For starters, you take one look at the guy on the cover of this movie and you think, "well, sure the guy's wearing a hockey mask and wielding a chainsaw and he's dressed in Michael Myers style overalls, but is this a really bad amateur horror movie ripping off several established horror series, or is it simply a parody?". Well, then you read the back of the box, and begin leaning more toward that whole, "really bad rip-off" theory. If you did, then you'd be right. After popping it into your VCR/DVD player, it opens with some foolish stranded schmuck who's in the wrong place at the wrong time, as, while hiking an abandoned back road in search of help, he runs into a goofball in a goal tender's mask. Not too up-to-date on his horror movies, the guy thinks nothing of this, believing it to be some odd joke, and continues to ask for help. What he gets is the ever present horror reply: death by chainsaw. From here we jump to the average gang of teenage slasher fodder as they prepare a summer camp for the oncoming slew of ankle-biters. As if this weren't enough of a FRIDAY THE 13TH rip, there's even a crazy old man who harasses the teens, prophesizing danger from an armed assailant, complete with overly boozed "Friday night breath". One night, instead of doing the usual horror hijinx and fucking each other and getting stoned, the kids decide to play a game named (conveniently the title of this movie...), Bloody Murder. Most people just call it hide-and-seek, but hey, whatever gets your motor sputtering. Though, the forest they play in is light up like Rockefeller center in December! Maybe a mob of rednecks got their trucks together and surrounded the place, blasting their high beams in, so the defenseless crew had to make due! HAHA! Well, a few of the guys decide it'd be funny to take turns wearing a goalie's mask and terrorizing the others, but one person gets a hold of it and decides to stop playing and get down to some serious Bloody Murder! He kills them off ever once in a while, leaving the others to think it's all a game before they start accusing each other of actually turning serial killer. One of the suspects happens to be named Jason... an intentional joke we find, as the horror buff of the group (there's always one in these movies) eludes to the irony. Who ever the guy is, he needs to clean his overalls. The guy looks like he shit himself! And we're talkin Hershey squirts here too! Uggh. Well, sadly, at one point, the coolest guy in the group, Dean (who reminds me of a younger, more sinister Bruce Campbell), gets offed in a very cheap scene as he is clawed to death by a garden tool. Another of our heroes falls too, courtesy of the most under appreciated deadly weapon: the lawn dart! Suddenly, our heroine Julie's dad shows up. "Could he be the killer?" you ask? Well, if the killer is someone as obvious as Julie's dad, then this movie just went down the crapper at Mach 3! Is he the killer though? Read on... This theory is tested/defeated though, when Drew, Julie's new pal and confidante whose father was killed by an ex-councilor while she was still up her mom's cunt, seemingly *whacks* Mr. Julie's Dad over the back with an oar! Well, maybe it was her, you couldn't really see the killer, just a big oar crashing over the poor sap's head. But, it turns out to be neither, as we discover it is, instead, head counselor Patrick, a.k.a. Nelson Hammond: former counselor-turned-killer who recently escaped from the local asylum! Lucky for Julie though, Drew was not killed, as she arrives in time to pop Nelson in the arm with a gun she found nearby, keeping him at bay until police can arrive and clean take him into custody as our survivors crack jokes... despite the fact that all their friends are now dead! Oh, but one of those murders Nelson isn't taking responsibility for... could it have been the mythic Trevor Moorehouse: serial killer with a chainsaw for a left hand?! Why not ask poor Jason, who gets visited by such a man right after Julie dumps him for the horror movie guy. On the plus side, it kept me guessing, but on the bad side, it was pretty cheap, especially concerning some of the big words that you knew these actors weren't used to saying! Besides, your average slasher victim's vocabulary consists of heavy metal lyrics and 300 different ways of describing marijuana and bongs. Cheapness aside, I have to admit that I did get a little fanboy giggle every time they made a little side reference to other horror movies, but that's normal... right?!

DVD X-tras: Cast and crew bios (which are pretty pointless considering BLOODY MURDER is all that most of these people have been involved with); a trailer that seems to be better than the actual movie mainly because it focuses more on the few chainsaw scenes involved); a "Jump to a Murder" feature, which might have been useful in a movie where more than 4 or 5 people die in terribly done "D" quality killings; a commentary track from the film's director, which is probably the only real interesting part of the whole thing, considering it gives a first hand glimpse into the pains and burdens that a B movie actually causes just to put it together (including working around summer camp schedules and bear attacks[!], as well as the secret that it was the director who wore the hockey mask in the opening scene[!!]); and finally, an animated chainsaw menu, though it's greatly outshined by the one used in the TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE DVD, so it's really not even that special.

Also Known As: SCREAM BLOODY MURDER

Sequels: Not yet

If You Liked This Flick, Check Out: FRIDAY THE 13TH PART IV: THE FINAL CHAPTER or CAMP BLOOD