Muck
(2015/Anchor Bay Blu-ray)
Picture:
B+ Sound: B+ Extras: D Film: C-
Muck
(2015), if the title didn't give it away, isn't winning any awards
this Oscar season but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's all
bad. The film plays off horror cliches as an outline but is more of
a skin flick and paired with a cheesy modern score that's obviously
aimed towards a teenage audience. The acting and screenplay is
pretty bad, but its easily to get distracted from that most of your
leads are Playboy models. One of my favorite actors Kane Hodder (the
definitive Jason from several Friday
the 13th
films) pops up in the film too which is a highlight, but ultimately
this feels like a retread of stronger slashers and doesn't offer
anything notable or groundbreaking.
There's
even a place in the film named Wes Craven... gag.
After
narrowly escaping an ancient burial ground, long forgotten and buried
underneath the marshes of Cape Cod, a group of friends emerge from
the thick, marshy darkness, tattered and bloody, lucky to be alive.
They have already lost two of their friends in the marsh, presumably
dead. They stumble upon an empty Cape Cod vacation house alongside
the foggy marsh and break in to take shelter. Whatever was in the
marsh is still after them and soon after one of them goes for help,
the rest of the group learns that the evil in the marsh is not the
only thing that wants them dead. Something worse, something more
savage, was lying in wait just outside the marsh, in the house. What
happens next is unspeakable horror that cannot be unseen. These
unlucky travelers spend their St. Patrick's Day trapped between two
evils forcing them to fight, die, or go back the way they came.
Anchor
Bay does a great job with the presentation on this Blu-ray disc with
a highly detailed transfer and a digital High Definition 1.85:1
aspect ratio. The sound mix is a lossless Dolby TrueHD 5.1
presentation that is also far better than the actual feature. Aside
from said presentation, there's also subtitles in English and
Spanish. No extras on the disc surprisingly.
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James Harland Lockhart V
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