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Seven horny twenty-something’s break into a building
for a night of drinking, smoking and sex. What they
don't know is that a serial killer has escaped from
a mental hospital and has decided to crash their
party. Will anyone survive this bloody night or will
they all become victims of the machete wielding
masked maniac? Only time will tell.
From the producer of Camp Blood comes this new slasher
flick with just about as little plot as a slasher
could possibly have. We've all heard the story before,
a masked lunatic kills off a bunch of drunk teens,
but usually there's something more to the story, a
twist, a subplot or something, but this one has
nothing of those. Still it manages to be pretty
entertaining. The movie clocks in at 1 hour and 20
minutes. Well, if you thought that was a short
running time, you can exclude about 20 minutes of
those since the main movie is only one hour long.
The first 7 minutes shows us the opening titles
where an elevator door opens and closes showing us
one name each time it opens and I think it repeats
itself like this for at least thirty times. The
end titles are approximately 13 minutes as well.
The movie's amazingly shot, I mean, the director
managed to make the film pretty visible even
though most fo it takes place in the dark and
still there are many unseen light sources. Yes,
I was sarcastic about the amazingly shot comment.
It's not much better than the directing in Camp
Blood which also looked abysmal. The acting is
a mixed bad, it's everything from averagely bad
to completely horrible. So you're probably asking
yourself why I found it the least entertaining.
You see, this is a slasher and a slasher doesn't
really need a lot to be interesting, to make an
uninteresting slasher would need a real screw-up
as a director (though look at Camp Slaughter and
Carnage Road and Junior, it's far from impossible
but if you succeed in making a totally uninteresting
and completely abysmal slasher you are obviously
in the wrong business). Tower Of Blood, even though
a relatively small building usually isn't called
a tower, serves gore, a masked killer and pretty
good looking students so as a slasher it served its
few purposes, it just didn't go beyond that.
If you absolutely hated Camp Blood you really
ought to avoid this one but I found it on the
same cheesy level of entertainment as Camp Blood
so if you dug Camp Blood you'll probably dig this
one as well. It's not a total waste of time, I mean,
it's a very short movie but it's not something
you want see with all your friends on a dark night
in front of the TV. I mean, the movie has way too
many problems to be able to be enjoyed by a non
slasher fan. There's even a couple of scenes where
you can see the microphone clearly without even
looking for it, I mean it does take up about 20%
of the screen so it's impossible to avoid seeing it.
Only for hardcore slasher fans.
We get a machete in the head (a la Camp Blood,
even looks like it's the same machete prop), a
decapitation, an arm dismemberment and more.
It even seems as if they used the exact same
score that they used in Camp Blood except for
a couple of rock tunes which were okay.
Tower Of Blood works as a cheesy slasher if you
have nothing better to watch and if you're a
hardcore slasher fan like me but for people who
are looking for a more serious horror movie, this
is probably an ultimately bad choice of movie but
I think the title's enough to at least give you
a hint of that.
Review By: AnthroFred
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