Savage Weekend

It's hard to call Savage Weekend a true slasher, because it was made before the big slasher glut of the early 80's, so it plays by its own bizarre rules and takes a left when you expect it to take a right. This can work at times, but its pacing is too snail-like and its characterizations are too one dimensional to stand out from the pack and make a name for itself.

There's a decently well developed and likable gay male character which is still rare these days, so Savage Weekend gets props for that, but things don't really heat up until the last 20 minutes and, by that point, the audience has been mostly bored to tears by almost inaudible dialogue about marriage, love, and sex. There's a germ of a great idea here. A mature, adult filled slasher film dealing with real adult problems sounds great on paper, but the writing never rises to the occasion.

There's an entertaining (and random) scene with a female character dressing up and doing a striptease for the gay male character that comes out of nowhere and is at least good for a few laughs and jolts us back to life in time for the finale.