First of all, I like to give snaps to any company who wants to produce their own movies. I, too, have this same vision of writing and producing my own Indie films. With that being said . . .
When I first saw the title of this movie, I instantly thought "Friday the 13th" type film. Which, in a sense, was a "Friday" type film. Cliché killer at some camp -which you never actually see, only the name- who kills some unsuspecting teenagers who were doing something stupid around said "camp"
I'm sure the makers of this film wanted to go for the WOW factor with their CG effects, but I wasn't impressed. Especially with some low budget film like this, you're looking for those low budget, cheap stage effects. Oh no, they tried to go all the way on this one and it just ended up looking stupid.
The acting was unconvincing. Which must be a requirement for low budget movies. The actors don't speak over what appears to be a stage whisper -turning my TV up to 55 and still can't understand them-. And the delivery of the dialogue was, as expected from a low budget film, slow and choppy; as if they were reading their lines off cue cards.
The camera work was very shaky. For instance, they did have the POV of the killer, but it got to the point where you didn't know if you were looking through the killers eyes, one of the kid's "home video" POV, or if it was just the cameraman doing a regular shot. It just added to the "hey, this is a low budget movie and we are going to make sure we do everything we can to remind you of that." And actually, most video editing software has an anti-shake feature that reduces the amount of shaky camera work.
So all in all, the positive is that some Indie company done their thing and made -apparently- a series of these movies. The negative is, well, it kind of looks like a junior high media arts project.
When I first saw the title of this movie, I instantly thought "Friday the 13th" type film. Which, in a sense, was a "Friday" type film. Cliché killer at some camp -which you never actually see, only the name- who kills some unsuspecting teenagers who were doing something stupid around said "camp"
I'm sure the makers of this film wanted to go for the WOW factor with their CG effects, but I wasn't impressed. Especially with some low budget film like this, you're looking for those low budget, cheap stage effects. Oh no, they tried to go all the way on this one and it just ended up looking stupid.
The acting was unconvincing. Which must be a requirement for low budget movies. The actors don't speak over what appears to be a stage whisper -turning my TV up to 55 and still can't understand them-. And the delivery of the dialogue was, as expected from a low budget film, slow and choppy; as if they were reading their lines off cue cards.
The camera work was very shaky. For instance, they did have the POV of the killer, but it got to the point where you didn't know if you were looking through the killers eyes, one of the kid's "home video" POV, or if it was just the cameraman doing a regular shot. It just added to the "hey, this is a low budget movie and we are going to make sure we do everything we can to remind you of that." And actually, most video editing software has an anti-shake feature that reduces the amount of shaky camera work.
So all in all, the positive is that some Indie company done their thing and made -apparently- a series of these movies. The negative is, well, it kind of looks like a junior high media arts project.