Thoroughly overrated, watchable slasher non-parody

Rating: 8/10 (17 January 2013)

Realizing they're being targeted by a vicious killer that seems to know the rules and conventions of Horror films, a teen and her friends try to stay one-step-ahead of the masked psychopath that seems to have ulterior motives for the rampage.
This here is a pretty overrated but still enjoyable enough entry. One of the biggest issues here is the fact that, despite initially being targeted to be a commentary on the clichéd nature of horror, Slasher films in general, it seems to be more about offering a chance to utilize those clichés rather than poke fun at them. Far too often it expends a great deal of time to warn about a particular situation familiar in horror, such as running up the stairs to escape the killer or that he's not dead at all and comes back for one more scare despite being the subject of inhuman torture, then decides to play off a sequence that allows for such a moment to transpire. As well, many of the claims about this being funny are incredibly inaccurate as there's absolutely nothing in here that's really funny material, and the stuff that's here which is being called funny is reprehensible, deplorable and quite a stretch for anyone to call funny stuff. As such, it's the shining example that a reputation is far more damaging to a film than anything. That said, it does have some good stuff in some particularly chilling chases and stalking scenes including the rousing opening, some incredibly brutal, gory deaths and some fine moments of real suspense that are far more developed than expected. Overall, though, it's a victim of it's false-reputation and can't overcome that.
Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, underage drug use and drinking and continuous sexual dialog.