bababear I'm in a good mood, so I gave this a 5. If this gotten into the hands of a strong screenwriter, that score would have doubled.We start with the standard teenagers in lovers' lane. Blood, guts, you've seen it all before.The setting is a small town in Illinois, population between 500 and 500,000. Since we never get a sense of the town, we don't get a sense of what binds the characters together. It seems that pretty well everyone knows everyone else.One of the victims was the brother of a Sheriff's Deputy. Charlie has Father Issues: dad was prouder of his younger son, now deceased, and Charlie feels that he's been a disappointment to his dad, Bill.A detective begins investigating the crime. The detective is a young woman who looks to be about 19 years old. we don't know what law enforcement agency she's affiliated with. She shows up with a badge and a partner, introducing herself as Detective Rodgers. That doesn't help.Eventually the script stumbles into William Inge territory. This is a Small Town with a Secret. Before he got married, Charlie's dad (now a widower) was involved with Mary Burns, a local tart (played in the third act by Scream Queen Linnea Quigley, now 52 years old). He got Mary pregnant. She had the baby and left town and hasn't been seen since. It turns out that Charlie is her son.OK. Bill shows up with a baby boy. Mom goes ahead and marries Bill, raises Charlie as her own, gives birth to another boy, nobody in town questions where the bonus son came from. Uh, I'm from a small town. Ain't gonna happen.But I digress. Bodies continue to pile up. Charlie is a suspect, but it can't be him. But there's such a shortage of other suspects that there's nobody else (the detective? the sheriff?) to suspect.Then the cardinal rule of mystery writing is broken. Yea, shattered. A very major character is clumsily introduced in the third act.We find that Mary Burns is out of the mental hospital, and she has a friend with her, B-movie veteran Robert Z'Dar (fondly remembered from MANIAC COP). Playing The Man (it's too much trouble to give a brand new character a name) he's been the killer all along.The plot is whipped into some semblance of order at the end. Charlie's dad and the sheriff are killed by The Man, Charlie is wounded, the detective is unconscious but manages to kill The Man first, and Mary wanders into the night just before the police get to the house.In a peculiar and very limp coda Charlie puts his dad's house up for sale, says goodbye to the detective, and drives away.These are not bad actors. They're actors working with substandard material. Performances are primarily at a level I'd call pretty good for community theater, but this isn't the stage at the American Legion hall.Film is a very unforgiving medium. Houses are houses. Cars are cars. Bars are bars. Motel rooms are motel rooms. This isn't an actor in ROMEO AND JULIET announcing "This is Verona," and our imaginations filling in the rest. Realistic settings call for realistic performances.These very same actors might have delivered compelling performances if the material had been shaped by stronger hands. But as is, this is a interesting Amateur Night that should have been much better.These are young actors. I wish them all the very best, and would urge them to do as much stage work as possible so as to have the experience of working with really strong material.Better luck next time, guys.THE ROCKVILLE SLAYER is definitely worth watching, but don't expect too much for it.

squire87 First, let me just say the movie looks great. The DP knew exactly what he was doing when he shot this film because it looks very professional. However, he may have been the only guy on the crew who knew his job.Yes, the acting is bad. So is the direction and the plot. But, my biggest gripe is with the post-production team. Specifically, the sound...I have a question for whomever was in charge of post.....was this movie ever even sound mixed? The mix is unbelievably awful from a technical standpoint. Some of the dialog is so quiet, I couldn't hear it unless I turn my TV nearly all the way up. Then, I'd almost immediately get sprung from my chair because some sound effect would slam in at what seemed to be 90 decibels. Of course, there I am flying to the remote control to drop the volume back to a human level. Hey guys, next time, mix your friggin' movie. This "mix" is so bad, I wouldn't even insult amateurs by calling it amateurish. Plus, as the other poster noted, the sound jumped out of sync with the picture for like 5-10 minutes near the end. What's the story with that? To be fair, I don't want to put ALL the blame on the filmmakers/post-production crew. Freestyle Home Entertainment (whoever they are) NEVER should've released a film this poorly mixed. I mean, it's just flat-out unfinished. What were they thinking?

iarepacman I watch a lot of horror, I watch a lot of bad horror. Even in bad horror there is usually something of note, or something decent to latch onto and say "at least this part was good". not here. from the opening sequences which contained 2 of the worst performances ever captured on camera, I guess I knew what level of crap i was in for. On a technical level, it was amateur at best. the audio is atrocious fading in and out with different scenes. The special effects were sad and lacking, the plot full of so many unnecessary and just plain ridiculous twists and turns, and once again, some of the worst acting I have -EVER- seen. The plot tries to go for that "Scream" vibe where you suspect everyone, but it does so with no rhyme or reason, and definitely no clarity. Funniest of all, someone attached to the project seems to be voting nothing but 10's on here, but it still only has a score of 3. nice try. Avoid this one at all costs.

Michael O'Keefe This slasher flick directed, written and produced by Marc Selz starts out interesting, but by the finale the twists and turns are so convoluted it becomes a mess. Two teenage couples are found in rural, small-town America and are feared the victims of an escaped lunatic. Sounds too damn familiar. Two detectives(Nicole Buehrer and Joe Morowitz)and the local sheriff(Joe Estevez)try to unravel the mystery. Some answers have already been answered though. How this got an "R" rating, I'll never know. It seemed to have very little objectionable content...except for the bad acting. Others in the cast: Amy Brown, Linnea Quigley, Circus-Szalewski and Robert Z'Dar.