Ed Jr cleans his dads guns as a kid and while cleaning a gun it accidentaly goes of killing his mother. Many years later Ed and his friends are talking about going on a holiday when Ed gets a call from his dad asking him to go to their condo at the beach and close it up. So Ed and his friends decides to go and spend their holiday at the beach condo. But when getting there they all start to get killed one by one by some mysterious killer.
The Mutilator is one of many of the slasher movies that came out in the 80's and I guess it's kinda popular among fans of slasher movies. It's an ok slasher but in the end really nothing that special, especially nowadays since you've seen this type of stuff a thousand times before.
Although, watching The Mutilator a long time ago it's was a pretty cool movie and it should be part of every gorehounds film collection. It wouldn't have worked nowadays but since the movie's from the 80's you get all the typical 80's stuff to go with it which makes it quite enjoyable to watch.
It's an average slasher movie so don't expect anything else, and also I guess it's somewhat nostalgic to some people who watched it when it first came out. And that it always a reason to watch a film again much later.
The story is nothing special and the main reason why people watch this type of movies are for the killings and not really the stories. We get some gore and violence of course but as so often it would not have hurt with more, anyway it's kinda ok for what it is.
The actors are not really that good and some are more irritating to watch than others, especially one character who really brings it down at times and is supposed to be the "funny guy" but who has no idea of the actual meaning of the word fun. The teen characters are also kinda stereotypical for this type of movie, but as said before, main reason for whatching stuff like this are for the killings.
It works if you're bored, but in the end it's not really that great. One of those semi-ok 80's slashers.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Fall Break
MOVIE YEAR: 1985
DIRECTOR: Buddy Cooper
WRITING CREDITS: Buddy Cooper
GENRE: Horror, Slasher
CAST: Matt Mitler, Ruth Martinez, Connie Rogers
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 86 min
RATING: 4/10
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