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.
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