Plot: Teens come face to face with the authentic horrors of the American Deep South whilst on Spring Break.Why is this a contender for Best Movie. Ever?
Time and time again, we hear a tagline for a horror movie boasting that it is inspired by true events. This one doesn't, but then, this one isn't like all the others. Even though it doesn't make such a claim, the real breakway element for this film is that the events in it COULD happen. I have been to the American South, and the atmosphere and nature of the people of that region of the world is definitely captured accurately here. Hellbent, blood-thirsty twisted, incestuous, cannibalistic; it's all represented. They even got the shapeshifting demon bit right. The plot follows some familiar conventions of the slasher genre, but it's kept chilling through it's grounded focus on bringing to light some of the offsets of a dark chapter in American history; a people a country have found it necessary to deny knowledge of. What would happen if a group of horny kids stumbled across them? I imagine it would play out exactly as we see here, and that in itself is true horror.
Best scene: A gay spring-breaker is impaled, anus first, with a pointed pole as onlookers cheer.
I didn't say the film was classy. Only plausible.
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