Post by drweir on Aug 23, 2005 19:28:56 GMT -5
In 1989 some teenagers in New Zealand got the family camcorder and made a movie for school. Using friends and recycling rubber ams, legs, and hands from Halloween, they made A Bucket of Gore. Then with some amateur advertising in horror fanzines, it found it's way to distant places on the globe, finally reaching my hands in 2005.
Your plot is exactly what you've seen before in legit horror movies. A maniac escapes an asylum and kills people. But throw out any budget, script, or proffesional acting and you get this. It's because it's made by no talent teenagers that makes it fun. It brought back fond memories of my own home horror movies of the late 1980's and early 1990's.
To begin with you see our villian, a kid wearing a green and orange jumpsuit and generic white mask (possibly trying to emulate Michael Myers) jump a fence and claim "I'm finally free!". Then he walks four feet to the right and you see the end of the fence. I guess hopping a fence rather than walking around it gives you more of a sense of the guy's escape. He then proceeds to kill everybody he comes across with the expected kitchen gore effects. Like when he kills a guy and takes his car. As he's backing up the car you see his dead victim scoot on his butt out of the way. But these kids had fun making this. You can tell as they are constantly giggling underneath their hardcore acting. Plus the extra laughing when the camera guy yells cut but forgets to edit the few seconds following out of the final movie.
I also like the unscripted nature of the whole thing. In one scene as the tables turn on the killer, a woman goes to start a lawnmower, only to curse under her breath when it doesn't start on the first few pulls.
All in all this a great throwback to the days of high school horror. As the final credits roll (written on a chalkboard and playing to Sweet Child of Mine on a nearby radio) I found myself applauding the homemade horror and wondering if these kids ever went onto anything greater in the years that followed.
Your plot is exactly what you've seen before in legit horror movies. A maniac escapes an asylum and kills people. But throw out any budget, script, or proffesional acting and you get this. It's because it's made by no talent teenagers that makes it fun. It brought back fond memories of my own home horror movies of the late 1980's and early 1990's.
To begin with you see our villian, a kid wearing a green and orange jumpsuit and generic white mask (possibly trying to emulate Michael Myers) jump a fence and claim "I'm finally free!". Then he walks four feet to the right and you see the end of the fence. I guess hopping a fence rather than walking around it gives you more of a sense of the guy's escape. He then proceeds to kill everybody he comes across with the expected kitchen gore effects. Like when he kills a guy and takes his car. As he's backing up the car you see his dead victim scoot on his butt out of the way. But these kids had fun making this. You can tell as they are constantly giggling underneath their hardcore acting. Plus the extra laughing when the camera guy yells cut but forgets to edit the few seconds following out of the final movie.
I also like the unscripted nature of the whole thing. In one scene as the tables turn on the killer, a woman goes to start a lawnmower, only to curse under her breath when it doesn't start on the first few pulls.
All in all this a great throwback to the days of high school horror. As the final credits roll (written on a chalkboard and playing to Sweet Child of Mine on a nearby radio) I found myself applauding the homemade horror and wondering if these kids ever went onto anything greater in the years that followed.
