Colin's on his way to Baja to meet his brother that he hasn't seen for two years. Some friends go along with him and they plan to surf and have parties. But when they get there, the place is deserted and Colin's brother and his friends are nowhere to be found. Two of the friends head for the nearest village to see if Colin's brother and his crew are there, while the rest stay behind to look for clues where they might could have gone. Soon they find remains of carnage and realizes that they are not alone on the beautiful beach, but that there are actually cannibals there among them.
Trespassers is a new low-budget horror flick that unfortunately does not bring anything new to the scene. It has all the elements a bad horror movie should have and is neither promising in the beginning, nor rewarding in the end. Basically it's just another braindead horror flick where a bunch of young adults gets trapped and has to make it out alive. The main problem thought is that we've seen this scenario at least a hundred times before, and since it doesn't have anything new or original to offer at all, in the end it makes Trespassers just feel like a waste of time.
I actually feel bad since most of the time I'm always complaining a lot when it comes to these types of flicks, but what else can you do when they suck? At least the people behind it should be given some credit for what they've tried to accomplish. It's a nice try, just too bad it doesn't work. Better luck next time. So what's so bad about Trespassers? Well, I can ignore and overlook a lot of faults when it comes to low-budget movies, it takes a lot of hard work to make a movie and it's not an easy deal. But money or no money, some things could've been done a lot better.
What I found to be the most irritating thing in the movie was whenever something gruesome took place, the camera was shaking like crazy, Blair Witch style. You know what's going on but it's hard to make anything out, and all the gory moments in this flick leaves you with no satisfaction whatsoever. Every time something brutal went down, the camera was shaking and was all over the place, and it was truly irritating to have to sit through that over and over again. There's not one action/gory scene when the camera manages to stay still so we really get to see what happens, and that takes all the fun away. Because I mean, what is the main reason for watching a flick like this? It's not for the plot, the acting or the dialogue, but for the horror scenes where people actually get killed or where you get to feel some suspense. Unfortunately none of these things work here.
So some surfers dudes head to Baja to meet one of the guy's brother and his friends, and to catch some sweet waves (hey, I'm speaking surf here). But when they get there, the people they were supposed to meet are nowhere to be found. One guy and a girl head for the nearest village to see if the missing people have been there, but when they get there they get to hear a story from a local about a horrible man named El Gringo.
Now, El Gringo was a man who had a cult following, a sect, and he led them to the place on the beach for them to live on their own away from the rest of civilisation. But they had a hard time getting food since they couldn't grow anything on the land and the ocean didn't provide for them either. So El Gringo kidnapped local kids and fed them to his followers, but when his people found out what he had done, they cut his eyelids off and buried him in the sand, facing the sun. El Gringo prayed to God for a few days while being stuck in the sand, but got an answear from the Dark Lord and now he and his people haunts the place and feed on those who comes there. And of course this surfer gang gets trapped there, and has to try and make it out alive.
It might sound a bit cool and it's not a bad idea. It's just the way everything has been done and how everything looks that ruins it all. It would've been ok if we would've gotten some decent gore, but instead we just get the shaky camera. The characters are not really likable but not totally unlikable either, and the acting is ok for what it is I guess. There are plenty of low-budget flicks out there that are much worse when it comes to acting. Another thing is that nothing really happens for what feels like a very long time, and when something finally do happen, it's not good at all. So a lot of waiting for nothing.
Yet another new horror film that didn't pay off at all. If the gore would've been decent it might could've saved this flick, but instead we are left with nothing. Suspense is really nowhere to be found, the camera is way too shaky and all over the place when something that might could've actually been worth watching happens, and some times the movie's a bit too dark as well. The acting's not horrible, and there are not as much surf lingo as one first had expected it to have. It felt like Trespassers had some potential at first, but it was all washed away by the lame story along with the lame horror sequences. There are worse movies out there, but still though, this wasn't very good.
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MOVIE YEAR: 2006
DIRECTOR: Ian McCrudden
WRITING CREDITS: Ian McCrudden, Tim Tori
GENRE: Horror
CAST: Michelle Borth, Alex Feldman, Joleigh Fioreavanti
COUNTRY: Mexico, USA
RUNTIME: 83 min
RATING: 2/10
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