Cast: Lior Ashkenazi, Danny Geva, Ania Bukstein, Menashe Noy, Ran Danker, Henry David
Characters: Danny, Yuval, Adi, Menashe, Mikey, Ofer,
Far too much pointless dialogue and attempts at character/ verbal humour.
- The thrills are momentary, and the long periods in between are mundane and void of any suspense or drama. A great horror film is a composition: an overture of heart-stopping intensity, eerie stillness, and nervous energy. This is just a poor slasher movie with cheap thrills and no story holding it together.
It is contrived and stupid: a policeman would never act in such a way (if he were to do something so self-destructive he would have to be strung-out on a ledge, not a charming sleaze-ball, who would be much more intelligent in his abuse); and friends would never suddenly go from teasing friendship to bludgeoning one another to death.
It is a funny premise: the psycho that set everything in motion is knocked out for almost the entire duration of the film, and the various victims who could have made it out alive end up killing each other due to the heightened tension and stress, the mines, bear traps, guns, sledge-hammers, etc.
It is not a good film by any stretch of the imagination, but it may be a breathe of fresh air for a generation of Israeli’s who need some respite from the guilt-ridden war films of recent years.
Other than the language, there is nothing at all to suggest our location. Good horror films are a consequence of their surroundings (the deep south, grimy urban locals, the suburbs, the Balkans, etc) but this is just some generic woodland setting.
It seems as though the director is perhaps poking fun at the idea of teen slasher films. But he is deluded if he feels he is in a position to do so. The film is in fact far less imaginative and impressive than many of the films he derides.
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