Retch.

Rating: 5/10 (15 May 2012)

I guess you could say that this is well done for what it is. The problem is that what it is, is disgusting garbage.
Maybe that's a bit harsh. It has some redeeming qualities. There are, for instance, some wisecracks expressive of keen wit. "Jesus, bring the camera!" "My name isn't Jesus." (The old ones are the best, even if they creak a little at the joints.) Also, the pretty Neve Campbell gets to have sex and lose her virginity and yet she still survives the movie. This is an improvement over those slasher flicks in which only the whores gets disarticulated.
Also, we can't NOT mention the parody of Edvard Munch's "The Scream," which, for Munch, meant something other than laughs. In this movie, one or more maniacs rush around town "gutting people" and draping their bodies across various facilities. There are a lot of sexual jokes but no nudity. We can't have the teen-aged audience looking at bare bodies, although no one objects to watching them slaughter each other while bathed in blood.
It's a self-conscious slasher movie, meaning that Kevin Williamson, the writer, had the bright idea of building a slasher movie filled with clichés around a group of school kids who know that they're in a slasher movie filled with clichés. Whether or not it was intended as self parody, that's how it turns out.
The ending involves a couple of maniacs who have decided to follow the dictates of the typical slasher movie, and a hand full of relatively normal people. Every tactic that generates suspense is put to use. A woman gets her hands on a pistol, for instance, but when she tries to shoot the lunatics it doesn't work because the safety is on. The gun is whipped out of her hand and she is belted into unconsciousness, only to rise later, bloodier but smarter.
You have never seen so much blood, so many murders, or heard so many screams. There's so much of it that it becomes desemanticized and after a while your involvement becomes more mechanical than emotional. You can't help hoping that Neve Campbell doesn't get the knife stuck through her neck, and that the deranged duo get their just desserts, but it doesn't go beyond wishing for a happy ending. Or any kind of ending at all.