The Bible Belt Slasher (2010 Video) User Reviews

The Bible Belt Slasher: Meh!

[Platypuschow · 4/10 · 28 August 2018]

As I expected this follows on from Midnight Card Massacre (2009) about as much as Halloween 3 (1982) followed on from the previous movies.

It tells the story of 5 kids who during an evening of partying in the late 1980's proceed to prank call people. Sadly they prank the wrong person, a religious fanatic who tracks them down and kills them off one by one.

This first of two movies (At time of writing) is more of a short than a feature and stands at just under 30 minutes. It doesn't have much in the way of a plot and is literally just the antagonist killing these kids off.

The creators do a decent enough job but it's lack of budget is blatant and damaging. If you're expecting anything contributed to the already waning slasher genre you'll be sorely dissapointed.

Not awful, but one for genre fans only.

The Good:

Antagonist isn't actually that bad

Passable concept

The Bad:

Blood looks awful

Cutaway deaths

Some oddly bad cinematography

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

Having Night of the Living Dead footage in a movie is getting really old

Corpses blink

I'M THE BOSS NOW

[nogodnomasters · 7/10 · 7 January 2019]

I apologize. I liked this "bad" film more than my peers.

This film is a cheaply made slasher. It is a "part 2" although I doubt if anyone had seen the 30 minute short, part one. In that feature, preacher Jason Fry (Larry Baumer) kills a bunch of kids making crank phone calls. In this feature it has moved from 1988 to December 1989. Fry is convicted of murder and goes to the Hillside Asylum which looks like it is in a strip mall with a sign taped to the window. Fry escapes by killing his doctor with a candy cane and then goes after the parents (and sister) of those pranksters that he killed.

The acting was bad and at times funny it was so bad. The film was supposed to be taking place in Wilkens, Tennessee, but was clearly filmed in the town of Linden, New Jersey. They went out of their way NOT to cover it up...New Jersey license plates, Linden jackets, and Nick's Family restaurant. Plus the fact no one had a southern accent. One scene takes place in a Yankees bar with a Mattingly "Hit Man" poster and a picture of Thurman Munson. The bar also had a Russian flag, later we see a German flag in a home. I am still trying to figure that out. Then there was the Burt Cummings joke. Of course how many people know Burt Cummings was part of "The Guess Who" and was a porn addict. So when the guy tries to rent porn and tells the lady to put it on Burt Cummings tab, and Burt will be angry if he doesn't get his porn...who got that reference? There were things within the film I am sure the naysayers missed, but which I appreciate.

Now the killer, a "victim of this evil society" was full of bad puns and bad humor, yet he spouted out lines in Freddy fashion, although nowhere near as good. While they ignored the fact we could see the plates, they did pay attention to the era and especially the electronics of that age, turning them and MTV into a joke, tossing in a Bollywwod song and dance in the middle of the feature, MTV fantasy style.

Fry's Bible is his "precious" as he rips out a page for each victim and places it on them.

The movie is not for everyone. For bad film lovers who look for dumb details and obscure references, this one has them.

Guide: F-words. No sex. Nudity on centerfold and poster...back when Playboy had nudes.