The tyranist's thoughts
For reasons well beyond the ken of mortal men, or at least Rish, I've wanted to see this one for a long time and finally had to resort to buying a copy of it since there isn't a copy available for rent anywhere within 240 miles. To call it my personal holy grail of horror film would be entirely too accurate.
Well, anticipation like that can only result in disappointment or maybe, if you're lucky, mild satisfaction. It has been the rare holy grail that has led to the anticipated rapture. As for this one, I'd have to say it lies just under mild satisfaction, leaning toward disappointment.
So there's this group of urban kids who are taken on a camping trip by typically annoying and upbeat people who "just want to help." Naturally they go camping in the middle of pakalolo farming country. The farmers have been juicing their plants with herbal hormones that actually end up making little tiny woodticks into great big mouse-sized woodticks. Mayhem ensues.
A little background. I lived in a rural area populated mostly by pakalolo (that's marijuana to those of you who don't know) farmers and hippies (who were big customers of said farmers). We saw all kinds of crap, green harvests, raids, it was a lot of fun. Of course, we knew that there was one big rule. You absolutely did not step onto someone's property if they weren't expecting you. Chances are they'd rather blow your head off than let you wander away again. Of course, they were always very careful to mark their property with signs that informed you that they didn't want visitors. I mention it because a key plot point relies on someone wandering onto one of the farms. It just brought the memories flooding back. Oh, and Clint Howard plays one of the farmers. He's not far off.
Well, the movie was okay. I originally wanted to see this one for Ami Dolenz, but over the years that shifted to Seth Green. Good thing too, Ami is hardly a character until the end of the movie. Seth did pretty well as did the rest of the cast. The script obviously wasn't much, but the movie manages to be decent. Not great, far from it in fact, but it was worth seeing once.