The trend for the past couple of years, especially in the slasher genre, has been to scream about how "80's" your movie is. None so much as this film, as the main baddie takes on the persona of a major personality FROM the 1980's. Because of this, the political views are really heavy, as well as almost automatically instilling itself as a major 1980's influenced slasher movie.

But does it stand by itself? Sort of.

The script stirs up a lot of stuff that never really settles. Random rednecks causing trouble, a killer that has no real reason for killing, and a dumb concert in the middle of nowhere all kind of exist together but never really mesh at any point. The main attraction, the Reagan killer guy, unfortunately never really makes a name for himself, merely just existing in the movie to kill at random.

The special effects aren't too bad for the lower budget, though some of the "innards" were way too fake looking. The decapitation looked really nice despite the follow up shots ruining it with the little dribbles of blood on the wall.

It's also filled with a lot of semi-big names - Courtney Cox of course, but also Paul Reubens, Thomas Jane, and even Balthazar Getty show up. But other than that, there wasn't much here that stuck in my head. The movie is decent, yeah, but nothing that hasn't been seen before. I'm seriously wracking my brain to think of shit to talk about the film but it was just kind of there.

Supposedly Arquette didn't want the political commentary to actually mean anything, it was just supposed to be a "fun" movie, which is fine, but it might've helped this flick out had it stuck its neck out. As it is it's just kind of an authority versus young free people, possibly anti-drug message that wavers in and out.

Oh well, low rental. Not worth all the hype it got.

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