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A busload
of troubled teens are on their way back
home from an outdoor character building retreat in
the mountains. When a storm breaks out, their bus
crashes and they have to seek shelter in a small
trailer park where they're greeted by the beautiful
Norma. She gives them a place to stay for the night
and all seems well, little do they know that the
trailer park is inhabited by the living dead.
What's with the current wave of trashy horror flicks?
Movies like Feast and Zombie Strippers are becoming
hugely popular among horror fans and I just don't get
it. Sure, they're all right and entertaining enough
for you to keep watching but these movies are like
the Jerry Springer’s of horror films. It's trash-TV
gone horror. They're gory, they're violent, they're
inappropriate and they'll keep you amused but when
it all comes down to it, they have very little
substance. Trailer Park of Terror is no exception.
What starts out as an intriguing horror flick with
good production values and a semi-talented cast
eventually descends into a gore fest with guitar-playing
zombies and cannibalistic porn directors.
The movie opens with Norma (Nichole Hiltz), a teenaged
girl who wants nothing more than to get away from
the trailer park that she lives in but when her dreams
are ruined one day as her boyfriend is killed, she
snaps and blows the entire trailer park up. You know,
up until this point I really felt for Norma, I just
wanted to go over there and get her myself, no one
deserves to live like this. Some time later, a busload
of troubled teens have to seek shelter at the trailer
park as their bus just crashed into a truck. Now Norma
is much older and wearing a fugly wig, naturally
she's not alive though, she's in fact a zombie.
Still, I was still enjoying the movie a lot and thought
that this could be a winner. But of course they had
to go and turn it into another sleazy zombie flick
that only true fan boys can enjoy.
Being a fan boy myself however, I did end up enjoying
it to a certain extent, but obviously not as much as
most horror critics out there. I don't know, I just
found it to be a little too outrageous for my taste.
It's got everything else going for it though with a
good cast, a well-written script and some terrific
cinematography. Furthermore I absolutely loved
Steven Goldmann's use of angles. He obviously knew
how to make a rather cheap movie look expensive and
used powerful angles to create an impressive outcome.
I do believe that this could have been the best
zombie flick of the year had they only cut back on
the cheese factor a little and not made it feel so
much like... well... Tales From The Crypt. That's
probably what they were going for though.
If you're looking for a movie desperate to get
instant cult status, Trailer Park of Terror is for
you. If you love movies like Feast 2 and Zombie
Strippers, Trailer Park of Terror is for you. If
you enjoy complex stories and great character
developments, well, maybe you ought to look elsewhere.
Jerry Springer goes horror, that's the one and only
way Trailer Park of Terror should be described and
as entertaining as it is, it's just not that great.
We get impalements, heads getting ripped off, an
arm sawed off, a guy gets skinned alive, we get
guts, blood and a lot more. Very gory.
Rock music of course and not very good rock music.
I would have loved this back when I was 15 years old,
but I'm not and I just thought that it was way too
out there. A movie clearly aimed at fan boys. Succeeds
in being entertaining but lacks substance and the
story quickly becomes exaggerated.
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