Slasher/Blood Cult (1987)

- written October 2006

Summary: A college campus is being stalked by a meat-cleaver-wielding killer who just might be using his victim’s body parts for sacrifices to the local demonic deity. It’s up to the sheriff in the nearby sleep town to put order to this business and stop the killer, once and for all. Unfortunately his daughter works on campus and soon will be the killer’s next target!           Overall: The film’s claim to fame is to say it’s the first film ever made for the “direct to video” market. No comments on whether that is good bad, because the film is really awful. The acting is sooooo sub par and the film is unusually long. Take for instance the scene where the sheriff goes out to the farm to investigate this family’s complaints of noises and the fact their dog was killed. Well he says he’s running for election and needs the votes but nothing in the film corroborates this election plot vein. In addition, he spend like 15 minutes of screen time talking to the mother about nothing in particular, before eventually returning later that night and wasting another 20 minutes before he encounters the bad guys. And by the time the film ends, the climax is practically not even related to the wasted 35 minutes in “farm-time.” It’s a slow film and the fact that even with the length of the film, the climax doesn’t actually get resolved, makes no sense. Watch the film...watch the climax, the ending and then ask yourself... “what happened to all the other cultists?”           Comparison: Dragnet (1988) meets Sorority House Massacre

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