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SHREDDER
PLOT
A couple of friends break into an abandoned ski resort for
a weekend of snowboarding and drinking. But when a killer
in a ski suit shows up, killing the friends off, one by one,
they now have to fight for their lifes to get out from the
resort alive...
REVIEW
Shredder follows the same road as Wishcraft by getting
released in the UK ages before it came to the US. Another
thing the two films have in common is that they both look
fairly high budget. Shredder manages to keep the suspense high
all of the time and even if there aren't any really good chase
scenes in this movie, we get one good ski chase in the opening
scene. You would think that I would have been more surprised
with how good this movie was, but I had actually read a lot
about it before I watched it and was expecting it to be better
than most other recent slashers.
Top notch camerawork by Greg Huson who also edited the not
so good slasher Drive In (2000), well he sure made up for his
previous mistake by giving us this brilliant slasher. The
acting is also very good and the actors seem far more
experienced than they really are, I was surprised that they
hadn't been in very many movies before. Billy O'Sullivan,
who we know from the very bad slasher Lover's Lane (1999),
is outstanding in this movie while Scott Weinger gives us
a less impressive performance, even though it's way above
lowbudget slasher standards.
The killer was pretty predictable and the premise does spin
off Iced (1988) quite a bit, but I don't see why that should
ruin the movie for you, come on, it was about time that we
got a new ski slasher. IMDB lists this as a Comedy / Horror,
well, where's the comedy in this? This is nothing else but
a superb horrormovie. But since it does have it flaws and
doesn't feel too original, I will only give this 4 stars even
if some of you might think that this did deserve 5.
GORE
There are actually two (!!) head dismember scenes, while one
of them is more funny (in a guilty pleasure kind of way)
than scary. We also get the very cool icecicle impaled
through stomach kill and a slit throat. Then we get some
other various less impressive gore aswell, like loads of
blood splatter, a bloody shotgun shot in the shoulder, some
knife or whatever in the head and an axe in the leg.
SOUNDTRACK
Very impressive, we get a very eerie and powerful string
soundtrack and some cool hip rockmusic, Offspring style.
Let's not forget about the sexy R'n'B music and the pop
tune with a Jamaican reggae feel to it or the technopop
played every once in a while, but quite silently.
BOTTOM LINE
This is one hell of a slasher, but if you're going to order
this movie, I suggest that you buy the Brazilian DVD rather
than the UK one as the UK one has like no extras beside a
trailer, not to talk about the really lousy cover, the
original artwork was much nicer! I have much faith in
Showcase Entertainment after watching this movie, I only
hope that they will make another slasher soon.
Review
By: AnthroFred
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