Platypuschow Starring the seriously underused/underrated Lindsey McKeon this is a highly colour by numbers slasher with a couple of redeeming features.For a start the setting is great, set high up the mountains where all the snowboarders/skiers dwell. Next is the cast, better than you'd expected considering what type of film it is. And finally though they are deep into the film it does have some quite neat ideas! Blending the excellent Out Cold (2001) with one of a billion generic slashers pays off with bits of comedy thrown into break free of the predictable tedium of the genre.You won't even easily predict the identity of the killer, I was astounded when it turned out not to be Reverend Green in the kitchen with the rolling pin! Flabbergasted I tell you.Better than you'd might think but still instantly forgettable.

GL84 Checking out their family's ski lodge, a group of friends learns the local legend about the haunted lift on their slopes is true when a psychotic killer begins killing them off one-by-one for being on the mountain and must find a way to stop the killer and get away alive.This here wasn't all that bad of a slasher effort. The main thing here with this one is the fact that this one really manages to get enjoyable with how it actually builds the mysterious backstory of the area as there's a lot to like in this section. Not only is there a rather fine origin story here about the dead daughter and the wife's accident but there's also the fun here with the shifty background information found out here that goes quite well with how this imparts a change to the storyline here by really taking what could've been a simple ghost story into a solid slasher basis filled with some nice red herrings and a rather fun reveal that comes off rather nicely. Likewise, the variety of the kills in here are rather nice as there are some rather decent offerings here which are given a much better overall feel here with some nice bloody aftermath to give them a really great feel as it makes for a decent slasher effort. The only other enjoyable facet here is the action from the finale as this is where the film really has a lot of action to spread throughout here with the killer taking the group out one-by- one in some tense stalking up in the bedroom, going after the girlfriend down in the kitchen and finally out on the slopes where there's plenty of fun action encounters that force this into a really fun finish. These here hold this one up over the flaws present, which are pretty significant. The film's biggest issue is the rather clumsy manner in which the early scenes here don't really display any real sense of tension or attempt to terrify as there's a matter-of-fact air about how they're shot and filmed, draining the suspense from the scenes as there's very little scary or suspenseful antics about them other than the outcome and this really lowers the first half considerably. There's also the surprisingly tame way this deals with its exploitation elements here by barely managing any real nudity or sleaze despite an abundance of chances to get her naked as she showers in the beginning and strips down several other times yet always keeps it hidden which makes no sense. The other flaw to this is the overly lame rationale for the killers' motives against the group which is completely ludicrous and uninformed which just takes a lot of the impact out of their scenes. These here lower this one somewhat over the positives.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Nudity, sex scenes and drug use.

peterrydell This movie is about some friends who go away to a closed ski-resort and there, a mystery killer-skier is lurking around the slopes... a killer that maybe connects to something that happened in the past at this place!?.... watch and you will find out!first of: I liked the killer outfit! Simply but nice! I also liked the abandoned ski-resort, the whole place was creepy and exiting. I think it was a great place for a murder movie. The place and the killer was the best about this movie! The place is amazing and the killer is cool. I think you will like it too! I agree with others here about the movie in general, it was a movie that sucked sometimes but sometimes it was actually really nice too!When I see a movie I try to look past the bad things - like a weird conversation or a character that is acting strange like a perverted sheriff or when someone takes a stranger with them - without a doubt... It sucks when this kind of scenes pop upBut there are good scenes too and lets enjoy them! I am no slasher/horror expert and I don't want to try to be one. I just wanted to tell you about the good things in this movie. For me its important with the back story and also the place. I wanted to give thumbs up for these details in this movie! There will always be details that you miss, for me its about more scenes of the killer lurking and also maybe a scene when the killer is listening to the teens in secret. I like the movie and I have bought it! I don't want to complain too much, I want to see the good! And shine a light on it!

Toronto85 Getting ready to watch Shredder, I was prepared to see a blatant Scream/Urban Legend/I know what you did last Summer rip off. And it's pretty much that. A poor rip off of every teen movie made from 1996 onward. The story is about a group of young snowboarders who go up to a cabin in the mountains for the weekend. The characters are your average horror cast. The dorky guy that can't get laid, the girl who's willing to do it with almost anyone, the jock, the ditsy girl, etc...Pretty much they all get knocked off in gruesome ways by a killer wearing ski gear and a mask.There is also a bit of a back story. We see scenes of some people snowboarding and a little kid die accidentally on the same mountain all of our main characters are on. In those scenes, we also see some older kids who simply leave the child on the mountains. So it's obvious the killer is probably someone out for some sort of revenge. The suspects include some creepy townsfolk, a girl who likes to ski nude, and some guy with a foreign accent.The deaths are sort of gruesome and pretty well done for a lower budget movie. Shredder gets points for the decent stalking scenes by the killer as well as the murders done in the snow and on the ski lift. The acting is nothing special though. Shredder is an average teen slasher movie, nothing special.5/10