culwin

Well it's better than the third one, but that's not saying much. You can tell from the start that at least this isn't going to be stupid convoluted nonsense (like Scream 3 was) but it really starts to drag in the middle. All the tropes are there, and at least there's a bit of a coherent plot. Unfortunately, it's just not very interesting. One of the rules of a good slasher movie is to have the right blend of scares, seriousness, and funny moments. But this isn't very scary and even the laughs are few. I guess I could recommend this if you've seen the other movies and you have nothing better to do.

There are some cool fight scenes as you might expect, even a couple moments with crazy magic powers, but unfortunately not really enough. In between, there's lots of talking and traveling around and whatnot. Sure, you need some of that to establish the plot, but it's too much and just not that interesting. There are times when there's nothing on camera but a bunch of trees. Even some of the "fights" are pretty boring - having some random group of fighters defeating some other random group of fighters in the bushes isn't that exciting. The choice of music for the score is also pretty odd sometimes - 70's easy listening instrumentals? Overall, it's alright, but cutting around 20 minutes out of this would have been an improvement.

Well it's not good, but it's not THAT bad. It's really not interesting enough to be either good or bad. Doc from Back to the Future goes around killing people with railroad spikes. Why spikes? No real reason. But all the kills are identical - get spiked! There's a ghost sometimes, that doesn't do much of anything. And that's about all. Some of the usual slasher tropes are here - hot chicks, guys being dbags, an invincible slasher who pops out from around corners. Cops who are stupid/incompetent. But there's just nothing more than that - no twists or surprises, really. Also, the ending sucks. But at least it's only 90 min.