"Charlie's Farm" could have been a modern-day classic. Undoubtedly designed to take advantage of the increased interest in Australian Horror movies created by "Wolf Creek" the makers have chosen a less cerebral, slasher path here and have come up with a pretty gory film.
The storyline is flimsy (pure clichéd slasher movie contents including the clueless pretty blondes and their dickhead boyfriends, locals who tell them "don't go there!", even a campfire scene for telling scary stories, and, of course, gore, gore and even more gore..) and while Bill Moseley shone as Charlie's demented dad, the rest of the cast at best struggled with the task at hand (especially the totally underwhelming performance from Tara Reid - one of the "Home and away" kids could have done better). The effects were delightfully amateurish and I'd love to know how much fake blood they went through!
But where the movie fell over was Charlie; his grotesqueness and size was so exaggerated it was funny. In fact when Melanie is running away from Charlie I'm sure she is laughing, not screaming in fear.
Whichever way, it was a good watch and my partner and I still laugh about it.
The storyline is flimsy (pure clichéd slasher movie contents including the clueless pretty blondes and their dickhead boyfriends, locals who tell them "don't go there!", even a campfire scene for telling scary stories, and, of course, gore, gore and even more gore..) and while Bill Moseley shone as Charlie's demented dad, the rest of the cast at best struggled with the task at hand (especially the totally underwhelming performance from Tara Reid - one of the "Home and away" kids could have done better). The effects were delightfully amateurish and I'd love to know how much fake blood they went through!
But where the movie fell over was Charlie; his grotesqueness and size was so exaggerated it was funny. In fact when Melanie is running away from Charlie I'm sure she is laughing, not screaming in fear.
Whichever way, it was a good watch and my partner and I still laugh about it.