A locket is discovered at a collapsed fire tower and when it is removed by some idiot hikers, the rotting corpse of Johnny resurrects. The pissed-off spirit (gestating since the events of a horrific crime some sixty years ago) is hellbent on retrieving his mother’s jewelry and anyone who stands in his way meets a messy end. Standard slasher fare gets the interesting premise of taking everything (mostly) from the perspective of our killer (not a POV like the excellent Maniac, just treating the unstoppable monster as the main character while the victims are given the minimal presence usually reserved for the slasher) and yeah, it’s a cool concept but the execution kinda blows. Why? Well, you don’t give two-fucks about the victims because they’re underdeveloped and their minimal performances are somehow insultingly lazy. Adding to the tedium, a lot of the time is spent with the husk of a man marching through the woods… so there’s almost no tension. I guess if you’re into some nasty violence with nothing else to hold onto, you should enjoy this. There’s also some gorgeous forest being stomped through but that will only get me so far. It’s okay but I also have a lot of love for slasher films and give them plenty of leeway. I say this from the bottom of my heart: Fuck you, Terrifier. Fuck you for making *shrugs* “violence?” a viable way for boring-ass nothing movies to bring in money. If you’re going to deconstruct a slasher film, at least put the effort into making a decent slasher film to deconstruct.
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