Fright Flick

CAST: Chad Allen, Richard D. Curtin, Todd Jenkins, Daphne Khoury, Adam Kitchen, Tyler

Brockington, Natalie Jones, Allyn Carrell, Charles Baker

DIRECTOR:  Israel Luna

2011

From the director of Ticked-Off Trannies With Knives, Israel Luna, comes a new chapter of horror.  This low budget indie film makes fun of its lack of great talent by starting off with an F-Grade porn style actress giving the worse of the worse, after which the main cast turns to be a major improvement (or at least compared to the starter).  At first its unoriginality seems to be just part of the standard horror fare.  It's a horror movie about making a horror movie and the cast starts to get slaughtered.  We've seen that before - Wes Craven's New Nightmare, Scream 3 and Urban Legends:  Final Cut to name a few.  Even the scene eerily resembling one from A Nightmare On Elm Street seemed due to lack of originality.  However, by the end, I see this film as more of a low budget homage to the classics.   At one point, in a 10-15 minute stretch, we rapidly flash from scene to scene to scene that are exact copies from the original Halloween II, Scream, Scream 2, Friday The 13th (original) and Friday The 13th Part 2.  The rapidfire copycat does seem a bit humorous how they string them together and it lacks the emotion and intensity of their original films, but it also triggers that thing in your brain to reminisce and appreciate the classics.  Likewise, the killer of this film lacks the charisma of a Billy Loomis or Mrs. Loomis or even a Ben Willis, the fisherman, of I Know What You Did Last Summer and I can't tell if that's due to the lack of talent or part of making fun of itself.  Nothing award winning here but i'd watch it again.

Gay Factor:  Besides coming from the director of another gay film, its only known name actor is Chad Allen, the former kiddie star/teen heartthrob turned out & proud homo in real life, although he plays a straight character in this film.  This film does include three gay male characters and a questionable fourth, alongside a majority heterosexual cast.  Co-star Richard D. Curtin, one of the gay characters, is also in the director's film Ticked-Off Trannies With Knives.   

Story:  A B-grade actress gets slaughtered haulting production of the horror film she's starring.  Two years later, the cast re-esembles to film its sequel, but once again murder finds it way onto the set.  A lot of behind the scenes secrets finally leads to the motives behind our new slasher.