Utterly overrated cheese-fest

Rating: 4/10 (6 October 2013)

There are very few movies where my rating is vastly different than IMDb's. This is one of them, by the largest margin yet.
The acting is ham-bone and provoked giggles, the plot consists of teenagers getting stabbed for no apparent reason by a mental patient in a mask who then... turns out to be immortal too, completely unexplained, but hey, I guess they were already planning on sequels. There are some other plot holes you could drive a bus through, the dialogue is best left unmentioned, there wasn't a gram of suspense or unpredictability in it, and the budget was so low that the production couldn't afford pumpkins... or music, which had to be done by the director, and it shows. I found myself begging him to explore the other 87 keys of the piano. They could however, afford a couple of dry leaves to drop oh-so-subtly in front of the camera to tell us it was autumn. Of course the rows and rows of trees with green leaves gave it away; guess we weren't supposed to notice that. It went downhill from there.
It has a little of that B-movie charm and it was filmed well on good stock, so I'll give it a 4, but otherwise it has no redeeming qualities. It is the most overrated movie here that I have ever seen, bar none. Currently at 7.9, I was expecting The Shining but got Manos: The Halloweens of Fate instead. I'm thinking that some may have seen it in the 1970's when they were teenagers and are rating by the nostalgia, or it's a cult film a la Rocky Horror and has plenty of zealots, but if you're a first-timer steer clear of this one, unless you enjoy unintentional comedy. Check out John Carpenter's superior later work instead so you won't be embarrassed for him.