Plasterhead

2006 "True Evil Has No Face"
3.4| 1h34m| R| en
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Every town has a local legend. Not all of them are deadly. Headed to Miami to celebrate winter break, a group of four college students from New Jersey take a detour into the bowels of rural West Virginia. There, the unwitting friends uncover a grotesque legend that stains the fabric of Rolling Glen, a sleepy backwoods town. As the four friends quickly find out, some believe Williams still roams the woods on the outskirts of town, surviving on the slaughter of wildlife. Others claim to have seen Williams in person, a looming figure with a ghostly white visage, purportedly a makeshift cast to mask the scars and wounds left from the merciless assault. They have a name for Williams now: Plasterhead. Soon, the four friends find themselves holed up in an abandoned farmhouse, mired in a macabre web of terror. Sheriff Taggart will do anything to keep the truth buried: the truth that Plasterhead is frighteningly real. As these teens will soon learn, true evil has no face.

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Also starring Steph Van Vlack

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Steineded How sad is this?
Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies
Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
terrible2 First off, I must comment on how well many of the shots were setup. So much of the cinematography looks amazing for a low budget horror film... Then there's the movie itself...I understand the restraints of working with low budgets, but "Plasterhead" is supposed to be the legend of a severely disfigured guy who lives in an old shack out in the woods, that no one has visited in several years. Fair enough, but how hard can it be to find a rundown old house? It seems I see them all the time and I live in a nice area of town. "Plasterhead" appears to be up on the latest home decor fashions, as his (really nice) house is spotless inside and out, and looks as though Martha Stewart may have lent him a hand while decorating (he obviously knows his way around with a putty-knife)... Come on! With the exception of Ernest Dancy as "David", the acting is laughable at best. The main portion of the story takes place in West Virginia (where people have Southern accents), yet only the waitress (who can't act) seems to grasp this concept. Wait till you get a load of the guy playing the sheriff... He's supposed to be a backwoods hillbilly type, but is obviously from the east coast and attempts a (southern?) accent, which unfortunately sounds a lot more like a mentally impaired guy from Brooklyn (quite ridiculous throughout)... The story is down-right stupid, and it's ineptness leads a beautifully shot film right into the gutter. Add the bad location scouting and lack of acting talent, and you are left with a complete mess of all of the above...There are far better low budget Indies out there if you know where to look.
Anthony Pittore III (Shattered_Wake) A group of friends on their way to Miami for Christmas break take a backwoods detour to avoid highway traffic. There, in middle-of-nowhere West Virginia, the friends run afoul of a faceless murderer who roams the woods looking for unaware victims.Using a tired old story with the typically undertalented cast, and the typically low-quality audio & video, and the typically subpar script. However, even without these three important components, a film can still find a way to be, at least, entertaining. Look at all the great B-movies that have come out over the years. They still hold an enjoyability factor that goes unmatched by 'quality' cinema. While Plasterhead doesn't have the same entertainment value that most of the classic B-movies have, it's still relatively watchable compared to other films in its category. Also, compared to those films, the direction & cinematography are both fairly well done. The film has a nice mix of comedy spread throughout, most of it unintentional. For instance, the biggest mystery of the film would be trying to figure out all of the continuity errors. Snow disappears and reappears (creepy!). Waitresses give out wrong orders. A house that's sat empty for a period of time is in perfect shape, extremely clean, and (best of all) has hot running water. Much of the story makes little sense. The killer randomly goes around murdering townies (who are still IN TOWN and not in the scary woods), even though he never does that. I mean, town's safe, that's why they moved there, right? Well, unless you're just innocently drinking in the local bar, that is. It's not a good film. At all. In fact, it's pretty bad. But, there are enough reasonably okay elements that make it good for a watch. Or, you can watch it for the really bad elements and have a few laughs. Either way, it's entertaining enough, but I still wouldn't recommend it.Obligatory Slasher Elements:Violence/Gore: There are some cool kills (I particularly liked the barbed-wire one(s)), and the gore's not too bad-looking.Sex/Nudity: There's a bit of unimpressive nudity at the beginning, but that's all.Cool Killer(s): I liked the idea. It's nothing new, just a deformed man seeking vengeance for being deformed. But, faceless and disgusting? Cool.Scares/Suspense: Eh, I didn't even find many good jump scares, let alone any quality suspense.Mystery: Not really any at all.Awkward Dance Scene: Ah, no. No opportunities, unfortunately.- -Final verdict: 4/10. Fairly generous here, I think.-AP3-
homecoming8 On paper this movie looked good for fans of the 'slasher'genre. It starts of OK, but as soon as the four main characters are introduced, it all goes downhill fast. Their performances are not great, not even good. But it is not there where this movie fails. Since there is no thrill of tension in the story, the makers decided to work with 'scary' music, throughout the e-n-t-i-r-y film. This will get on your nerves within 15 minutes or so, and you forget about the bad acting. For the gore hounds there's more bad news: there seemed to be no money at all for special effects or gore so all you get to see is people lying in blood. The plasterhead himself could have been scary, but the film simply doesn't work on any level. The killer is like a Candyman (also black and murdered and now the town's urban legend) and the murders are taken directly from films like "Friday the 13th" but without effects. Two examples of how stupid the reactions of the characters in the story are: -When the sheriff finds two bodies, he decides to have a quick drink before checking what the hell is going on and if he is in any danger. -The last two survivors explain the whole story to the sheriff while they are being chased by the killer (come on..) I myself am a great fan of slashers such as "Friday" and "Hills have eyes" but I still wonder why I saw this one 'til the very end..
lingh0e This was a poorly planned, poorly executed crapfest. The characters were so one dimensional, clichéd and unrealistic that I really didn't care what happened to them. Only one of them was a decent actor, and she barely pulled it off. Everyone else seemed like they were reading directly off cue cards.***spoilers ahead***There were SO many holes in the plot, most of them big enough to drive a Mac truck through. The killer goes to a diner and kills two people for absolutely no reason... at all. He smashes through a window and pulls a dude out... a minute later the dude apparently managed to get away from the killer, who some how forgets that he was chasing him. After magically recapturing him and nailing him to a chair, he just goes to sit in front of a radio and stare into space like some kind of vegetable. ***end of spoilers***In all, this was a horribly constructed mish-mash of typical horror movie clichés that are poorly strung together amid unbearable dialogue delivered by dense, unattractive actors.Don't waste your time.