BobforTrish A video bought in a pound shop (about a dollar fifty) should always be judged along the lines of "you get what you pay for" and so it proved with Bachelor Party Massacre. The title, along with the tag line "Pray You Are Not Invited!" were fair indications of the slasher genre within. The pre-credit sequence continued in this vein with the first of many victims meeting a predictably gory end at the hands of 'The Killer'. The setting, standing in for the old haunted house, is a large recently vacated roadside drinking establishment with multiple bars, floors and, as befits such filmic scenery, plenty of dark corridors and mysterious rooms. Our heroes and heroines consist of four young men on a bachelor party, the two 'exotic dancers' they have hired and, in a later development, the partners of two of the men. Whilst the plot is perfunctorily familiar, tension is dissipated by the overuse of humorous dialogue. There is a very thin line between injecting moments of humour into a horror film in order to break the tension and actually turning the film into a parody of itself. This film comes dangerously close to crossing that line. Special effects, presumably constrained by budget, are quite acceptable whilst not being exceptional and credit must go to the editor for keeping the whole project down to a Hitchcockian hour and a half. The overall impression was of a flawed but certainly professional offering which punches slightly above its weight. The questioning of Bay Bruner's acting ability in other reviews may be fair although it would be difficult to come to such a conclusion based on one film . In her defence, I would say that the risible dialogue would probably have hindered her. There were certainly moments when the camera caught her in such a way as to make her by far the most interesting character.

Glen McCulla I went into this title with expectations suitably lowered: i mean, the title itself doesn't exactly lead one to expect the next "Citizen Kane" does it? But as an aficionado of low-rent z-grade slasher flicks i thought i'd give it a go.A group of pals rent their uncle's run-down looking bar in the middle of nowhere to celebrate the last night of freedom of their pal Addison (Michael Capes), who as the old song goes is getting married in the morning. The requisite booze and strippers have been laid on at this shindig, organised by Addison's brother Carl (Josh Breeding, who sadly harbours under the delusion that he is some kind of comedian, and believes himself hilarious). However, a psycho killer chick with a grudge against lapdancers is on the loose, having already slaughtered the pizza delivery guy and now wanting to get this party stopped.A wooden performance or two (Bay Bruner, the unnamed killer chick herself), some annoying characterisation from two of the guys (the aforementioned Breeding, and a typical frat boy joker) and possibly the most annoying character i have witnessed in a movie (Carl's loathsome girlfriend - who i wished dead from around 30 seconds after her first appearance) are balanced out by likable performances from Capes and Kate Huffman as his bride to be, and some quality stalk 'n' slash scenes: the "stiletto in the head" scene even managed to make me wince. But then, i've seen chicks really attempt that outside nightclubs.Recommended to anyone who loves low budget horror with a sense of humour, and because the two stripper chicks (Zoe Taylor, and gorgeous porn starlet Jamie Marie) are almost worth the price of admission alone.

BA_Harrison A group of guys travel to a deserted bar in the mountains where they plan to spend a night of alcohol-fuelled debauchery to celebrate the impending nuptials of pal Addison. Their evening of excess booze and sexy strippers is ruined, however, when an escaped female psycho-killer interrupts the fun and gets busy with a selection of sharp implements.Bachelor Party Massacre is a cheapie slasher that attempts to mix scares, laughs, and sexiness in equal measures: with its remote locale, a deranged escaped lunatic, a collection of horny idiots ripe for the slaughter, and a couple of tasty lap-dancers who'll do anything for money, it certainly has many of the elements necessary for an enjoyably brainless piece of trashy horror fun. Unfortunately, despite having most of the right ingredients and loads of enthusiasm from nearly all involved, the film fails to transcend its low-budget amateur origins: shoddy production values, the wafer thin plot, unconvincing performances (particularly from Bay Bruner as the killer) and a lack of decent gore all go to make this one a less than impressive addition to an already overcrowded sub-genre.The film works best when it's going for laughs or cheap titillation rather than scares, and the first half features plenty of fairly witty dialogue (the delivery isn't always great, but I appreciate the effort) and several steamy scenes featuring loads of bare female flesh (once again, much appreciated). Once the killing moves to the fore, however, Bachelor Party Massacre loses nearly all of its sense of fun, and turns into a dreary, routine, by-the-numbers body-count flick.

Boba_Fett1138 Seriously, Schumacker Halpern Overdrive? Now, that's not a name is it?OK, so the movie is not as horrible as you would perhaps expect and the movie definitely has its entertainment value but it's also a quite bad, standard, low budget, cheap looking, B-horror movie.The movie makes a couple of fatal mistakes. Such as the fact that the identity and motive of the killer are given away too fast. This of course completely ruins this movie its tension and mysterious elements. But obviously the film-makers aim was more towards its comedy and other less serious aspects. In a way the movie also does entertaining especially with its comedy and some of its characters but its simplicity and amateur like style of the movie prevent this from being a real good watchable one.Of course the movie is also very predictable. You just know who is going to die and when. It's one of those real typical genre movies, that recently seem to have become popular again. Even though the movie is only 85 minutes short, the movie still feels way too long and the movie becomes real tiresome to watch after a while, since it basically is constantly more of the same all the time, also since basically the entire movie is set at one locations, probably for budgeting reasons.Everybody seems to can make good gore these days but very little directors know how to handle- and make it work out effectively in a movie. Yes, this movie has some good looking gore but it just never knows to shock or gross you out, due to the overall amateur like style of film-making and just plain overall atmosphere of the movie.All of the actors in this movie never seem to have starred in anything else before but it needs to be said that for a genre movie such as this one. Too bad that Bay Bruner can't act though. too bad since she plays one of the most importantly crucial characters of the movie. It kind of ruins some of the movie its sequences and therefor also negatively effects the movie as a whole.Not exactly anything too recommendable.4/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/