Tuesday, October 30, 2018

THE 31 MOVIES OF HORROR-WEEN: TERROR AT BLOODFART LAKE (2009) ***


Terror at Bloodfart Lake is another foulmouthed, grade Z, no-budget horror flick from Chris (Mulva:  Zombie Ass-Kicker) Seaver.  Since I’ve seen a good number of Seaver’s films going in, I kind of knew what I was getting myself into.  But let's face it:  How could I not watch a movie called Terror at Bloodfart Lake?  The surprising thing is, I found myself laughing quite often during the mercifully short running time.  I can honestly say without a doubt this is Seaver’s best picture yet.

A group of friends go to a cabin in the woods to party all weekend.  One by one, they are picked off by a supernatural wisecracking scarecrow.  Naturally, the only ones who can stop it are a sexy biker babe and a bumbling redneck.

If you brace yourself for the amateurish acting and obnoxious dialogue full of juvenile potty humor, you should have a good time with Terror at Bloodfart Lake.  Some might be annoyed by the constant ska music and gratuitous plugs for Fright Rags T-shirts.  Stick with it though, and you’ll find some truly funny stuff here.  Most of the foulmouthed humor is hit and miss, but the oddball throwaway lines are often funnier.  (“Do you know the Dark Arts and listen to Evanescence?”)  There’s also a funny bit where a guy from Jersey talks about “The Boss”, but “Not Springsteen!  Tony friggin’ Danza!”

The highlights though are the murder sequences.  In most of them, the scarecrow killer uses ears of corn to dispatch his victims (including shoving it into one guy’s “cornhole”).  My favorite bit though was when he uses a liposuction machine to kill a big girl.  Many killers in movies would suck fat out of a girl’s body to kill her.  This one doesn’t stop there.  He actually shoves the hose in her mouth and feeds her own fat back to her.  That folks, is when I knew Terror at Bloodfart Lake was something special… or at least a notch or two better than your average low budget, shot-on-video, gory, horror-comedy. 

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