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A lonesome country road, the middle of winter: Steven (Blake Canning)
and Celeste's (Samantha De Benedet) car breaks down. Steven gets out to
see what's wrong ... and he doesn't survive it while she gets dragged off,
is locked into a small cage and forced into submission - and eventually
she's impregnated. The same country road, summer: Couples Jenna (Julie
Mainville) and Mike (James Hicks), and Taylor (Anne-Carolyne Binette) and
Chris (Frederik Storm) drive home from a party where they've learned
things about their respective partners that puts a strain on their
relationships - so they're not in the best mood when their car breaks
down. Mike and Taylor volunteer to go looking for help, but really they
just want to get it on behind their respective partners' backs - but
eventually they find a gas station run by Owen (Simon Phillips) ... who
knocks them out to make them captives. In the meantime, Owen's brother
Oswald captures Jenna and Steve - and while the brothers don't really have
much use of the men, and are even quick to gut Steve, they want to make
the girls their new slaves. Thing is, the girls still have some fight in
them and won't submit all that easily. But then again, Owen and Oswald
have a brother, Oxford, who's not only gruesomely disfigured, he's also a
cannibal with never-ending appetite ... Now Butchers
doesn't exactly break new ground when it comes to backwoods horrors
- but it tells its story in a very appealing way, doing more than just
following the slasher formula to the t but putting some surprises into its
plot, not giving away the identity of the "final girl" in the
first five minutes, and placing all the suspense sequences as well as jump
scares and outbursts of violence in all the right places to keep one at
the edge of one's seat throughout. And of course, a solid cast playing
characters that are more than just two-dimensional cannon fodder only help
to make this a very cool genre piece.
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