Rupintojelis

I liked this movie, despite it being subtitled and some of the meaning undoubtedly lost in translation.

Its a youthful horror tale, with diverse characters and a decent backstory.

The majority of it is filmed at night on a small farm with a few cabins and a barn.

The story involves a high school group celebrating graduation and the interpersonal dynamics of the friends. This is the subtext of the slasher plot-- the interpersonal relationships determine who survives.

That is what we conclude at the end of the film. Its a striking ending and this separates it from other teen slasher movies.

I gave it a solid 5 stars.

Well no pun intended - this is about a figure/statue ... and we as viewers know that it would be bad to mess about and with those. Well the teenagers seem oblivious ... and they have to be ... how else would we have a movie to watch right? It does take a while to get us there though. But we do get to know the characters that we might or might not care about.

Some good gore and blood effects for sure ... and an ending that I did not see coming ... at least not like that. Maybe it is a bit too much .. far fetched and all that. But it does work and highlights character trait(s). Acting is ok as far as I can tell, though if you watch in original language like I do ... well most/many will have to rely on subtitles ... worked for me.

This may have lost a lot of the nuance in the dubbing, because what came across was not that great. It is graduation, and they will all be going their separate ways, but Marius manages to get a place where they can travel to have a party/rave. At the forest cottage, there are wooden statutes, but none have eyes. One suggested perhaps they are not meant to see. There is a lot of drinking and drugs, and four wind up in a sauna, where they get trapped and die from the heat. And because they used some of the statutes for firewood, that may be why. And along comes a masked slasher, with a hatchet, killing quite a few. Others run to their cars, and they set off the car alarm. More deaths. Marius escapes in a boat with two others, they quarrel and Marius is left in the boat with a classmate he shared a kiss with. He thought that might be the start of something wonderful, but she tells him he is probably still alive since he is so boring, even the killer won't kill him. And perhaps due to the drinking and drugs, others make the worst possible choices when faced with certain death. Nothing new in the slasher movie, and much to not care about.

Look, I'm a horror fan, and if you are going to watch this film, you certainly are, too. And I absolutely LOVED this film.

Sure, it's a story about partying teenagers who transgress in the woods and then get picked off by a masked stranger. That's not "lack of innovation", that's a SUBGENRE, which this film totally nails.

Yes, it's not until the halfway point that "the action" begins. But I consider that a pro not a con. I actually enjoyed getting to know the characters, who despite being high school archtypes, are more real and fleshed out than their counterparts in American films, whom often seem as though they are designed for us to detest them so that we don't feel as bad when they are killed.

And the movie makes up for the lost time in the second half.

I appreciate that the characters act in ways that seem appropriate to who they are, rather than just in ways that will further the plot. That was accomplished by giving us time to know who they were.

I also loved the fact that the killer didn't simply skulk about in the shadows picking victims off one by one; he was NOT afraid to mix it up! While he was certainly...effective, he was not superhuman.

If you don't like this film, you either don't like slashers or you are too jaded to appreciate them any longer.