In the horror/thriller genre, where the traditional bad guy' wears a ski mask, Shredder is maybe the first movie that dons it appropriate. Shredder takes place at the Rocky Summit ski resort that has been closed for many months due to murders that were never solved. That doesn't seem to scare away a group of young twenty somethings that break into the abandoned lodge in hopes of hitting the slopes and shredding' (that seems to be a term for snowboarding) the week-end away.
I read the comments on imdb.com and that was the reason why I rented this debacle. No one claimed it to be Casablanca, but no one seemed to pan it incredibly either. Till now.
Beware, what I am about to write contains spoilers, but then again, these are spoilers for any horror film rushed to video store shelves with colorful packaging. Shredder contains good looking, oversexed youngens, a secluded setting, a corrupt cop, a mysterious stranger, and ..Oh no!.. a hidden basement where the killer stores all his bodies! Didn't see those coming.
So here we are, atop a mountain, away from civilization, I wonder what is going to happen? You guessed it, one by one, the visitors in various stages of undress are killed via all the violent tools available to a killer at a ski resort. These high tech weapons include an ice pick, a fire poker, a scarf, an icicle and my favorite, a slow-moving snow thrasher. Didn't see those coming.
Shredder is a bad film. There is just no way to ski around it. It may not be the worst horror film that I have ever seen, but its not many rungs above it either. All the characters are clichés and writer-director Greg Huson doesn't bring any new ideas to the table.
Maybe the biggest failure of Shredder is in the portrayal of its most essential character, the killer. Masked to keep us guessing as to their sex, this slope-riding maniac is not interesting at all. Too vulnerable, actually. They leave their bodies lying about, they can't make a snowman without body parts exposed, and this wimp even gets thrown off a ski lift chair from the same women that gets her scarf caught in the gears and accidentally hangs herself. Didn't see that coming.
It's too easy to say that a shredder is where this film belongs, but hell, if they are not going to give us anything new to watch, then why should I take the time to think about something new to write.
I read the comments on imdb.com and that was the reason why I rented this debacle. No one claimed it to be Casablanca, but no one seemed to pan it incredibly either. Till now.
Beware, what I am about to write contains spoilers, but then again, these are spoilers for any horror film rushed to video store shelves with colorful packaging. Shredder contains good looking, oversexed youngens, a secluded setting, a corrupt cop, a mysterious stranger, and ..Oh no!.. a hidden basement where the killer stores all his bodies! Didn't see those coming.
So here we are, atop a mountain, away from civilization, I wonder what is going to happen? You guessed it, one by one, the visitors in various stages of undress are killed via all the violent tools available to a killer at a ski resort. These high tech weapons include an ice pick, a fire poker, a scarf, an icicle and my favorite, a slow-moving snow thrasher. Didn't see those coming.
Shredder is a bad film. There is just no way to ski around it. It may not be the worst horror film that I have ever seen, but its not many rungs above it either. All the characters are clichés and writer-director Greg Huson doesn't bring any new ideas to the table.
Maybe the biggest failure of Shredder is in the portrayal of its most essential character, the killer. Masked to keep us guessing as to their sex, this slope-riding maniac is not interesting at all. Too vulnerable, actually. They leave their bodies lying about, they can't make a snowman without body parts exposed, and this wimp even gets thrown off a ski lift chair from the same women that gets her scarf caught in the gears and accidentally hangs herself. Didn't see that coming.
It's too easy to say that a shredder is where this film belongs, but hell, if they are not going to give us anything new to watch, then why should I take the time to think about something new to write.