Upon opening this disk I cannot begin to tell you, dear reader, how low my expectations were for this movie. Inside the usual informative booklet were nothing but director’s notes of the problems with production, his recollection of scenes that didn’t work well and moreover the fact that the creator of this movie never cared much for the design of the main villain, especially the name of Felix Gallo. By the time I found out that this movie was created for $3,000, I figured I could almost review this thing by looking at the box art.

Well I'm happy to say that there were some pleasant surprises, and by pleasant surprises I'm talking about some extremely appalling murders in this film. It does essentially play out like every FRIDAY THE 13TH movie ever made, minus the top notch visual effects of course (due to budget constraints most attacks are shown as a bucket of blood splashing on the backgrounds). Where this movie truly excels is the fact that the boogieman of the day (Felix Gallo) exacts his revenge against those pesky teenagers by mutilating their genitals in as graphic a manner as "Unrated" will allow. Of course, since poor Mr. Gallo is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, we can almost understand his rage even if we cannot fully uncross our legs at times as we watch his butchery of people’s naughty bits. Because of the crummy effects, the unique nature of the attacks will still horrify gorehounds in ways that R-rated zombies never could. Couple this with the fact that all the nudity is full frontal and extended, and you see how this budget film does what most other films in this genre merely suggest through symbolism.

Other than this aforementioned extremity, the film is an exact clone of the usual bad day at Camp Crystal Lake. We have the extremely pissed off undead guy who died in childhood and now roams the earth obsessed with nubile teens having sex and expresses his discontent with sharp metal implements. We have the creepy elderly caretaker who is an easy suspect when the film begins but ends up as fodder. And of course we have scores and scores of young, buxom women who lose their life the moment they lose their undergarments. And finally, we have the inconclusive ending which indicates a possible sequel. (There won’t be, even the director says that he has washed his hands of this genre.) A shame really; with a decent sized budget he could have been equally revered and dreaded in the proper circles.

Sinferno Says...
Yucko/Neato Factor: Sexploitation that breaks all the usual posted rules of the Crystal Lake campground.
Production Values: They made the best film for the they could for $3000.00.
Realism: Characters kept engineering their own demises with eager audacity. Humor was used at wrong times and poorly executed.
Value for Price: The main feature runs short of an hour, the disk is padded with the usual trailers and a couple short films that are the wrong kind of disgusting. For $17.99, anything less than ninety minutes for a horror film is robbery. But what was included was high grade, albeit low quality.
Plot: Supernatural element was derivative and unnecessary. Mythos of monster never truly explained. No sense of fear and foreboding for viewer, just lots of “Gotchas”