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Opening up with a sort of ode to Herschel Gordon Lewis and 2000 maniacs is a show called Trailer Park of Terror on a young woman’s TV; love seeing mentions of other flicks (which I’d love to do, give certain filmmakers their credits of inspiration in my films). All poor Norma would like to do settle down with a man who likes her for her, and the folks at the trailer park keep getting in the way and messing it up. Damn them for taking away everything she ever had and everything she ever wants; now its time to get even. Approached by a strange man with an offer for her to seek salvation through violence, hands her a gun, and disappears as quickly as he appeared. Following quickly id the killing by her hands of the entire trailer park as well as herself; making headlines and starting the basis of the film. Immediately established is a group of kids from a religious camp named Vertical Trinity; and of course is the first dickhead of the kids, someone you’d like to see dead after hearing less than 30 words from his mouth. Any movie I’ve seen with some sort of southern accent and violence comes equipped with some sort of short cut only the residents are aware of. Gotta love it. Hook, line and sinker; the group waits for time to pass after a crashed church bus and right in the belly of the beast, the trailer of once dead Norma. As the story she tells of her past unfolds, I hope to myself it’s just a tale, and that people down south are no where near this inbred and savage. Norma witnessed her mother killed while making a snuff film with the local sheriff and from there on was on her own and forced into whoring herself and other submissive acts. Like she says “beauty’s a blessing and it’s a curse.” Tempted by the offer from Norma, the priest responsible for the outing for the misfit teens falls victim to getting head… ripped off! Being picked off by the ways and many offers of a good time from the ladies; these sexual deaths give me a “2001 Maniacs” type vibe, from the puns of words meaning the unsuspecting males demises to the dismemberments themselves. Ironically, the premise for the Tim Sullivan flick was ALSO inspired by the H.G. Lewis classic mentioned in the first minute of this flick. Though Norma plays a major role in this film, I can’t help but be creeped out the most by the Chinese masseuse that helps distract the truckers while the townspeople rob the contents of the trailer blind. After making her first appearance since the discovery of more than just southern people; she’s equipped with a mask and ready to rub down the kleptomaniac of the church group who is looking for some company. He definitely got the wrong happy ending, not one any person I know is looking for. Now I am not one for gratuitous nudity throughout films, but this one never seems to push the envelope and actually deliver a single nipple. Defending a very close friend of mine, I would have to protest and ask what the reason for that is. The gore itself would deem it an R rating, and the limited screenings of this movie would not see the bare bodies as a problem. Watching the unrated version as I am writing this does have an overall feel like there is something crawling on me. Good imagery to it, from sweat and missing limbs to bugs and dirt all over both inside and outside the trailers. “You make my south rise again.” This quote is strikingly familiar to the song written for 2001 Maniacs song, The South Will Rise; and this movie is definitely this year’s “Dead and Breakfast”, full of songs and severed heads talking and such.
6/10
