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Excellent but underrated film

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

During a horror-fest convention in Louisiana, a number of participants pay for their RV spot by scaring the residents of the park. However, things backfire as they are the ones getting scared and killed.The film is done in a grindhouse fashion. It uses 4 real horror film stars and supplements them with some fake ones. Michael Berryman played himself, but was not one of the four. Chunks (Rachel Alana Handler) is a woman who really lost her leg. Smothered was the preferred way to die as the M.O. of Dee Dee (Brea Grant) who had a huge fake chest attached to her torso...no those weren't hers. Kane Hodder, R.A. Mihailoff, Malcolm Danare, and Don Shanks played themselves. Bill Moseley, who has been in enough horror films to have played himself, did not, but rather played the part reserved for Robert Englund.The film had promise, but didn't deliver. It needed a metal soundtrack for one thing. The humor didn't work too well in this comedy/slasher.Guide: F-word. Sex. Fake nudity.

I love low budget horror, even the lowest of the low and have an appreciation for 'so bad it's good' cheese-fests. This movie is so bad that it is basically unwatchable, and it doesn't help itself by having editing that makes very little sense.For no apparent reason the story is broken up into chapters(?) that don't really correlate and don't help to reveal anything or enhance the story in any way, so I have no idea why they didn't just make a linear film. Sure, there is actually very little in the way of story to tell, but at least you could have made an average lame horror movie, rather than some chopped up piece of garbage that thinks it is saying more than it is.Finally the premise, it barely has anything to do with what happens in the actual movie and the smothering plays so little a part that it is nothing more than a gimmick. There is nothing redeemable about this movie apart from the names in it and they are completely wasted so that means very little. I was really hoping this would be a fun horror comedy watch and it just wasn't, it was a pain to sit through. Avoid!

Horror that is, indeed, not in the way you might expect. Comical, not one bit, except if you are rotten inside or in a drug induce haze. I stop watching 46 minutes in, 24 of which where I try to justify the existence of such a piece. So tedious, badly done and overwhelmingly boring that I ended up laughing, laughing at the poor Scared Movie fan who paid $3.99 to buy it out of the leftover bin at the flee market delighted at the idea of such an epic actors reunion. John Schneider should have taken is buddies on a all you can eat buffet trip and spare us this garbage self indulgence. Editing with is non-linear story telling, post-production with is distasteful choice of music are serious contestants for a Golden Raspberry. 3.4 out of 10

I had the great pleasure of watching the premier last night at the Scare-a-Con at the Turning Stone Casino in New York.The film was an absolute hoot, and had the audience laughing and gasping at the same time. The horror icons (too many to list - see the cast list) did their jobs admirably and with perfect execution. The camera work and post-production work was very well done. My only concern was the non-linear time line jumps, but as John Schneider pointed out in the subsequent Q&A session, it keeps one focused on the film, but in the same breath he assured us that a completely linear version will be on the DVD when it is released.In short, I'm probably going straight to Hell for laughing at a lot of this stuff, but I guess I'll see you all there. You'll know me, I'll be the guy in the trench coat black-marketing ice cubes!RR