This is the ninth review in my Alphabetical April.
I didn't know anything about that movie before I went in, I thought it will be like the usual horror movies these days and probably be boring cause it's Rated 16 in Germany, so usually that means it can't be that bloody.
But wow was I wrong.
It is kind of a remake of the movie with the same title from 1976, but also more like a sequel. Let me explain the plot:
In 1946 Texarkana (which is right on the borders of Texas and Arkansas) a guy in a mask killed some people. Then, in 1976 they made a movie about it. This movie is watched every year in the town, with a screening at a drive in theatre.
And they still do up to 2013, where this movie starts. Because the killings start while the movie is still running on the big screen.
Jamies (Alison Timlin) boyfriend gets killed by a guy wearing a sackhead.
And then he starts killing even more people.
This movie is really an homage to the original. I haven't seen the original movie, but we get to see lots of scenes in the movie.
The people all drive cars that look old and sometimes they wear clothes that could be straight out of the 70s.
The kills are fun and gory and not too over the top, and there are scenes that are recreated out of the old movie (sometimes interspliced with those scenes).
Alison Timlin is a good actress. I haven't seen any movies she is in, but in this flick she is quite good. We have a long shot just showing Jamies face as she starts crying and it looked real to me. All in all I liked her acting.
She lives with her grandmother, who is played by Nancy Cartwright who is a well known horror icon from movies like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", "The Birds" and "Alien", so she could have been in the original movie, which was made in the height of her career.
The movie was directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, most known because of the series "American Horror Story", in which he directed several episodes. He did some pretty good, long one shot scenes, the first scene of the movie (after the intro with narration) goes on for several minutes without a cut, while the camera movies far over a drive in theatre with lots of people.
Probably one of my favorite scenes is when Nick (Travis Tope), the "sidekick" of Jamie goes along some houses in the night and every time the lights of the houses turn on when the motion sensor detects him, then turn off again and it's dark for a few seconds before the next light turns on. It builds a great atmosphere while still looking realistic.
All in all this was a real fun horror movie, very enjoyable, but I wish I had seen the original because I'm sure it has even more references than the ones they rub your nose into by showing you the exact scene from the old movie.
I give it 4 out of 5 stars, if you are a horror and slasher fan, check this out.
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