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BACKSTABBED
PLOT
Some friends break into an abandoned house for a game of backstabbed.
Backstabbed is a new game that has become really big in America recently,
at least that's what the friends think. The object of the game is to
find a fake weapon hidden by the other contestants in the house and then
try to stab someone with it, the one who's left at the end wins. But soon
the friends realise that someone is taking the game too seriously and
fake weapons become very unpopular.
REVIEW
Backstabbed is a VERY average slasher that adds nothing new to the genre.
It's a quite clever movie but it feels very stretched out to reach a longer
running time than an hour. There's no real plot, basically it's just teens
walking around in a house getting killed, and since there are only four
teens involved, the killings can only be so many. However, I was expecting
something really terrible, first of all I read the back of the Danish video
release which I understood squat of, however, I did manage to make out that
there was something about a pig involved so I drew my conclusions that the
killer wore a pig mask. Well, short to say, I was very wrong, there is no
mask involved here and the crew behind the film doesn't exactly suck on the
secret of who the killer is for very long. But compared to other Danish
horrorfilms that I have seen, this was like a masterpiece... well, actually
I think I've only seen one Danish horrorfilm before, but that one was just
so terrible that I lost all faith in Danish film industry.
I would have to say that the acting is pretty good. I would have liked if
they spoke a little slower though since I am Swedish and Danish is really
a quite easy language to understand if they would just speak slowly. Well,
I guess it wasn't made for the rest of the Scandinavian audience, especially
considering the fact that it was never released outside Denmark. Then we
have the directing, which I have very mixed feelings about. Now, while most
of the movie was shot in the dark and looked creepy and good, the few
scenes that were shot outside in the daytime looked terrible. It looked as
if it was a dream sequence from Days Of Our Lives. Other than that I was
surprised that the directing looked so good since I know that it was shot
on a very low budget.
While Backstabbed is far from excellent, there are still some very intense
and suspenseful scenes that were magnificent. Those scenes made this movie
worth watching but I have a hard time picturing me sitting through this
movie again. Especially since it was so slow and didn't have a very good
story to it. This was more like an 80's slasher since it didn't have the
same regular factors in it as modern slashers do, I guess that's because
Scream hadn't been released yet when they were making this movie.
GORE
Surprise, surprise, most stabbings here, but we also get some cool impalements
and a slit throat.
SOUNDTRACK
Very cheesy that's really all I have to say, it plays in the background
almost non-stop. We do get some classical music aswell though.
BOTTOM LINE
Average Danish slasher that has almost nothing in common with modern day
slashers, so if you are into older slashers, I suggest that you check
it out. It is a teen slasher though. It does have some suspense in it
and it doesn't really lack in gore either so I think that any real slasher
fan might want to give this one a try, that is if you are willing to
read subtitles, I don't believe there is an English dubbed version of
this released.
Review
By: AnthroFred
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