Short Cut Road

Rating:
Summary: New cult favorite!
Review: Lets go guys....come with me down "my road" of awesome tales about a story of lifelong friends that embark on a funfilled roadtrip....but like a date with your Aunt Edna's bingo partner....it suddenly turns into the weekend from hell!!!
This great story brings out the best of what cult horror classics of the past, used to convey....but somewhere got lost with todays generation of moviemakers, who decided to take their own "short cut" to selling out!
I wont give away the story...or the surprises, but invite your lights over, turn down the beer and crack open the girls and watch and listen carefully,.... hear that? ....."ch-ch-ch-ch-----ah-ah-ah-ah"... that my friend......is the joyfully frightening sound of a winner!!
Cant wait for the sequel!!

Rating:
Summary: New cult favorite!
Review: Lets go guys....come with me down "my road" of awesome tales about a story of lifelong friends that embark on a funfilled roadtrip....but like a date with your Aunt Edna's bingo partner....it suddenly turns into the weekend from hell!!!
This great story brings out the best of what cult horror classics of the past, used to convey....but somewhere got lost with todays generation of moviemakers, who decided to take their own "short cut" to selling out!
I wont give away the story...or the surprises, but invite your lights over, turn down the beer and crack open the girls and watch and listen carefully,.... hear that? ....."ch-ch-ch-ch-----ah-ah-ah-ah"... that my friend......is the joyfully frightening sound of a winner!!
Cant wait for the sequel!!

Rating:
Summary: Kinda boring
Review: Not much to brag about 'cos everything was telegraphed by amateur storytelling. Just a lacksidaisical slasher flick made on a home movie budget. Some of the girls are pretty enough. The actors seem to hit their marks and speak their lines; there's no real emotional interest coming from the screen and there won't be any coming from the audience either. Passable way to waste a rainy afternoon. I got it as soon as it came out because it was from 1-Shot and they usually do better than this.

Rating:
Summary: Holy crap!
Review: The words do not exist to describe the awfulness of this drek. I borrowed a copy from my friend, who told me it was a horrific movie, and he didn't disappoint. This is one of those great party movies where you all gather 'round and hurl insults at the DVD and have a grand old time. So, I guess that's one redeeming factor. Acting is amateurish, staging is puerile, and direction is non-existent. Do yourself a favor and buy a CITIZEN KANE -- to send to the filmmakers.

Rating:
Summary: Passable little slasher flick
Review: What SHORT CUT ROAD lacks in tension or mood, it kind of makes up for in effort. A lot of care was obviously put into the making of the film and it looks a lot better than most bottom-dollar video productions with a larger than usual cast and passable if not spectacular gore effects. The main problems are the uninspired story and the plod-through-quicksand pace. How many times do we need to see the hackneyed lustful teenagers hacked to death routine? To make this worse, there are no hints whatsoever as to why the rote murders are happening. It all comes out in the end when someone tells you why it happened. This robs the viewer of the fun of playing along with the filmmaker. The director could have moved things along at a more entertaining pace. He seems to follow the questionable factoid that "slow" equals "terror." It doesn't. And there's no payoff. At the end a cop recoils in offscreen horror at the scene we've already seen and that's supposed to be the climax. If the audience has already seen the bloodbath, how is it supposed to be a rousing climax to just have someone else come along and see it? Someday somebody might call SHORT CUT ROAD a little gem because of its small budget and avoidance of sex and nudity. Someday. Not now.

Rating:
Summary: Passable little slasher flick
Review: What SHORT CUT ROAD lacks in tension or mood, it kind of makes up for in effort. A lot of care was obviously put into the making of the film and it looks a lot better than most bottom-dollar video productions with a larger than usual cast and passable if not spectacular gore effects. The main problems are the uninspired story and the plod-through-quicksand pace. How many times do we need to see the hackneyed lustful teenagers hacked to death routine? To make this worse, there are no hints whatsoever as to why the rote murders are happening. It all comes out in the end when someone tells you why it happened. This robs the viewer of the fun of playing along with the filmmaker. The director could have moved things along at a more entertaining pace. He seems to follow the questionable factoid that "slow" equals "terror." It doesn't. And there's no payoff. At the end a cop recoils in offscreen horror at the scene we've already seen and that's supposed to be the climax. If the audience has already seen the bloodbath, how is it supposed to be a rousing climax to just have someone else come along and see it? Someday somebody might call SHORT CUT ROAD a little gem because of its small budget and avoidance of sex and nudity. Someday. Not now.