A Train Wreck of a Movie...So Bad but So Compelling to Watch
"Shredder" is so completey out of touch with reality one just has to wonder: were the filmakers trying to make a horror parody or were they just failing miserably at making a serious slasher film? What can you say about a film with plot holes so big you could drive a snow plow through them? Or that has its characters walking around in the snow in just their underwear? To add to the ridiculousness, at one point the killer trips and falls over a corpse. And we're supposed to be afraid of this klutz?! I could go on, but you should really watch this one yourself to fully appreciate the absurdness of this whole mess. This movie was a riot to watch. The fact that this came from a major studio(MGM) just boggles the mind. "Shredder" completely fails as a horror film, but it succeeds as an unintentional comedy. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie... but probably for all the wrong reasons.
So Bad, it's...bad!
I blame no one but myself. I've seen enough direct-to-video horror movies by now to know that for every one that is decent, there are 10 more that should only be viewed in Dante's Seven Levels of Hell! This movie lacked it all, and gave us terrible acting, lame kills (most of which happened off-camera), weak story, and unsatifying ending. Since this movie has nothing going for it (besides unintentionally funny moments), I'll instead review this by mentioning what annoyed me the most.
1. Whodunnit that never makes us wonder whodunnit - This is a trend I see more and more in slasher films. About halfway through, all the suspects are present when the killer appears... with one notable exception. Thanks for ruining any semblance of a mystery!
2. Girl who hangs around with the most suspicious character- Not since "Urban Legends Final Cut" have I seen a "heroine" so determined to get herself killed. The blonde snob finds out that a mysterious stranger (who they just met right before people started getting murdered) has been lying to her about who he was, so what does she do? Why, strip down to a bikini (in the snow, mind you) and purr about how much she loves bad boys, of course! Why bother killing this character when she'll probably wind up drowning from staring up at the rain with her mouth gaping open...
3. That guy with the camera - Do horror-movie writers just have no concept of "funny" anymore?? When the "comic-relief" character doesn't say anything that even resembles something amusing, that's not a good sign. And if I heard the word "karma" one more time, I would have turned into a serial killer myself.
4. Weak motive - What's scarier than a killer who enforces mountain safety rules? Just about anything, really...
The only reason I'm giving this loser an extra star is because I thought the legend of the ghostly girl skiing down the mountain that killed her was fresh... too bad it never translated into anything we see on camera. Don't bother with this one, because 5 minutes after you watch it, you'll have trouble even remembering what happened...
Yet another un-original bore slasher film
Its your typical seen it before type of horror movie. Its the typical slasher flick of a group of kids who go on a vacation toegther, and there told not to go by the wise ol local yolkells, so they go anyway....and they end up beeing killed off one by one! With such a minumal amount of cast memembers its no suprise to find out who the mystery killer is at the end of this dull film. Its compeltly predicted way before it even happens!
There just happens to be this well preserved moutnin range with a ski lift still in action and these reckless kids fall victom to somebody who dosent like snow boarders!
Seeing as how im not into snow boarding, the long boring clips of showing off on snow boards put me to sleep. Unless your into wanting to see the average teen group of reckless horney teenager who go camping and get killed by someone in a mask, then dont bother with this dribble. The death scenes are not worth noting for the gore fans. The plot takes dumb turns, and no intrest or anythign in this film is memorable to make it any diffrent from any other bad "annoying doped up teens" who get killed movie.
Forget this, if your intrested? I highly recomend you rent it, and you will probably agree its not worth looking at ever again!
You will also ask yourself "why (...) would this girl be walkign around in the snow in pretty much nothing but her underware? Yeah...right, ok.....alot of us like to walk around in the freezing cold naked dont we?
Dont have high expectations. Not even worth renting, but if it intrests you, rent it, dont buy it first
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