MUCK is an appropriate title indeed for this cheap, mucky, no-budget horror wannabe. The film starts off as if it's halfway through the plot of a different film, with a group of survivors escaping through the swamps and being pursued by some nameless evil. What follows on is more of the same: characters bickering, exchanging insults and profanities, and being killed one by one by some weirdo types.

Oh, and I forgot to mention the nudity. With at least a couple of Playboy Playmates in the cast, this is a film all about the nudity. Random characters parade in front of mirrors and strip out of their bras at regular intervals. The sheer scuzziness of it has to be seen to be believed. It gives the film a really sleazy feel which is about the only thing it does have going for it.

Elsewhere, it's a poorly-edited and misconceived monstrosity, wasting the talents of an effective-looking Kane Hodder playing one of the villains. Hodder enlivened the likes of the HATCHET trilogy but is sorely wasted here, although he's the only actor I liked in the whole thing. Cheap gore effects and incessant action only serve to induce a headache in the viewer.

A group of young adults are out one summer during St. Patrick's in the wilds of Cape Cod in the town of Wes(t) Craven. They are being hunted by Kane Hodder and company who hack them up and rip off the tops of women...and then hack them up. We don't know who or why. The kids reaction in not getting the police is inane. The bad guys appear to be the offspring of Michael Berryman. Nothing makes sense except that the film was designed that way.

This is a spoof of the 80's horror/slasher film. In fact Billy (Grant Alan Ouzts) comically explains who dies and why and in what order. He even claims Kylie is too classy to show her boobs and it is even in her contract...a little hint that the top billed Playboy starlet keeps her top on. Nothing makes sense. All the women were beautiful. There was an abundance of nudity. The only thing missing was a chainsaw.

In addition to the frequent topless scenes, I also liked the dialogue, sort of like buying Playboy for the articles. I caught a street name in the film and searched it on line only to find a 1862 square foot house on said road in West Dennis Cape Cod that rents itself out and looked identical to the one in the film in case you are looking for a vacation home used in a B horror film. I am in no way connected to the film, but did visit Cape Cod once.

It is a film not to be taken seriously.

F-bomb, Nudity (Stephanie Danileson, Laura Van Hees, Laura Jacobs, and Ava whose face we don't see, is deliberately uncredited, they blurred out the name, and might be our Playboy starlet.)

Or "Another Deadly Weekend" as it was renamed in Germany for its release. Maybe a better title than Muck, but I'll leave that up to you. I am shocked though at the level of hate this receives here. Don't get me twisted, this is not a masterpiece (and I reckon some felt they had to vote this a 10 because so many scored it low),but this is fun.

And when I say fun, I mean that exactly like that. Yes this is not exactly Horror and yes there is quite some erratic character motivation and decisions ... but while the script feels like it could have done with a bit more work, the actors and parts of the dialogue is really good. The timing of the jokes works mostly. There seems to be no CGI, which works for the movie and the low budget.

Now onto one of the biggest criticisms (besides this not being entirely horror and the beginning of the movie): mirrors and flesh. The director might have a mirror fetish, but he uses it for men and women characters in this. Yes there is some nudity in this, but this should neither bother you nor excite you (there are other sources for that). Yes the main cast is mostly pretty, but is this something you find appalling? Try not to concentrate on being negative if possible.

And lastly the beginning. Thrown into the action, into a weird world. I loved that - there is almost nothing more sufficient than keeping the viewer on the edge of their seat. And not knowing what's going on or where we are, how we got there ... is quite satisfying. It's mostly how every great TV show works/begins.

Yes the movie is riddled with flaws too (planting and payoff for example of a certain location, characters/decisions),but the cinematography, the acting and some of the script work nicely together. Believe me there are way worse movies out there ... I've seen them