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I'll Kill You... I'll Bury You... I'll Spit on Your Grave Too!
I Spit on Your Grave Too!
USA 1994
produced by Ray Grubic, W. Taylor Hart, Tom Koba for Eden Entertainment, Zipper Productions
directed by Tom Koba
starring Alex Black, Don Ray, Tom Caladan, Kit Hadley, Jennifer Proctor, Mike Noble, Tim O'Connor, Dennis Stokes, Scody Garbedis, Ann Gfell, Randy Hugg, Gail O'Keefe, Tim O'Keefe, Eric Schmidt
written by Denny Dormody, music by Sean Carlin
review by Mike Haberfelner
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A quintet of college students go to an abandoned backwoods research facility that
was closed down 25 years ago after a handful of murders have happened
there. Of course, once they are there, they have to painfully find out
that the killer's still there (after all, what are 25 years if you're
waiting for someone to kill, right?), and before you know it, three of
them are dead, and those alive, Shelly (Alex Black) and Ben (Don Ray) find
themselves tied up in a barn at the mercy of a masked killer. Fortunately
though, at a gas station just a few miles back, Shelly has shagged the
good looking gas station attendant Bob (Mike Noble) out of a fancy, and
now he comes looking for her. But once Bob has freed her and Ben, they run
into the redneck sheriff (Tim O'Connor), who behaves way too odd to not be
the prime suspect in the murders, but behaves way too suspicious to
actually be the killer ... which is of course some paralyzed Vietnam
veteran (Dennis Stokes) who on closer inspection is not paralyzed at all -
but mad as a hatter. The sheriff, who has suspected him all along, is
killed by the veteran pretty much on the spot, but in a concerted effort,
Shelly, Ben and Bob manage to turn the killer into minced human via a
fertalyzing machine after an extended fight. And the lesson we learn
from that film: Always shag good-looking gas station attendants, they
might save your life one day ... Very weak independent slasher movie
that doesn't invest a single original idea into its script, instead the
audience is presented with nothing but tried-and-true (and dead boring)
genre mainstays that would have looked old even if the film would have
been made a decade earlier. Add to this a directorial effort that's hardly
even functional (let alone inventive), an ensemble cast uniformly not up
to the task ahead, and a serious lack of gore scenes (the actual raison
d'être of a film of this sort) and you are left with very close to
nothing. Complete waste of time.
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