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• Below average Slasher. posted on 12 Jan 2007

  Plot: A group of hippies attends The American Love Fest. This festival unites the free hippies in a massive display of love, freedom, and drug use. The location of the festival is inside a forest and in the midst of the forest there awaits a man hell bent on wrapping his axe around the head of any person who wonders his forest. One by one, hippies start disappearing, and this strikes the attention of the sheriff, who seems to be the only person concerned with the notion of a maniac lost in the woods. After the deaths of a few, the unenviable happens; the masses of hippies find one of the victims tied feet first to one of the branches of a tree. This instills fear and causes widespread panic. However, it does not last for long; it actually drives the people to dwell deeper into the woods, where they party long and hard in front of a bone fire.The killer, who wears the mask of former President Ronald Reagan, reaches the pinnacle of his efforts when he rampages around the bone fire, rips of limbs, decapitates heads, and chops other body parts on a massive scale. The funny thing is nobody seemed to run away to safety. Instead, they sat and stared as each victim falls prey to Ronald. The climax is the most famous slasher movie cliché involving the drug free, socially withdrawn, troubled person, who, you guest it, is of course female, and the only person who did not have sex, fights with the evil Ronald Reagan. She eventually kills him with a hammer. Although, guess what, Ronald is not dead. The deputy informs the Sheriff that the body of Ronald had no been recovered, and the end scene shows Ronald stabbing the most annoying character in the film - the event manager. Other slasher clichés include, the murder of the informative old man who heeds warnings to the unsuspecting victims, the killer who turns out to be avenging to death of his mother by killing those who represent the same people who in his mind killed his mother. The couple interrupted during sex who happen to die, the corrupt official, the interaction with the town locals on the way to the festival, where they happen to get drawn into a fight, the crazy ex-boyfriend showing up at the very end, the law abiding sheriff who is the only person, apart from the hero, fearful of things to come, and many others I cannot think of right now. Oh, hang on, the killer who mysteriously vanishes into thin air leaving behind nothing other then his mask.View: This is just another cliché filled horror/slasher film that brings nothing new to the screen. The setting, plot, characters, dialogue and everything about the film is substandard. Heck, it bored the hell out of me.Rating: 3/10 - It was terrible, but I've seen worse. I wouldn't recommend it. It's not even worth downloading the sucker for free.

• Don't Go into the Woods ... Without your Republican Flag posted on 22 Oct 2006

  We've seen a lot of slashers already that are intended as throwbacks/tributes to the 80's – the era when this horror sub genre was at its peak of popularity – but David Arquette takes his 80's love even a couple of steps further, as the killer in his directorial debut is obsessed with, and even wears a mask resembling the President who was in charge of the White House for the largest part of the 80's decade. "The Tripper" is a fun and imaginative piece of splatter cinema (much better than, for instance, the simultaneously released but massively over-hyped "Hatchet") that effectively blends nostalgic slasher clichés, over-the-top political satire and a whole lot of unsubtle gore effects. The action takes place in a remote and forestry region; all the lead characters are either dim-witted teenagers or mentally underdeveloped hillbillies and the maniac with the axe is a completely deranged and unstoppable killing machine! What more could you possibly expect? The film even opens with a good old-fashioned crazed 60's flashback, which immediately explains the madman's sympathies for Ronald Reagan. A young boy witnesses how hippies prevent his struggling father from reclaiming a forest whilst his severely ill mother lies dying in bed at home. Blinded by rage, the boy picks up a chainsaw and violently attacks the lead hippie. Only moments before the assault the boy was staring at Governor Reagan on TV, and his "People are more important than trees" speeches clearly made an everlasting impact! The action than jumps forward to present day and we follow a van filled with stoned teenagers as they're on their way to attend the biggest annual and hippie-themed music festival in the woods. Guess who shall be present as well and will go conservative Republican on their butts? "The Tripper" is reasonably fast-paced, light-headed and very easy to digest. Arquette clearly opted for a comical approach of the genre right from the beginning, presumably following the tradition of the "Scream"-trilogy in which he starred, but still you can't help thinking the concept of this film also had a lot of suspense-potential. The idea of an old-fashioned, conservative and Reagan obsessed killer taking on a group of stoned kids could easily have resulted in a much more grim and sadist movie, but instead the killer is simply a life-sized Reagan caricature and fires off legendary presidential one-liners like "There you go again" and anecdotes about jellybeans. There are quite a few familiar faces in the cast and they all contribute a pretty reasonable performance, particularly Thomas Jane as the small town sheriff and Balthazar Getty as the stalking ex-boyfriend of one of the partying teens. The gore is plentiful enough to satisfy the majority of the horror-loving crowd, but there's never any truly sick or revolting stuff shown on screen. "The Tripper" is not a great or even highly memorable film, but it certainly entertains while it lasts and sets positive expectations for David Arquette's further career as a director.

• Not the most awesomely bad awesomely-bad-movie I've ever seen, but pretty awesomely bad -- just keep a hostile mind. posted on 18 Oct 2006

  This is a perfect film for a Saturday night with a bunch of people hanging out looking for something that won't be too hard to follow or enjoy. I think next time I'm gonna triple-feature it with Bad Taste and Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter.It's got a lot of really bad special and makeup effects, overwrought performances, heavy handed social political and philosophical messages right along side inspired meaningless-crap dialog, and a fairly endless stream of celebrities and recognizable up-and-comings in roles you hope won't be held against them. Did this ever have a theatrical release? Or direct to video? Seriously, is this available anywhere but bit torrent?Nice camera work tho.