[Trailer Park Of Terror]
Plot:Based on the popular Imperium Comics series, Trailer Park of Terror. Six troubled high school students and their chaperon, an optimistic youth ministries Pastor, return from an outdoor character building retreat in the mountains. During a raging storm, their bus crashes, hopelessly stranding them in the middle of the Trucker's Triangle, a forgotten locus of consummate evil in the middle of nowhere. The hapless group seeks shelter for the night in a seemingly abandoned trailer park they find down the road. However, when the sun sets, it's not refuge they find. Instead, terror finds them in the form of Norma, a damned redneck reaper with a killer body who dispenses vengeance and death aided by her cursed companions, a bloodthirsty brood of Undead trailer trash.

Cast:Priscilla Barnes, Ryan Carnes, Michelle C. Lee, Tracey Walter, Cody McMains, Lew Temple, Dale Dickey, Matthew Del Negro, Hayley Marie Norman, Ricky Mabe, Trace Adkins, Jeanette Brox, Myk Watford, Brock Cuchna, Stefanie Black, Brandon Reininger, Ed Corbin, Trisha Rae Stahl.

My Thoughts:I've seen it before.

Review:"Trailer Park Of Terror" is yet another crazy trailer-park-trash horror film where hillbillies play the villains, and some innocent teens caught in the wrong place at the wrong time play the victims. "Yawn"...I've seen it all before, hundreds of times. The film follows a woman named Norma who wants to escape her trailer park life of inferiority, and starts seeing a guy who's not of that world. However, the local "good ole boys" in her trailer park community don't take kindly to her boyfriend because he wears clean clothes, has all his teeth and all.

So during a confrontation with him, they accidentally end up killing him. This breaks Norma's heart, and so she runs away from the trailer park...coming across a stranger in black on the side of the road as she walks away. He offers her a solution, a "southern-styled" solution to what's ailing her. A solution Norma finds too good to pass up or refuse. So she accepts his offer, and returns to "deal" with her tormentors back at the trailer park. After that we're introduced to a traveling group of Christian Camp kids who are on their way to the mountains for a camping trip.

However, when a storm hits, they end up crashing their van...and decide to venture off to the trailer park to seek help. There, they are intriduced to Norma, who offers them some southern hospitality. But Norma is different somehow, and whatever became of those neighbors of hers she killed at the trailer park? The travelers are about to find out. My main problem with this movie was the opening scene, where a Joe Bob Briggs-like tv show has two rednecks raving about how they love "2001 Maniacs" (the original), and how it's the best movie like ever.

That set a tone for what kind of movie this was gonna be. Another crazy southern killer redneck flick. The only thing that sets this movie apart from others like "TCM" and "HO1C", but puts it right in league with "2001 Maniacs", is that the redneck killers are undead zombie/demons...reanimated by Norma who herself isn't human any longer after the deal she made with the stranger earlier. But there's nothing really new about this movie. That's the problem, it's another one of those horror films that paints southerners are the age old stereotype.

Backwards, dangerous, uncivilized, dirty, vile, disgusting, ugly, drunken, and lame-brained. Only they spend most of the film as members of the undead, instead of the living. We get the accents, the typical southern grunts and vile behavior, the rockabilliy music, and a lesson on how to make jerky...sort of. There's nothing original about this film, and in most respects it's kind of sad. The human characters aka, the christian camp kids and their counselor are also what you'd expect.

A token goth who's parents felt she needed jesus, a few angry guys, and two kids who can't stop having "relations" with each other whenever they're alone. I mean how stereotypical can you get? The only thing this film was missing besides the horny kids, the pissed off dudes, and the goth, was the token black or hispanic gangbanger. That, and the drug dealer kid. The movie also goes nowhere fast, just spending most of it's time after Norma's deal setting up the characters, who are extremely one-dimensional...and telling some of Norma's childhood backstory...which is about as funny as this film gets.

I'm a city guy, so maybe I didn't get the southern humor here...but very little about this films attempted comedy, I found funny. Very little about it's haphazard characters, and twisted antics did I find funny, and on top of all of that...the movies death scenes are few and far between. Only a few people die in this movie, and most of the deaths are gory but not unique. Somehow landmines makes an appearance in the film even, an aspect which made no sense whatsoever.

Landmines in a trailer park? Sure...and they even step that up with the appearance of some hand grenades, which makes alot more sense considering the films set in the south and "the right to bear arms and even grenades" always applies in rural America, but then in that case...why bother with the landmines at all? At the end point of the movie because the villains are lame and the human characters are annoying, you pretty much by choice or not, are forced to root for the goth chick who has more common sense, and a less annoying personality than everyone around her.

One sign of bad script writing, is always forcing the viewer to root for one person and not giving them a wide variety of people to cheer on through a bad situation. The ending of the film is pretty clever though, that's the one brightspot here. But beyond that "Trailer Park Of Terror" is terr-ible.

Positives:The somewhat clever ending, some of the music.

Negatives:Cliche script, annoying and cliche characters who were also one dimensional, no creative deaths, and very few of them.

Overall:One out of four stars.





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