...or how to make 78 minutes feel like a very long time indeed. Packaged as a slick American horror (that it so wants to be), this unofficial remake turns out to be an extremely low-rent Welsh 'movie' that looks like a local amateur dramatics society trying to do a slasher. Both pacing and delivery are lethargic, which is no helped by some very odd use of camera, poor lighting and unconvincing split-screens and wipes that are best left for home-made holiday presentations. Even sound and music cannot save the day as both are utilised weakly, and some reasonably realised bloody effects work is not fully successful owing to less-than-tight editing. Some nods to the genre classics are present, but the final 'Christmas Dinner' scene certainly isn't anywhere near a match for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Cheap and not very cheerful, and decidedly unglamorous and unconvincing, the threat of a sequel at the end is not a promising prospect on this evidence.
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