Deadly Weekend

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What a total waste of time. The 'sisters' were way too girly to be deranged psychos. The story is lame, camera work tedious and extremely unimaginative, please, play chess, learn French, stick pins in a voodoo doll of your high school bully but DO NOT WASTE YOUR PRECIOUS LIFE on this s_h_i_t.

This film is all about skin and suffering, there is nothing wrong with that and there are plenty of both here. However when you watch some scantily clad teens in torturous situations, a big part of the fun is having established characters who you either want to see suffer or triumph. This film spends the first half exhibiting its characters and yet once things start to go down we still don't really have a grasp on who they are or why we should care about what happens to them. Like many low budget horrors, the acting isn't great and the pacing leaves something to be desired, but the real flaw comes from the writing of the characters, which really lets down what could have been a decent story and enjoyable film if nothing else. If you are a fan of Sara Jean Underwood's body of work then watch it for that as it is a prime example, otherwise, give it a miss.

No pun intended - Ms Underwood (is that a pun/innuendo too?) looks really stunning. And she probably is best when it comes to "acting" in the movie too. Or I was blinded by her beauty - even so, that doesn't say much, because the others are not really "competition". We get a film in a film thing in the beginning - and all the nudity you will get in the movie too. Whatever that is going to mean for and to you. Because while they all do look good (in hot pants or whatever else they are wearing), they act irrational/not good throughout (no pun intended). The effects are quite good - if you care for those. And I reckon there is a sort of neat twist towards the end. Not sure that is a saving grace (and last pun to ... end scene)

Just skip to 24.18.. The only enjoyable part of the movie. The two main villains were a good twist until no-one fought back against them.. which ruined it for me, could of easily been overpowered. Miss Underwood is easy on the eye to say the least... her other mate could also fill out a swimsuit.

The film opens with teaser slasher * as a tied up man sporting wood has his main limb cut off by a topless woman. This is followed by two couples who go camping in Florida in the land of no cell phone reception. It is isolated and you have to get there by boat. This is a torture/slasher film made interesting by the personality of our antagonists. They add a dark comedy element that unfortunately didn't materialize until late. Playmate Sara Jean Underwood gets tied up and struggles to get loose, but maintains her clothes. Also goes by the title "Zellwood." Okay slasher rental. Parental Guide: F-bomb, nudity (Jesse Harris, Julie Anne)

Soooo a group of friends meet up for a last vacation all together. Little did they know that it would actually be their last chance to be all together! Boo ha ha No is not a great movie, it is not even fun, it is boring and predictable. Friends go to the woods, they have fun, they are half dressed, they fight for something and the killing starts! OK there is a small twist if you can call it a twist but the movie is so flat that it really doesn't make a difference. So pretty much it's the same story over and over and over and over and over and

Sometimes you just got to stop and actually pay heed to the reviews that you stumble upon here and there, and also to the low rating that a movie scores. But as taste and preference is a matter of personal opinion, you just got to take a chance every now and again. "Deadly Weekend" was not worth the chance at all. This is really an unfathomably slow and dimwitted movie that requires absolutely nothing from the audience. Just unhook all mental capacity, then you are ready for this movie. Oh, and you might want to brace yourself for about an hour and a half of absolutely nothing worthwhile. The storyline was forced and wooden, leaving no room for any surprises, twists or even unforeseen turn of events. The acting in the movie, well, I have seen worse, but there is a mighty gap from what was portrayed in this movie up to something that was passable as mediocre. As for the effects, well, then they worked out well enough, and those were basically everything that had any leverage in this movie. And there was a fair amount of blood and mayhem in the movie to peak some gorehound's interest. But it was hardly sufficient to carry the rest of the movie. It was as if this movie was a remnant from a mid 1980's horror movie, where they piled together unused footage and ideas. For a thriller / horror movie, then "Deadly Weekend" was a rather boring and uneventful addition to the history of cinema.

This was actually shown in local cinemas with the very unconventional title of "Shocking Zellwood." Thinking it was probably a quirky horror film, I gave it a go. Big mistake. At the very start, we see a dreamlike sex fantasy gone terribly awry, where an aroused fellow gets more than what he bargained for from the two buxom playmates who tied him to the bedposts. That unbearably squeamish first scene which surely got every guy in the theater looking away and holding on to their family jewels was arguably already the best scene. The film goes downhill from there. Two young couples take off to an isolated countryside destination for a fun weekend of camping. What they thought to be a quiet and private holiday turns out to be a violent and bloody gore-fest beyond anybody's wildest nightmares. The entire first half of the film was a lot of stupid sweet nothings from the two couples. That was a boring waste of time, except maybe for the visual presence of the sexy lead actresses, Sarah Jean Underwood and Patricia Rosales. But when the bizarre torture and killing scenes start, the stabbings, nailing, and cutting result in unnaturally gushing bloodbaths. People expecting some more eroticism as shown in the first scene will be disappointed. I like horror films, but definitely NOT the gore sub-genre. The lousy hammy acting of everyone on screen made every thing worse than it was on paper. The revelation of who does the killings is not exactly brilliant, but at least the writer had a sense of crazy humor about it. Strictly only for gore fanatics.

At first I thought thriller / bit of horror movie can bring something different. I was wrong, this movie is load of crap, story line was sucks and bad acting all around. Too fake. The setting for this movie is really bad, not interesting and looks all around the same place. Story line need to be extended in a broad view, bringing more accessories / props too. In my opinion this movie can be expanded to a whole new level with more budget and good story line, never mind the bad acting. The only good thing in this movie is Sara Jean Underwood, sadly no intimate actions. Probably the actress need to find different movie approach, not horror / thriller but maybe comedy and love drama, will suit her even better.