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So much average

Simply A Masterpiece

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Spoiler Alert!!! OK the whole movie is about the most overused concept a group of friends are looking to get away and into the woods. Here they do drugs, fornicate, and are picked off one by one by a mask wearing serial killer. Literally this movie had something going for it by having the killer be wearing a Ronald Regan mask, targeting hippies, and leaving a trail of black jelly beans for Thomas Jane to find. I must say the kills are pretty lame when it comes to creativity like for instance David Arquette himself only gets his neck broken when he deserved worse, a bare naked male hippie gets gutted upside down, and an old guy gets decapitated. Like seriously it's pretty used up. The only interesting kills I would say is the opening scene where a kid stabs his own father in the throat with a chainsaw and Paul Ruebens death where he gets chainsawed in half, vertically. This movie really doesn't have any interesting characters and the only one I was rooting for was Thomas Jane. This movie isn't really anything new when it comes to the slasher genre and if you are interested in seeing hippies getting murdered by Ronald Regan, a completely naked male hippie, or Thomas Jane seeing black jelly beans I recommend it one watch. I give it a 4 out of 10.

We've seen a lot of slashers already that are intended as throwbacks/tributes to the 80's – the era when this horror sub genre was at its peak of popularity – but David Arquette takes his 80's love even a couple of steps further, as the killer in his directorial debut is obsessed with, and even wears a mask resembling the President who was in charge of the White House for the largest part of the 80's decade. "The Tripper" is a fun and imaginative piece of splatter cinema (much better than, for instance, the simultaneously released but massively over-hyped "Hatchet") that effectively blends nostalgic slasher clichés, over-the-top political satire and a whole lot of unsubtle gore effects. The action takes place in a remote and forestry region; all the lead characters are either dim-witted teenagers or mentally underdeveloped hillbillies and the maniac with the axe is a completely deranged and unstoppable killing machine! What more could you possibly expect? The film even opens with a good old-fashioned crazed 60's flashback, which immediately explains the madman's sympathies for Ronald Reagan. A young boy witnesses how hippies prevent his struggling father from reclaiming a forest whilst his severely ill mother lies dying in bed at home. Blinded by rage, the boy picks up a chainsaw and violently attacks the lead hippie. Only moments before the assault the boy was staring at Governor Reagan on TV, and his "People are more important than trees" speeches clearly made an everlasting impact! The action than jumps forward to present day and we follow a van filled with stoned teenagers as they're on their way to attend the biggest annual and hippie-themed music festival in the woods. Guess who shall be present as well and will go conservative Republican on their butts? "The Tripper" is reasonably fast-paced, light-headed and very easy to digest. Arquette clearly opted for a comical approach of the genre right from the beginning, presumably following the tradition of the "Scream"-trilogy in which he starred, but still you can't help thinking the concept of this film also had a lot of suspense-potential. The idea of an old-fashioned, conservative and Reagan obsessed killer taking on a group of stoned kids could easily have resulted in a much more grim and sadist movie, but instead the killer is simply a life-sized Reagan caricature and fires off legendary presidential one-liners like "There you go again" and anecdotes about jellybeans. There are quite a few familiar faces in the cast and they all contribute a pretty reasonable performance, particularly Thomas Jane as the small town sheriff and Balthazar Getty as the stalking ex-boyfriend of one of the partying teens. The gore is plentiful enough to satisfy the majority of the horror-loving crowd, but there's never any truly sick or revolting stuff shown on screen. "The Tripper" is not a great or even highly memorable film, but it certainly entertains while it lasts and sets positive expectations for David Arquette's further career as a director.

In "The Tripper," a slasher movie with a political conscience, a serial killer wearing a Ronald Reagan mask stalks a group of anachronistic hippies (so anachronistic they have cell phones along with their tie dye t-shirts and psychedelic van) who have come to the forests of Northern California to celebrate free love and partake in unlimited drug use at a Woodstock-type outdoor event.The Red State/Blue State divide is never far from the filmmakers' minds as a bunch of gun-toting rednecks go up against a group of Flower Power love children who suddenly descend on the area. The saving grace, if indeed there is one, of this gory, but not particularly disturbing, splatter-fest is the tongue-in-cheek humor it manages to display from time to time. Otherwise, this odd little mixture of horror movie clichés and outdated political satire (does anybody really care about the Reagan administration any more?) falls strangely flat.

In the 80's, after seeing his father and lumberjack foreman being hit by a protester against the deforesting and arrested by the police, the boy Gus kills the protester with a chainsaw. In the present days, Samantha (Jamie King), who is traumatized after being abused by her former boyfriend Jimmy (Balthazar Getty), travels with her pothead friends in a van to the American Free Love Festival, a rock-and-roll concert in the woods. Near the location, they are assaulted by three local hillbillies, but they succeed to arrive in the festival. Meanwhile, Mayor Hal Burton (Rick Overton) and Deputy Buzz Hall (Thomas Jane) try to give a minimum of organization to the event. However, a deranged psychopath serial-killer wearing a mask of Ronald Reagan uses an ax to kill the pacific stoned hippies.The slasher "The Tripper" is a great disappointment. David Arquette certainly had the intention of making a cult-movie and was supported by a good cast (probably his friends) including a cameo appearance of his wife and a great cinematography and lightening, but unfortunately the story never works. Jason Mewes is comfortable performing his traditional role of pothead; the sexy Jaime King has a good performance in the role of Samantha but the good actor Thomas Jane is displaced in his silly role. Further, the political anti-war jokes and speeches of the Republicans and Ronald Reagan are boring. In a cheap manipulation, the Brazilian DVD highlights the name of Courtney Cox-Arquette in the movie, misleading her fans. My vote is four.Title (Brazil): "Perseguição Assassina" ("Assassin Pursue")