The Slaughter (2006)
2/10
Awfully, awfully bad
11 December 2007
Warning: Spoilers
This movie is really something a group of 12 yr olds would film. Being a lover of horror movies, this movie actually shows me the meaning of "horrible". The acting is bad, the plot is worse.

Everything is fine up to the part where the four people died of the four elements, Water, Fire, Air and Earth. None of these have any sense in them.

Water - Heather only died when she was pulled under water the second time. How ridiculous is this? The demon is an ancient demon, bend on taking over the world with her evil sorcery powers, would she give anyone a second chance? Worse of all, on the second time when Heather was pulled in, she showed absolutely no emotions as the demon tugged at her leg. Amateur acting.

Fire - If you people can remember, Tyler actually saw all the fuel rising to the roof of the basement. Anybody would have ran or back off after a few second, and what did he do? Continue staring till he got burnt. Really disgusting acting.

Air - Brandon actually did better with his fear when he saw the demon, but its the plot that kills. Who would climb up a chute when a demon is screaming in front of you? The plot for this is terrible.

Earth - While this guy is smoking his weed, he saw the demon and thought it was hallucination. That was OK until the demon disappeared into the ground. And he did what most movie does, looked real closed at the hole. When he stood up and got pulled by the hand, a close look reveals that he did not even struggle. He just try to shake the demon off. Its a demon for God Sake! Not a dog biting on his pants!

They tried to pull off a Shaun Of The Dead comedy while tackling with the zombie of Carl. They can never succeed in that with their mediocre acting! If the actors and actresses are better ones, this scene would have been the highlight. This is one of the scenes that killed the movie.

Lastly,Dana in the final "spell" room scene is extremely bad. How can one negotiate with a demon, while her friend(Iggy) is struggling to keep all the zombies out?! This is the plot's matter again, and if a good horror movie director have seen the script with this scene, he would have torn the papers to shreds.

This movie would have gotten a single star from me if not for Iggy's explanation about the demon and its origin. A detailed explanation is needed for a movie on ancient demons and ghouls, and Iggy pulled it off. Other than that, this movie is simply not up to the standard.
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