That's a Wrap

No pun intended - there are quite a few people that you may be able to recognize in the movie. Some only in it for a few seconds. There is also a Psycho homage and I'm quite sure a lot more, if I cared enough to pay attention - same goes for you of course.

That said, the movie is not making any secret what it is about. This is a slasher, the director does not care about your feelings or if you want quality - well you got the wrong movie, if that is the case. This is delightful when taken for the low budget slasher fest that it is ... that said: you really have to dig it and you really have to suspend your disbelief. It doesn't even matter what the reveal is ... I already forgot. But the blood fest is ... immense! Which also means you can't be easily offended ... but that's a given with Walz movies I reckon ...

If you're a fan of well written, well-acted, and well directed slasher horror films, check out "That's a Wrap." It's a fun film with creative kills and a terrific story about the cast of a slasher horror film stalked by a slasher at a wrap party. Marcel Walz did a wonderful job directing, and Joe Knetter and Robert L. Lucas wrote a phenomenal screenplay with great characters and plenty of gory scares! The cast, led by Sarah French, Cerina Vincent, Monique Parent, and Robert Donavan, is amazing. It's these types of creepy and awesome horror films that make me a horror fan for life! Highly recommended!

This production right here looks a little cheap to be honest, thus I do not believe it had much of a budget. Considering the kill shots, it definitely tried to rely more on creativity, but sadly they went with the shaky camera.

Now it does look like That's a Wrap decided to make fun of the slasher genre, forgetting that Scream made an entire franchise that is still going strong even today, with this exact theme. So if you don't have the budget, if you are not coming off as original, why choose this path?

Anyway, Scream was fun, complex and unpredictable. This one has close to no plot, you can describe it in one sentence, but that would mean spoiling it.

Anyway it's just about a killer with a mask, killing people, while sometimes remembering that it wants to spoof the genre.

All in all, bad dialogue, bad characters, weak acting, no development of whatsover, just scene after scene with a new weak kill.

I won't recommend it sadly, it fails as a horror comedy or plain slasher.

Cheers!

Starts off OK with some interesting directing and a hot voluptuous older woman.

But within a few minutes the movie crumbles into a silly disarray of stupidity.

Makes sense with all the ridiculous reviews comparing this in a lemming way to Argento. I've personally never liked Argento (I know a lot of people claim to like him) but this movie is nothing like his films.

At least those have style and substance.

Nothing makes sense in this movie. Beginning with the security guard who points his flashlight at the woman but it's not even on.

The music track sucks too.

It's just quite a badly made movie with third rate actors and gimmicky directing that will bore you to death.

Finally, Marcel Walz makes a decent movie. Is is perfect? God no, but it's better than anything he's done before. The director of the absolutely horrid remake of Blood Feast had made several really lousy direct to video then streaming films and this had the look of yet another. Surprisingly, this turned out to be decent. The acting - for a change is actually alright. No one's winning an award, but nobody really stunk it up either. The script is acceptable, not brilliant but alright. Then there's the direction. Let's be honest, til now Marcel Walz has been Uwe Boll with a breast fetish, but he reigned it in just enough for this to be a watchable and fairly entertaining movie.