Shredder (2003)

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Checking out their family's ski lodge, a group of friends learns the local legend about the haunted lift on their slopes is true when a psychotic killer begins killing them off one-by-one for being on the mountain and must find a way to stop the killer and get away alive.This here wasn't all that bad of a slasher effort. The main thing here with this one is the fact that this one really manages to get enjoyable with how it actually builds the mysterious backstory of the area as there's a lot to like in this section. Not only is there a rather fine origin story here about the dead daughter and the wife's accident but there's also the fun here with the shifty background information found out here that goes quite well with how this imparts a change to the storyline here by really taking what could've been a simple ghost story into a solid slasher basis filled with some nice red herrings and a rather fun reveal that comes off rather nicely. Likewise, the variety of the kills in here are rather nice as there are some rather decent offerings here which are given a much better overall feel here with some nice bloody aftermath to give them a really great feel as it makes for a decent slasher effort. The only other enjoyable facet here is the action from the finale as this is where the film really has a lot of action to spread throughout here with the killer taking the group out one-by- one in some tense stalking up in the bedroom, going after the girlfriend down in the kitchen and finally out on the slopes where there's plenty of fun action encounters that force this into a really fun finish. These here hold this one up over the flaws present, which are pretty significant. The film's biggest issue is the rather clumsy manner in which the early scenes here don't really display any real sense of tension or attempt to terrify as there's a matter-of-fact air about how they're shot and filmed, draining the suspense from the scenes as there's very little scary or suspenseful antics about them other than the outcome and this really lowers the first half considerably. There's also the surprisingly tame way this deals with its exploitation elements here by barely managing any real nudity or sleaze despite an abundance of chances to get her naked as she showers in the beginning and strips down several other times yet always keeps it hidden which makes no sense. The other flaw to this is the overly lame rationale for the killers' motives against the group which is completely ludicrous and uninformed which just takes a lot of the impact out of their scenes. These here lower this one somewhat over the positives.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Nudity, sex scenes and drug use.

I enjoyed this movie. In short, it is a somewhat comedic horror film of a group of college-age kids who break into a mountain cabin for a weekend of skiing fun, only to run into someone intent on killing them. Its important to understand that the movie is fairly low budget; not micro-budget, but certainly not blockbuster funding. So expect hammy acting, not really compelling dialog, a thin plot, etc. However, I can be fully satisfied by a movie if it meets certain attributes, such as having been filmed in a locale appealing to me. This movie was filmed in snowy winter and on a skiing mountain, one of my passions, so that let's me forgive the underwhelming aspects of the film and just sit back and enjoy a light hearted film.

I am in the process of writing a screenplay for a horror film, which in all honesty will probably get an instant ban in the UK cos it's gonna contain some seriously censor-annoying material in it. To put it bluntly there will be, amongst many other things, graphic rape, sodomy and kiddie killing which is what i know to go on in real life but has, as far as i know, never been tackled in mainstream media (to any graphic detail). I am in no way a sicko (I have two young daughters myself, aged 1 and 3 years old, I am prepared to film anything with full parental cooperation,child would be on set when the filming takes place), i am just interested in writing/directing/starring in my own production, i feel this film will be absolutely nothing like what has ever been shown in or underground (save for so called snuff) cinema worldwide.Now to my point, I would love the serial killer (Candace Moon) from this film to be a murder victim in the film i end up producing - she would ultimately end up being (cinematographically raped and having her throat slashed), i know this is a long shot, but if she were to be in it then it might just be a good thing to happen ! What I would really like to include in the film is the cast members from films who have been killers to end up as completely random victims in this film i an thinking of doing. I'm only suggesting Candace cos i thought she should have had a few more lines to say in this film. Another potential victim could be the actress Felissa Rose, the killer in the first Sleepaway Camp film.If anybody else has thought of this idea, or thinks it might be cool to do such a thing, please contribute !

This movie is so cheap and stupid but funny. The thing i liked about this movie was that it was set in a cold snowy place where i've never seen a slasher horror set before, but other then that its crap!!!The plot is simple and stupid and has no originality. Its not scary, has bad acting and bull death scenes but i loved to laugh at it nether the less and it did entertain.if i was you i wouldn't buy it on DVD its a complete waste of money i only got it on DVD because it got it from a pound shop.Well i give it a fair 4 out of 10 because of funny bits and the sex scenes