Great Film overall

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

You know, I feel a bit guilty giving this a mark below my 'level of acceptance' (which is 6) since I did enjoy it. But there are a few small niggles, mostly related to unanswered questions about the killer's motivation and background, which stop me just short. It sets them up, drops a lot of hints... only to fail to follow through on them, so your average viewer will feel slightly confused as to why they were raised in the first place. A shame.It starts off with five kids heading to a remote mountain lodge, along with a self-conscious narrator who successfully predicts they're destined for trouble. One of the number is an incredibly shrill girl who won't stop jumping around and yelling. After a few minutes of this, I wanted the slasher to turn her into shish kebab. Amazing... my prayers were answered. That's what I admire about Blood Cabin... it soon disposes of all the extraneous characters, leaving us free to concentrate on the main chase: which is between the owner of the building, and the only member of the group with any brains... a spunky brunette.The murderer here is an everyday kinda guy... He sneaks around using secret passages, cleans up the rubbish his visitors leave lying about, stops to have a scoop or two of ice cream... before stabbing, disemboweling, clobbering his unwelcome guests. It's a great role for Allen Andrews, and the fact he treats each victim with studied nonchalance while ripping them to shreds just adds to the aura of fear around him. He's a family man, who regards slaying as just a normal occupation. As you do.We also see tantalising clues as to why he's such a suppressed maniac. A 7th Birthday cake splattered with blood. An preoccupation with the sound of bees humming. An unfortunate perverted desire to dress up grown ladies as schoolgirls before doing... stuff to them. All these could have been meshed together to form a fascinating backstory... but nope, they're just hanging there will no rope to attach them together. Oh well. A near miss. 5/10

***SPOILERS*** Much better then you would have expected slasher film with this group of the usual oversexed and party going teenagers taking a trip into the country for the weekend for fun & games as well as non-stop sex. This fun ends almost as soon as it began after they stopped off at this house in the woods that Big Steve, Allen Andrews, was also spending the weekend at. Before you and the teens can catch their breaths Big Steve went into action putting an end to their fun as well as their lives.In no time at all Big Steve had done in, in the most horrendous way, all the teens with the exception of the plucky Aggie, Christine Haeberman, who was the least sexually active, in not having a boyfriend, of the group of teens. Alone in the big house with Big Steve staking her Aggie manages to fight him off until he finally gets the best of her. But instead of doing the terrified Aggie in like he did her friends Big Steve instead wants her to help him out in his sexual dysfunction problems! That's by her being his personal sex slave for him to do with her whatever he wishes. Big Steve in trying to get in on with Aggie she finally manages to escape but is tracked down by him in the woods who ends up strangling her. But here's the rest of the story.Back home with his old lady and daughter Big Steve is a completely changed man. Kind understanding and non-violent even when he realizes that his wife is screwing around behind his back big Steve is the perfect husband and father. Too perfect to say the least.***SPOILERS*** For some time watching all this, Big Steve's tranquil home-life, you just quite don't know where the movie is leading up to until the last few shocking minutes. It's then that Big Steve gets all that he's got coming to him in a way that he as well as we in the audience never expected!

This film isn't so bad. At first I was a bit put off with the narrator, and the weird filming effect; it looks like it was filmed in the 70s. But it's not.Anyway. The characters aren't totally likable which is great in slasher films, I tend to enjoy watching them a lot more then. I thought that this film would be one of those irritating ones where you see the annoying happy, care free teens having a blast and getting wasted for the first hour before anything happens; I was wrong, and happily so. Things start happening within the first 15 minutes which really grabbed my attention; usual films of this genre/story line take a lot longer for things to happen. It's a pretty short film and things happen quickly; there's no unnecessary hanging around or irritating dialogue.What I liked the most about this film; I seriously empathised with the killer!! I love films that make me feel this way (Devil's Rejects being another). Maybe I'm weird. Well I won't spoil the ending here .... I was surprised to hear the narrator's voice again though.

Big bad Stevie is celebrating a birthday and he's overjoyed to have a group of fun-loving teenagers stumble upon his house (which they think is vacant at first). Oh yes Stevie is going to have so much fun, the teens....not so much.I really enjoyed this low-budget slasher film. It doesn't try to reinvent the wheel, so to speak, but you can tell that writer/director Drew Barnhardt is definitely a fan of the genre. He hardly misses a beat in this one. The acting is much better than average (for a film of this type), the soundtrack is great, throw in a bit of nudity, gore & some honest to goodness tension later in the film and you have a winner on your hands. Fans of low-budget horror films usually have to wade through a whole lot of excrement in order to find a (too few) diamond in the rough. This movie is one of those diamonds. I'll definitely be keeping my eye out for Barnhardt's future endeavors. Eye Candy: Mary LeGault gets toplessMy Grade: A-DVD Extras: a 7 minute making of; 'creating a killer' featurette (5 minutes); Director's notebook (9 minutes); 'Scoring the film' featurette (11 and a half minutes); Title madness (about 14 minutes on why they choose the title of this movie); photo and artwork gallery; & original trailer for the film