SpunkySelfTwitter
It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.
Iseerphia
All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.
Allison Davies
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
thevirginiareel-643-149084
I have to agree with the other reviews. And I LIKE bad horror. I especially get a kick out of bad 70's and 80's horror. I will take The Mutilator, Slaughterhouse Rock, or Don't Go In the House any day! Ever seen Inn of the Damned? Yeah, it's a piece of dung, but nowhere near as bad as this. This movie has no plot, little dialogue, awful pacing, just boring as hell. The whole movie is like a power-outage, all dark and lanterns, and NOT scary. I don't need things spoon-fed to me, but the movie does not explain anything! Where did any of the characters come from? Where is this set? Why is everyone a useless wuss... oh wait, I guess that applies to most horror. But seriously, I was eagerly awaiting all these folks to die just so it would be over. One of the most infuriatingly inane movies I have ever seen. Don't do it.
bfan83
*POSSIBLE SPOILERS!* Don't get me wrong, I love bad movies. But this was just inexcusable. The entire film consists of long, continuous and pointless padding, a very undeveloped plot and horrendous acting by some of the most annoying characters to ever grace a slasher flick.The plot concerns a group of friends on a rafting trip down the Rio Grande River in West Texas. Inexplicably, they come across a deserted, old ghost town. During the night, a few of the friends are murdered by an unseen killer that we never get to see, even at the film's conclusion. The rest of the film consists of the remaining survivors yelling and bickering at each other, and trying to stay alive. Yet, they still wander off by themselves and are murdered by the unseen killer. The ending offers no resolution to who is doing the killing and why and half the cast survives which really irritated me.If you are a die-hard slasher fan, than yes seek this rare and (thankfully) forgotten slasher flick. For curiosity seekers, however, please avoid like the plague!
steven_bash
This Movie was outright awful. Everything about it sucked dick. Whether it was the acting, the lighting, the killings, the dialogue, etc. Everything about it was horrible. I thought Wes Craven's Scream was a stroke of Genius, but Byron Quisenberry should be buried alive without a coffin for making such crap. I really feel sorry for anyone who saw this movie, for it is really a hurtful sight to watch.The movie is about a group of hikers who stop into this ghost town where a killer looms. Throughout the movie, a variety of deaths take place, deaths that you can't even make out well because of poor lighting. The movie does have the viewer guessing on who is actually the killer and in the end, it's still somewhat vague on everything that went on. When it's all said and done, the movie also had me guessing on how I could even handle this entire crapfest of a movie. Probably the worst characteristic of the movie is the lighting. You can barely make out what's going on throughout the film. Especially when someone is killed, you can barely tell what's going on. This makes the movie bad in itself right here but it gets much worse as it goes along. The killer is never seen when he kills the characters one by one and trust me, at the end of the film, you'll be scratching your head. I know I did.
Jonathon Dabell
Long before Wes Craven used the title "Scream" to launch his successful horror trilogy, little-known director Byron Quisenberry made this "Scream". An inept, boring, badly acted and totally unconvincing slasher movie that many deem to be the worst of its type. Indeed, this film makes the whole Friday the 13th series look like a work of genius.You know with these movies that the plot is going to be unoriginal, but the film makers usually have enough about them to wring out some shocks. Yes, The Burning is a bad film but it occasionally makes you jump. Just Before Dawn isn't anything special, but it is punctuated by the odd jolt here and there. Amazingly, Scream manages to miss every single opportunity for a shock. It takes an overused but reliable formula, and proceeds to muck-up the potential for terror in every conceivable way. Anyone studying how not to make a film might find this an ideal guide.Heading the cast is Pepper Martin (he was the guy in Superman II who beat up the weakened Clark Kent in a diner, only to be beaten up in return by the rejuvenated Superman at the end of the film). It's a good indication of how unambitious this film is that someone who had such a miniscule role in Superman II can be entrusted with the leading man label here. Woody Strode is also in the film, but his character is undone by bizarre scripting.Martin and his fellow vacationers are rafting down the Rio Grande when they pull in for the night at an isolated ghost town. One by one they are picked off by a lurking psychopath. They try various things, like setting traps, but the killer seems to evade them every time. A strange stagecoach driver turns up and starts mumbling on about an old sea captain that got the town up-and-running many years earlier. By the end, it looks as if the violent ghost of the old sea captain may be the killer (it's not clear if this is so, as the ending is dreadfully muddled).It's hard to imagine how bad Scream is without experiencing it for yourself. The plot could be made serviceable. Some of the cast members are well-known. Even if the film isn't very good, it should have enough mileage to be tolerably bad. But no... this film is something beyond bad. It reaches such depths that you begin to think that everyone involved must be trying deliberately to make the worst film possible. It feels almost as if Quisenberry's intention is to win the worst film of all-time contest. The end result is a truly awful horror movie and, therefore, one of the most irresistible films that a collector of bad films could ever hope to find.
