Boatyard Analysis – Skeezy Cannibal Horror Picks Off Wealthy Youngsters on a Boat Ride to Slaughter
A number of thrillers delve into underlying dreads, and other entries leverage scares to examine societal problems. There exist those that strive only to thrill or provoke laughter. And then there is ridiculous, sadistic trash such as this: a low-budget ripoff of cannibal-killer property The Hills Have Eyes, its poor follow-ups and comparable titles.
Notably, it stars a performer who appeared in 1977 version of Hills production: Susan Lanier portrays Martha, a blowsy bartender with a taste for human meat. But Hills did attempt to develop some sort of backstory for its mayhem; This character and her seedy associates’ appetites are simply assumed, as if encountering man-eaters is merely one potential danger of yacht living, comparable to sharks or equipment failure.
The Victims to This Slaughter
The lambs for this massacre include a group of mostly foolish individuals who are twenty-something, who get together for partying purposes on the yacht belonging to affluent Chad (Zachary Roosa). The group consists of this character’s permanently bikini-clad partner another role (this performer), male friend Franklin (the actor), plus a same-sex pair one character (Amy Byrd) and another (this talent).
Quantities of cocaine are used, copious amounts of alcohol taken in and romantic encounters embarked on as previews for this production’s true purpose of entertainment: putting the characters in the hands of the tattooed boatyard body-eaters, who lead them to land when the yacht runs out of gas on the water.
A Pointless Venture
Finally, this is not even close to gory like those movies at their worst, however, one finds a quality far more dispiriting about this film’s meaninglessness, its lack of cleverness, compassion, or fundamental cinematic skill. The performances reaches such an finely tuned level of atrociousness that it is impossible to endure.
