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In the beginning, we were a little apprehensive about watching the movie. It was funny but anti-climatic with the jump scares. Craig straight up manipulated Libby into hiding body number 1. Lord just wanted to fix the zippers and man's hands got like- sliced. Ngl, movie kinda racist but.... had its great moments. Example 1: We lost it when the pants started to dance. Did not expect its weaknesses to be Bollywood. Example 2: When the pants started to wear a mannequin as the top half of its body, it was truly majestic. Last but not least, the drop kick. All in all, this was the best horror movie I have ever seen in my life. I would spoil the pants dancing and the mannequin but I would never spoil the true essence of this film, the drop kick. I would show this to my kids and watch this every Christmas. I would rate this 20/10 if I could. :D

Slaxx has the highest of high concepts: a slasher about a pair of possessed jeans that is trying to kill everyone locked in on an overnight retail floorset. This movie hit a little too close to home for my wife, so has been through decades of managing stores and being part of events just like this. She said that the side of retail that believes too much in the power of the company, the cult that forms around retail management, is all too real. The real joy of this movie is that it starts as a slasher within a clothing store and easily sets up the heroine, the villain and the victims, just like any number of stalk and kill movies. But once those doors lock and the first kills happen, the movie shifts to a really interesting tale of the myth of fair trade and the need for revenge. Director Elza Kephart previously made Go In the Wilderness, a movie about Adam's first wife Lilith escaping the Garden of Eden and Graveyard Alive, the story of a shy nurse becoming sure of her sexuality after a zombie's bite. That movie was written by Patricia Gomez, who also wrote this script. I can't wait to see what they do next, because this movie more than exceeded any expectation I had for it. I expected a gimmicky sub-Full Moon goof and ended up with a film with resonance. You can't do better than that.

Ludicrous premise, cheap production, neither funny nor horrific, way overrated by the critics.

This film is so ridiculous it becomes awesome. A fine product of Canadian cinema. If you love fashion, bollywood music, and child labour, as well as gruesome killing, check it out.

After a series of strange incidents, the staff at a high-end clothing store find themselves under attack by a murderous pair of possessed jeans controlled by the spirit of a young girl angry at the company she was working for and must find a way to appease it and get out alive. There was a lot to like with this one. One of the brightest aspects of this one is the degree to which it manages to convince the ludicrousness of the setup as possible. As the first half here features the engaging setup of trying to focus on the contrast between her bright-eyed enthusiasm against their world-weary skepticism, the series of incidents and accidents that occur around the edges of this framework offers a rather engaging build towards the eventual discovery. That provides some rather tense scenes here with the slow-building revelation about the bodies being found and the reveal about the sentient pants being involved seem rather believable. As well, there's plenty to like about the actual execution of the killer pants in action. Seeing the enchanted pants seduce and force everyone it comes across into being tempted into putting on the pants in order to be killed off in gruesome fashion gives this some fun cheesy moments early on. The revelations that continue with the gruesome left-overs provide a fine launching pad for the main massacre that follows which is exceptionally fun as the pant comes to life unexpectedly killing everyone it comes across leading to some wholly inventive kills. Given the series of stalking scenes generating some solid tension and some inventive means of trying to combat the deadly denim, this one manages to have a lot to like that holds it up overall. This one doesn't have too much really wrong with it. The main issue here is a decidedly unnecessary and useless need for introducing a human antagonist into the story which isn't that clever or realistically added. The individual to become this is a cliche the second they pop up to be included in the twist later on, the motivation to be such a thorn in their side isn't that well-handled and the whole thing feels like a concession to the style as a result. Likewise, the film's premise seems to be awfully forced on the back-half hour to the series of random and somewhat uninvolved chasing that highlights how underdeveloped the characters in the beginning are since we know nothing about them or what's going on until then, leaving this section to fall flat. Still, there's not much else really wrong with this one. Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

A good little gory film, and a first realization which seduced me by its criticism of the textile and fashion industry. There is blood in our clothes as in our cellphones, the marketing advocating ethical and organic clothes often being GMOs resulting from the exploitation of childrens and underpaid employees. Here the jeans come to life and want to do justice, against the wild and cynical Western consumer society, the pretentious influencers and the upstart store managers, which gives rise to funny scenes with gore effects and CGIs neither prodigious nor failed. . The staging and the photography is rather successful, and makes me want to watch the next achievements of Elza Kephart having until now mainly worked in the artistic department on several films including several X men films.

And I was looking forward to this one. Too many lazy modern horror trappings for my taste. The cast is almost exclusively made up of insufferable, obnoxious, one-dimensional, self-absorbed Millenials (along with one sane person, the new girl, Libby, who is borderline-useless), there are several serious lapses in logic, all done for the convenience of the plot, most of the kills happen offscreen (I remember one gruesome kill, otherwise, let's just throw blood at the walls), and, well, let's have a silly movie about killer designer jeans have a SERIOUS MESSAGE. Say what? Yup, serious real-world message about child labor, and as one would expect, it gets the Certified Fresh seal of approval. Literally, the only way a horror movie gets a pass from the critics, is if it has a message or a racial issue, is historical, or has funny accents or subtitles. Would the critics know a clever, creative, quality horror movie if it came up and bit them on the rear end? Absolutely not. Literally, their only criteria is it has to be "important" (or foreign) to be any good. I enjoyed Slaxx to a point. I could not NOT watch a movie about a killer pair of jeans, and I did like how the origin story tied in. But the plot contrivances (never mind hating basically everyone in this) are real hard to ignore. One such thing I saw on Superstore, and I thought it was idiotic then. If you sat through the sorriest of sorry assortment of DVD extras included like I did, you'd also realize what a pill this director is.