Whereas the various entries in the post-SCREAM slasher revival were made by filmmakers who spent their formative years enjoying the slasher boom that followed in the wake of the original HALLOWEEN, time marches on, and we're now seeing slasher movies made by people who grew up watching those post-SCREAM movies. Case in point: low budget effort BRAXTON (2015),which was re-titled THE BUTCHERING in the US, initially released straight to DVD in the UK as BRAXTON BUTCHER, and was re-released there under it's original title at the beginning of 2019. Shot in Northern Ireland with a local cast, when it's writer/editor/producer/director Leo McGuigan was only nineteen years old, BRAXTON cheerfully references NATURAL BORN KILLERS (1994) and the SCREAM franchise in it's dialogue, while the storyline borrows heavily from the MY BLOODY VALENTINE remake (2009),and visually it pays homage to URBAN LEGEND (1998) with a fur-lined hooded parka-clad killer and the faithful recreation of a key moment. It's not perfect - at an hour & fifty minutes in length, it's too long, and accordingly the narrative drags in places. Some occasional lines of dialogue also feel out-of-place, too clearly the product of a screenwriter sitting at this desk instead of something a real person would actually say. And the final revelational scene when the killer reveals all, contains one unnecessary twist too many. But BRAXTON had more pluses than minuses: the young cast look like ordinary, ache-ridden teenagers instead of the impossibly good-looking hunks and Victoria's Secret models that populate American slashers . And it's genuinely difficult to predict who's going to survive - the character who I initially thought was the Final Girl wasn't, and an individual who clearly had 'Victim' written all over her proved otherwise. Special mention to Laura Pyper lookalike Vicky Allen, who steals every scene she's in as the school's resident self-obsessed, two-timing Queen Bee. Remarkably, according to the IMDB it's her only on-screen role so far.

This is an Irish slasher film with the accent on the Irish. The film opens with Tommy Miller going on a rampage. Two teens managed to elude him. We then go to 10 years later. Ryan Fenton (Shaun Blaney) one of the teens is now a detective. Cora (Stephanie Donaghue),the other teen that survived, is a radio call-in host. The killer appears to want Ryan as the Baxton High School students, with all their Irish teen angst are all being killed.

The film was uneven with characters I liked (Jenna Byrne),grew to like (Vicky Allen) and others such as Alicia (Natalie Curran) and Fred we could have done without. The high school reporter geek squad could have been better developed and utilized. The film had drama and light comedy with their horror. They had all the pieces but it was missing the glue. I did laugh at the last killing. The person initially thought would be the final girl, wasn't. Then they introduced a new "final girl" which she was actually called by the killer.

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Penny Candy at Halloween. I thought it was ok movie, nothing great or special but not terrible either. Def not deserving of a 1. I mean the Horror genre & it's cousins have put out some of the best but also the some of the worst movies ever. No way should this be given a 1 unless the rater has only seen 10 movies in lifetime & this was the worst. Otherwise any1 gonna giving out 1/10's is lazy & shouldn't be trusted. I don't care how much BS analysis they spit out bout plot holes, bad acting, or the "it's already been done". No bleep Sherlock, there are thousands of movies out every yr for the last century. U go ahead & write ova a million novels & I promise you that your not gonna be a genius who finds a way to avoid an overlapping subplot eventually let alone main plot. It's all been done by now. It's just how the screen writers, directors & actors package their story that makes it unique. But I'm tired of 1's in rating, especially in movies that are clearly average. Not like a 2-4 is a good rating but certainly isn't a 1 which should be reserved for movies u basically turn-off They so bad. Yeah we all have rights & rights to opinions, but if u give 1's out your rating privelage is provoked. U can still rate but no1 is gonna give your analysis a lick of consideration cuz it's a joke. This movie wasn't bad, it was average for production time & genre. British girls are cute & acting wasn't bad at all. People who give this a 1 prob give the movie "stitches" a 1 & that's when u know they can't be trusted. Cuz stitches is 1 badass movie & prob a 7 & so this falls about 3 pegs down