Well, the 2020 movie titled "Axeman at Cutters Creek" (aka "Axeman: Redux") is just another run-of-the-mill slasher movie. And not an overly good one at that, sadly so.
It felt like writer and director Joston Theney had been watching a bit too many 1980s slasher movies, as this is what "Axeman at Cutters Creek", except it just didn't manage to prove not even half as entertaining as the slasher movies were back in the day, with the likes of "Friday the 13th", "Nightmare on Elm Street", "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "Halloween", etc.
Sure, there were a lot of similarities between "Axeman at Cutters Creek" and most of the 1980s slasher movies, but it just didn't have the same appeal. And for me it was because the killer in this 2020 movie just wasn't iconic, nor were he even remotely scary.
The storyline in "Axeman at Cutters Creek" was predictable and generic, of course it was. So you just essentially lean back and watch the movie, waiting for the killing to start. And what it did start it was sort of anti-climatic for the most parts, as most of the killings were just mundane and had no particular style or grace to it - if there is such a thing. Yeah, I know, I grew up on horror movies, so I might have been environmentally seasoned or damaged!
The acting in the movie was adequate, if you take into consideration the limits of a mundane storyline and script, and having rather bland characters to work with.
There just simply weren't enough mayhem and killing in this movie to make it interesting, and writer and director Joston Theney was paying a bit too much attention to showing off girl on girl intimacy scenes.
If you enjoy slasher movies, then Joston Theney failed to provide an overly entertaining movie here. My rating of "Axeman at Cutters Creek" lands on a mere three out of ten stars.
