Trailer Park of Terror (2008) User Reviews

It delivers on it's premise

[kosmasp · 6/10 · 29 September 2008]

Which isn't that much to be honest, but it still is a nice movie to watch. Especially if you like horror movies. It doesn't give you anything new, yes, but it's nicely told (edited) and shot, there are some nice effects in it and it even has some funny characters. That should indicate that it's not a straight horror movie then, so if you like your horror straight and absolutely derived of any "funny", than this isn't for you ...

If, on the other hand, you don't mind a bit of (crude) humor, you will like this movie. Again, maybe not love, but at least like. The decision is yours now ...

Trailer Park Trash

[BA_Harrison · 6/10 · 16 January 2009]

Although Trailer Park of Terror, a horror/comedy aimed primarily at a teen audience, fails to offer much in the way of either scares or laughs, it does manage to deliver quite a lot of graphic nastiness, plus a little bit of sheer lunacy, thus making it just about worthwhile viewing for fans of gore and cinematic craziness.

Based on a comic I've never heard of, this bloody piece of supernatural hillbilly horror sees a bus-load of delinquents, en route to Jesus Camp, making an impromptu visit to a trailer park after their bus collides with a lorry. On arrival at the park, the group are greeted by busty blonde Norma who provides them with shelter for the night; unfortunately for the gang, Norma is actually a ghost who, along with her dead trailer park trash pals, is condemned to collect souls for the devil.

With such twisted moments as a zombie hooker giving hand relief to a teen before yanking off the poor guy's todger (when she 'pulls off' a customer, she REALLY pulls him off!), a bloke being skinned and boiled alive by one particularly nasty ghost who prides himself on his prize jerky, some splendidly sordid sex scenes, and a mouldy rock 'n' roll spook who plays a mean guitar, Trailer park of Terror can never be accused of being boring, but never amounts to anything more than a throwaway slice of splattery silliness.

5.5 out of 10, rounded up to 6 for IMDb.

Oddly empty and directionless

[The_Dead_See · 4/10 · 24 January 2009]

After a promising, stylish opening involving the shotgun slaughter of an entire trailer park, I settled in for what I thought was going to be a great little movie. It had a lot going for it in the early stages - superb production values, tight direction, good actors, and a steaming hot southern-rock soundtrack. It even flaunted the classic old tropes of the severe line of thunderstorms moving in to isolate the area and the hick locals telling the protagonists to avoid taking *that* route. So much potential!

But as we all learned at school, potential energy must be converted into kinetic energy in order for work to be performed... and, frustratingly, Trailer Park of Terror just stayed right on the starting line and didn't really go anywhere until the end credits rolled.

The big problem is that the movie has no sense of direction. It just doesn't know what it wants to be. Instead of finding solid footing, it tapdances clumsily from one style of horror to the next. Ghosts one moment, zombies the next, torture/slasher grindcore the next.

Likewise, it can't find an even tone either - it's funny one moment, and too disturbing to be funny the next. Exciting one moment, and meandering the next. Scary one moment and painfully awkward the next.

It never manages to merge these components together into a cohesive whole the way other successful comedy horrors have done (i.e. Severance, Behind the Mask, Undead, Dead and Breakfast, Bad taste etc.) and the end result seems empty and pointless as a result.

In conclusion, if you're a hardcore gore fanatic, it might be worth a rental as there is enough here to satisfy, but if you like even the tiniest bit of plot and development in your horror, leave it on the shelf.

Not Great but Good...Independent Horror Movie.

[Bublenutz · 7/10 · 1 December 2008]

I was not sure what to expect going into TPOF. Obviously there was going to be trailer park and terror, but from the box I was assuming it was going to be another attempt at a independent zombie movie. I was wrong, dead wrong! TPOF is not a zombie movie, which is good (just because of the saturation), it also had an interesting setup which gave us some insight to the characters (Terry from 3's company is still hot!) but I had a serious problem with the storyline.

The are some flaws which should have been addressed, in addition to some unfunny scenes which were unnecessary. However the production value, set design and SPFX was above average from my perspective. The acting was decent plus being a no-budget producer myself, I know first hand how important these aspects are.

I could not recommend renting this unless you like slasher horror movies, good gore or dark humor and this is not a zombie movie, so if your expecting a zombie movie you will be disappointed. JP Welcome to Dreadville Series

Pretty damn bad

[overkillxx · 2/10 · 26 August 2009]

The only good part of this movie was seeing the lead actress semi naked at the start, after that it was all down hill at high speed.

The zombies if you would call them that were pretty stupid and I was just praying that the would be victims would find a way to kill them just to shut them up!! The plot itself was poor in places and there is nothing really redeemable about it other than the occasional laugh which isn't what makes a good horror.

One to avoid to avoid, mowing the lawn is more entertaining. I do believe the lead actor however would excel in porn movies due to her great figure & Poor acting..

Trailer park zombies.

[HumanoidOfFlesh · 7/10 · 25 October 2009]

"Trailer Park of Terror" starts with young Norma about to finally leave her trailer park for good.When her fiancée is murdered by rednecks she makes a deal with long-haired Grim Reaper,so she can exterminate all of her tormentors.Unfortunately Norma and her victims are now cursed to be undead,coming back every night to kill any unfortunate victims that wander in after dark.The victims include a group of troubled teens heading to religious camp.Norma herself is the leader of the pack and is just as vicious as her old trailer park foes."Trailer Park of Terror" offers some gruesome scenes of torture and cannibalism accompanied by the singing of Roach from on top of his trailer.Zombified redneck plays his electric guitar with style.The soundtrack of the film is fantastic and the script makes fun of trailer parks,southerners and fat people.The set design is great:the trailers look gloomy and disgusting.7 out of 10.

No Evil Dead, but definitely a good time

[evlved · 8/10 · 30 November 2008]

don't listen to all of the super low ratings for this film. of course you can't really compare it to bigger budget horror/comedies. it's no Shaun of the Dead by any means, but this movie has it's shining moments, and there are definitely more than a few.

the movie starts extremely strong. i'm not a fan of country music, but Trace Adkins cameo at the beginning was very well done and entertaining and led right into the rest of the movie.

of course the biggest factor that can determine whether a movie in this genre is good or bad is the script. i have to say that a lot of the one-liners in this movie are pretty clever and you'll find yourself laughing practically through the whole film, and not at things the filmmaker's didn't mean to be funny either.

if you're a die hard horror fan, this movie is right up your alley. there is enough blood to satisfy your appetite... and for fans of dark comedies, you'll enjoy it as well.

Pretty Decent for a low budget

[chicomangh · 7/10 · 2 November 2008]

I liked this movie because of it's soundtrack and the no name actors A few hiccups in the film but for the most part a pretty decent story and a lot of good laughs. My favorite was the guitar playing dude who later becomes a guitar slinging zombie The big fat jerky maker was another great character Overall this movie was cheesy but great and very well filmed - I think the sets were great and the director did a good job. I probably wouldn't watch it again for many years but still a great Halloween flick - For a low budget horror flick it was dead on the money and the comic relief was just right - The make up was great and the gore was pretty cool too the no namers were alright and their demises were also just right. Certainly a better flick than many of the more recent ones to come out

Tat

[jdevinejim · 1/10 · 22 September 2021]

Possible the worst movie I've ever seen........no it is the worst movie I've ever seen.

Solid & Entertaining

[Soucriant · 7/10 · 11 November 2008]

Norma is a pretty young thing who has had more than her fill of the chauvinist thugs that live in and and pretty much rule her trailer park. She is all set to get out of there, but things don't go quite according to plan...This brings us to a decade or so later, when a bus of wild teenagers who are undergoing a faith intervention, wind up at the aforementioned trailer park.

'Trailer Park of Terror' relies heavily on stereotypes. From the uncouth, sickening residents that occupy the trailer park, to the goth chick, the whore and the jock. Saying that, the cast mostly put their all in, and performances are above average.

This flick is also chock full of excellent one-liners, and I found it very amusing. It doesn't look distinctly low budget, and there are a good few stylish camera tricks here and there. The gore is good enough, and there's one particularly nasty scene.

There's not much in the way of plot here, most things are left unexplained. I found that rather interesting. My only quip is the ending, which felt very rushed and disappointing. My score would have been an 8, otherwise.

All in all, Trailer Park of a Terror is a good tongue-in-cheek, entertaining flick, with plenty of hilarious one-liners and memorable characters.

Worth your time.

Lifeless characters in more ways than one

[tracy_flick · 3/10 · 12 March 2009]

It was a little eerie watching Steven Goldmann's "Trailer Park of Terror" just days after reading about the three KFC employees who took pictures of themselves bathing in the chain's sink. If that wasn't quite enough to put me off dining in fast food joints then this woeful grindhouse experiment of horror probably closes the lid on my uncertainty. Some of the individuals lodged in this comic book inspired universe will distinguish anything as worthy of the chicken sobriquet. And if the KFC workers had been left red-faced by their actions, one character here is red all over after some 'chicken' is cooked Southern fry-up style. And, yes, these guys like to photograph such opportunities too.

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WTF did i just watched

[sdrose-41994 · 2/10 · 22 August 2020]

No Logic , no story , no acting . Atleast give us some nudity if u want to copy Wrong turn + zombies. 2 stars just for gore.

Nothing short of spectacular...

[paul_haakonsen · 8/10 · 21 October 2011]

Wow! This movie totally took me by surprise. Initially I bought it because it is a zombie movie, but I had not imagined that the movie would be this cool. If you liked "Shaun of the Dead", then you definitely want to check out "Trailer Park of Terror".

The story is pretty straight forward, and as you would expect of any horror movie; something sinister happened in the past, then many years pass by and a bunch of teenagers find themselves in the location of the grizzly deed that happened many years in the past. And then it all takes a turn for the worse. Enter the hillbilly zombies!

"Trailer Park of Terror" combines three great things into one great movie; humor, gore and really amazing zombie make-up. I was in awe at the effects of this movie, and it was really obvious that Drac Studios are really knowing what they are doing. Hats off to them for the amazing effects they have pulled off on the zombies in this movie. That make-up and special effects alone make it worth sitting down and watching the movie.

And the music score/soundtrack for this movie was really great as well. Very well picked music that worked well for every scene. And the song that the zombie was singing when he was on top of the trailer, that was just phenomenal. It was so well placed for the movie and the timing of the story.

The cast they put together for this movie was nice as well, though I didn't really recognize anyone here. But that doesn't matter, because they did great jobs, and it is refreshing to see new faces in movies every now and then. And I must say that it was really the zombies that carried the movie, because they had so much personality, and they were hilarious. (Plus their make-up really helped them well along the way.)

"Trailer Park of Terror" is really a gem much like "Shaun of the Dead" in the zombie genre. There is a lot of humor in this movie, so don't except to see a Romero style zombie movie here.

I am a huge fan of zombie movies, and once in awhile I stumble upon a zombie movie that perfectly incorporates comedy into an otherwise gore-stained and serious genre. "Trailer Park of Terror" is a definite MUST watch for all zombie fans.

Whaa? A charming zombie flick....with cleavage

[djderka · 7/10 · 21 January 2013]

Yes, I enjoyed his flick. Nichole Hiltz is great as Norma. I thought I saw her in My Name is Earl, but that is Jamie Pressly. I was fooled as were some others. Both actresses are great as trashy hot hillbillies. Loved the red dress on Norma showing ample cleavage. Wow! Everyone knows the plot.

Norma is not 'appreciated for who she is', so she dates someone out of the trailer park. Big mistake. The trailer billies punch his lights out. Ticked off, she deals with the devil and blows up the park with her in it, but only to exists in some sort of purgatory waiting for innocent victims to show up and become dinner as she become a living zombie with the others. The funny parts are their goofy characters, which they play well.

The trailer park becomes a zombie park and the residents become alive again, torturing their visitors. Each one had their own unique 'personality' from meat eaters to the 'jerky' guy, to the guitar guy.

The visitors are troubled teens with their own set of issues. Between the zombies and the troubled teens, these are a lot of characters to handle and movie around and develop given their time on the screen. But I think the director handled them all with finesses. In an ensemble casts such as this, there is not much room for deep character.

The movie reminded me of Mortville to fans of John Waters. The movie Desperate Living takes place in Mortville, a town of homeless people that live and play in a garbage dump. The blurb for the flick was "who are these people, where do they go when the sun goes down", which of course was a mandate to see it.

Special effects in Trailer Park were superb. I mean who can just treat the zombies as real characters with out spilling the beans...er, I mean guts...of the character. Music was good and appropriate. I think the flick was under rated. It is really above most zombie movies and had a great cast,set design,sound track,lighting design and direction. Script pretty good from a comic book title.

My copy came with a DVD of P2 another good film. So I got quite a bargain in the two DVD set.

Nichole Hiltz has been in a lot of flicks and I will look for her in new ones....great job. Her and Jamie P. could rule a huge trailer park. That's a wrap, nice job everyone.

By the way, if we treat woman 'for who they are', rather than as piece of meat we can avoid such zombie scenarios in the future. A warning to chauvinists everywhere.

Terrible

[epalejandrocarrillo · 2/10 · 12 October 2019]

In the 80s a trailer park filled with horrible people get massacred but somehow they are walking talking undead. A church youth group filled with horrible kids gets caught in a storm and seaks shelter at the trailer park. Like the Texas chainsaw massacre they get tortured and killed. It takes an hour for something to actually happen. I was completely bored, no amount of beer can save this terrible movie. Don't waist your time.

Old Skool Trash Almost!

[Coventry · 5/10 · 23 May 2010]

"Trailer Park of Terror" is another new movie to cash in on the contemporary immensely popular trend of 70's horror revival. These movies intend to re-create the Grindhouse atmosphere through a combination of raw atmosphere, hillbilly characters and extreme nihilistic violence. What better setting to combine all these elements than a trailer park full of Southern yokels, director Steven Goldmann ingeniously must have thought, and he looked for inspiration in the repertoire of Imperium Comics publishing. For the most part, he succeeded. "Trailer Park of Terror" is a repellent and occasionally quite provocative trash-movie with all the clichés and stereotypes you expect (and hope) to find in this sort of film. It's a kind of tawdry fairy-tale, but one with sleazy protagonists and loads of foul language. One part of the film actually illustrates the life and suffering within a trailer park located somewhere either in Tennessee, Georgia or Northern Alabama (the plot is never clear on that) and the other part takes place nearly 30 years later, in present day, when a bus full of juvenile delinquents and their chaperon get stranded in the area and have to spend the night there. For you see, the trailer park grounds have been cursed ever since Norma, a feisty white trash babe, accepted the gun of a long-haired stranger and annihilated the entire park because they killed her rich lover boy and thus ruined her chances of ever getting out of there. Now, Norma and the rest of the rednecks live on as zombies and feast their Southern lusts on the innocent passerby. Norma herself likes to chop off heads whilst having sex, heavyweight lady Larlene is always on the lookout for "fresh meat", Miss China gives very deadly massages, Stank has a recipe for human jerky and rocking zombie Roach has explosives planted all over the park. The sequences that are actually taking place in the trailer park are the undeniable highlights of the film. It barely takes two extended scenes to show all the typical clichés linked to this particular social habitat, like prostitution, domestic disturbance and plundering. The plot with the teenagers trying to survive is more familiar and derivative, but still there are some inventive murders and quite a lot of engrossing special effects. Most of film takes place during night time, so you'll often find yourself staring at a black screen and the editing is quite rough. The soundtrack is pretty cool, with a combination of country music and hard rock, and the cast is appealing.

jeez...

[tommywilley47 · 4/10 · 13 January 2011]

I'm only scoring it as high as i am cause it did have a lot of gore in it which was a plus for me. everything else was absolutely lame. i felt like i was watching an episode of jerry springer in hell. i felt like i was dumber than i already am for watching this and i will do whatever i can to not see it again anytime soon. the gore was cool but the rest was absolute garbage. id rather stare at the microwave or pass a kidney stone.i guess the psycho billy music was kind of cool. i do like some psycho billy from time to time. i am just not into the whole white trash, hooker stuff. the old dumpy fat woman who wanted meat all the time was a little amusing. i say if you are really desperate give this movie a go but don't say i didn't warn you.

Fooled by another DVD cover.

[oneguyrambling · 4/10 · 14 November 2010]

Plot: After a pointless first ten minutes that made no sense we move to the same old plot we always get; ie a bunch of young people are stranded outside a trailer park where they seek shelter, and in a night of unimaginable horror one by one they find that not all is as it seems.

Dun-Dun-DUNNNNNNNNN!!!! Budget: Even more inexplicable, this looks shiny and new. You can actually see that they have spent money polishing this turd.

What was so horribly wrong then Smart-Guy? Aside from the generic clichéd plot. The lack of laughs. The general inanity of proceedings. The fact that I swear the lead chick was Jamie Pressley from My Name Is Earl and I still refuse to believe it wasn't even though the DVD cover and IMDb beg to differ.

Nothing, this was just greeeeeaaaaaaattttttttt.

Final Rating – 4.5 / 10. Bad paint by numbers exercise, bet Jamie Pressley is happy she wasn't in it.

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not for the squeamish

[disdressed12 · 7/10 · 20 December 2009]

this is a fairly decent flick zombie type flick.it's not your run of the mill for the genre as far as how the zombies came to be.that story is actually pretty interesting.i liked that original aspect of it.the zombies themselves don't make an appearance until over halfway through the movie,but once they do,things get ugly and bloody disgusting.the movie is more of a dark comedy and quasi-spoof than horror,in my opinion.it pays tribute to(or rips off,depending on your perspective),many classic,and not so classic horror films.it's not original,but,like i said,the set up is great.but it is lots of fun,(even funny at times)very entertaining,and fast paced.there are also some great songs in the movie.i will definitely seek out the soundtrack.for me,Trailer Park of Terror is a 7/10

It's amazing for what it is

[moshisposh · 7/10 · 10 June 2020]

Bought this movie for my brother about a decade back for 5$, he let me keep it because he was heading into the navy. To this day I still firmly believe that for a low budget B movie it's a classic. Cheesey and entertaining. I would never say it's an amazing movie, but it's amazing for what it is and probably shouldn't be as good as it is.

Garbage

[sylawto · 1/10 · 28 September 2021]

Just awful. Turned it off in the end.. please don't bother!

Good fun, Zombies with personality

[kobesko-chris · 7/10 · 30 December 2010]

I watched this movie the other night and it was not one that I would have picked based on title and name. I was very surprised in that even the acting was descent and the make-up very well done. If you are in the mood for fun and gore give it a shot, top 5 zombie movies in my opinion. The cinematography was also very pleasing to the eye and set the tone for the movie very well. Not many zombie movies have such a well developed plot and this one seems to draw one in. I am a big fan of Dead Snow as well and I think it is right up there with that movie and it even gives Zombieland a good run for its money. So if u have a flair for hillbilly's and zombies give it a look!

Could have been really good, BUT...

[Mike_T-Little_Mtn_Sound_Archive · 5/10 · 9 January 2020]

I was in the mood for a mindless horror-ish gore flick and upon reading the reviews thought I'd found that. Indeed, I was (kind of) right.

My only real gripe about this movie is its pace. The first 55 minutes is slow. Not just a little slow, but REALLY slow. Like under-the-weather turtle crossing the road on a cold day slow. Seriously. For an 90 minute horror(ish) movie to take 60 minutes before the first real bit of blood is shown, really does itself a disservice. This 60 minutes was spent with a small amount of backstory of the characters, and scenes that take up way too much time considering they are inconsequential to the story. Once the 60 minute mark is reached and the first bit of action breathes life in to the film, the pace STILL doesn't really pick up for another 10 minutes or so.

That said, the movie was exactly what I thought it would be...mindless. Overall, the production is well done, with decent acting, fair to good production, and realistic special fx. This was actually the biggest (and most pleasant) surprise of the film. Practical fx are used in favor over CGI, and the fx teams did a pretty darn good job at making them realistic.

Look...it was not a bad movie, and had the script been more evenly paced the rating would have definitely been higher. It's always appreciated when writers provide back-story for characters, but a movie like this needs nothing more than a brief glimpse of who is who, and then right in to the meat of the film. Zombedies are not meant to provide depth, other than the length of whatever instrument is being used to do the slicing and dicing. So, like I said...not a bad flick, just a bit of a bore for the first 2/3.

Just pointless!!

[tinkerbelljack · 1/10 · 11 October 2018]

There is absolutely no story line to this movie and can't even rate it as a comedy as it sucked as a comedy and horror. The most horrifying thing about this movie is the acting. Would highly recommend not watching this. I can't believe this has had so many high reviews.

Without a doubt belongs in the "horror" section....but that's a good thing.

[gill_welch · 7/10 · 2 February 2012]

I don't know why some people watch horrors expecting them to have the best actresses, actors, story lines, special effects etc. There are many low budget (or non blockbuster) horrors that far surpass their huge budget/blockbuster counterparts - which often turn out to be a "flop". This is one of these films.

By all means if you only like psychological thriller type horrors, this is not the film for you. If you are a true horror fan and can appreciate a horror film on the "horror" alone, you'll most likely quite like this one. The acting was pretty good, the storyline is perfect imo (not too detailed enough to detract from the gore/terror and not too weak that you want to smack the TV) for the type of film it is, effects are actually really good imo.

This is quite simply, a film that does not get hung up on trying to appeal with a love story or some amazing intricate storyline that bends the viewers mind. Do not mistake this for a bad thing. I was expecting a much lower quality of film and while I wouldn't rank it as one of the best horrors, I certainly found it enjoyable to watch, especially once it really got into it (not including the opening scene as I found that easy to watch also).

And personally, the songs throughout it I thought were really good too - even if they're not what I would listen to, they were perfect for this film.