Karpenter

It is Halloween and the small town of Hamilton is being terrorised by an escaped, axe wielding maniac (masked and wearing an orange boiler suite). Amazingly he is able to wonder around the streets quite openly. Mind you the "comedy" cops are about as much use an astray on a motorbike! Karpenter is obviously inspired and an homage to the likes of Halloween, etc, but as slasher movies go this is really bottom of the barrel stuff. It is very low budget, many of the actors (for want of a better word!) play several roles and the killings, whilst brutal, are done mainly off screen, with a bucket of blood thrown against the wall for effect. The music is really annoying, as is the unsteady camerawork and pathetic attempts at humour (in particular a young woman farting whist sat on the loo). Zero marks for originality. Thankfully the movie clocks in at an hour, the last 10 minutes being credits and bloopers.