Heading out to a small town in the country, a group of friends investigating a local legend of a vicious killer try to look past the spurned locals to get to the truth and find a more deadly version than they wanted.

This turned out to be quite a decent slasher effort overall, although it does have some pretty big problems. The first one is that the film contains the all-too-familiar-and-irritating trope of having people with knowledge of what’s going on purposefully keep it from those that would need such information to stay out of harm’s way. Naturally, that would kill off the movie but in a realistic setting, it’s ridiculous to continually feature such a proved irritating tactic. As well, for a slasher film this gets going pretty late in the storyline as there’s a lot more time than expected dealing with the group and their individual romances that are built up a little too long before we get anywhere interesting. This is compounded by it’s criminal lack of gore in it’s killings, which are brutal in concept but criminally lacking in execution. That said, there’s some fun to be had with it’s back-half being loaded with all the stalking being done in a pretty creepy location, a rather imposing killer and his mask that make quite an impression, and a really intriguing mystery explored in the first half that make this one a lot better than it really could’ve been.

Rated R: Graphic Language, Violence, Nudity and drug use.

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