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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0498386/
The Slaughter starts as brother & sister Dana (Jexxica Ellis) & Tyler (Terry Erioski) along with their adopted brother Iggy (Zach Kilberg) arrive at a large abandoned house which has laid empty for four years, they are joined by lovers Heather (Laura Bach) & Brandon (Travis Wood) along with Razz (Billy Beck) who have all been hired to clean the house up by it’s owner Carl Stevens (Brad Milne). While in the basement Brandon finds a human skin bound book of demonic incantations which when read will start a chain reaction of events needed by some ancient evil she-demon (Adriana Esquivel) to take flesh form & take control of the Earth using her evil black magic & hordes of zombies, it never rains it’s pours eh? She must be stopped, but how & by whom…
Edited, photographed, written & directed by Jay Lee I thought The Slaughter was yet another mind numbingly bad low budget horror flick that has a few gore effects going for it but nothing else. The script which starts off very seriously at about 70 minutes in when the zombies show up turns into some camp comedy & is an absolute bore, after the opening scenes which has a couple of deaths it’s over an hour before anyone else gets killed. That’s over an hour of watching highly annoying & clichéd American teenagers argue, act tough, act nice, act slutty, act scared, act like total idiots & just about any other horror film cliché you care to mention. I’m sorry it’s all been done before & better so why should I give The Slaughter any slack? Then there’s the alarming similarity between this & The Evil Dead (1982), that’s right The Slaughter is an Evil bloody Dead rip-off with it’s book, it’s possessed teens & ancient demons. Unfortunately for The Slaughter the two films are worlds apart in terms of entertainment value & quality, this really is pretty bad stuff with some horribly forced self referential dialogue nonsense as two character’s discuss the different merits of the old fashioned slow moving zombie & the new athletic ones seen in recent films.
Director Lee obviously shot on a hand-held digital camcorder & it looks like he edited on his PC at home, there are some pretty bad lighting & editing technique’s here. It’s not scary, the comedy doesn’t work & it’s full of dumb scenes including zombies who never attack anyone they just stand there in front of people with their arms outstretched. There’s a few decent gore scenes here but don’t expect much to happen for the first hour, someones leg is twisted & they get pulled down into the ground & puke their guts up, there’s a slit throat, a decapitation, someone is seen cut in half, someone is impaled on a coat hanger, the skin on someones face is sliced off, there are various zombies, someone is burnt to death & someones hand is cut although none of it looks that good. There’s some nudity as well.
With a supposed budget of about $1,000,000 this wasn’t as low budget as I had thought which makes what ended up on screen look even worse. The whole film is shot in the same dull house & it’s not a particularly impressive production. The acting is bad from a highly irritating cast of teens.
The Slaughter is a bad The Evil Dead rip-off & there’s no two ways about it, the fact that it’s low budget doesn’t make any difference to me as I still think it’s crap & a low budget is no excuse for making a rubbish film. Not recommended, see The Evil Dead again instead.
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