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It's difficult reviewing The Tripper. Do you rate it against all other films? If so, it's just another low budget slasher with a big name attached (in the form of David Arquette, not to mention Jason Mewes and Paul Reubens), or do you rate it against other slasher movies?
In general terms, The Tripper tries for something slightly different from the usual slasher film. It has a political background in the Reagan years and the underlying message is of how Reagan `ruined' America with various political measures. The question is, are any of the standard slasher movie fans going to know or care about this enough to make the idea worth while? Anyway, it creates an excuse for the slasher themselves to wear a Reagan mask, so I shouldn't complain.
In the meantime, the film explores (in the same way that Toy Story 2 explores the effects of the collector on the toy industry) hallucinogenic drug culture, which is basically a case of having some long haired people on drugs and various trippy effects used throughout the movie. Cue Jason Mewes as one of the tripping reprobates (typecasting ahoy!).
As with many other Slasher flicks, it's no surprise to find that it has a low budget look and feel and aside from trippy visuals and so-so political messages, it looks and feels like a typical movie of it's ilk. So while The Tripper has some nice ideas and is probably worthy of your collection should you be a fan of these type of films, it's interesting additions to the genre don't really add enough to stand it above the other films it might be compared to. So not a bad film, by any means, but not likely to win any awards either.
In general terms, The Tripper tries for something slightly different from the usual slasher film. It has a political background in the Reagan years and the underlying message is of how Reagan `ruined' America with various political measures. The question is, are any of the standard slasher movie fans going to know or care about this enough to make the idea worth while? Anyway, it creates an excuse for the slasher themselves to wear a Reagan mask, so I shouldn't complain.
In the meantime, the film explores (in the same way that Toy Story 2 explores the effects of the collector on the toy industry) hallucinogenic drug culture, which is basically a case of having some long haired people on drugs and various trippy effects used throughout the movie. Cue Jason Mewes as one of the tripping reprobates (typecasting ahoy!).
As with many other Slasher flicks, it's no surprise to find that it has a low budget look and feel and aside from trippy visuals and so-so political messages, it looks and feels like a typical movie of it's ilk. So while The Tripper has some nice ideas and is probably worthy of your collection should you be a fan of these type of films, it's interesting additions to the genre don't really add enough to stand it above the other films it might be compared to. So not a bad film, by any means, but not likely to win any awards either.
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David Arquette has created an original and fun horror movie, It has a cool funny cast, and has loads of classic gore moments! The film has also created a brilliant new maniac killer.. i hope there's a sequel!!
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The Tripper is David Arquette's directorial debut, it seems like an homage to 80's slashers with a political edge. In the 80's a young boy witnesses his father get hit by a hippie protester, in retaliation he kills the man with a chainsaw. We see the boy get dragged away by the police, now it's present day. A group of teens are going to a drug fueled hippie weekend music festival, when they run into 3 hillbillie redknecks and get into an altercation. Once they get to the festival and everybody gets high, a deranged serial killer in a Ronald Reagan mask starts slaughtering everybody.
For such a low budget horror movie, it actually has a pretty good cast, I assume a few are doing Arquette a favour. Balthazar Getty, Lukas Haas, Thomas Jane, Jaime King, Jason Mewes, Paul Reubens and Arquette himself are the biggest names in the cast. Mewes and Reubens were probably the most fun, Mewes gives the most hilarious reply i've ever seen to somebody having their hand hacked off with an axe.
I'm not really sure how to rate Arquette's directing, as the film clearly was never meant to be anything more than a fun throwback to past slashers. It's upto the individual to make up their own minds as to whether this is a decent homage, or a film simply riddled with cliches. It has the grainy, gritty look of a much older film, and it was clearly made on a shoestring budget. There's scenes where we see the picture as if we're tripping out ourselves, it felt kind of awkward, annoying and unnecessary. If this was directed by a newcomer instead of Arquette, then I highly doubt the movie would have assembled the cast it did. It's the well known actors in roles you don't regularly see them in, that makes the movie a lot of fun.
There's nudity including full frontal, sadly for me the majority of it came from a ginger bloke. There's enough here to keep gorehounds relatively happy, but nowhere near the levels of something like Braindead. It was nice to see something original with them including a political element, but I felt it wasn't used as well as it could have been. We don't really see the killer with his Reagan mask anywhere near enough, the film could have been much more enjoyable if it had more wisecracks and Reagan quotes.
The Tripper is a cheesy, fun 80's throwback that most slasher fans will enjoy, the occasional horror/slasher fan are probably best off sticking to Halloween or Black Christmas. A pretty good but very flawed film.
For such a low budget horror movie, it actually has a pretty good cast, I assume a few are doing Arquette a favour. Balthazar Getty, Lukas Haas, Thomas Jane, Jaime King, Jason Mewes, Paul Reubens and Arquette himself are the biggest names in the cast. Mewes and Reubens were probably the most fun, Mewes gives the most hilarious reply i've ever seen to somebody having their hand hacked off with an axe.
I'm not really sure how to rate Arquette's directing, as the film clearly was never meant to be anything more than a fun throwback to past slashers. It's upto the individual to make up their own minds as to whether this is a decent homage, or a film simply riddled with cliches. It has the grainy, gritty look of a much older film, and it was clearly made on a shoestring budget. There's scenes where we see the picture as if we're tripping out ourselves, it felt kind of awkward, annoying and unnecessary. If this was directed by a newcomer instead of Arquette, then I highly doubt the movie would have assembled the cast it did. It's the well known actors in roles you don't regularly see them in, that makes the movie a lot of fun.
There's nudity including full frontal, sadly for me the majority of it came from a ginger bloke. There's enough here to keep gorehounds relatively happy, but nowhere near the levels of something like Braindead. It was nice to see something original with them including a political element, but I felt it wasn't used as well as it could have been. We don't really see the killer with his Reagan mask anywhere near enough, the film could have been much more enjoyable if it had more wisecracks and Reagan quotes.
The Tripper is a cheesy, fun 80's throwback that most slasher fans will enjoy, the occasional horror/slasher fan are probably best off sticking to Halloween or Black Christmas. A pretty good but very flawed film.
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Severance meets American Pie
This is a low-budget horror movie with humour, gore, scariness and a well comic tone. The tripper doesn't have the most best cast assembled (besides Jaime King, Thomas Jane, David... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Juhani Jääskeläinen (Finland)
Waste of money!
`The Tripper` while I admit is a good and different idea just gone
plain bad.It's about a group of `hippies` who are on their way to a
concert and start getting picked... Read more
plain bad.It's about a group of `hippies` who are on their way to a
concert and start getting picked... Read more
Published on 12 Sep 2009 by Mr. A. J. Ralph
So bad It's Almost Funny
The tripper falls firmly into the category filled with horror films that are fun to watch simply for their predictability. Read more
Published on 23 July 2009 by Mr. T. Brandon
Seen it All Before, Well Nearly.
Not been a major fan of the slasher genre of movie I tried to keep an open mind when reviewing this item. Read more
Published on 23 July 2009 by Astore Stargazer
Funny
This is a low budget film designed to make you jump.. it does that. The chacters are wacky, if a little silly. Read more
Published on 9 July 2008 by Mr. A. Mcgregor
just being subjective.
This film is unsatisfactory. It has nothing to offer, apart from wasting an hour and a half of your life. It's not scary, or non frightening or interesting about it. Read more
Published on 29 Jun 2008 by J.D. JESUS
You'd have to be Trippin' to even remotely enjoy the Tripper
This film is appalling. Not in the way 'so bad it's good', but so bad it's very bad. It has nothing to offer, apart from wasting an hour and a half of your life. Read more
Published on 21 Jun 2008 by Rock Zombie
If you like trashy horror movies this is worth picking up.
I like the idea of a reagan inspired killer but he really needed to give voice t more coedy reagan quotes to make it work. Read more
Published on 4 Jun 2008 by genejoke
Rent but don't buy
What can you say? It's worthy of sitting through if you have nothing better to do one evening, but I don't see why anyone but the most devoted horror collector would feel an urgent... Read more
Published on 15 May 2008 by Wayne Redhart
Just above average, if that
An unoriginal film, bits taken from movies like Saw etc. Nothing new and nothing that has not been done before. Read more
Published on 18 April 2008 by R. Patel
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