So anyway, “Butchered” came out in 2010 and runs about 70 min. It's unrated and was directed by Charles Stewart Jr., Shaun O' Rourke, and Sheila Brothers. That’s about all I know about the production and whatnot, but let me tell you about the plot. Let’s do this!
When a group of teens decide to spend their last weekend on a remote island to say their final goodbyes before heading off to college, they get a little more than they bargained for. Little do they know convicted serial killer Terrance Skinner escaped from authorities while on death row in a maximum security prison. Skinner is referred to as "the butcher" due to the heinous way he killed his victims.
He would stock pile bodies in his family owned butcher shop and hack them into pieces. He had killed fourteen people before authorities caught up to him. And now that he's escaped he's taken cover on the very same island that the teens are headed for. It soon becomes a battle for the teens for survival against this unlikely foe.
Two policemen are chasing the butcher in the woods when he kills them and then escapes. A young woman named Kelly returns home to find her apartment door ajar but thinks nothing of it. She calls a friend to bitch about the fact that her boyfriend packed his stuff and moved out. She hears noises in her apartment and tells her friend she'd call back.
She checks all of the doors and finds her cat in one of the rooms. She calls her friend back and says it was only her cat when the butcher walks up behind her and kills her. Meanwhile, a bunch of college kids at a party are planning one last weekend together on a remote part of an island they used to hang out at. They want to get together one last time before college starts. Later that night on that same island, a man finds an axe in one of his boats and yells out for people to stop using his boathouse. Just then the butcher comes up behind him and kills him.
The next day Dylan gets his brother Brody to take him and his friends to the island to spend a few days there. They arrive at the island and set up their tents. They get to talking about the butcher and how he escaped from prison. Sam tells them that the police tracked him and he is thought to be around where they are.
After they finish talking about the butcher, they frolic on the beach for a while playing football and hanging out. Dawn sees her friend Chloe kiss Sam, whom she is interested in. She gets mad and storms off back to camp. When she arrives she finds the butcher going through everyone’s things. It only takes her moments to realize who he is and she starts running away. She falls in the sand (typical) and the butcher hits her in the head with a rock and drags her to another part of the island.
Sam and Chloe are getting ready to go at it when they hear Dawn scream. Chloe insists that they go try to find her. Sam says they'll go to the camp and get flashlights and go back. Just then the butcher walks up behind Chloe and throws an axe in her chest. Sam screams and runs away. He is hiding behind a tree when the butcher finds him and buries an axe into his stomach. Hope, Dylan, Jenna, and Trevor are getting worried about Sam and the girls so they decide to go looking for them on the island.
They decide to split up and Trevor and Hope run into the butcher shortly after. He tells Hope to run and go back to camp and find Jenna. Dylan finds the girls and tells them he's going to find Trevor. Trevor starts fighting the butcher and he kills Trevor with an axe and drags his dead body and puts it with the others.
Dylan goes back out to search for Trevor and stumbles across a pile of dead friends bodies. The butcher finds him and he runs. The butcher hears Hope and Jenna talking and heads in their direction. Dylan taunts him and calls him names and he throws an axe at Dylan. Meanwhile Hope is trying to reach Brody on Dylan's radio to tell him they need help. The butcher finds Hope and Jenna and...
And what?? What does the big bad butcher do??? Well I guess you should head on over to Netflix and watch Butchered to find out! This movie was ok. I wasn't crazy about it. The acting was totally over the top and at times so fake. And I don't know if it was Netflix or my computer, but the video quality was total shit! It was all blurry. Boo to that!!
There was a good amount of blood I guess. Could have been more. The killings were semi-believable, but half of the time they didn't show them, which really irked me. They'd usually change scenes when someone was about to get offed. I wanna see death dammit!!!
Yeesh! There was some brief nudity, boobs within the first 10 minutes of the movie that is. And then in the opening credits it showed the butcher torturing some half naked girl and cutting off her nipples. Can I just say something for the whole female population??? OUCH!!!!!!!!
And another part I didn't like too much was all of the white kids talking like they're gangster. What is up with that?? Or maybe I was hearing things. Maybe it was some kind of accent, but jeez.
I gave “Butchered” a 2.5 out of 5. I didn't hate it but I didn't like it either. There’s a slight chance I'd watch this again, if I were incredibly bored and there wasn't a thing left to do in the world maybe. It is most definitely a B movie through and through. Now that I've shared my feelings with you, you can go on over and check out what Zane’s got on the slab. He want's you to look!!
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| Sasha Slaughter |
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