Terror at Blood Fart Lake (2009)

Very well executed

Brilliant and touching

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

TERROR AT BLOOD FART LAKE is another moronic escapade from indie director Chris Seaver. Once again he gets a bunch of mates to hook up at a lakeside location, where they swap stupid one-liners and gross out comedy until the final, thankful closing credits. Half the cast hide behind masks and fake facial hair and you can't blame them because this truly is the pits, the kind of film made with zero redeeming features.

I saw this on a Bad Movie Night expecting some horrible schlock filmed on a handicam like "Taintlight". I saw the Low Budget Picture logo and went "huh boy, Taintlight time..." This is not "Taintlight". I actually laughed at this, a lot. I found almost every line of dialog genuinely clever. It was almost too clever for a production this small. Like, "why couldn't they raise higher than a handicam budget with writing this solid?"Everyone is doing an improvised caricature like a parody of Old Hollywood. Had these performances been delivered by name actors with a wink, it would probably be a guilty pleasure, direct-to-video staple. "It could be bigger than Leonard Part 6!" - a line from the film. But there's something very real and charming about their averageness. It makes it unique.I feel like more people aren't seeing this and that sucks. You will laugh the whole time, no joke. "You wanna take a spooky walk down a mysterious trail?" Please do, fun times ahead.

Somebody once said that Hollywood bad is pretty bad but indie bad is worst. After seeing this piece of... film-making I totally agree. Anyone who bothers watching this will endure almost 40 minutes of the most inane and overdone "acting" and "dialog" before any action occurs. Definitely not good for a film that runs 75 minutes. Admittedly I'm not the hugest fan of camp however I'll sit down and watch Adam West's Batman or Barbarella if it happens to be on. The camp factor here is easily twice to three times more than either of those films. Add to that is the blatant annoyance factor for example: one of the characters constantly turns to the camera to speak to the audience.Obviously overdoing it was the point but it just killed the experience for me within the first 5 minutes. Sometimes less is more.

Well I was very pleasantly surprised with this movie. I had no idea what to expect, knowing only that it was a micro-budget movie and was going to be silly. All the characters are certainly unique from each other, pretty exaggerated and original. Yet most are stereotypes - we've got the fat goth chick, the d-bag guy from Jersey (who wears a Britny Fox shirt with cut-off sleeves!), and the close-minded redneck, to name a few. The Caspian character is especially a riot with his facial expressions, accent and vocal inflection. There's so many random lines of quirckily outrageous dialogue (most of it dirty) that that fact alone keeps you tuned in. I laughed out loud at least a dozen times.Now, the plot isn't very thick, in fact, it barely exists (but who cares): Some kids go up to a cabin for the weekend and begin getting attacked by a guy in a mask. The description on the Low Budget Pictures webpage even says "Witness deaths the likes of which you have TOTALLY seen before and better! One part Friday the 13th, one part Ernest goes to camp and 3 parts cream cheese." The special effects are crap, though decent by micro-budget standards. There's a little nudity, when one skinny gothy-girl takes off her top.. though I would've liked to see Ashley Sawyer (played by Nichole LaRoche) do it instead.All in all, this movie's a riot, and I recommend it to anyone wanting a good laugh.