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A Masterpiece!

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Norma (Hiltz) is a pretty blonde who wants the hell out of her trailer park life and sees her boyfriend as the one to save her from it. When he is brutally impaled by some of the trailer parks redneck lowlifes Norma snaps and leaves. She runs into the Devil (Trace Adkins) on the way out of town who encourages her to get her revenge. Norma returns to fill everyone full of holes and blows the place up along with herself. Jump some years in the future when a religious leader and his teenage group land in the trailer park to find Norma and the sicko rednecks back from hell to terrorize them. Director Steven Goldmann lets it all hang out in this never to be taken seriously horror show. Every character is a cliché even though you do feel bad for Norma in the beginning. There isn't a sympathetic character around and everything is disgusting, dirty and filthy which is apparently how Goldmann wanted it. The story makes little sense and the film makers and writers don't seem to care. Plenty of gore, blood and sickening sleaze are on display but of course none of it is scary or suspenseful. This is a distasteful film that is meant to be just that. There are some horror fans that may enjoy the grimy proceedings and the over the top mean spirited characters, but others will find it a chore to sit through. Which one are you? Identify and either skip it or look forward to it.

Yes, I enjoyed his flick. Nichole Hiltz is great as Norma. I thought I saw her in My Name is Earl, but that is Jamie Pressly. I was fooled as were some others. Both actresses are great as trashy hot hillbillies. Loved the red dress on Norma showing ample cleavage. Wow! Everyone knows the plot.Norma is not 'appreciated for who she is', so she dates someone out of the trailer park. Big mistake. The trailer billies punch his lights out. Ticked off, she deals with the devil and blows up the park with her in it, but only to exists in some sort of purgatory waiting for innocent victims to show up and become dinner as she become a living zombie with the others. The funny parts are their goofy characters, which they play well.The trailer park becomes a zombie park and the residents become alive again, torturing their visitors. Each one had their own unique 'personality' from meat eaters to the 'jerky' guy, to the guitar guy.The visitors are troubled teens with their own set of issues. Between the zombies and the troubled teens, these are a lot of characters to handle and movie around and develop given their time on the screen. But I think the director handled them all with finesses. In an ensemble casts such as this, there is not much room for deep character.The movie reminded me of Mortville to fans of John Waters. The movie Desperate Living takes place in Mortville, a town of homeless people that live and play in a garbage dump. The blurb for the flick was "who are these people, where do they go when the sun goes down", which of course was a mandate to see it.Special effects in Trailer Park were superb. I mean who can just treat the zombies as real characters with out spilling the beans...er, I mean guts...of the character. Music was good and appropriate. I think the flick was under rated. It is really above most zombie movies and had a great cast,set design,sound track,lighting design and direction. Script pretty good from a comic book title.My copy came with a DVD of P2 another good film. So I got quite a bargain in the two DVD set.Nichole Hiltz has been in a lot of flicks and I will look for her in new ones....great job. Her and Jamie P. could rule a huge trailer park. That's a wrap, nice job everyone.By the way, if we treat woman 'for who they are', rather than as piece of meat we can avoid such zombie scenarios in the future. A warning to chauvinists everywhere.

Trailer Park of Terror starts as Pastor Lewis (Matthew Del Negro) from the Vertical Trinity school for loser kids stops off a road side diner, on his bus are several troubled kids he intends to take out for a bonding weekend in the woods or something like that. However word is that a severe storm is causing problems & rather predictably Pastor Lewis crashes the bus during heavy rain, stuck in the middle of nowhere Lewis sees a sign for a nearby trailer park & decides to check it out in the hope of finding help. There a pretty woman named Norma (Nichole Hiltz) says they can all spend the night there. Unfortunately the trailer park belongs to zombie Redneck freaks who like to torture & kill anyone they meet, will Pastor Lewis or any of his kids escape alive?Directed by Steven Goldmann when I first heard the title Trailer Park of Terror I actually though it was going to be one of those compilations of old horror & exploitation flick theatrical trailers, it's really only when I sat down to watch it that I realised it was a film in it's own right & while not a terribly bad film it's not terribly good one either. The first half of Trailer Park of Terror is rather dull & drawn out, not that much happens really & there's an attempt spice things up with a fractured narrative with flashbacks & a large chunk of the plot out of sequence. The first half of the film also spends a fair amount of time on the bickering between the various kids who all have troubles like a shoplifter, a junkie & a whore which is then totally dropped from the second half of the film as character development becomes zero. The film really gets going after the 50 odd minute mark as the killing & depraved sexual goings on start, we also get Redneck zombies & a total lack of plot or reason. Apart from some vague rubbish about a pact with the Devil there's no reason why there are zombies, it was Norma who made the deal anyway so why are the other zombies there? There's no reason why they are so sadistic, there's no reason why they just kill anyone they see other than that's what zombies do I suppose. Set in & around a trailer park this film does not show trailer park residents in a good light, it show's them as backward, sadistic, disgusting, fat, depraved foul mouthed criminals who live in squalid conditions & treat each other like dirt & as such couldn't be called flattering.Available in both 'R' rated & 'Unrated' versions (in the US anyway, I would imagine international versions would be based on the Unrated cut) I saw the Unrated cut which is basically a few seconds longer (about 40 seconds to be precise) & has no additional plot or exposition but does contain a few extra frames of the arm cutting scene & more shots of the skinning. To be fair there's some good gore here, there's a ripped-off head, bloody gunshot wounds, a ripped out spine, skinned & gutted animals, some intestine eating, a cut off arm, plenty of blood splatter, some rotting zombies & a very grim & sadistic scene in which a guy is skinned alive, fed his own flesh & then deep fried. There are also some sex & nudity here, I still don't understand why these zombies would want to make a sex video but they try anyway. Overall this is quite well made with good effects & decent photography although I hated the soundtrack with it's awful songs, the scene in which the two kids are forced to have sex by Norma is inter-cut with a zombie playing guitar & singing a truly awful awful song which made my head hurt. A lot.Apparently shot in about eighteen days in Georgia the production values are pretty good & don't have that cheapness many recent low budget horror films do. The acting is alright with the pretty Nichole Hiltz particularly good value.Trailer Park of Terror is one of the better recent low budget horror films, that's scant praise in itself I suppose but you could do worse if your looking for some blood, gore, depravity & sex without anything like a story to get in the way. Better than I expected but that's hardly any recommendation in or by itself.

"Trailer Park of Terror" starts with young Norma about to finally leave her trailer park for good.When her fiancée is murdered by rednecks she makes a deal with long-haired Grim Reaper,so she can exterminate all of her tormentors.Unfortunately Norma and her victims are now cursed to be undead,coming back every night to kill any unfortunate victims that wander in after dark.The victims include a group of troubled teens heading to religious camp.Norma herself is the leader of the pack and is just as vicious as her old trailer park foes."Trailer Park of Terror" offers some gruesome scenes of torture and cannibalism accompanied by the singing of Roach from on top of his trailer.Zombified redneck plays his electric guitar with style.The soundtrack of the film is fantastic and the script makes fun of trailer parks,southerners and fat people.The set design is great:the trailers look gloomy and disgusting.7 out of 10.