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Slaughter Night (aka SL8N8 aka Slauchtnacht/DTS/Tartan/Dutch)

 

Picture: C+     Sound: B-     Extras: C     Film: C+

 

 

The story is familiar.  A bunch of bored teens play with a Ouija board and Tarot Cards for fun, but this quickly goes bad as demons arrive, friends turn to killer zombies and they may all die.  This has been the plot of many dumb U.S. Horror/Slasher flicks, but co-directors Frank Van Geloven and Edwin Visser give it a slightly different twist by default with Slaughter Night (aka SL8N8/2006) since the teens are Dutch.

 

That is the only thing that makes this fresh, since we have seen everything else before.  It reminds us of how bad and badly teens in the U.S. are portrayed in Horror and other commercial fare since the 1980s in particular and is a key pointy lacking in most such films since:  teens that are real and that you care about.  This becomes like the anti-Final Destination, which can never be a bad thing.  That is the sole reasons to see it and anyone making such films should take note.

 

The anamorphically enhanced 1.85 X 1 image is somewhat stylized, but not as badly as its U.S. equivalents, making it more watchable.  However, detail, depth and even some color is an issue with this transfer and it could look better.  We believe cinematographer Jan Vrints’ intent was a bit better than this.  The DTS 5.1 and Dolby Digital 5.1 are not great, with limits in soundfield and fullness, showing the likely low-budget origins of the film.  The combination is not bad, helped by Dutch locations and a not-bad score by Habbo Beem.  Extras are few and include amusing outtakes, original trailer and making of featurette.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo


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