Girl House (2014)

Gore AND nuddy girls? I'm in! Girl House is a Canadian slasher that was honestly tons better than I had expected.

Summed up it follows the story of a young college student that, needing money offers all her jubbly bits up to a Playboy Mansion style house that streams its girls live 24/7 for the ultimate experience.

It's a classy operation and all above board with the top security in the world, until an obsessed and spurned fan with a hankering for his girls naked of flesh and body parts as well as clothes decides to pay them a visit.

It's well put together, for the subject matter it could of easily gone down the road of Zombies vs Strippers but the main focus wasn't silicon mammaries doing their best to jiggle all over the place.

It has some great tense moments, I wouldn't even say much of it was that predictable and although not over the top there are some lovely gory moments. Our grunting, speechless killer makes for a great modern day masked slasher, as ridiculous as it he creepy the juxtaposition really works.

Believable lovable characters that you actually are not just waiting to see their innards all over the walls - made for a great flick.

7/10 Masks.

Headless (2015)

What can be said about Headless? - This 2015 movie presents itself as a lost slasher movie from 1978 complete with retro style film scratches, gaudy colouring and even kicking off with a fake trailer for the film "Wolf Baby".

As for a plot..... There is a slither of one in so much as our unnamed killer, due to a very odd upbringing, sleeps in a cage, wears a rubber skull mask and his main hobby is killing women, decapitating them, eating their eyes and then having sex with their heads, in the neck hole.

Of course his home is decorated with the decaying remains of each victim. Of course.

There's not much more to it really - his companion is a younger version of himself wearing a rubber mask that only speaks in jaw-clicks and we presume is an imaginary friend, our killer never speaks and apart from the odd flashback to his strange childhood, gives no reason for his actions.

All in all it's perfect. The "lost movie" is a welcome change and captures the video nasty vibe of movies like Driller Killer and slasher classics like Friday the 13th.

The gore is over the top and if anything the whole tone of the movie is extremely dark comedy for the sick minded and a massive nod to the grindhouse genre.

Doing some internet research, I see that the original "version" of Headless was a "film within a film" featured in the 2012 movie "found" (which I shall be watching right away) and both movies were Kickstarter funded. That, like this movie is awesome.

8/10 Masks.

Directed by - Arthur Cullipher
Produced by - Scott Schirmer
Kara Erdel
Written by - Nathan Erdel
Starring - Shane Beasley, Kelsey Carlisle, Ellie Church
Release dates - February 14, 2015 (Festival premiere)
Running time - 85 minutes
Country - United States
Language - English

Hayride 2 (2015)

A slow-moving, silent masked killer walks around slashing people up while a bunch of incompetent armed police and others try to stop him.

Sound familiar? Halloween? Friday The 13th? Yeah, you've seen this all before.

The original Hayride from 2012 tells the tale of a backwoods town that has the urban myth of a killer called Pitchfork - an escaped maniac embodies the legend and goes round slashing and gouging as much as he can.

Hayride 2 picks up directly where the first left us, the presumed dead body of Pitchfork is being sped away in an ambulance but, guess what, he's not dead! For some reason that eludes logic the ambulance staff haven't even removed his mask and off he goes, slash, stab etc.

Local authorities try and stop him but as in most of these films a simple man holding a knife is a scary and unstoppable force that is impervious to bullets.

This film tries to mature and develop the characters but fails, we don't need to see the back story or the relationship between these people that quite simply we can't wait to see hacked to bits.

An unoriginal slasher flick that really doesn't justify being made. Quite simply, not enough gore, a bad plot, bad acting and we've seen it all before but done better.

3/10 Masks

Director: Terron R. Parsons
Writer: Terron R. Parsons
Stars: Sherri Eakin, Jeremy Sande, Jeremy Ivy |