A creepy gas station attendant tricks six campers into setting up their tents in a haunted woodland clearing that, decades earlier, was the site of a mass suicide.
The Attendant is a title that's been gathering dust on my DVD shelf for quite some time: directed by Corbin Timbrook (whose previous film was the unimpressive A Crack in the Floor), released on the crappy 'Hard Gore' label, and sporting a real cheap and nasty cover, it wasn't exactly screaming out 'watch me!'.
Needless to say, I was very surprised when, after spotting The Attendant listed by an IMDb'er on his Top 100 of gory movies and checking out the film here on IMDb, I discovered that it had a current rating of 7.6/10. Encouraged further by the fact that one of the existing two comments reckoned it delivered 'lots of guts and gore' (and ignoring the fact that the other comment called the film 'wretched junk'), I decided to finally bust this one out of its cellophane and give it a go.
And having just finished the film, I can honestly say that describing The Attendant as 'wretched junk' is being far too kind: it's shot on video and looks bloody terrible; the first hour consists primarily of very dull (and probably improvised) conversation between the six campers; the supernatural aspects are poorly developed and make little sense; and the gory scenes.... well, they are hardly what you would describe as plentiful—a man swallows a hatchet handle-first, coughing up blood in the process, and a girl cuts her throat—and the 'effects' utilised are notable only for their sheer ineptitude.
About the only thing that the film really has going for it is the quality totty: the three women are all very easy on the eye, and the two lovely brunettes, played by Onika Fiori and Tennison Hightower, both happily get their jugs out, which helps to alleviate the boredom slightly. Two pairs of tits and a few really weak death scenes, however, aren't worth the energy I expended removing the wrapper.
