An 80's era Swedish slasher about a group of snowed in hair metal rock video assholes being slaughted by a family of inbred pasty faced mutant mountain men. Ohhhh, be still my heart!
The movie starts off with a drunken jerk coming home late one night. He starts sorta roughing his wife up a bit and she isn't really into it so she jams a big knife into his back. Some nosy guy comes down the stairs right about then, takes in the scene, and starts screaming bloody murder...literally. So, the lady does what anyone would do in similar circumstances. She grabs her kids and runs off up into the mountains where they spend the next 40 years living like wild animals in some kind of abandoned power plant. It was a rough fucking 40 years too let me tell you. They all turn into slobbering, pizza faced geeks for some reason...maybe there was radiation at the power plant or mercury in the water or something. I don't know and don't have the mental fortitude needed to put much more thought into it.
Our little family would have been perfectly content to live out their days eating rat meat and fashioning crude clothing out of beaver pelts but then one day a shitty hair metal band decides they want to shoot a rock video in the power plant. Why do they haul ass up a mountain and risk avalanches and God knows what to shoot a video? Beats me. Maybe they thought the virgin snowy white was a good backdrop for their awful spandex pants and teased up hair. Who knows what these kind of people are thinking. They are probably on the PCP or something. The guys in the band are pretty lame but luckily for us they also dragged along a whole army of dancing girls and groupies so the body count is actually fairly high in this one. They also brought along the director who is one of the corniest characters I've seen in a while. He really brightens the whole movie up with his presence. He even has one great scene where he gets to emote using a globby bit of drying blood stuck to his forehead.
One thing leads to another and before very long the rock video assholes are doing what they do best (screwing and wandering off alone into darkened rooms) and the pizza faced geeks are doing what they do best (slobbering and hanging out in aforementioned darkened rooms with pointy tools in hand.)
My old tape was dark in a few places and it was hard to make out what exactly was going on and at least one of the kills seemed cut...but this one isn't on DVD yet so this is probably the only way you are gonna get to see this one and if you are a fan of this sort of thing is is worth checking out. - badfish
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