Roadkill
(2011/Maneater Series/Vivendi Entertainment DVD)
Picture:
C Sound: C Extras: D Feature: C+
A group
of American teenagers (again!?!) out on a roadtrip in Ireland (at least it is somewhere
different, we guess) turns into a nightmare after running into a small village
of gypsies and accidentally kill a gypsy woman. Now cursed, there is a giant bird hunting them
down one by one. As they try to run they
look for a way to break the curse... that is before they run out of bodies.
This group of friends and their vacation has come to a dead end nightmare after
being ripped off by a gypsy as well and now they are not only being hunted by a
legendary creature called the Simuroc, but also hunted down by inbred gypsies! With their RV as their only means of
protection, they try and out run the creature, but with bad roads, low roads,
low on gas, getting lost and Irish hillbillies attack as things don't look
good for them at all.
This is
another horror flick that wasn't very scary (at least to me). There seems to be
some Hollywood recipe for teenagers for a horror story: 1) a
group of ignorant kids unexpected come across some god forsaken place,
2) unleashed some evil, that then kills them, and 3) typecast
characters of a token black guy, a few jocks, and few hot (but vain) chicks. All they do is run and one by one they get
caught, they didn't seem to realize if they all teamed up and fought they could
of beat the creature. The CGI wasn't too
great either, but if you enjoy dismemberment there is good bit of it in this
film. If you want to see a better giant
bird film, see Larry Cohen’s Q – The
Winged Serpent instead, even if it is corny.
- Ricky Chiang
