Midnight Skater (DVD)

Starring:Midnight Skater
Studio: Splatter Rampage (Tempe DVD)
Product Type: DVD

Description

Something strange is happening on a small-town college campus...Students have been disappearing and the only clues left behind are a bloody corpse and the name "Midnight Skater." A group of nosy kids take it upon themselves to put an end to the mystery, but find out they may be in over their heads! They'll have to make their way through the college's dark side of drugs, lies and murder in order to find out who is behind it all. Prepare for an all-out gorefest in one of the most bloody twisted tales of horror ever told!

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A complete surprise........2007-03-05

Midnight Skater (Luke Campbell, 2002)

So I started hearing about local filmmaker (I'm using "local" kind of loosely, he's about an hour away) Luke Campbell a few years ago, but it took me until now to track down a copy of Midnight Skater. And while it's the epitome of the amateur production, there are some chops. No, really.

If you just look at the surface, Midnight Skater is bad, bad, bad. The acting is awful, in almost every case (one might well put this down to Cory Maidens' mentioning in the extras that he was "somewhat inebriated" during most of the filming, and extrapolating that to the entire cast). The special effects are worse, though to be fair they're better than what Herschell Gordon Lewis was doing back in the sixties. The directing and pacing are at least competent, but there are some plot holes big enough to swallow an entire college town (to be fair, some of those are addressed in the deleted scenes). I've seen a lot of no-budget amateur productions, and, well, this one doesn't even get near the top ten.

But when you look underneath, you'll get a surprise. While the actual experience is kind of horrifying, listen to the lines being delivered so woodenly. There's a script holding all this up, and it's a damned good one. Luke and Andrew Campbell and Stacy Silvers wrote themselves a story that's got legs. Had Project Greenlight been around back in the day, I think they would've taken a long look. There are levels to this thing. There are plots, subplots, sub-sub-plots, with everything ratcheting around to look kind of like everything else; they've taken a lot of classic mystery-novel conventions and grafted them onto a horror-comedy. Great stuff.

While I'm tangentially touching on that subject, that's the other thing-- once you get past the diction, this is a very funny script. It tries too hard a lot of times, but every once in a while there's a one-liner that actually had me laughing out loud at my computer screen. That does not happen, unless I'm watching weebl and bob. Period. The trying-too-hard is common for neophyte scriptwriters, and I have confidence these guys will eventually get over it. They're also very good with sight gags; about half an hour into this movie is one of the funniest scenes I've come across in a horror film recently, which involves a couple of uberdorks (played by the Campbell brothers) treating a delivery pizza like a seven-course food orgy from a Henry James novel while serial killer Richard (played by Maidens) is hacking up the delivery guy in the other room. Yes, as with the rest of the movie, the special effects are cheesy, and you have to be there to get the full humor effect, but think about all the subtext you can pull from a scene like that. Campbell does it justice.

This is a first effort from a bunch of kids who, if there is a movie god, are going places. They're not Romero, Russo, and Amplas yet, but they're giving it the good old college try. I liked this movie a whole lot better than, by rights, I should have, and as long as you're not too squicked out by the gore factor (you know those shots that got cut from the final release of Dario Argento's Jenifer I mentioned in that review? Well, Campbell goes there.), I think you will, too. ***

READ THIS IF YOU LIKE NAKED LADIES!!.......2005-12-07

I guess my star rating is biased since i was in this film. If you're interested at all in other works from the speedfreaks, check them out at [...]. They just finished up another great horror flick in "The Red Skulls," which doesn't have a national distributor yet, but you can purchase from their website. Also they are in post-production on "Cordoba Nights," which is a comedy/drama in the vein of "Repo Man." Thanks for reading. Sorry about the bogus teaser.

GLORIFIED FAN FILM.......2005-11-25

I am a fan of fan films, and very lob budget productions. However, even after watching this and giving the director/producer props for the effort, I found this movie to be pretty horrible (and that is being compared to other FF and LBP). Compared to the director's other films, Demon Summer being one of them, the film sill falls flat.

The acting is of course bad, the characters are bad, the story is bad. The blood, well, it's LB and pretty alright for what we are dealing with.

However, I did laugh alot with this film. The gay couple was a riot, and at the end when his paperclip chainmail armor saves his life---classic.

Only buy this if you can get it used for under 2 bucks, also check out Demon Summer--which was an alright film.

Better than Hollywood!!.......2005-05-26

While this movie may not wow you with it's special effects and the actors won't win any oscars it is a very very funny campy horror movie. It is entertaining and engaging, which is all a movie should do. It is also a horror movie, so certain exspectations should come along with it. You are going to have actors playing themselves more than a character, even if the character IS who they are in some way, the plot might not be deep, and on and on.....BUUUUTTTTTTT i'll be damned if this isn't a funny, entertaining, and worth every last cent I paid for it. Check it out, you won't be sorry.

This movie is a horror/comedy classic! Read on for why..........2005-04-04

Anyone who goes into this movie expecting it to be serious, you probably are going to hate it. But if you go into this for just a fun horror experience, it is great! Think of it like this, it has everything: tons of gore, skateboarding, hardcore music, drugs, references to Dungeons & Dragons, zombies, etc. It is ultra low budget and the acting is over-the-top horrible (which makes it so good), and the gore is outrageously bad (again which makes it so good). The dialog is totally laughable and the plot thin, but it's a fun horror movie that had me laughing my a$$ off. Basically, I can sum it up like this: Midnight Skater is so awful, it should be a cult classic. For the low price it's selling for through Amazon Marketplace, the gore-hounds should pick it up and give it a shot...

[6 Pack of Horror Flicks BOX SET] Skinned Alive / Jungle Virgin Force / Demon Summer / Midnight Skater / Hell Hole / Something to Scream About

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[6 Pack of Horror Flicks BOX SET] Skinned Alive / Jungle Virgin Force / Demon Summer / Midnight Skater / Hell Hole / Something to Scream About

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