Post by Ajax the S.I.C.K F.U.C.K. on Jul 21, 2009 22:17:17 GMT -5
The 4th movie review by Ajax at the Midnight Horror Show Forum. This movie is title The Butcher. By the sound of it you might be guessing, meat hooks, cleavers, machetes, gore....um no. Just a little gore. This B-Film movie is a spin off of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with a hint of The Hills Have Eyes.
[glow=red,2,300]THIS REVIEW CONTAINS A VERY DETAILED PLOT OUTLINE AND LOTS OF SPOILERS! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED[/glow]
The movie as you go along you will notice key scenes in which it is related to the TCM. The first is the beginning where kids off from college are going through a remote part of a place where you don't find out. Its mainly a forest/desert. Adam who is riding in the back decides to tell Mark, ya thats the beefy asshole to take a short cut. As he does he runs over a 2x4 wrapped in barbed wire and it jabs the car tires to shit. Mark obviously gets pissed and sees a truck coming for help but the hornless skull of a buffalo on the grill doesn't seems like hes to friendly and he honks the horn and presses the gas. Mark dodges it and curses him off. Sophie on of the 4 girls goes to tinkle and Adam decides to practice pop the question when they go to Vegas.
The car tire gets back up and it seems they decide to play strip poker. As Mark says the clothes come off and I mean all of them the loser has to flash that truck driver that they caught up to. It seems that Liz lost. Well it seems like any mans dream comes true and she flashes the guy out the sun roof! Its a great glimpse of those boobs but it only lasts a few seconds as as she sees his deformed face she pulls her shirt down and tells them to pull her in. It seems like thats a negative as she must stay out there the whole time. If your a horror vet, theres not doubt. You know someone is going to die and we all know who. A girl runs in front of the SUV and Mark swerves and severs Liz's torso while hitting a tree branch. The clunk it made was probably funny as hell.
Mark goes to look for that girl and Adam goes after him. They do find her but it looks like she has been tortured and beaten and sick. They bring her back to the car and it seems Liz's best friend Atlanta went missing and what she brings back with her is caused by a case of insanity: Liz's torso and props it in the car as if she was still alive. The rest of the group sees smoke and decides to go for help but Atlanta stays at the car.
By now its dark and when they get there it seems that girl they found has a seizure and Rachel the last girl tells Adam to grab her tongue so she doesn't swallow it. He reaches in and....NO TONGUE!! Now when she said to hold the tongue I already had an idea she had no tongue as she wouldn't talk or even grunt. Also back at the car the insanity brews and Atlanta talks to a ever dead Liz and a leaf crunch echos and she heard it thinking it was one of the others. The person now hits the car and scares the shit out of her and then he goes to other side and breaks the window. She runs out and trips (how cliche) and gets caught.
The guys get up to the use to be fire and it seems it was just a garbage burning to them but Mark notices after everyone leaves that there were human bones and a skull in there! Now I know what your thinking as I was thinking it too. These guys are cannibals and so there is where I think a little of the Hills Have Eyes come in. Cannibals in a remote desert and since there is only 1 chainsaw scene so this picture doesn't get claimed by the TCM. Mark quickly gets trys to get the guys to leave and goes the the barn house and looks around. He sees a fridge and grabs a b beer. But before this it seems Atlanta seems to wake up and wrapped around her neck in barbed wire and it is hanging of a tree. It seems the killer comes back and starts to pull it and the barbed wire cuts into her neck. No decapitation was present but a slow beheading or even seeing the barbed wire eat through half the neck could have sufficed.
Back to the group that is going through the house and goes upstairs and sees a room with a mattress and doll pieces...kinda like a kids room. But a box was found and in it was a tounge. Don't need to say who it belonged too and these people are sure that these people are crazy. Also the sick girl goes missing. Awkward?
Mark now goes through some of the stuff in the fridge and drops something after he notices it looked like a body party. Now for the best scene in the movie. The killer comes in and props Atlanta's body. Mark hides underneath table and it seems a hook is used to open her belly and the killer takes out the intestines and jars it. This made me happy as a sign of gore means more to come. Now he goes to put it away in the fridge and notices something missing and Mark goes to escape but the killer sees him and boom! IMPALED! And a VROOM VROOM to go with it. Yep this guy gets cut up Franklin Style. The others hear his screams and try to save him but the door was locked and it seems he was scared for life. Or Death whatever. NOTE* This was the only scene with a chainsaw sry to tell you. I was also disappointed but there a lot of other surprising kills. Also this was obviously a rip off of TCM. This guy cut him exactly like Franklin. Not to cut him in half but just to scar him deeply all over his body.
The other three run back to the house and stop from this killer from getting in. It seems they find a radio but the power in the house is shot so they go downstairs to find the generator and find that the wires are all mismatched and shot. Rachel goes to fix it and Adam sees someone from the electric company and goes for the shot. He wants to give the ring to Sophie but she won't take it until he comes back so he goes and finds out that he was killed by the killer. It also seems that bastard was chasing him!
In the mean while Sophie finds this door and follows it to a bedroom with a lady on the bed. She is dead, another victim. That is until the missing girl points from the vents to the bed and she is missing...and alive. OOOOOooooo what a twist. Adam not gets caught in a bear trap but he manages to get out as the sheriff chases off the killer. YAY the cops are here everthing is gonna get better. Let me just wrap this up.
Sophia seems to get killed by what seems to be the wife of the killer(sadly it was a drowning in was looked like white water that was just a rub off and couldn't think of a good kill) and the sheriff tells the story of how that couple wanted a kid....a daughter UH OH if you thought what I'm thinking you know shit is going to get crazy!. And it was I really was never expecting this and thought it was really a great plot twist. Kinda like Sleep away camp just more forward into the movie and less nasty XD.
Seeing Sophie dead the wife comes after Rachel and the missing girl saves her. After all the wall banging with a axe pick which would have been hilarious with a head shot might I add, the missing child is Angel the daughter and locks Rachel with handcuffs to a pipe. I was thinking what a bitch and it just pieces together. She would run in front of the car as an innocent victim in all this and the family would get their food.
THe sheriff gets into the house with a flashlight and a shotgun but the wife stabs him in the neck till he falls and appears dead. The husband enters and talk about they must protect their daughter. But the sheriff gathers strength and shoots the bitch in the stomach, no guts but just doll pieces. Ya pissed me off to no gore but just bit and pieces.
The gun shots had Adam limp in and kill the husband and Rachel tricks Angel into letting her go and handcuffed her. The two got together but the husband wasn't dead. I wasn't suprised. They get chased in to the fire pit where the father was tricked and fell it and Adam held him back as Rachel got out and Adam sacrificed himself and lit himself on fire and an explosion brewed because the husband killer threw gas on them before.
The morning and Rachel gets saved by a couple but after a while she sees the truck and Angel run infront of the car.
That wasn't an original ending scene as you see plenty of movies where you think its safe but the same thing repeats itself and its just gonna get the person killed probably. Overall the movie was a great movie though with good eyes you can see that TCM and The Hills Have Eyes have met this movie. The gore factor could have been something that was upped. One scene is just not enough especially for only a few seconds. It was a great movie and I suggest for anyone looking for a stranded motif with a killer to be a perfect movie.
My rating is 7 out of 10.
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Thanks for reading a review by AJAX THE S.I.C.K.F.U.C.K.