Easily one of the best films of the fest (IMHO). It's a hilarious mockumentary filmed by a small crew that wants to chronicle and study the rise of the next great psycho serial killer. Angela Goethals plays a trepiditious on screen interviewer that takes on the task of introducing and revealing the next great killer that will carry the torch started by Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, and Freddie Krueger. This new killer, Leslie Vernon is played brilliantly by Nathan Baesel, with a high-strung energy not unlike Jim Carey. He shows the disbelieving crew how he picks and torments his victims. He introduces them to his mentor, and the topic of a killing spree is treated with the glibness of any normal hobby. The small crew starts to fear that they're in over their heads as things escalate and the killing begins. While the slasher and horror genre has been lampooned before with the Scary Movie series, this one takes it to a whole new level. I have to say it was done brilliantly.
Posted by Doug Van Pelt at March 14, 2006 11:19 AM