The Sleeper

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Audience Member Another well done slasher throwback. Was effective and authentically made. It didn't need to rely on the gimmick of trying to make it look like old, degraded film stock, it already felt like a lost movie. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 05/23/21 Full Review Audience Member A superb low budget homage to sorority based slashers of the early 80s. With authentic looking degraded looking film stock, a great score, plus a creepy killer and a wintry campus/sorority house setting, every genre trope and convention is superbly consructed. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member A fun throwback slasher made with love and care by someone who obviously knows the genre. Great cameo by Joe Bob Briggs too. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie does a good job mimicking the low budget tits and add slasher films of the eighties. The bad part is that it only had one nude scene and plenty of scenes where there should have been nudity. I found this to be very annoying. If you are going to pay homage to a genre then do it correctly. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member It's shit and is also a direct near perfect carbon copy of 1974's Black Christmas (minus the Christmas part), but it's not without is charms. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Why watch a mock up slasher movie when you can find one from the 80s instead? I guess the best way to answer that question would be the fascination of it then the actual enjoyment of it. It's like viewing an experiment. We live in a day and age where some movies try their hardest to mimic the past. Thanks to Tarantino, a bunch of directors out there now think that what passes for commercial in the horror genre is by going Grindhouse. Many low budget horror movies have adapted to this trend. Some work, some don't. Just like the horror remakes. However, this mock up slasher flick doesn't bode well due to it's lack of pacing, poor acting and lame story. It does work in the atmosphere department which was VERY effective and a few death scenes were chilling. One big thing I didn't like was showing the killer's face too early and often in the film. That pissed me off. Killers in slasher movies only have their faces shown in the last act. It ruins the mystery if it's shown too early. The film's story is your basic run of the mill slasher. It's set at a sorority, very much like the ones in Black Christmas and House on Sorority Row. In fact, this film is more closer to Black Christmas with the exception of it being set around Christmas. It's 1981 and all the girls look modern. None of the actresses or guys in the film look nothing like one's from the 80s. You'd think authenticity would've crossed the director's mind, but no. Moving on... A new girl just suddenly decides, because the script says so, to join Alpha Gamma Theta sorority. Not knowing that a serial stalker/killer roams around looking to pick off the girls in the sorority one by one. It's always a bad time to join a sorority in these films. The killer uses a hammer as his weapon of choice. He bangs away at these poor girls AND IN THEIR FACES! :D This is the 2nd feature production company Gamma Knife Films have churned out. Their first was Death Stop Holocaust. So far they have a few more films that are to be in production soon. They're in their infancy at this point and it shows, but I will be looking out for more of their stuff. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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