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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
The curse of the low budget slasher!, 5 May 2006
I quite enjoy low budget straight to DVD slasher films. Some are quite good and get overlooked, others can be quite funny and others so bad the almost become comedies! Thankfully this is one of the better ones, but by no means great! I always wonder what scenario or location they will come up with next for the slasher genre. This time we have a mine in the hills, although most of the action takes place around a camp site.
A group of friends decide to take a trip to an old mine as the sister of a guy working there found a nugget of gold, and all there friends decide to tag along as well. How ever there is a curse on the gold and the old Forty-Niner comes back to claim his gold!
Not a great story line but cue the young 20 something cast, including a Ruud Van Nistleroy look-alike, and a couple of sexy girls in small tops, tight jeans go looking for there friend. The death scenes are very much the, hear the sound effect and show the aftermath type. Not that gory compared to the likes of Cabin fever etc. The film is not scary but I have seen worse. The compulsory nude scene of a sexy girl is there (also on the chapter selection lol) along with all the other stuff you expect from a slasher film. Weird locals, a cameo from Sensi from the Karate kid films! Low budget effects, a killer who looks like a zombie red neck and a flashback to how the legend began! Overall if you like the slasher film genre, you might like this. There are worse out there! 4/10
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
how trashy, 8 April 2008
awful film. Irritating actors and a badly plotted storyline. All the components for a really rubbish movie.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
WORTH A LOOK IF YOU HAVE A PASSING INTEREST FOR LOW BUDGET SLASHER FILMS, 3 Nov 2007
While traveling to Suttersville, a small town in the middle of nowhere, a group of friends gather to go gold hunting. Along the way, an old man (Richard Lynch) tells Axl (Stephen Wastell) and Tori (Sangie) about a mysterious legend of the Forty-Niner. The other members of the group, Hayden, (Rick Majeske) Rox Ann, (Elina Madison) Nick, (Sean Hines) and Claire, (Carrie Bradac) arrive at an old ghost town with Axl and Tori. When Axl meets a local Eve, (Alexandra Ford) Tori has enough and leaves, leaving Eve to guide the others to a camping spot along an old mining shaft, who then leaves. Once inside the shaft, they discover the hidden gold of the Forty-Niner. As they decide what to do with their newfound wealth, they incur the wrath of the Forty-Niner, who has guarded his wealth for a hundred and fifty years. Together with a superstitious old woman (Karen Black) and the local sheriff, (John Phillip Law) they find a way to stop the killer ghost.
The Good News: This isn't all that bad as it seems. It isn't that long a movie, and that allows for a very fast pace with lots of great killing and tons of gore. We do have a lot of great deaths. There's a pick-ax to the stomach, an ax to the back of the head, a shovel thrown into a car and into a neck, a people lit on fire, and a decapitation, among others. The shovel kill is in fact the best kill in the movie. After spotting the miner, they all flee in different directions. One runs into a car and tries to start it, but the miner throws a shovel through the windshield, hitting them in the neck. That is a really great kill. The miner himself is pretty creepy. He looks suitably evil, with that greenish-blue hue, a scraggly beard, and those piercing eyes that all combine to create a deadly villain. He merely needed more screen-time since the film is really short. There is a lot of action as well, with chasing, explosions, lots of people set on fire and killing in one fine film. It also has one great ending, one that wasn't easy to guess. It plays brilliantly on the classic false ending that so many films use, but it isn't the one most normally think of using. It's a great twist, and it doesn't come completely out of the blue. It also is filled with a few great B-movie stars of the past in one film. Richard Lynch, Karen Black, John Philip Law, Vernon Wells and Martin Kove all have roles in here.
The Bad News: This was a lot shorter than it should've been. Just barely over an hour and twenty minutes, this definitely needed a little more time to flesh out. There is a lot of stalking going on in the movie, but it needed a little more, because the middle part of the film is a little dull. Once they leave the town and head for the mine, there is nothing for a good half-hour.
The Final Verdict: This isn't the worst horror film ever made, and it does deserve a better reputation than it has. It features four great B-movie stars together with a great villain, lots of action, blood and gore, and an interesting story in a great film. This is definitely recommended viewing for all horror fans, or those that want to kill an hour and a half without doing too much to stress themselves.
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