Knightmare (2013) (DVD Review)
Directed By: Tony Palma
Starring: Ryan Shank, Elizabeth Diaz, Molly Fahey
Rated: UR/Region: 0/Widescreen/Number of disc: 1
Available from SRS Cinema
A group of former classmates get together over a weekend for a high-school reunion. Putting the reunion together is Rebecca Crane a formerly shy girl that gained some national celebrity status after writing a coming-of-age book about a shy girl in high school. After a dozen or so guests show up, and dozens of drinks are consumed, the party kicks off into full gear: people catch up, bicker, flirt, and eventually begin getting killed off one by one. At first, no one notices, but by Saturday evening the survivors are confronted by the killer – an unlikely former classmate that has harbored a deep grudge against the graduated class..
Seeing as how I am the biggest cheerleader for slasher films and have often said that a bad slasher movie is like bad sex. Meaning it could have been better, but it is still sex after all. You could use that to describe Knightmare, but I feel this one just doesn’t fit the bill because other than a cool killer and some short moments of gore, there isn’t much to see here and most of it is often taken out by the use of bad CGI. Also, while I very rarely will call out an indie film on this level for acting based on the fact that it is, of course, an indie film. I do have to say the acting here doesn’t help an already dreadful film. The movie also shoots its self in the foot by having a lot of talking instead of slashing and that gets very old very quickly.
SRS Cinema is a label that tends to release films that are a big edgy and have turned down movies before for not being edgy enough. This film seems to have slipped through the cracks and doesn’t at all fit the SRS bill of such releases as The Period, Gut pile, and others. This movie seems to have things in auto pilot borrowing way too much from slasher films that came out after Scream in the over saturated slasher times rather than the fun over saturated times of the 80s. Other than a killer in a cool outfit there really isn’t that much to see here.
- Commentary
- Photo Gallery
