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A group of people on a rafting excursion happen upon a deserted town and decide to set up camp. Out of the blue, a murder occurs.
Release : | 1981 |
Rating : | 2.9 |
Studio : | Cougar Films, Limited, Calendar International Pictures Inc., |
Crew : | Cinematography, Director, |
Cast : | Pepper Martin Hank Worden Woody Strode Alvy Moore Gregg Palmer |
Genre : | Horror Thriller Mystery |
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Slow pace in the most part of the movie.
Admirable film.
The first must-see film of the year.
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
Scream, also known as 'The Outing', is the only film where I've seen pretty much every review pan it. I decide to check it out of curiosity. Oh the horror! The horror when the cameraman slowly pans over to a lantern for the third time! The shock when a man wakes up to find...A DOOR OPENING SLOWLY!'Scream' is so bad, yet oddly enjoyable in my opinion, it deserves at least a remake. If that happens maybe all the mistakes could be corrected.Anyway the plot sees a bunch of rafters sailing down the Rio Grande river. Only they get lost along the way. They then decide to camp in a nearby deserted town (which looks like a set from Blazing Saddles). However when night falls they start to get killed off one by one by an unseen killer.The premise itself is interesting so what can go wrong? Everything. Nothing is explained. It's never explained whether the rafters are family or friends or work colleagues. This defeats any kind of characterisation, making it difficult to care for the victims. Veteran actor Woody Strode enters the film as a sailor (who looks more like a 1940's noir Detective! lol)called Charlie. His performance is the most interesting and still has bad dialogue. The cast are mainly lead by Pepper Martin (the guy who beats up Clark Kent in the diner in Superman 2). Why give somebody with such little experience in acting the lead? Add to that the lighting is bloody awful. There is no gore and you can tell that there are no stunt doubles. This is because you can blatantly tell when the actors are doing the stunts! A scene that I find unintentionally hilarious is when a woman runs across town at night and obviously JUMPS ACROSS THE WIRE-TRAP THE CHARACTERS SET MOMENTS BEFORE!! Lol. The titles theme is god-awful. It sounds like it came from Starsky & Hutch.The opening and ending sequences have hardly any links to the main plot at all. I only had a rough idea but what they consist of is a mantel piece, clock, three porcelain figures. The opening ends with the Butcher having decapitated the Baker and the Candlestick Maker. Then when Charlie shoots the killer the Butcher is decapitated too!!! Dumb dumb Dumb! There's also a painting of who the killer is at the very end. When the end credits rolled I had become so excited I fell off my seat.My advice...Stick to Wes, Neve, Courtney and David.
I have to agree with the other reviews. And I LIKE bad horror. I especially get a kick out of bad 70's and 80's horror. I will take The Mutilator, Slaughterhouse Rock, or Don't Go In the House any day! Ever seen Inn of the Damned? Yeah, it's a piece of dung, but nowhere near as bad as this. This movie has no plot, little dialogue, awful pacing, just boring as hell. The whole movie is like a power-outage, all dark and lanterns, and NOT scary. I don't need things spoon-fed to me, but the movie does not explain anything! Where did any of the characters come from? Where is this set? Why is everyone a useless wuss... oh wait, I guess that applies to most horror. But seriously, I was eagerly awaiting all these folks to die just so it would be over. One of the most infuriatingly inane movies I have ever seen. Don't do it.
Starts off with a slow pan across an old room, with a painting of a ship rolling in rough water, and over to a mantel. The mantel has three figurines on it, a butcher, a baker and (I'm guessing) a candlestick maker. Above the mantel is a painting, which we don't get to see, and on the mantel is also a clock that is striking 12 o'clock.The camera then pans back to the figurines, and the baker and candlestick maker have lost their heads. Both heads are at their feet, and the latter's appears to have blood on it, while the former is still rocking. The butcher has blood on his apron. Then in a close-up, his eyes move.From here, there's a rafting trip. They stop in a ghost town to stay the night. None of the people are given any identities. Some people get killed offscreen. The only time blood is seen is when one of the weapons is shown, since the killer apparently can't be bothered to clean the blood off them. The rafts disappear. The people decide to stay in the town, rather than walking to a real town, or just floating down the river without the rafts. A few other people show up, but they're not much help.At the end of the movie, the room from the opening scene is shown again. We see the painting, and also the butcher has also lost his head, and there's some voice-over, but I couldn't understand what it was saying at all. Bad.
I am sorry but I have seen tons and I mean tons of bad movies before. You name it and I have probably seen it but this movie was pain old terrible. There are so many characters and they look actually the same you cant tell who is who and there is little diagolue I doubt they even had a scirpt. There is no plot. People are stuck on an island as people die. I love 80's slasher movies but I can't get over how bad this movie was. They really don't give any information on the killer and they don't really show any death scenes. I have watched this film 3 times because I could not get the point. I tryed to understand it but I just couldn't. I recommend you try to get this film so you know what I am talking about. After you see this movie email me and tell me what you think. Ifyou can sit through this whole movie strait without falling asleep I have tons of respect for you. 0* out of ****