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Paintball team the Zero Boys have just won another tournament, and due to a bet, that gives teamleader Steve (Daniel Hirsch) the right to take rival Casey's (John Michaels) girl Jamie (Kelli Maroney) along for a weekend trip with his boys (Tom Shell, Jared Moses) and their girls (Nicole Rio, Crystal Carson). Not sure where they were headed on that trip, but bad weather forces them to break into an empty weekend cabin to spend the night in the dry (their truck has no roof). Now Steve thinks the most difficult thing he has to deal with the whole weekend will be winning over Jamie - but that works rather neatly ... but when they find out the barn adjacent to the cabin houses a torture chamber, our heroes get a little bit worried, when one of them (Crystal Carson) is then abducted, tortured, and then returned in a bodybag, though still alive, that's even worse, and when a corpse is found in a crate in the cabin ... well, that's pretty much it, our heroes run, bad weather or not ... and are pretty much lured into a trap that forces them to abandon their car and try to make the way on foot - and only gradually they come to the realisation they are not just running from one killer but three or more - and while the Zero Boys are naturally armed to the teeth (they're not just paintballers but also gun enthusiasts), their adversaries are cunning, and they do know the area and have set traps ...

Now I just can't denie it, The Zero Boys is not a very good movie - it's just great to watch!

Now why isn't it a very good movie? It's macho attitude and pro-gun stance are rather painful, all characters, but especially the "hero" Steve, whose pretty much infallible throughout, are rather flat, and thus it's hard to feel sympathy, in all the film's rather predictable, and then it ends rather all of a sudden, without a single narrative thread being tied up, as if the script was stolen from the writers before they even added the third act and nobody took care of it thereafter.

So why is it a great watch then? Well, it is at least to 80s enthusiasts as it marries two genres that had their heyday in the 1980s, the male-dominated B action flick and the teen-dominated slasher movie, and with plenty of success, as it follows both genre's formulas almost frighteningly well. So if you want a nostalgia trip to that decade, The Zero Boys is really THE ticket, and despite all its shortcomings it's tremendous fun to watch, it has got some great action setpieces, some gruesome deaths, a welcome meanness to it ... and dang, it just represents the era it has been made in too well!!!

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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