DAY ONE (31 Days of Horror)

DAY ONE

FILM - REEKER

PREMISE - When a lonely highway is inexplicably closed, five students sharing a ride to a party in the desert find themselves trapped at an empty motel. Refusing to let the new circumstances interfere with their fun, they settle in only to be interrupted by odd, haunting visions of severely mutilated travelers. The gruesome sightings may explain the sudden abandonment of the motel and diner, but the appearance of the retiree with a missing wife confirms their worst fears. He too has seen the dying people - victims of a killer, one that has likely taken his wife - a killer trailing a dark force of decay and rot.

ANTAGONIST - The creature in this was pretty cool. Jeepers Creepers meets Texas Chainsaw.

BLOOD AND GORE - Pretty standard. The opening was kinda gruesome. People with weak stomachs can watch.

SCARES - None to speak of and that's the problem.

REVIEW - About an hour or so into this I was thinking "what a shitty start to this month long marathon". The characters were for the most part unsympathetic and boring. Their acting was fine. Its just I didn't care much about what was going on. The movie has zero scares and it took a long time to get going. The only redeeming quality was the creature was pretty cool and the ending was actually really good. The ending was good enough to bump this from a 4 to a 5. Let's hope the sequel is just a little bit better.

NEXT DAY - CRITTERS