Rating: R
Genre:
Horror
Release Date: 02/13/2001
Dubbed: English
Sound: 1
Run Time: 88 min
Distributor/Studio: Anchor Bay
Set at the North Sea Cottages, a wooded retreat for gifted children, the film begins with the campfire retelling of the legend of
Madman Marz (
Paul Ehlers), a mean, drunken farmer who went nuts one night and hacked up his entire family with an ax.
Marz was lynched by ten locals and hung from a tree to die, but when they came back for the body in the morning, he had vanished. Now, the story has it, he roams the woods and will come and kill anyone who says his name above a whisper. Of course, a moronic teenaged counselor screams his name, and on the final night before Thanksgiving break, the crazed madman starts hanging and hacking the horny counselors one by one. This all might sound like it has potential to be a rousing gorefest along the lines of
Friday the 13th or
The Burning (both of which it slavishly imitates), but that would ignore the wretched songs, tedious pacing, bad acting, and ludicrous makeup. Leading man
Tony Fish was never heard from again, and co-stars here with
Harriet Bass,
Seth Jones, and
Jan Claire.
~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
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