Full credit to writer-director Keeyes for coming-up with one of the boldest (and professional looking) independent movies in recent memory.
Starting off with what feels like a typical slasher movie opening (but isn't) this cuts to a year later on Halloween and has a bunch of twenty-something friends sharing their fears over the radio to a pirate show's host. Well also listening in is quite nutty ex-nurse Debbie Rochon (a B-movie favourite of mine and showing-off her acting chops here) who starts to slaughter them all using their fears as a basis to the murders.
Confidently made by Keeyes this does sport some good mild moments of suspense and has a well-rounded young cast; but this is all Rochon's show, baby! Rochon puts her all into the role and is intimidating, completely screwed and oddly sexy (her first appearance in the movie strikes a chord with you).
There are a couple of things that didn't sit right with me here: the whole internet angle didn't gell too good and the ending is too open-ended (I'd of liked more motivation for Rochon's deeds) but for an effort by a young filmmaker this is a great start.
Like a lot of modern horror movies this knowingly "winks" at other films in the genre, but it's not gratingly done and it's always nice to see Brinke Stevens in a movie (even if she's given almost no screen time).
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Directed By: Jon Keeyes.
Written By: Jon Keeyes.
Starring: Debbie Rochon, Brandy Little, Johnny Sneed, Robert McCollum.
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