Six spring breakers spend the night in a funhouse where murders took place years earlier. The psycho killer returns to his old haunt for fresh victims including "The Sopranos" star Jamie-Lynn Sigler and "The Sandlot"s Patrick Renna.This is perhaps the most disappointing After Dark Horrorfest I entry. Actually, that's being too nice. It is the most angering. Why, you ask? Because this movie has some of the best and creepy cinematography and set designs I have seen in a long time, and they are absolutely WASTED on a terrible, terrible script.. The killer, with his little porcelain boy mask, is truly frightening, and the tension builds while he is on the prowl - you never know when he is going to pop up.
Unfortunately, it is too hard to separate these very positive aspects, along with an excellent opening sequence, from the general rubbish of the rest of the film. Of the approximate 90 minute run time, maybe 35 minutes (and that's being generous) have anything going on - the rest is just a bunch of mostly unlikable and unengaging coeds flapping their gums. A hitchhiker they pick up goes on a three minute tyraid about music. Later, they spend about ten minutes revealing the exposition about the killer. It is a standard horror film convention for the characters to do the obviously wrong thing, but this film deals that out in spades. So much so, that there's far more frustration than joy in watching this film.
Starring: Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Patrick Renna, and Jennifer Tisdale (Ashley's sister)
Directed By: Craig Singer
Budget / Gross: (info not available)
IMDB Score: 4.7/10
Tomatometer: 0% critics and 36% audiences liked it
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