A young serial killer preys on families during lightning storms.
Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Eric Peter-Kaiser | ... | Jack Riley | |
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Sam Skoryna | ... | Chris Watts |
Michele Morrow | ... | Karen Cook | |
Lynn Lowry | ... | Mrs. Riley | |
Joel Brooks | ... | Officer Geoff Wytynek | |
Noel Gugliemi | ... | Detective Gene Anderson (as Noel G) | |
Billy Morrison | ... | Detective Michael Beck | |
Tiffany Shepis | ... | Officer Lucille Armando | |
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M. Steven Felty | ... | Chief Raymond Pignataro |
Nathan Bexton | ... | The Manager | |
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Kyle Sanders | ... | Young Jack Riley |
Nick Nicotera | ... | Ted The Delivery Man (as Nic Nac) | |
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Kyle Loethen | ... | Rick |
Mark Elias | ... | Ryan | |
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Joel Weiss | ... | Dr. Dina |
A young serial killer preys on families during lightning storms.
BASEMENT JACK is another cheap slasher movie, an independent straight-to-DVD effort that looks and feels exactly the same as at least a dozen others. It has the old greyed-out colour palette look going on, alongside a non-threatening villain, lots of cheap gore effects, and a strictly pedestrian narrative.
The titular character is a psychotic who choses bad weather as a time to go around menacing innocent families. There are a lot of scenes shot in rooms filled with blood sprayed over the walls and the like, but the emphasis is on graphic kill sequences as Jack goes around slaughtering all in his path.
He's an irredeemable villain, but the kills have zero impact because there's no characterisation here whatsoever. There is some talk in an attempt to build a proper story, but none of it is very interesting. The best cast member they could come up with is Tiffany Shepis, who started out as a Troma starlet. I found BASEMENT JACK tired and distasteful, and I couldn't help wondering why I was bothering to watch it.