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The infamous conscience killer has arrived in the
small town
called Sugar Hill and is now killing the students at a
university with a very big knife.
Of
all the Scream copy's out there, this has to be the one that
resembles the most to Scream. There is nothing original about
the movie except for perhaps the killer, which has a silver mask
that has long black hair. As the movie begins with the opening
titles you kind of get the feeling that this will be a quite
good movie since the camerawork looks interesting and arty and
the soundtrack is eerie and creepy, but only 5 minutes later,
you have realised that you are in for a lowbudget teen slasher.
The directing looks really good when the opening credits roll
by on the screen, but unfortunately, it looks as if all of the
budget was used to make the opening titles cause after that it's
simply the regular lowbudget slasherlook. The acting is also
very lowbudget slasher average, but in Frightmare the actors
doesn't even look good, come on, that's the main reason that
we watch lowbudget slashers in the first place. Not to mention
all the rouge and makeup the guys are wearing, they were more
make up than most girls do.
I did find it amusing that in one scene at a "killer party" you
could see that the crew behind this movie can't have had many
people wanting to play small parts as you get to see two short,
fat twins dancing on the party, wearing the same outfit, and
they tried to cover that up by putting a mask on one of them.
This wasn't the worst slasher I've ever seen, but it was very
slow and didn't pay up for the money.
An
unoriginal plot, ugly actors, and no gore? What are we
supposed to grab onto? All we get is some stabbings and an
axe in the stomach.
Cheesy...
Very cheesy, the eerie opening tune was alright but
didn't last for very long, but when they started playing some
rocky pop that even I could've made without knowing how to
play the guitar, I thought to myself 'well it doesn't get any
worse than this, ears', and guess what? For once I was right,
soon enough we are presented with a very nice house tune at the
serial killer party and that totally lifted up the rating for
this movie by one star.
The
most uncreative slasher I have seen since Scream without
a doubt, but since the mask was cool I figured I at least
had to give it two stars, so there we go.
Review By: AnthroFred
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