Memorial Day is when the United States remembers and honors
those who died serving in the United States Armed Forces, and although it is
not (directly) observed in the UK I thought I would add it to the challenge line-up,
even though it has very little to do with the occasion.
So, Memorial Day Killer (also known as
Memorial Day) is an offering from 1998 directed by Christopher Alender and
written by Marcos Gabriel. A tale of wrongdoing and revenge that happens to
take place on Memorial Day concerning a group of friends who decide to return to
MEMORIAL Lake Campground for the first time since Rachel
(Played by Therese Fretwell) 's adopted
brother Danny accidentally drowned there three years before... sure enough, wouldn’t
you know it? The killings start. I try not to be negative about these films as I
doubt I could do any better, this movie came out at a time when I had become
somewhat disillusioned with ‘modern’ horror but I was ready to go back and have
my opinion changed, it wasn’t.
Perhaps
had this been a big budget movie previously ignored the first time round it
might have been regarded by some as the ‘Missing Link’ between the Scream/ I
Know What You Did Last Summer genre of movies of the late 90’s and the Saw franchise
of the early 2000’s but frankly the deaths of the whining girlfriends and over
acting boyfriends at the hands of a papier-mâché mask wearing killer was just a
blessed relief.
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