Laid To Rest - DVD (2009)

Director: Robert Hall
Starring: Bobbi Sue Luther & Nick Principe
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1228933/

 This was a fucking terrible movie. I saw it at the local video store and spent money to rent it....Bad Idea. I can honestly say that Uwe Boll has a partner in crime now. Mr. Hall has totally bored me into a coma with a lack of plot, back story, acting, shooting style, everything involved is just so goddamn awful. It should be said that if you as the viewer, want to waste the money to rent this....then by all means waste your money...

 The only thing i can say about the movie is a brief story about it. Woman wakes up in a coffin, is being stalked by a killer named Chromeskull who, armed with a camera on shoulder kills people and tapes the deaths.

 The killer, is the typical silent and indestructible type. He's masked, of course, though his chrome skull is fairly memorable, especially in scenes when his victims' faces are reflected in the forehead area. He also likes to perch a camcorder on his right shoulder to record his mayhem, and his collection of videos is fairly extensive. All in all, ChromeSkull is a well-conceived slasher and definitely creepy.

 Playing the role of the "Final Girl" is Bobbi Sue Luther, who also serves as one of the movie's producers. The Girl, as she's referred to in the credits even though other characters christen her Princess, is an amnesiac, having suffered an injury to her head, and the film's opening finds her trapped in a coffin at a mortuary. Managing to break free, she finds herself stalked by ChromeSkull, enlisting the help of several local guys to help save her, and of course, serve as fodder for ChromeSkull's weapon of choice, large serrated knives.

 And yes, ChromeSkull's kills, proportioned out fairly evenly through the movie's running time, are suitably bloody and vicious. Music is provided by the likes of Suicidal Tendencies and Deadbox, if that tells you anything about the tone of Laid to Rest. All in all, it's an aggressive movie. one of the many drawbacks is that the movie contrives a lot of convenient coincidences to keep the plot rolling. Neither person in the first two homes that The Girl goes to for help, for instance, have working telephones(!!). And, of course, the movie is set in the middle of nowhere and yet characters are driving around in vehicles that are nearly empty of gas. Et cetera. Et cetera.

 and thats just a taste.

overall review *1/2

- Mr. What?