Reeker

When I first read the title of this movie, I thought it was going to be about a bunch of college kids who locked themselves in a hotel room, drank a lot of beer, and farted all night.  Not really.  But I would bet that room would stink just as bad as this movie.

Trip scores some killer drugs that have serious hallucinogenic side effects.  He and a group pile into a car to go to Area 52, which is supposed to be the biggest rave on the West Coast.  People in the car on the trip: Trip the drug user, Gretchen the driver, Cookie the eye candy, Jack the blind guy, and Nelson.  I don't know how to describe Nelson.  He's just there.

They roll along and once Trip announces to the car that he has the pills, Gretchen wigs out and wants to drop him off right where she stopped the car.  Nelson talks her out of it and they proceed back to the diner that they just left to leave Trip there.  But once they get to the diner, Gretchen's car stalls and the strangely enough, there is nobody at the diner.  Nobody.  Nobody working.  Nobody eating.  Nobody.

It's getting late and next to the diner is a hotel.  Nobody at the hotel either.  Things start happening to them one by one and eventually people start dying.  But not too gruesome.  They have to fend off the grim reaper himself to survive.  Give me a break.  Shooting at Death, stabbing Death with a shovel, ... what is going on here?

I get how the movie ends, but for all of the set up that took place in the beginning of this movie, it sure fell apart at the end.  I guess the writer either didn't know how to end the movie or had this bazaar twist ready and didn't know how to tie it all together.  Either way, it was a bomb for me.

Suspense?  Maybe.  Horror?  No.  Worst acting for someone who is supposed to be blind?  Definitely.  For most of the film, Jack walks/stumbles around with his arms outstretched trying to feel his way about.  Only towards the end does he accept assistance from others by using their arm to follow behind them.  It just doesn't seem likely is all I am saying.

I give this movie 0 out of 5 outhouses.