A really depraved film.... difficult to watch!

Rating: 2/10 (15 December 2011)

I can appreciate the amount of suspense generated with the small budget and Carpenter really evokes a creepy-as-hell mood with his music but overall the subject matter is absolutely disturbing and depraved and thus a huge turn-off for me. And no I'm not entertained by promiscuous teens (and one that is not promiscuous at all) being hacked to death. I understand that this film must seem fairly tame compared to the blood-curdling garbage being churned out today and indeed I can applaud the fact that very little blood is shown here and that Carpenter relies mostly on suspense to generate terror. Still, it's an uneasy experience and for someone like myself (who absolutely hates the slasher genre) this is a turn-off. Hitchcock's PSYCHO was a masterpiece. This is not.