A brutal rape leads to brutal revenge at a bowling alley during a late night bowling night with a group of teens.
Well our movie starts late night at a bowling alley as a couple groups of teens come out to have a little fun during an late night bowling night. Seems one of the girls, Lisa, is a bit of a tramp. One of the guys at the alley happens to be a guy she was seeing at a time but we find out that she used him to get to his friend, not that nice of a thing to do is it? Well after she admits it all out loud Steve gets a little miffed and after a steamy argument Steve and his buddies attack Lisa's transvestite friend Sam. A pretty big fight breaks out between the two groups and it starts to get bloody until the alley Janitor breaks up the fight with his shotgun in hand.
So the two groups break up and leave the alley and just as it looks like the end of the night Lisa realises that she left her purse inside so she goes back inside to get it, only to be attacked by Steve and his friends who ultimately beat her and rape her repeatedly, the last time with an actual bowling pin. And I guess the rape brings on our killer for the night, BBK, which I'm guessing stands for Bowling Ball Killer.
The next night everyone comes back and it's obvious that none of Lisa's friends know what happened the night before. So it all starts out as the two teams at each other's throats but then BBK comes in and evens out the numbers by way of his bowling pin weapons. The rest of the movie is like a Scooby-Doo mystery in a bowling alley, except people die. Every time a bowler dies BBK gets a strike on the score board, and he racks them up like nothing.
 
Now this movie is creative in many respects. First of all it's a great homage to 80's style slasher flicks but with something that wasn't really in any 80's slashers, penetration. Yes my friends there's dong to mouth penetration and its in a great scene where two teens are 69'ing on a bathroom floor only to be attacked by BBK who pushes down the girl on the guys doodad, her ass on his face, suffocating them both. Have you EVER seen that in a movie? Hell no! And that's only the beginning.
One after one the bowlers start falling off to the hands of BBK with one question parading in the minds of the survivors and me myself. WHO THE HELL IS BBK? The ending will shock you but sums up what happens in the beginning a bit.
With great special effects and scenes that will make you cringe like the transvestite death scene *don't want to ruin that one*, the ball cleaner buff job, and so many other great death scenes.
This movie hits the 7 - 10 split in every respect for the genre. Blood, guts, sex and bowling, what else is better in this world?
This movie strikes me as a brilliant edition to cheese ball ideas gone way too right in horror cinema. If you get a chance to see this gem definitely do it, you'll laugh, you'll cringe, you'll get wood!
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MOVIE YEAR: 2008
DIRECTOR: Ryan Nicholson
WRITING CREDITS: Ryan Nicholson
GENRE: Horror, Slasher
CAST: Scott Alonzo, Saraphina Bardeaux, Jeremy Beland
COUNTRY: Canada
RUNTIME: 94 min
RATING: 9/10
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