Holy Hell, what a jumbled mess this film is.
Let's start off with the good. Excellent use of sexuality and the 4 main female leads. There's a good deal of nudity, all of it shot well and titillatingly. The chicks are all attractive, sensual, and good enough actors.
The only other positive would be that it's humorous, but for all the wrong reasons. And more often than not the humor only goes so far before fading into stupidity.
Probably gonna be a little spoilery as I dissect and go over the film but I'll try not to be overly so.
Story revolves around a group of witches or....I dunno, the film never really explains what they are, but they're 4 hot chicks. In the opening scene we're introduced to what can only be described as a gay rain man who is taking an art class where one of the chicks is posing nude. Very bizarre opening that features absurd dialog and a superiorly pretentious extended opening credit sequence where it's clear that the director is very much in love with himself.
From there there is a trip to Wicked Lake by the ladies, who are following by gay rain man and his equally bizarre family who are bizarre it seems merely because the writer wanted to be as silly as possible. I imagine he was a big Troma fan back in the day, yet he captures none of the fun of what Troma was about. Now I mentioned that the fucked up family followed the girls to Wicked Lake, well the problem is that the movie never explains how they can do this since gay rain man and nude model chick only have 1 awkward conversation that in no way sets up the confrontation, the girls go to Wicked Lake, the family follows them, even though they have no way of knowing where they're going.
The biggest problem with the film, and there are many, is that it has no idea what it wants to be. At times it feels as if it's a caricature, others a straight comedy, and then a drama, and it will often flip flop multiple times in the same scene. It's just all over the fuckin place. Also, the audio is horrid, I mean to a really bad level. A lot of it seems like it's overdubbed, again badly, as voices just sort of fade and boom and generally irritate the ear.
So creepy family, complete with big brother, retard brother, gay rain man, and crazy wheelchair bound war hero, sexual deviant grandpa, show up at the cabin looking to rape or kill or torture or whatever.
At this point we're introduced to 2 new characters, cops, who will end up at the cabin to investigate things. These 2 fuckers are about the most absurdly written and portrayed characters one could imagine. They're even given they're own back story for no apparent reason. Old cop was partners with young cops dad and young cop is trying to live up to his fathers legacy. Yeah. The writing is as cliched as you can get and the acting is even worse. Old cop likes to shoot things and drink a lot, at first I thought it was a parody but then I realized I was giving the film makers way too much credit.
So yeah, besides all these characters we also get a couple of rednecks that the girls met at a rest stop on their way to the lake. The rednecks show up at the lake, despite the fact that again, there is no way they could have any idea where the girls were going. Is it really that hard to write a line of dialog that at least explains how everyone knows where the fuck these total strangers are going?
So everyone is together and there is a nice brief scene of mild sexual torture that's pretty well done, but eventually it all just breaks down into dumb chase and kill and gore that has zero effect, comedy or tension.
In the end it's just a mess of a film whose only saving grace is that it captures the sexuality of the 4 female leads very well, unfortunately the rest of the thing is a badly written, badly directed, badly acted shit fest that at times is so awful it's entertaining.
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