arungeorge13 Review of Butchers

Butchers (2020)

A slasher with nothing new to offer, but keeps the gore flowing! [+42%]

[4/10 · 14 January 2021]

A distant cousin of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Wrong Turn, Butchers offers little to get enticed by. A slasher such as this works best when its antagonists are devilishly quirky. While it validates most things on the slice n' dice checklist, the texture attributed to the antagonists isn't interesting enough. There's a mentally-challenged-but-brawny little brother, the older butcher-brother who mouths most of the dialogue, the tow-truck-driving weirdo-uncle, and the monster-in-the-shed. The protagonists have been written in such a lazy way that we don't feel a thing when something nasty happens to them. Gorehounds may find a mild level of satisfaction though. Also, it at least manages to subvert that clichéd survive-the-climax trope.