Going to a beach-front getaway, a group of friends hoping to have a fun time together slowly realize their dwindling numbers are the result of a cannibalistic murderer running loose and try to stop his rampage before it's too late.
This here was quite the fun if prototypical German splatter effort. As is par for the course with those kinds of films, this one tends to get the majority of it's positives from the continuous and over-the-top splatter effects for the utterly graphic kills, and even though the low-budget shines through from time-to-time the film gets by more on the cleverness and quantity of the effects. From the marvelous opening, where one victim is repeated hacked up with an axe before being viciously scalped, to a savage double-murder in the woods where one is disemboweled and gutted while the other is removed of his esophageal tract, and the later scene where one is impaled with a wooden pole, there's plenty of rather gruesome and nauseatingly graphic kills here that give this plenty of crudely-styled spectacle that goes quite nicely into the film's rather enjoyable and explosive pace. The here here is so fact and frantic that there's little stopping it from unleashing a multitude of fine gore effects from the next one as these scenes manage to set-up the absolutely amazing finale that one-ups the original in excessive gore combined with the big action that comes along throughout here as this has a fine series of scenes that build up really well. There's some excessively fun action scenes in here that make-up the blistering pace here with several great escape chases through the abandoned town and out into the surrounding woods where they get into close encounters here, even managing several scenes here that outdo the original as the pregnant friend slaughter, the great brawl with the killer as the remaining friends engage in a long showdown and the wraparound here in the caves gives this a great sense of fun. Along with some rather fine Gothic-flavored suspense scenes, these hold this one up over it's few minor flaws. The main problem here is the same prototypical problem the other German splatter efforts feature as the ludicrously low-budget effects here give themselves away on nearly every occasion as the use of plastic mannequin heads for the bodily dismemberment rarely matches up with the performer in terms of facial features while the rough edges and plastered skin look ridiculously fake before the fake blood and intestines get featured. Though it tends to run a bit too close to the original in terms of going shot-for-shot too many times for it's own good, it's all the flaws found here.
Rated Unrated/NC-17: Extreme Graphic Violence, Nudity, Graphic Language, strong sex scenes, mild drug use, extreme violence against children and graphic violence against pregnant women.
