Not the best low budget movie I've ever seen. Not the worst.
A group of teenagers drive to a small town in Maine where Stephen King is supposed to live. The towns people are kind of weird and scary. But they don't care. They just wanna party. Well, most of them. Ronnie wants to meet Stephen King, whose books he loves.
But then, one after one, they start dying.
The movie starts off as a bad comedy. Weird jokes. You can see they try to be funny, but they don't succeed all of the time. We get the characters introduced with freeze frames and text telling us their names and their defining character traits (and a guy reading those texts).
I watched the movie in a german dub, but if you ask me I'd say the acting is only mediocre, kind of what you mostly can expect of a low budget movie.
The camera movements were good, I liked the way this was shot.
What I like about this movie is it is filled with Stephen King references. As a big fan of King's work i have to say I appreciate what they did. But I wonder why they used smaller short stories instead of referencing some more well known stories.
Also referencing Stanley Kubricks Shining is a No Go when you wanna please Stephen King. He hates that movie.
I have to say the first kill is pretty funny done, the rest of the kills wheren't done that good (could be because I maybe had a cut version, I'm not sure).
Last but not least the music when the Killer appeares is a rip off of the music from Friday the 13th, I was wondering if Jason Vorhees was gonna make an appearence.
This wasn't a good film, but also not a bad one, it is at least watchable and even enjoyable if you are in the mood for a low budget horror comedy. Maybe most enjoyable as a Stephen King fan and with some alcohol to drink during it ;)
I rate the movie 2.5 out of 5 stars.
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