Director: Nick Sanford
Starring: Chris Bloomstadt, Cortney Hunter, Nicholas Toscani and Alora Walters.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1395221/
The story involves a group of teens going up to a cabin in Sulphur for the weekend. The way it starts you feel you're in for the basic un-imaginative teen slasher plot, then... unexpectedly in the night, it takes a twist for something a little different. Russia starts dropping newly developed chem-bombs on all the major U.S. cities. Should they stay out in the boonies? Go out for help and find a community center with other survivors? A militant survival nut breaks in and attacks the group helping them make their decision. They hit the road looking for shelter while witnessing the devastation from the fallout along the way.
Now, everyone knows I have a huge hard-on for low/no-budget horror/sci-fi films, especially ones filmed and based in Oklahoma. So it's already hard not to give this a good rating, but it really is deserving compared to some of the crap I've seen recently. Well filmed in digital, it actually looks like a real movie, unlike a lot of the films I've watched as of late. The quality of this is scores above the rest I've seen from the area. It has a descent script and more-or-less some decent acting. Enough back-story to make you give a shit for the characters, but not so much to bore me to sleep. I'll be honest... I'm really digging the story line. From time to time I wanted to smash a beer bottle over the face of actor Bloomstadt, but after a while it grows on you. A little bit of quicker editing in the beginning conversations would have been nice, but in spite of it's limitations this has become one of my favorite Okla. films to date!
Verdict: * * * *
- Al B. Damned
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