Review of The Slaughter (2006) by Ibraheem M — 15 Feb 2012

The Slaughter (Jay Lee, 2006).

Jay Lee followed up The Slaughter, his anemic sophomore (and sophomoric) effort, with Zombie Strippers! in 2008. Since many, many more people have seen that one, I think it rates as a good comparison; if you found that movie groanworthy, you're going to hate this. Lee takes the usual tack towards making a horror-comedy-slap a bunch of stereotyped characters together and give them something aimed at killing them all off. Which often works, if you're going to do something interesting and creative with the stereotypes, interesting and creative with the killer, or interesting and creative with the murders. Not much of any of the three here, though I have to admit the comic timing actually started working in about the final fifteen minutes of the movie. Until then, the only excuse to keep watching it is that the cast is chock full of drop dead gorgeous ladies who seem to be allergic to clothing. Not that there's anything wrong with that. **.