Review of Skeleton Crew (2009) by Ven E — 06 Aug 2009

Skeleton Crew starts out with a stranded couple desperately searching for help after their car crashed. Luckily, the girlfriend finds a creepy insane asylum nearby where they bring the boyfriend in for emergency surgery.

The girlfriend walks around, creeped out by the place and its inhabitants before being attacked by the crazed doctor who gets off on making snuff movies. It is then, after 15-20 minutes, where we find out this has all been part of a filming of a horror film.

The story now focuses on the film crew shooting this particularly movie based on an actual doctor who killed people in the very hospital they are shooting at. Things change for the filmcrew when they uncover the doctor's secret room where many of his film where never found.

The doctor watches the movies and becomes so obsessed with them and he turns into the crazed doctor (with some help from the ghosts of the asylum, a plot device that is never fully explored) and starts killing off the rest of the crew.

Though the film suffers from terrible acting and several small shortcomings, the story is pretty unique and interesting, offering bits of humor mixed with horror that is often reminiscent of the Scream franchise.

The gory deaths aren't have bad either. The film kinda goes a little too overboard when the survivors realize that they are trapped inside a bad low-budget horror movie, which also allows for the director/killer to pull off his ultimate kill in the end, declaring it the director's cut (which is fairly amusing).

The small scene after the credits is amusing as well. As for the cast, most of them aren't really the best of performers, but they manage to get the job done. Overall, decent low-budget horror if you come into it with lowered expectations.