The Mutilator (1984)
5/10
A distilled version of every other 1980s slasher
28 October 2021
Stop me if you've heard this one.

A group of horny teenagers head out to a remote location to have some fun, but they begin to realize that something is terribly wrong as one by one they begin to disappear, picked off by a deranged killer bent on slaughtering them all! Yes, that's the basic plot of the vast majority of slasher movies and Fall Break/The Mutilator is perhaps the most generic example in the history of horror. That's not a criticism per se, there's something to be said for a film that is the ultimate condensation of a genre. You go in knowing exactly what to expect and you get precisely that, with no surprises, deviations, or winking self-aware subversions. If you've seen other slasher films there's nothing new for you here, but this is something that can easily be pulled out for your less genre-savvy friends for some mild scares and modest blood.
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