As a kid, Leslie (Paul Stoichevski) got burnt so badly when caught in a tent that caught fire on a camping ground that he had remained scarred for life.

Flash forward to now though, Leslie's an ok-doing business man, running his deceased parents' hardware store after his brother Patrick (Lorn Eisen) bailed out for his sake. He's still scarred, and people still call him a freak, but he seems to be doing ok at least - and thanks to the advice of a makeup artist he happens to run across he even manages to hide his scars and pull a sexy (though admittedly drunk) girl (Allison Leigha Taylor) - so are things looking up? Unfortunately no, not really, as people start getting brutally slaughtered in the neighbourhood, in killings using increasingly sophisticated hardware. Now detective Pagluca (Labe Kagan) and his deputy O'Malley (Kieran Hart) seem to be hitting a wall, maybe also because coroner Patrick (Lorn Eisen) is Leslie's brother who feels responsible for Leslie being burned, and who can't bring himself to getting the cops on his trail - which only leads to more tragedy ...

Now I don't think there are many people who say Massacre Up North is an awesome movie in its own right - as a matter of fact it's a low budget and rather clichéed little shocker of the slasher variety -, but it is a delightful document of its time in hindsight, a film that ably proves that there were ambitious truly independent genre movies after the classic S.O.V. era and before what we call the "digital age" of filmmaking, and there was a love for the horror genre even in Canada. And apart from that, the film's not great but by no means bad, the script is ambitious, there are genuinely gruesome moments in here, and at least some of the acting's really beyond just par - so at least the genre fan will find plenty to like in this one!

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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