Colleen (Claudia Lee) is a check out girl in the small town of Spearfish, S.D. (actual place filmed on location). She finds photos of what appear to be dead girls with the face mutilated beyond recognition. The cops can't find a crime or anything illegal. She is on her own. We know she has a boyfriend Ben (Toby Hemingway) she has been blowing off. Peter Hemmings (Kal Penn) is an obnoxious photographer from the same town. He reads Colleen's blogs about the photos and opts to take his crew of models to Spearfish to shoot them in death poses. Rose (Miranda Rae Mayo) is one of the models and the current girlfriend of Peter and they carry on a love-hate relationship filled with barbs.
We see the killers, first with masks and then without. Their characters were never developed. The theme is stated early on "There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit". - William S. Burroughs
Peter builds upon that theme and claims, "We covet what we see everyday" i.e. the cashier in a way is a local celebrity, seen and admired by many.
The film also used some decent "B" stars, one of which I really liked and they wax her in the first scene. Kal Penn carried much of the film with his lines and eccentric nonsense. And while this was a "slasher" film in that people are horrifically killed, it didn't feel like a slasher as the photography displaced much of it. The film is more developed than most horrors, but (plot spoiler?) there is no clever twist.
Guide: F-word, sex, nudity (Autumn Kendrick) throats cut, blood squirts.
We see the killers, first with masks and then without. Their characters were never developed. The theme is stated early on "There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit". - William S. Burroughs
Peter builds upon that theme and claims, "We covet what we see everyday" i.e. the cashier in a way is a local celebrity, seen and admired by many.
The film also used some decent "B" stars, one of which I really liked and they wax her in the first scene. Kal Penn carried much of the film with his lines and eccentric nonsense. And while this was a "slasher" film in that people are horrifically killed, it didn't feel like a slasher as the photography displaced much of it. The film is more developed than most horrors, but (plot spoiler?) there is no clever twist.
Guide: F-word, sex, nudity (Autumn Kendrick) throats cut, blood squirts.