Absolutely Brilliant!

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Although I've seen this referred to as being similar to Friday the 13th, this film really reminded me of The Mutilator - right down to the amount of victims and the middle aged murderer already being in the house. That said, no one here played a game of hide and seek for no reason.Five annoying youngsters (including one whose dialogue consists of "Whoo" and "Party") head of to some cabin for a bit of boozing and the usual slasher shenanigans, not know that there's a bald killer called Steve in the house who's not averse to doing a bit of housekeeping in between murdering teenagers. At first I thought he should have paced himself as he goes through victims rather quickly, but then I realised that the film had a few tricks up its sleeve.There's a lengthy stalking sequence later in the film, part of which seems to have been lifted wholesale from Sergio Martino's Torso (they thank him in the credits), and the last ten minutes or so come way out of nowhere. Plus the film's short and rather nicely filmed, so you can't go wrong here.

***SPOILERS*** Much better then you would have expected slasher film with this group of the usual oversexed and party going teenagers taking a trip into the country for the weekend for fun & games as well as non-stop sex. This fun ends almost as soon as it began after they stopped off at this house in the woods that Big Steve, Allen Andrews, was also spending the weekend at. Before you and the teens can catch their breaths Big Steve went into action putting an end to their fun as well as their lives.In no time at all Big Steve had done in, in the most horrendous way, all the teens with the exception of the plucky Aggie, Christine Haeberman, who was the least sexually active, in not having a boyfriend, of the group of teens. Alone in the big house with Big Steve staking her Aggie manages to fight him off until he finally gets the best of her. But instead of doing the terrified Aggie in like he did her friends Big Steve instead wants her to help him out in his sexual dysfunction problems! That's by her being his personal sex slave for him to do with her whatever he wishes. Big Steve in trying to get in on with Aggie she finally manages to escape but is tracked down by him in the woods who ends up strangling her. But here's the rest of the story.Back home with his old lady and daughter Big Steve is a completely changed man. Kind understanding and non-violent even when he realizes that his wife is screwing around behind his back big Steve is the perfect husband and father. Too perfect to say the least.***SPOILERS*** For some time watching all this, Big Steve's tranquil home-life, you just quite don't know where the movie is leading up to until the last few shocking minutes. It's then that Big Steve gets all that he's got coming to him in a way that he as well as we in the audience never expected!

This film isn't so bad. At first I was a bit put off with the narrator, and the weird filming effect; it looks like it was filmed in the 70s. But it's not.Anyway. The characters aren't totally likable which is great in slasher films, I tend to enjoy watching them a lot more then. I thought that this film would be one of those irritating ones where you see the annoying happy, care free teens having a blast and getting wasted for the first hour before anything happens; I was wrong, and happily so. Things start happening within the first 15 minutes which really grabbed my attention; usual films of this genre/story line take a lot longer for things to happen. It's a pretty short film and things happen quickly; there's no unnecessary hanging around or irritating dialogue.What I liked the most about this film; I seriously empathised with the killer!! I love films that make me feel this way (Devil's Rejects being another). Maybe I'm weird. Well I won't spoil the ending here .... I was surprised to hear the narrator's voice again though.

Big bad Stevie is celebrating a birthday and he's overjoyed to have a group of fun-loving teenagers stumble upon his house (which they think is vacant at first). Oh yes Stevie is going to have so much fun, the teens....not so much.I really enjoyed this low-budget slasher film. It doesn't try to reinvent the wheel, so to speak, but you can tell that writer/director Drew Barnhardt is definitely a fan of the genre. He hardly misses a beat in this one. The acting is much better than average (for a film of this type), the soundtrack is great, throw in a bit of nudity, gore & some honest to goodness tension later in the film and you have a winner on your hands. Fans of low-budget horror films usually have to wade through a whole lot of excrement in order to find a (too few) diamond in the rough. This movie is one of those diamonds. I'll definitely be keeping my eye out for Barnhardt's future endeavors. Eye Candy: Mary LeGault gets toplessMy Grade: A-DVD Extras: a 7 minute making of; 'creating a killer' featurette (5 minutes); Director's notebook (9 minutes); 'Scoring the film' featurette (11 and a half minutes); Title madness (about 14 minutes on why they choose the title of this movie); photo and artwork gallery; & original trailer for the film