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There are not too many films I want to watch one time these days. This film, I have sat thru three times. This film is genius, creative, funny and goes so far to try and get me to flinch and be offended, while not losing it's own identity in the process. " Bunny, The Killer Thing" and "Night of Something Strange", horror will never be the same again. 2016 is the year when sanity goes out the window and in its place is this world where there are no rules in film anymore. When we get to see, how creative people truly are. Do not miss this film. Just do not eat before watching this film, or during, or after. This film has some scenes that are just plain absurd. This absurdity would be awesome with a group of friends in a theater. I love a director who is daring to jump in the deep end and attack the taboos this society take so seriously. There is a scene that is worth the price of admission. It involves a young male who thinks he is about to engage in anal sex with his passed out girlfriend. That one scene, I would love to see how it would play out in front of an audience of horror fans. : Bunny, The Killer Thing" and " Night of Something Strange" have brought the " Porky's" mentality to horror, and it so welcomed. This film is vulgar, disgusting, offensive, harsh, cruel and from start to finish absurdly dark humor. I feel this is the film that critics will feel they need to dislike, for the simple reason they forgot how to have fun with film. Film is not meant to be taken serious. It is meant to escape, to sit back and just enjoy. In the era of " everyone's a critic", people are so hard on films and they lose the true meaning of why film exists

2015 was not the best year for horror films. Hollywood gave us so much crap, and they added to the brain numbing with remakes, sequels, prequels and family friendly trash. Leave it to After Dark and the small little films that always seem to come out of left field and deliver something that gets us excited and talking. Bastard is a film that will win over most horror fans almost instantly. Rebekah Kennedy gives us the May for the 2015 age. She really showcases some serious talent. This film is bloody, fun and unpredictable. Films are meant to be fun and manipulate fear in you, this film is something really special that works on every level. This is what horror has been needing for so long. What a great film. Seek it out and enjoy it.

Review-American Backwoods has the honor of being the first film I have ever witnessed that made me feel like I was using drugs when I was not. One thing for sure, director Floor Reed is a much messed up individual but my god is he very creative and genius. This film has some of the most insane dialogue I have heard in a horror film; let me rephrase that, in any film this year. There is a scene in the film when the radio is playing a "sexy song", and that song is so absurd that you feel obligated to join in the catchy feel of it. You would never guess from the opening sequence this is a low budget film. Mixing a genre like horror with comical elements is always a hard pill for most horror fans to swallow. The results and reactions are usually mixed at best. I feel this film that film in the early stages had a direction, but as the film was filming that direction went out the window in favor of making the viewer guess where the film is heading.

This film revolves around the simplest premise, the premise of four college students making their way to a strip club. We learn as this film starts going, that the group has a past together. Bro it seems was injured one time when they were on snowmobiles. There is really not much in terms of substance and character development when we see the college guys interact, but this is horror and we sort of expect it. The film finds itself when it comes to both the horror element and also the humor element. What shocked me the most was as bloody and disgusting this film gets, you always feel like they are winking at you. Well our college boys find a bunch of redneck hillbilly types who seem to enjoy hunting for human beings. Well, they also practice the lost arts of raping and killing as well. As we think the hillbillies and being raped could be our worst hope in this side of the world, there is something out there as well that seems to be a bigger threat.

The one word that stuck out to me the most in this film was "unique". This film really does not mind taking gambles and hoping people can follow. This film is not afraid to test boundaries. This film gives you plenty of sick and disturbing moments that fans watch a film like this for. The pacing in this film was a small issue I had, it seemed that as the hour mark hit, the film lost some of its humor flare and felt a little too similar to other films like a Chainsaw Massacre or a Wrong Turn. I really liked the last ten minutes of this film, and felt that it made a good statement about what we just witnessed. This film to me was a great welcome to a director I feel has his head in the right place, and his heart firmly in this genre. This is a horror film that can only be pulled off by a true fan of the genre. While this film is far from perfect, it does deliver in good doses what we watch these little films for. With any justice, this film will get some good word of mouth from both buyers and critics. Slew Hampshire is a odd place but boy was it fun to visit.