On the trail of a missing horror film (a trailer being the only thing surviving) considered by the select few who have seen it to be insanely sadistic and disturbing for its violent content, obsessive Tyler brings his friends along with him to the missing director’s home in the middle of the woods. The man’s daughter Alexa pointed Tyler in the direction of the remote shack as a plausible place where the long-lost film may be. Well, sometimes things are missing for a reason and the film’s slasher antagonist named Babyface ain’t exactly confined to celluloid. Alexa hits the fucked-up-childhood trifecta by being a stripper-coke-head-heroin-addict in her adult life… so can she be trusted? Let’s hope so because after a quick bit of withdrawal, she’s heading out with Tyler and his two-person crew into the woods. Well, when the group of idiots are attacked by violent rednecks in the night, Babyface dispatches the hicks and Alexa seems to have some kind of hold over him, however tenuous it may be. She runs off with Babyface in pursuit and Tyler goes after them. Of course, there’s more going on than you think and the thought-to-be-dead director Concannon (William Sadler, well worth the paycheck) has some unsettling plans for our dwindling cast of heroes. Slasher hijinks persist but this time there’s an intriguing hook that makes it a bit more satisfying than most of the straight-to-DVD trash polluting video stores at the time and the killer’s look is way more memorable than usual. Annoying film-school dialogue and some shaky digital splat is to be expected but it tries a whole lot harder and there’s even some bewbs and practical effects to give it an edge.
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