Synopsis
It was the perfect weekend vacation until THE NIGHTMARE BEGAN!
A group of people on a rafting excursion happen upon a deserted town and decide to set up camp. Out of the blue, a murder occurs.
1981 Directed by Byron Quisenberry
A group of people on a rafting excursion happen upon a deserted town and decide to set up camp. Out of the blue, a murder occurs.
Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker, The Outing, Sábado 14, Scream - Der Schock des Übersinnlichen, 尖叫
Is this the most boring slasher ever made?
Probably.
Love that vhs art though, and the director’s name.
I sometimes talk about filler in my reviews. Scenes that take up screentime without requiring much in the way of production. Like 30 seconds devoted to an actor parking a car, getting out of the car, and walking into a building. Minutes of just an actor slowly walking down a hallway. Long takes of people staring off into space or muttering unintelligible things to themselves. There is a lot of that in these types of films. You get used to it after a while, but this film is different.
This is the film that answers the question: What would a movie look like if it was 100% filler?
Boring, tedious, lame. These are perfect words to describe the Scream from…
1981 In Review - January
#2
A group of travelers spend the night in a ghost town, where they are picked off by an unknown assailant, one by one.
An exercise in continually trying to raise tension and fear with zero end results. This film literally shows nothing, it’s slow, ponderous and very very dull. Apart from a strange sequence with Woody Strode which literally comes out of nowhere, this has nothing to recommend it. It starts off with a decent enough premise but it can’t decide whether it’s a slasher or a supernatural film and ends up being neither.
There is a scene in Evil Dead 2 that has a POV shot of Ash where he looks around the…
Grab a case of Dr. Pepper and the biggest bag of Classic Lay's you can find because it's going to be a long and bloody boring ass night.
I do see that there is a director's commentary out there for this and often the worst movies make for the most interesting tracks, so don't be surprised if I end up logging this turd again soon.
2.4/10
i pulled a muscle in my back and im couchridden so this was pretty good ambient noise for my suffering. watching it u can tell why byron quisenberry never made another movie...because its bad. i like that! wouldnt recommend to a normal person but if ur a dumbass idiot like me... perhaps..
Obviously not to be confused with Wes Craven's famous 1996 film by the same name which is in every way superior to this fucking catastrophe, this fucking diarrhea holocaust was originally going to be called "The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker, but because of copyright reasons, Byron Quisenberry wasn't able to call it that so he changed the title to "The Outing" but the distributor made him change the title again so he decided to change the title to "Scream" and they finally agreed and put the film out. After a few theatrical releases, and a VHS release, the film was forgotten. Until it was rediscovered by avid horror collectors such as myself and it was put out on…
What a dreadful piece of shit. I mean, really.
Who the hell did this director think he was? Seriously, there would be an establishing shot that lasted for two minutes. And in those two minutes the camera panned maybe 10 feet. ...the fuck?
WHAT IN ALL THAT IS HOLY WAS ACTUALLY HAPPENING IN THIS MOVIE?
First of all, too many people. Seriously, there were like 13 people on this trip. You can't focus on that many people. Then, we didn't get a back story on these fucks. There wasn't a scene where everyone was sitting around a campfire telling us why the hell they were there. I guess, at one point, someone said these poor idiots paid $100 each for…
Watched the Code Red/ Dark force UHD 4K Blu-ray.
From all the movies Code Red/ Dark Force could have picked for their very first UHD 4K Blu-ray (no HDR though), its mind-boggling they picked this incredibly boring nonsensical "slasher".
A group of accidental tourists unrelated to eachother go on a rafting trip to stumble on an abandoned western movie set. They decide to spend the night with an unknown assailant slooooowly killing them off one by one in uninspiring bloodless off-screen ways.
There's a good reason why this is director Byron Quisenberry's single directorial credit.
It's basically 81 minutes of aimless wandering around, walking and unnecesary establishing shots to stretch the film to feature length. Confusing editing with no sense…
Schlubby white people in awful hats head to the wilderness for a fun camping trip. Some of them don't make it back!
A barely competent mess of boredom and bullshit, this struggles to do anything. Anything at all!
“What was that? Where is so and so??”
Rinse and repeat for 81 endless minutes. Even Woody Strode showing up as a mysterious cowboy can't save this.
One of the worst 80s slashers I've ever seen. Avoid!
Film #156 of 2024.
AKA: The Outing
AKA: No, Not That One!
Serves me right for trying to be funny because this has to be one of the most boring films (let alone slashers) that I've ever seen.
Twelve(!) city slickers make a weekend excursion tour of the Rio Grande, settling in an old ghost town for the night.
Almost immediately three of them are murdered in the most bloodless and badly shot manner possible, leaving you unsure of who they were or if they really are dead!
Unperturbed by these deaths the rest of them decide to just sort of sit there and wait it out while others peel off by themselves and die in equally confusing ways.
After a good hour of…
Film #5 of Shocktober17
Oh man, this movie is inept in every conceivable way. The musical cues are terrible. The characters (and there's like 10+ of them) all have no backstory whatsoever, and to add to that there's no dialogue besides shallow small talk about being cold or scared, so there's no characterization here at all. And all the kills are off-screen. If you want to take a nap for 80 minutes this just might be the movie for you though.
Daily Horror Scavenger Hunt 5 – November 2018 Day 26: A film that has been re-released by Code Red. (https://boxd.it/28ZZ0 )
These people are rafting up a river, surrounded by gorgeous scenery (with an odd choice of music playing over top of it) and I was totally on board. They get to an abandoned town, and I'm thinking "that's a pretty awesome setting for a slasher", and I was even more on board....and that was pretty much the last time I was on board with this movie. The setting would've been great for a slasher. This was just the wrong movie to be using it. Every once in a while they still managed an effective moment or shot, but I'm…