The Bucks County Massacre

USA 2010
produced by
Jason Sherman, Artem Ustayev (executive), Kathleen Williams (executive)
directed by Jason Sherman
starring Nikki Bell, Zackary Kresser, Dan Kellmer, Brittany Geiger, Lee Grimanis, Tereza Hakobyan, James McMullen III, Adam Chylinski, Daniel Torres, Brian Affleck, Megan Beck, Leighann Brokaw, Brandon Ebron, JaQuinley Kerr, Melissa Michalczyk, Jamai Mosley, Ron Ordonez, Christopher Parisano, Karen Rodriguez, Dave Sarrafian, Jason Sherman, Artem Ustayev, Marcus Vega-Eisenhart, Michael Galliano, Robert Merrigan, Chris Christian, Barrie Creedon, Thomas Stackhouse, Cynthia Wikler, Steven Schneider, Jerry Foglia, Jason Gruber, Alexander Adrock
written by Elliot Hoffman, Dan Kellmer, Jimm Scannell, Jason Sherman, special makeup effects by Leighann Brokaw, Dan Kellmer, Jimm Scannell, special effects by Joel Young

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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It's Will's (Zackary Kresser) 25th birthday party in his girlfriend Kelly's (Nikky Bell) remote cabin, and his best mate Steve (Dan Kellmer) decides to turn it all into a video - which basically shows random people partying, having a good time and whatnot. Then a girl (Tereza Hakobyan), who only stepped outside to make a phonecall, goes missing, only her cellphone is found. The cops who are promptly called, don't take this all this seriously, so her boyfriend Rob (Adam Chylinski) grabs a gun (don't know why) and goes out into the woods to look for her. Eventually, the others hear a shot, follow Rob into the woods and find him all mutilated - and dead of course. And there are two beings (Jason Gruber, Alexander Adrock) prowling the woods and taking out our heroes one by one. The survivors make it back to the house ... but then the beings attack, until only one girl (Brittany Geiger) survives the ordeal to tell the tale ... but she doesn't want to do much telling.

Basically, Bucks County Massacre is a slasher movie disguised as a found footage film - and if nothing else, the film deserves praise for trying to give the slasher genre a slightly different aesthetic approach.

That said though, Bucks County Massacre is a definitely less than perfect movie, and mostly for its found footage approach: Basically, the first third of the movie, which should have set up the characters, is wasted by showing some twentysomethings partying from a first-person perspective that's actually less than involving, then the guild-up of suspense and atmosphere is seriously hampered by shaky camerawork paired with a lack of interest in creating nice shots, while the actual shock scenes consist of nothing more than characters screaming, and there are next to no creepy setpieces to get the audience into the mood.

That all said, Bucks County Massacre is by far not the trainwreck I made it sound to be, it's basically an ambitious project that's failed as an experiment - but it's still an ok slasher I guess.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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