The Slayer

Although sadly not very well known. This budget first time directed 'video nasty' delivers some interesting characters. It's not the usual paced slasher, more of a slow build creepy tension. Some interesting and one at least ground breaking death shows some fun gor fox. Although the body count is a bit low. Watch the full uncut remastered version released by arrow. For it's time it is a great film and really should have made a bigger mark in horror history....but seems to have fell prey to bad distribution of inferior cuts and bad prints. Nowhere near as good as Friday 13th or the jnvt3dible The Butning but still deserved more recognition.

First and foremost, don't go in expecting a monster movie. It's not one. But it is a good horror movie, filled with enough creepy and scary scenes to make it worth watching. Music is also good! Story isn't great, but it serves it's purpose. Atmosphere of the movie is fantastic and enjoyable, and while acting could be better, it's nothing so bad you can't watch it. It's clearly made with love and best parts of the movie are when you are not shown much, and Cardone knew that. I honestly don't get the 5/10 rating, "Insidious" has 6.8, and every decent horror movie fan will tell you that movie is bad. This isn't a masterpiece, it has it's flaws. But it's actually scary and thrilling horror movie and they don't really make them like this anymore. 7/10 from me and a warm recommendation to my fellow horror movie fans!

Four people go to a remote island. One of the ladies haas had nightmares about the Island about a slimy creature that kills. Sure enough the slayer is there to kill ! Its quite a short movie, with poor script ad story. Some of the photography is decent , and the soundtrack works in a strange way. One murder in particular is quite brutal and if you like gore movies I could say Impressive. A girl gets a pitchfork through her chest, and its very disturbing. Id say its a passable film , only if you like this kind of low budget, low key , no frills stuff !

Although not the most original concept in horror movie history ( girls dreams start to turn into reality), this is quite a decent and atmospheric movie, well acted and scripted, and it features some unusual and gruesome deaths (in the uncut version anyway). An unusually classy music score (played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra no less) gets things off to a moody start, and the tension slowly mounts as four holiday-makers travel to a deserted island for a weekend vacation which turns into a nightmare, when the bad dreams suffered by one of the group start to come true. Only disappointment I found was the let down ending, when the "monster" finally appears it looks dead phony. Apart from that, this is worth a look.

Very few of the original 'video-nasties' were actually good. This one was definitely not one of the good ones. My biggest disappointment came when I realised that the monster that is shown on the DVD menu only properly shows up in the last minute of the film. So DVD menus have ruined another film for me. Trailers ruin films too sometimes. Like Spiders (2000) told me the ending in the trailer. I hate that. Anyway if you manage to not see the monster before you watch the film then this may be a little better for you. The story bumbles along telling us of nightmares, isolation and killing. It was actually quite gory even though there were only five people to kill off. What also surprised me was that there was actually a bit of atmosphere - just not enough. It was a film of not enough; they just needed more of everything to make it average.