User reviews

My friend Daniel Rodas let me watch this film recently (He played the 'Man in Car').

And I was very impressed. The film had me engaged from beginning to end, which is not easy to do in a span of only 18 minutes.

The acting was strong, the make up was gruesomely realistic, the deaths were highly creative, and the 'Clown' was very creepy.

The story is very simple and traditional. A young woman's car runs out of gas, on Halloween night. She stops by a deserted gas station. Witnesses a brutal murder and then what follows is a horrific night of survival as the Killer (dressed in a hideous Clown costume) hunts her down to finish her off. Slaughtering anyone and everyone who gets in his way.

The attention to detail for classic B Exploitation was wonderful and quite refreshing. Everything from the grainy camera quality to the credit font to the closing shot. You see Damien Leone's passion for horror in this film quite intensely.

This film is far better than 70 percent of those stupid 'Safe' horror movies Hollywood is spitting out these days. Nice to see that Exploitation is still very much alive.

I recommend this short film to anyone who LOVES horror. And if you love Exploitation horror... then this film is DEFINITELY for you.

Bravo.

I had already seen Terrifier, which was an hour and a half long, so I tried this short film, which was made a few years earlier. I was very satisfied. Since it's only 20 minutes or so, there wasn't room for any story, so Terrifier from 2011 didn't have to worry about that and went straight into it and then showed us some brutal scenes, which is what he did best here and in the 2016 version anyway. So was this short film better than the long version? I honestly don't think so. They both offered us brutal scenes full of blood, only here it was over in a moment, while in the full film we had plenty of time, only that time could have been filled with a little deeper plot, and by that I mean why the clown is doing what he's doing. How it came to be what it is and just some originality would have been nice. Maybe that's the goal of the script and they don't want to reveal too much about the character and leave questions unanswered and maybe nobody cares either. I'm just saying what I found lacking in the longer film, whereas here it wasn't a problem and that's why I'll give the 2011 version a better rating. For me, a good horror short that I recommend to horror fans.