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Five youngsters (Lindley Evans, Tiffany Shepis, Forrest Pitts, Will
Akers, Matt Lero) have themselves the worst Christmas party ever ... but
things get a whole worse when a psychopath (Bill Moseley) shows up with a
suitcase full of razorblades, and he forces the kids to tell him whom they
hate most in the world, and he cuts himself for every person who's named.
Then he leaves, thank God, but when the next day the guys our heroes have
named pile up dead, now that's a little bit worrying, and it's even more
worrying that one of our heroes, Tim (Matt Lero), has named all of the
other guys at the party, so they are pretty much next - and before you know it, one of them (Tiffany Shepis) meets her end, too. Now the most
sensible thing to do would be to go to the authorities and let them handle it,
but Tim, not exactly the brightest and backed up by lame-brained best
buddy Devin (Brandon Carroll), thinks he has a better idea and drags all
of his friends to his uncle Johnny (Tom Towles), just because uncle Johnny
is a militant who believes in arming himself to the teeth.Uncle Jimmy is
so blinded by his own believes that it doesn't come to his mind that it
might not be a good idea to arm scared shitless and slightly drunk kids,
and soon everything ends in a bloodbath, mainly because the kids can't
handle the weapons and the power that comes with them. Sure, the psychopath,
who eventually turns out to be a demon, shows up as well, but mostly, the
kids kill each other - and uncle Johnny -, creating an ordeal
much bloodier than what the demon had in store for them. A fun
little movie that treats its very routine slasher/survival horror plot
with an extra helping of weirdness that puts it more in the neighbourhood
of David Lynch oeuvre (of which this movie's somewhat reminiscent of) than of your typical horror
flick, and it even
manages to work a gun control message into the plot without ever becoming
preachy. The best of all of this though is that the film remains
entertaining, and, despite of all of the gore, funny throughout. Sure,
upon closer inpsection, the film lacks the ingenuity of even the lesser of
David Lynch's films, and is most of the time too childish to qualify as a
masterpiece or work of art, but it remains an enjoyable piece of weirdness
anyways, and that's what really counts.
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