Kevin Corrigan...that name is the only thing right with this movie. He might have played the dopey loser brother on Grounded For Life, but he plays a fairly convincing man-with-serious-mental-problems in this film. Aside from his somewhat surprising performance, the rest of the film is just utter garbage. Why? Read on.
I find it baffling that any movie could be based on the premise that a drunken teenager runs over a totally innocent guy, beats him with a golf club, then buries him alive...and then make HIM the bad guy. You know what? I'll say this right now: if anyone did even ONE of those things to me, I'd be looking for some revenge also. Granted one or two of his kills may have been a bit much, but how can you blame a man who's mentally unstable AND has been put through hell by some moron teenager? The crux of any teenkill movies is, as the moniker suggests, teenagers and as anyone who's been a teenager knows, teenagers are idiots. All of them. If you're reading this and you're a teen, you're an idiot...turn 20 and deal with it. But these kids take it to a whole other level. Not only does this chick manage to rack up a DUI, attempted vehicular manslaughter, felony assault, and attempted murder...she proceeds to do everything she possibly can to screw things up. She tells her apathetic and douche bag-esquire boyfriend, she keeps returning to the scene of the crime, and when things go bump in the night she wanders around her house saying "Hello?". I don't know about you, but if I think there's an intruder in my house the last thing I'm doing is announcing my presence.
Nothing really works in this movie. You've seen the plot a million times and you've seen it done better. The acting is mediocre at best save Corrigan's standout performance even if he does get only about 20 words. Another big minus (for me anyway) is that pretty much any horror action is done off screen. Big party foul. All in all I'll give it a 3, but it probably deserves less. How it made it's way up to (currently) 5.1 on IMDb is a total mystery to me.
I find it baffling that any movie could be based on the premise that a drunken teenager runs over a totally innocent guy, beats him with a golf club, then buries him alive...and then make HIM the bad guy. You know what? I'll say this right now: if anyone did even ONE of those things to me, I'd be looking for some revenge also. Granted one or two of his kills may have been a bit much, but how can you blame a man who's mentally unstable AND has been put through hell by some moron teenager? The crux of any teenkill movies is, as the moniker suggests, teenagers and as anyone who's been a teenager knows, teenagers are idiots. All of them. If you're reading this and you're a teen, you're an idiot...turn 20 and deal with it. But these kids take it to a whole other level. Not only does this chick manage to rack up a DUI, attempted vehicular manslaughter, felony assault, and attempted murder...she proceeds to do everything she possibly can to screw things up. She tells her apathetic and douche bag-esquire boyfriend, she keeps returning to the scene of the crime, and when things go bump in the night she wanders around her house saying "Hello?". I don't know about you, but if I think there's an intruder in my house the last thing I'm doing is announcing my presence.
Nothing really works in this movie. You've seen the plot a million times and you've seen it done better. The acting is mediocre at best save Corrigan's standout performance even if he does get only about 20 words. Another big minus (for me anyway) is that pretty much any horror action is done off screen. Big party foul. All in all I'll give it a 3, but it probably deserves less. How it made it's way up to (currently) 5.1 on IMDb is a total mystery to me.