jarring than funny; and because of the intermittent cartoonish campy bits the switch to serious real emotional moments are just too awkward to invest in. And by the end the movie just seems to have triple-downed on the absurdity with a bunch of stabbed, beaten, bleeding, traumatized, and injured people suddenly all at max health running around like the Avengers. Props though for the DOGMA nod if that really was a box of Buddy Christ figurines in that one scene. ===-=== -- MY RATING SCALE -- ===-=== 1. Reserved for Poorly Produced/Amateur Video 2. Utterly Terrible 3. Really Bad 4. Mediocre 5. Perfectly Average 6. Surprisingly Entertaining 7. Very Good 8. Incredibly Good 9. Exceptionally Great 10. Reserved for my Personal Favorites.