What if they took the premise of all those theme park halloween attractions and made them into a horror movie? You’d probably end up with something similar to Scare Zone.
The halloween season is here, and the most popular haunted house in town is once again ready to frighten everyone. The Scare Zone has hired a bunch of newbies and is putting them to work. Everyone needs to know their place and their jobs before opening night. The director Oliver, and his assistant Spider have always run a tight ship and they demand the best of their actors this year is not different. Things are off to a rocky start even before a murderer begins picking off the cast members one by one.
Scare Zone is not a great movie, but it accomplishes what it sets out to do, I guess, and that’s kill a bunch of teenagers in gory ways. There is never really any “jump scares” or anything scary in particular about the movie, so the title is a bit of a misnomer. The best way I could describe it is if Clerks had been a horror movie and the dialog was even more forced. It’s not bad, just not really remarkable in any way.
It probably says a lot about the movie that I literally forgot the name of it several times while watching Scare Zone, and preparing to review it. As I have said in the past, I commend all involved for getting a movie together at all. Something I have never, and probably never will be able to do. There were bits of the flick that I thought were decent, and parts that were subpar. Nothing about this movie was good enough to recommend anyone seeing, and in the same respect, there was nothing so terrible it couldn’t be missed. This is a strange movie to review simply because everything about it is just okay. I can’t rail against it for being terrible, and can’t praise it for really anything remarkable. It just kinda… is.
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