As the amusement park many of them have worked for for years closes
down permanently, several employees (Wendy Wygant, Alicia Marie Marcucci,
Kyle Riordan, Tyler Kale, Kailey Marie Harris, Dean Jacobs, Nicole
Beattie) and their boss Marty (Steve Rudzinski) decide to have a party on
the (already under lock-and-key) premises - nothing big, just a few drinks
to reminisce. But as these stories go, there are also two masked killers
on the prowl on the premises. When they kill their first few victims,
nobody takes much notice, because while the group is small, the site is
large, and once it becomes apparent these guys are slashing their way
through the park's employees, our heroes are already down to a core group,
and while they might not be outmanned, they are definitely outgunned. The
only one who remains rational enough through all of this (also because she
didn't drink with the others) is Wendy Wygant, who actually manages to put
up some resistance, and she even succeeds in keeping her wimpy, injured
boss Marty out of harm's way - but how long will she manage to survive.
What's worse though, while in hiding, she learns from Marty that the
killers might actually have been hired by the park's owner Mr Hyde (Doug
Bradley), to give the place some cheap (?) but effective publicity ... Now
Scream Park is hardly high cinematic art, and it doesn't try to be.
Instead it's a loving throw-back to 1980's slasher cinema - and as such,
it can run with the best of them: This is no post-modernist
reinterpretation of genre formulas, no injoke-filled hommage or (worse)
parody, no attempt to "update the formula" - no, it's a
light-footed yet gore-soaked suspense piece, and while it might be totally
predictable (except for the "capitalism gone bad"-twist), down
to the final girl, it's paced, played and filmed well enough to not make
one worry about this one bit, and once it's over one can't deny having
enjoyed it, either. Pretty cool genre entertainment, actually!
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