HALLOWEEN HANGOVER: BLOODY CREEK (1993) **

Question time:  Would YOU go camping in a place called Bloody Creek?  That’s like the actual name of the creek too.  We’re not talking about a nickname like “Camp Blood” in Friday the 13th or something like that.  It is legit called Bloody Creek.  Anyone with any sense wouldn’t go near that place.   Fortunately for us, this is a W.A.V.E. movie and sense is in short supply. 

An author is preparing a book on a series of murders.  A cop relays flashbacks to the various victims.  A girl goes hiking alone in the woods (She tells her worried mother, “I’m just going camping at a state park!  It’s not the Amazon jungle!”) and is promptly decapitated by a psycho.  Other women fall victim to the killer.  Eventually, the writer finds herself face to face with the psycho. 

The first half hour or so of Bloody Creek is pretty good.  The decapitation scene is a lot of fun, but it’s a shame that the other big gore scene just winds up being a dream sequence.  I have a feeling that if this had just been one of the company’s half-hour shorts, it might’ve been a winner. 

It’s not until the focus switches over to the killer’s perspective that the wheels begin to fall off.  It also takes a good hour to get to the creek (it looks more like a giant mud puddle) and once we finally do, it’s not particularly all that bloody.  The pacing really drags in the back end of the picture too, and the double twist ending was also unnecessary as it eats up a lot of screen time. 

You know, for a company who makes disreputable movies by mail, this one is awfully chaste.  Any time a girl gets naked, we just see her from the back.  That’s fine and all, but if you don’t intend to show any nudity, then why make the sex scenes go on for so damned long?  (There is a brief nip slip elsewhere in the film though.)

Overall, Bloody Creek isn’t bloody awful.  It just shoots its wad way too early.  The dialogue is kinda funny though.  A beleaguered cop gets the best line when he finds a needle mark on a corpse’s butt and says, “You don’t take intravenous drugs through your ass!”