BLOODY NEW YEAR
Bloody awful movie is more like it
Damn. Some movies just suck, don't they?
Five young British adults - after a pointless escapade in which they flee from angry bikers at a carnival - sink their boat, wade to shore and take shelter at an island hotel. Thing is, the hotel's all done up for New Years, and it's the middle of summer. Cue the demons.
The only good things I can say about this wretched mess is that it has a pretty cool scene in an elevator (unsurprisingly, rather poorly done) and a hilarious moment where one guy accidentally falls into a big vat of soup. And the tag line on the back is pretty good too: "Should old acquaintance be forgot? Or just brutally murdered."
Features the fakest-looking fake snow I've ever seen, not to mention lousy makeup and gore effects. The final scene promises some great outboard-motor-to-the-head action, but it's all offscreen - nary a splatter of blood from it, too. I mean, why did they bother? Also known as Time Warp Terror, if you care, which you don't. Note how the skull on the front of the box still has eyebrows.
Directed by Norman J. Warren, who was also responsible for the lesbian-hunting-alien-on-a-protein- mission extravaganza Alien Prey.