 Thank you for checking out this no spoilers movie review This is for the mutilator which is a 1984 film and it's currently when I'm recording this Available for streaming on the shutter horror movie and show streaming service That's actually where I get a lot of my reviews from and part of the reason being I'm in a Horror group on Facebook that is I think it's called Joe Bob Briggs driving mutants I think that's the actual name of it But it's basically people who really like Joe Bob Briggs and like shutter And so I do polls on there and this was a winner of the poll I kind of see why being a kind of like Joe Bob Briggs fan group And as I talk about it more you'll kind of understand. So first off, this movie is terrible. This movie is is awful It's it's not to be really taken seriously at all I know I had had some people who commented on the poll and it kind of said oh It's greatly on a underappreciated and I was like, oh, you know maybe this is gonna be some like diamond in the rough some gem that people don't really talk about often that is really amazing because those are out there and Then I started watching it and I was like oh, it's one of these It's a terrible movie, but it does fall into the category. I think of a terrible fun movie you have like terrible terrible movies and Terrible fun movies and this is kind of a terrible fun movie. It's not like the best It's not like something like the stuff we're like the stuff by Larry Cohen isn't like It's it's kind of like an in-between type thing where it's like it's it's bad Like story-wise and ridiculous, but it's a lot of fun. This one the story is not good at all It's mainly just about the kills to be honest And that's what makes it actually fun and being able to kind of laugh at how bad the acting is as well So let me go over this a little bit. I looked into a little bit of the Kind of behind-the-scenes like how this film came to be and some things people had said about it way back So once again, keep in mind this is 1984 a lot of people were just like pumping out movies at that time and Money was pretty free-flowing especially for horror back then so the movie was originally called fall break not the mutilator fall break and Obviously it had to do with some college kids on fall break and then they get killed That's not really spoilers because It's a horror movie and it's in the description of it So the MPAA actually gave it an X rating, which after I watched it. I was just like an X rating unless I've seen I was seeing like an edited version on shutter But I would think it's a non edited version Being in 2019 right now, but I was like how was it an X rating like there was a nudity in it But it wasn't crazy. I guess maybe it was a combination of the nudity plus the gore and the practical effects Which that's kind of the thing about this movie It is a terrible movie and the acting is like some of the worst I've seen in film, but The gore and the practical effects and the kill scenes are actually quite good And when you look at how bad the movie actually is versus how good the kills and gore and practical effects it's kind of mind-boggling and The movie had a budget of about a million dollars of just kind of where I found it online It was like estimate about a million dollars. So I was like all the money must have gone towards like the gore effects basically Because you see that like that's what it looks like and I was I mean if for nothing else I would recommend people see this movie for the kill scenes because they are impressive for how bad the movie is to be honest So Tom Savini apparently has praised the movie Just for the kills and the gore And he says that's actually the reason to see the movie basically and I think that's interesting coming from him because he did He I believe he had done the practical and like gore effects for a movie back in the 80s called the prowler and It feels similar to me the prowler was a bad movie The story was terrible the acting wasn't very good Although I do think the acting is better than the mutilator But still not very good and just like a boring not good movie But the the kills and the gore and the practical effects were really good So it's kind of interesting that Tom Savini is saying that about the mutilator because it's very much like the prowler So and I will say I do need to say that the mutilators feels to me like a movie that should get the Joe Bob Briggs treatment and I would think that it probably could because he's had movies like this He actually did a episode for during one of his marathons on the shutter streaming service He did one for the prowler. So they're kind of like two peas in a pod and I think should do the mutilator So right off the bat the acting in this is atrocious. I wrote down it is like crazy bad. You won't believe how bad it is In addition to the kills and practical effects, you should see it for how bad the acting is I guess just to believe it, you know There's no dialogue really in the beginning when they're clearly should be dialogue There there's something that they open up with a scene where things are happening and you're just like How is nobody speaking right now? And it just boggles my mind. It's terrible script writing. It's terrible filmmaking But you're just like How did they go through this and think everyone should be silent? No one should say a certain thing? It's weird. It is weird. It is awful and you're just like what the hell So the beginning of this actually reminded me of a few other films that I've seen actually both movies that Joe Bob Briggs has given his treatment to Pieces the beginning of pieces seem kind of similar in the beginning of blood rage Those types of films actually a little bit sleep sleep away camp as well like a slight bit sleep away camp So if you've seen those you'll kind of like understand the common commonality of how they open up So you'll know what I'm talking about So there's the reason I wrote down There's a reason that the guy who wrote and directed this buddy Cooper There's a reason he only made one film his IMDB credits are not extensive at all very very small The only actual film he made is the mutilator aka fall break and you can see why I'm sure after seeing this Nobody wanted to bankroll this guy. Everyone was like We'll pass. No, thanks. Although Nowadays with people kind of like liking bad movies now I think it might be cool if buddy Cooper stole live if someone found him and like you want to make a Mutilator 2 or you want to make another film kind of bad like this Here's some money do it because it could make money. I really think it could The theme song for this is Horrendous it kind of reminded me of like a buddy comedy sitcom from the 80s theme song And it just doesn't fit for a horror film at all And it's so 80s and ridiculous like it even has one of those like kind of long saxophone solos Do you guys remember saxophone solos in music? I actually was saying like a year or two ago I was just like whatever happened to saxophone solos and You know when I think about it like solos in general have just kind of disappeared for music here You know here and there you'll hear it But like guitar solos have always been classic and amazing But saxophone solos were actually kind of cool for a bit and I think it'd be funny if we brought him back I don't know but there's a there's a saxophone solo in the intro theme song for the mutilator and it's it's weird The song is so bad So the the the characters in there are supposed to be college age and one one of the dudes looks like he's in his 40s So that just kind of like adds to the comedic aspect for me personally I found myself actually laughing when I'm looking at these people and I'm like, okay So first of all almost all of them look like they're easily in their mid mid the late 20s Like one of the guys looks like he's maybe in his early 30s But the one dude looks like he could easily be in his early 40s And I was just like that. It's crazy This guy thinks okay, so I know to myself so the main character in it is Very kind of like blase about a lot of stuff Including the fact that his father is like a crazy raging alcoholic and and he's just like it's so crazy to me Where he's just like he like is just like, you know like thinks his dad's alcoholism is funny And it's just like Goes back to the terrible script writing. It's like who writes this who thinks this is how a movie should go and how Dialogue should be in how characters should be. It's crazy They did have a very nice beach setting the the setting of you know, they go to a beach house It's cool. Like you see the beach you see the waves you see the sand and and like beach houses have like a cool interesting look to them and I feel like They did utilize the beach house to a decent degree. So that's kind of cool So you see a lot of it, which I enjoy but also Because of that and it's very like a very small set There are a lot of times where the killer is kind of like sneaking around and you're like people definitely should have seen him Sneaking around like there are all these Situations where it's like it's timed exactly right so that someone will like not necessarily actually happens But an example like someone will like turn their back at exactly the right time that like the killer walks behind them or something And they don't happen to like hear footsteps or anything And they're just like and there are numerous moments of that where you're just like they definitely would have seen this guy He wouldn't be able to as silently just get through It just adds to how bad it is There's a lot of dumb hijinks in this too Where I know they were the with the writing they were trying to go with Oh, these are college kids. They like to joke around and have fun and be playful But it seemed Way more juvenile than that than that like none of they're like messing around and and uh And having fun felt college at all. It felt very like middle school Or like early high school and it's just like that's it's weird. It didn't land It felt out of place It got very annoying because they did it a lot and you're just like Okay, can we have a little bit of substance to this please just maybe a little bit? But that's not the type of movie this is as I learned Um, yeah, I wrote down as bad as this filmmaking is the kills are surprisingly well done Like I said, I cannot reiterate that enough That is the reason to see this plus just to believe how bad the acting and script writing is um, they're The okay the lurking around thing already got that and then the actually the killer's Final scene the final final scene with the killer in it is a really cool looking shot to be honest Which really caught me off guard because overall this film obviously is not very well done So when that final like killer scene happens that final shot, I was like Oh, that actually that looks really good. It was like this one little inspired moment from buddy cooper He's just like oh, this is gonna look so good. And that's like the only time he said that on set. I'm sure Well, maybe he said it more, but he was wrong But um, there are the kill I in addition to the kills looking good with this I'd say the kill ideas are actually solid in it, especially from 1984. So Yeah That's my summation of it So I come to a hard moment where I always do like five star rating with half stars in play And I usually rate them all the films is like, you know on like an overall film scale But the problem with this one Is that I feel like it can't be rated as a normal film because it's just terrible So I'll throw out two ratings. I guess the first one is like as an actual film. How is this rated? I'll give it one star And it gets the one star because of the I would give it a half because I'm not going to give zero stars for anything But I would give it a half except for how the kills are So that would be a one star now if I'm rating it as far as like bad movies go Like fun bad movies. I would give it A three And I would give it a two and a half as far as bad movies go But I would give it that extra half bump because of the kills So I would give it a three as a bad fun movie to watch and I give it a one as an actual movie So, uh, yeah, there are my ratings on it. So thank you everyone for checking this out I'm glad I saw this movie. It was kind of a joy I like seeing bad films that are kind of like fun bad films So, uh, this was a good time I would love to see more of these. Anyway, thank you everyone for checking this out. Please put some comments down there Have you seen the mutilator? 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