A
couple named Lance (Ray Schwetz) and Sara
(Tina Krause) are mysteriously invited to
a lavish dinner party where five other
strangers are invited too by an unseen
host who is supposedly going to greet
them after dinner time but instead the
host is in a private room watching them
with surveillance camera's.
The meet a French maid named Gabrielle
(Darian Caine) who doesn't speak english
and seems to be an attention grabber for
the guests.
During the middle of dinner time
Gabrielle takes a shower and is brutally
slayed by a killer wearing black who
apparently killed a guest that was
supposed to have arrived there earlier.
Meanwhile an eccentric Doctor named Mark
Reibolt (Joseph Zaso) while peeking at
her taking a shower in another bathroom
through a peephole accidentally kills his
wife Rebecca (Lynn Macri) by making out
with her afterwards. He then hides her
body in the bathroom shower but when her
body was found Mark becomes a suspect.
Soon, the guests realised that their cars
won't work while trying to escape in
order that they stay put at the mansion.
Soon, the guests are all driven to lust,
murder and madness.
While these guests try to survive from
whoever is trying to get them, they are
being slaughtered one by one by the
killer and it seems that the food that's
served isn't what they think it is.
A film made on a
terrible budget but indie films are tough
when it comes to money and the picture
quality is a little dark but not as dark
as alot of underground films I've watched
that makes it to those Bad Taste
Cinema or Sleazy Slasher
DVDs.
This film tries to be original as
possible using the right horror chemistry
with lots of comedy too but it doesn't
quite make it.
It gets a bit better towards the end.
The acting is
average for a film like this but it tends
to be above average in some spots too.
Scream queen Tina Krause does
fine though as she has alot of energy in
it.
Ray
Schwetz seems to do well as her
husband.
Cult underground scream
king Joe Zaso plays very goofy
with his role but this is not an insult
as his timing seems to be on track as he
plays a great suspect too with his crazy
attitude.
Sarah K. Lippman is does well
witty as an insecure yet at times
arrogant guest.
The directing is a
little below average during the beginning
but it picks up very well afterwards does
have some interesting moments too.
Ray Schwetz showed a very cheesy
introduction to the film with the killer
attacking the first victim played by Stephanie
Bauman as there were interesting
camera shots on the killer.
There is a neat brief moment when Tina
Krause stares at a picture and then
sees a hallucination of a man played by Hugh
C. Daly as she thinks she's
hallucinating and that piece was well
done.
There's great timing with the mysterious
host watching everyone through his
surveillance camera as it makes the film
truly mysterious.
There's also a funny moment when the
people freak out by seeing a decapitated
head fall out of a fridge and they boot
it around which was directed well too.
He directs a nice shot of the killer
placing a pillow on Willie Hill's
face and then stabbing him through the
pillow
We have a nice fighting scene between Ray
Schwetz and the killer but the
picture is very dark
He also directs Krause and Devon
Mikolas well together when they
search around the mansion in the dark
with flashlights as well as when they
explore a cellar of the mansion and a
camera is watching them
His best direction was when he shows
Krause having a split personality
The camera isn't focused too well during
many scenes.
Scream queen Darian
Caine is fully naked top to bottom
while taking a shower as her role is very
similar to her shower scene in Nikos
the Impaler.
A woman's head is
decapitated but it looks very fake
A sexy woman in a shower is being cut by
a razor and other gruesome moments like
that.
A guy's head is blown off (Another phony
effect but blood splurts out)
Theres a gruesome bloody slit wrist
A man's face is bloodied and he spits out
blood
The music was composed by Function
Zero who did the same for Zaso's
other horror flicks like Nikos
the Impaler and Machines
of Love and Hate.
They seem to try and make creepy violin
music on a synthesizer but it becomes
very annoying. But other times it sounds
superb
William:
You used to date a guy???
Anna: Yes doofus, I do
date men believe it or not. I just don't
happen to be interested in you. You are a
hound. I can't believe you outomatically
think I'm a lesbian because I don't shove
my tits in your face.
William: You mean you're
not???
Hunter:
What if you run into the KILLER!? Or
KILLERS?!
Lance: I'll be
persuasive. That's why I got this (Holds
a rifle in his hands)
Hunter (Enters
the house after Sara unlocks the door):
What in the hell did you do that for?!
Sara: I was on my way
upstairs, I didn't hear you. Sorry
jerk!!!
Hunter: Oh, I'm sorry. I
was slightly terrified!!!!
Sara: Asshole!!!
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