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A couple of friends
go on vacation to a sunny beach paradise,
only to realise that there's a killer among them. As bodies
start piling up, they start to think that it all might be
connected to someone they chatted with a long time ago who
called himself Sandmanzz and who killed himself after the
friends started ignoring him.
As I sat down to watch this, I had no expectations at all as
this was all very new to me, but I'm always up for a new Asian
slasher. It started out as a complete Deadly Camp rip-off, but
quickly grew into a descent slasher. The opening scene was
really nothing original at all, and not very believable either.
The plot was nothing original about either, it's all been done
before, someone gets harassed and a year later start offing the
kids, á la I Know What You Did Last Summer.
As I've said
before, I have a hard time judging how good the
acting is in subtitled movies, but I think it was quite good.
You could tell that this wasn't totally lowbudget as it had some
cool effects so I bet ya that the entire cast was well put together.
The directing is very interesting for being a slasher, and even
if the blood of the first victims shapes into the title of the
movie effect was cool, I for one had seen this before and wasn't
all that impressed (if you're wondering what movie I'm referring
to, it's the Thai movie Hotel!! which was made in 2002, I know,
this was first, but I saw Hotel!! first so for me it wasn't new).
Pretty good slasher
that could've been really good with some
work. But since this is one of those movies that didn't get very
interesting until the end, I can't rate this with more than three
stars. I basically didn't feel ripped off or like I did the deal
of the century, I just felt like, oh alright, this'll look good
in my collection, but I'm assuming that I'll never watch this
again, if I'm not in a really Asian slashery mood.
This was the same old stuff, only with a little more attitude.
Instead of slitting the victims throat, the killer sticks the
knife through the throat, moving it around a little. Then
we get
some pretty gruesome knife in the leg action
and some chopped
off fingers. One gets the legs
hacked up into pieces, while another
one gets
the head dismembered. We also get a bloody
eye and some
less bloody gore.
Pretty average, but it was fun how they used both English and
Korean pop music. Then there's some pretty unimpressive dance
music and piano music aswell. The only thing that got
my adrenaline
up high was the drum'n'bass rock tune,
oh don't they just work
so great for slashers?
Even if you can't tell by the cover, this was another Scream
clone indeed. I've seen worse ones, and this definitely wasn't
bad at all... it just could've been better. Average slasher
which is totally worth at least one watch, especially if you
dug the Korean slashers The Record and Horror Game Movie.
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