Reeker

Plot synopsis:
A family is driving down a desert highway when they hit a deer. The dad gets out and comes back with half his face gone. The family is attacked by something.
In a lavish apartment, Trip meets with a dealer, Radford, who provides him with pills for a rave in the desert. Trip steals all of the pills. He meets with his friends Cookie, Nelson, Jack and Gretchen. The group notices an overturned car on the highway, which they dismiss as an abandoned accident.
Gretchen discovers that Trip is carrying drugs and stops the vehicle to kick him out. While parking at the side of the road, the group notices a short, but strong tremor. Gretchen agrees to take Trip back to a diner, which has been abandoned. The car runs out of gas and breaks down, so they decide to stay at the Halfway Motel. Learning from the radio that the highway has been closed, Trip decides to walk down the road for help.Jack and Gretchen pitch camp and sleep outside. After a haunting experience with the drug dealer Radford, Trip escapes and meets a man named Henry driving an RV, who is looking for his missing wife. He goes with Trip to the motel and sets up camp there. Trip doesn't tell his friends about his run-in with Radford, but warns them to be careful.
Looking for signal reception for his mobile phone, Trip releases from a rubbish skip the still-living head, torso and arms of a truck driver who then crawls away. Henry then meets Trip and discovers they both are seeing the dead people. While in his camper, Henry collapses, suffocating as a dark figure moves through the trailer. Still looking for reception, Trip is attacked on the roof by a hooded figure. Cookie is killed while sitting in an outhouse by being dragged into the hole.
Nelson is almost dragged under his bed, but pulls himself back up and jumps on top of the bed. He takes his sneaker off and drops it on the ground, watching as it is shredded. He then tries to escape by jumping through the window, but fatally cuts his throat on a shard of glass. Gretchen and Jack discover Nelson's and Henry's bodies, prompting Gretchen to look for Trip. Jack encounters the creature but escapes when Trip shoots at the figure with his gun. Trip is overpowered by the creature and loses his arm, then dies.
In reality an RV crashed into Gretchen's car after Trip stepped out to call for a ride, at the moment when they experienced the tremor. None of the group had noticed the RV, whose driver was Henry. His wife, Rose had explained that he was suffering a heart attack and lost control. The car that the group saw leaving the diner was in fact their own.
Each of the deaths at the hotel were reflected by their own deaths in the car: Cookie died from internal bleeding, Nelson cut his neck when he was thrown through the windshield, Trip's arm was severed gripping the cell phone and he died from blunt force trauma. Gretchen survived the crash because she was wearing her seat belt and Jack, despite receiving a massive head injury, also remained alive in the car. Radford, who had been stalking Trip, witnessed the accident and attempted to assist; hence the visions of him at the motel and highway.
In the final scene, Gretchen and Jack briefly discuss the fact that neither has any recollection of the accident, and no mention is made of the incidents at the motel. Jack comments that, for a moment in the crash, he thought he could see Gretchen, offhandedly mentioning the color of her eyes.

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Review:
The movie's twisted sense of humor, as you can experience in the first minutes, gets you into watching the movie just to see what silly thing happens next, along with its jumpy moments, and typical bad guys and the so predictable deaths everyone knows (the proverbial closed door leading to a dark room that everyone seems to step into...
Then the movie's final twist is revealed and all the silly things make sense, shifting the what you thought it was bland predictable stuff into something else you didn't really notice because you were having fun poking at the holes of the movie and its apparently predictable stuff.The movie ends, people in the theater have stopped laughing and are silent in amazement, and my friend slowly says this weekend he's not going to the desert...
F-in Great!I saw two midnight movies at the Tribeca Film Festival, "Reeker," the first, and by far the best, was a welcome surprise in a world of tired horror retreads.
I feel a bit sorry to say that this isn't a great film and sadly suffers from a lack of originality, because I really did enjoy my viewing of "Reeker" and I certainly wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to other hardcore horror fans on the lookout for new thrills!
"Reeker" is a fun film, with decent production values and lots of exhilarating gore, and it's only near the end that the script begins to show some major holes and plot twists that featured in many other movies already.
The film has really surprising turn in the end which, in contrast to "High Tension", is beneficial for this flick as it sheds a new light on a story which until this time has completely no sense.
The only one of these movies that lives up to the hype is the still-under-seen classic May.While Reeker doesn't come close to the emotional punch of May, it's an entirely adequate schlock-horror movie that doesn't take itself too seriously, yet doesn't wink-and-nudge enough to ruin the material.The less said about the plot, the better - it's essentially the same "college kids vs.
Don't worry, though - there's a twist in the end that makes it all come together, believe it or not - try to stay away from spoilers if you can.Probably doesn't sound too great so far, but there's some big, big laughs, a few decent scares, a cameo by Michael Ironside, and quite possibly the first and last use of Cutting Crew's 80s hit "I just died in your arms tonight" in a film.
All in all, it's a fun movie to catch on cable or as a cheap rental.Oh, the end credits contain a pre-emptive rant against critics who will title their reviews of this film "It Reeks/stinks!", and the scratch and sniff promo cards say on the back "If you're a p***y - stay at home".
well, i looked at the original review on the site, thought it sounded great but now assume it was either written by: a: the director b: a 12 year old c: someone who has NEVER seen a decent horror film.I am a big horror fan and go to see most releases, but this really was a piece of poop.
Cool writing, some uncommon horror touches and a sweet ending that wrapped it up nice without the Hollywood "Part Two coming soon" ending set up.An inventive film with good build up after a bang of a beginning, then it all breaks loose.
Release this thing on like 3000 screens on October 10th, run the cast around to all the great 15-40 year old shows, and boom you just blew up and got buried in money.I will be there to watch any other movie you guys make..
And just to make things a little bit worse; it's an ending that a great many horror films have used recently, and every single one of them left me disappointed as well.
It must have been right about the middle when my normally calm roommate leaned over to me in the theater and said, "I think my heart is going to stop beating if this movie does not stop" when I realized that Reeker was one of the best original horror movies I'd seen in a long while.
I think one of the best things about the film is that because the script is so original the director was able to add a real artsy indie edge to the film that makes it much more than a tired old slasher but at the same time preserves the thrill and the kill with a very satisfying ending that makes a lot more sense than the random violence of most films in this genre.
This is unfortunate because, aside from the laughable story and some unimpressive special effects, Reeker is a competently made and appealing horror movie.David Payne begins the film with a fantastic sequence that will have animal lovers squirming.
None of the characters are particularly appealing and when mutilated people begin appearing and the students start getting picked off, I can't say I was particularly upset.Despite the frenzy of horror movie clichés, this part of the film works well.
The finale involves some nice stunt work but the daft twist ending just makes the entire movie all the more obscenely and unbearably stupid.Reeker is not a bad film, just an oppressively illogical one.
Yes the movie follows the basic formula, promiscuous teens do stupid things and split up...yada, yada, yada...but the Reeker is scary and the writing no too bad, funny as a matter of fact.
Like I said, the acting is nothing special, the story is nothing different, and for the most part this film is "OK", but that ending, I just can't get it out of my mind, it really makes this one worth seeing..
This is one small example of how laughably stupid the characters in this movie are.Another byproduct of this mysterious universe is that even when confronted by what would normally instill sheer terror in someone, you can only look slightly concerned, this is just one small example of how laughably bad the acting in this turd was.The death scenes were so poorly edited that i had to watch one or two of them a couple times to see what the hell was going on.Oh and there's the "twist", as if it wasn't obvious enough what was going on by the design of the antagonist the MOMENT THEY SHOWED IT they think so little of their audience they make the insane decision to recap and explain in excruciating detail the obvious explanation for this twist.Really sad too since I was very intrigued after the opening of this movie but the first 5 minutes are by far the high point and it's just a sheer drop after that.
i must say that i didn't expect much from this one, but once it was over i can tell you i was very surprised, i really enjoy this movie, it keeps your attention at all times, there are good scary and jumping moments, and the end was very very good, the twist that the director gave the film was very remarkable, it reminded me a little bit to the final destination films.
lets get to the point,this movie sucks big time.Why do they make such movies??, user rating above 5 for this movie,i don't see how is that possible from any sane mind.i give this one 4 out of 10,may be less but some scenes were okay and most were very bad.I saw this film recently and i can surely say that i wasted my 1hour and 20minutes.The performance was lacking and the story was okay but the way in which it was presented was not professional at all,the opening scene was not that bad but afterward the movie takes a rapid fall and never returns to even the average levels of movie making,so if you are planning to watch some good slasher movie please avoid this one,believe me,even the positive reviews of rotten tomatoes came as a surprise to me after sitting through this badly made so called horror flick..
Marketed badly as a formulaic teen slasher, "Reeker" is actually one of the better low budget horror films of recent years, and possesses a rare intelligence for a genre picture.
It doesn't entirely avoid the realms of cliché, but there are enough fresh and interesting ideas in there to make it worth a watch even for genre fans like myself.The plot on the surface is simple, a group of friends run out of gas in the desert and come to a deserted blood-splattered motel where they decide to rest for the night.
As a horror fan myself i was left slightly miffed that a really promising story was completely vandalised by the presence of a ridiculous monster that bared no relation to the deeper plot and which stole the focus away from what was actually the most interesting aspect of the movie.good one off watch but don't watch it if you want something deeper..
(Soemthing that is obviously LOST on many of the commenters around here!) Oh, and be sure to watch the beginning of the film very carefully - It's KEY to understanding the end.If you enjoy silly, clever horror flicks, REEKER is definitely worth renting.
The film observes many of the conventions of the genre we may have seen a thousand times before - good-looking young things in an isolated location meeting their makers one by one in various grisly ways - but adds some neat twists and turns.
Basically this movie is not very good.It had some well worked scenes that proved to be quite scary intermingled with a few laugh out loud moments.But ultimately the bad outweighs the good.The deaths severely lacked any imagination whilst the monster (being quite pathetic) was hugely under used.The smell concept that adorns the title while being fairly original isn't explored properly within the horror context and is instead used more as a passing whiff than the stench of terror expected.Worth watching because there are some very funny moments but don't expect much more than that..
The whole time I watched this movie I was thinking of all the stuff I could or should be doing, washing clothes, doing the dishes, clipping my nails, etc, etc, etc.The nicest thing I can say about Reeker is that it was painfully BORING until the ending which was nicely done.I did NOT see that coming.Usually I'm good at figuring out the ending before it happens but not this time.It's a shame the entire movie sucked until then.I was fighting myself every minute, wondering if I should turn it off or not.I'm actually glad I didn't though, just because of the way it ended.If somebody asked me if they should see Reeker or not, I definitely would have to say......
In fact the first half of the film  before anyone gets killed  is quite intriguing, although things go down the well-trodden stalk-and-slash path for the final couple of reels as the usual band of five dislikeable teens invite their own death by doing incredibly stupid things (I have never met a girl in my life who would sit on that gurgling loo).Old pro Michael Ironside makes an appearance as a bewildered hubby looking for his wife in the wilderness  and the ending of the flick adds an unexpected touch of poignancy to his character's search.
The nominal 'hero' is actually something of a jerk, and you're never really worried about anyone's fate, but the film doesn't hold itself out as anything other than a time-filling horror  a scan of the end credits will tell you that.The manner in which the twist ending is handled goes some way towards redeeming the preceding twenty minutes, and the part where the blind guy falls off the top of one of those monstrous camper tank things had me laughing out loud - although I had sank a couple of beers.
The 2005 Dave Payne horror film "Reeker" does have one really big positive working in its favor: it begins like a "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and indeed plays out like one, but just as things seem to be drawing to a close, it does a 180 and ends like a "Crash" - a seemingly random and insignificant event early in the picture turns out to have a huge impact later on in the story, thereby transforming "Reeker" from a run-of-the-mill slasher flick into a psychological thriller.
Not the savior of the genre, but something that separates itself from the usual slasher stuff.) Ironically enough, "Reeker" is actually a lot scarier when nothing is going on, and it instead relies on atmosphere and character reactions rather than cheap shocks and gory special effects.Payne's film isn't a total failure, but it is a strong disappointment.
The "big twist" ending I mentioned is a stroke of genius on Payne's part (the mark of great screen writing, in my book, when you'd thought you'd seen it all from the film, which ends up being Payne's one saving grace), but unfortunately his movie just falls prey to too many horror movie clichés on the way there.
The atmosphere and mood was creepy, lots of gore, inventive killing methods, an unusual stalker killer with a stench, likable characters, mysterious circumstances which keep you guessing right up until the ending, which although satisfying was all a little too predictable for myself and as stated above if I had to describe this movie it is definitely a mixture of "Identity" (creepy motel in the middle of nowhere with stranded thrown together characters) and of course the surrealism of "Soul Survivors" (caught between life and death scenario) with of course the originality of the mysterious Reeker who pops up from just about anywhere and everywhere adding to the shock value of this piece..
Like final destination it has a dark sense of humour running throughout, in fact in one scene I haven't laughed so much in ages (Watched it again just for that bit...CLUE....Guy out of Hostel escaping)If you like bubblegum horror which is all it ever is really then you will Love This.As for those that need the ending or any of to be explained then tell the babysitter than mummy said you're not to watch these sort of films..
Watching this movie several times really helped me pick up on the subtle hints, like the radio broadcasts.And everything else: plot was good and well presented (better detailed in multiple viewings - which is not bad), acting was good enough for the genre and budget (Jack was perfect though, Cookies' coughing was definitely forced, but she made up for it in other areas), the effects were just fine, directing was average but did throw in some nice visuals, dialoge was pretty good too.Anyways, not a great movie, but an entertaining one.
I saw this film at Frightfest in Glasgow last week as part of the Glasgow Film Festival.We sat down to watch the film and there was a fair bit of anticipation in the air as the first interesting scene literally hit us straight away, the smarter people in the audience would have got the premise to the story almost immediately, but I settled down after the first funny scene not expecting too much and that's exactly what I got.The film itself is a real blood and gore fest, but it takes far too long to get going, there are a good few jokes in the movie as well, which I always feel detracts from the horror elements in a film and turns it into something like Final Destination 2, which is a pity because the film itself is marketed as a *real* horror film.By the end of the film I was quite annoyed however as the ending is ripped off from another film (Dead End, 2003) and to be honest I should have seen it coming.
The CG was well done although overused, the acting was pretty bad but you get used to it and it adds to the humor at times, the lighting was way over the top - more like watching a made for TV movie and way bright for horror, and the music was terrible.
He is the only reason I watched this until the end after going to turn it off numerous times throughout this 1.5 painful hours.I have seen so many horror films, and this is an absolute embarrassment to the genre.I thought nothing could be worse than Blood Diner (at least that had some stupid humor), but here it is, my number 1 rubbish movie EVER!
There is one scene at the very beginning (you'll know which one if you see the movie) that I haven't seen done in any horror film.
And, once the clichés start coming, what charm the film has starts to dwindle.You'll probably have guessed which characters live and die within the first few minutes of meeting them - they're all pretty stereotypical, so there's not too much in the way of suspension.Basically, if you like the sound of Reeker (and that type of movie in general), you could certainly do worse than this.
Reeker (2005) First watch and I seen the sequel number of times, I really enjoyed it.I been really looking forward to this one.This one hell of a bore fest, I did not like this movie at all.I found it so dull and didn't care not about anyone in the movie and I could not understand what some of them were even saying.I didn't not find of the scenes, scary, what so ever, the acting was not to bad by some of the cast.The gore scenes were not that gory at all, I was expecting a lot more gore.4 out of 10 (I liked the sequel much better).
I regard Reeker as being a great horror movie - one of the best examples of the genre that I've seen in the current decade, though I've noticed that quite a few people seem to have problems understanding the film's storyline.
Actually, if you like horror movies you'll love REEKER!