Friday, February 27, 2009

Plasterhead (2006)

Four college students head towards Florida for spring break, but stop in a small town in an attempt to return a purse they found in a field.

The town has a legend about a truck driver who was brutally beaten in a local bar and took refuge in an abandoned house at the edge of town, killing anyone who crosses his path.

After trying to find the address found in the purse, the group ends up at the "abandoned" farmhouse, whose floors are polished to a sheen, has modern furniture, and looks lived in as well as clean. The kids try to sell that it is abandoned by pretending to wipe dust off furniture and constantly talking about how bad the place looks and how no one has lived there in ages.

Even the outside of the house looks well maintained, which makes it all the more ridiculous that the kids just walk into the place and start poking around. There are clean sheets in the bedrooms, a shower curtain and towels in the bathroom, and clean running water. Oooo, isn't this house so scary and empty?!

Everything these kids do is moronic. They are almost out of gas, so they pull up at a gas station in town and start honking the horn obnoxiously, while bitching about the attendant who doesn't immediately jump up to serve them. After more obnoxious behavior, insults to the attendant and horn honking, a far shot reveals that their van is about ten feet from the only gas pump?!? Who's the idiot now, ya morons!

This is one stupid movie, but has some entertainment value from it's sheer ridiculousness.

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