Although I've seen this referred to as being similar to Friday the 13th, this film really reminded me of The Mutilator - right down to the amount of victims and the middle aged murderer already being in the house. That said, no one here played a game of hide and seek for no reason.Five annoying youngsters (including one whose dialogue consists of "Whoo" and "Party") head of to some cabin for a bit of boozing and the usual slasher shenanigans, not know that there's a bald killer called Steve in the house who's not averse to doing a bit of housekeeping in between murdering teenagers. At first I thought he should have paced himself as he goes through victims rather quickly, but then I realised that the film had a few tricks up its sleeve.There's a lengthy stalking sequence later in the film, part of which seems to have been lifted wholesale from Sergio Martino's Torso (they thank him in the credits), and the last ten minutes or so come way out of nowhere. Plus the film's short and rather nicely filmed, so you can't go wrong here.

This cheap little teen slasher victims in the woods movie deserves a pat on the back. There's no-one in it who is anyone, and it is all too apparent that the budget was minimal, and it is very much a generic movie - you know what you are expecting to get, and that is exactly what you do get.Yet it is attractively shot, it is adequately performed within the limitations of its genre, and it has a number of moments where what you expect to happen is not what happens and, as a result you are genuinely surprised. There is a strong element of suspense running through it which is very effectively maintained, and I absolutely loved the last 10 minutes or so, when it appeared to turn into a completely different movie.Every now and then a film delivers appreciably more than you expect it to, and this is one of them.

dunno why this has a low average score, it's a very decent low budget horror film, just the right length, an 80s vibe to it, and it's gotta be said the music and sound is ace...sometimes music makes a movie, and in this case it's very true...the same film with crap music and sound design would've been pants...there's a great little whistling motif tune running through the whole thing and giving it a cheeky slant... yep i can't really fault this film - for what it is it's a fantastic way to use up an hour and a half of your precious horror movie loving life, not too much preamble before the nastiness gets underway either - Cloverfield did the preamble really well but since then it seems that all the new big budget horror films spend a lot of time hanging about with really unlikeable characters for the first half of the movie before they start getting bumped off. Not so with Murder Loves Killers.... Overall, two severed thumbs up!

Big bad Stevie is celebrating a birthday and he's overjoyed to have a group of fun-loving teenagers stumble upon his house (which they think is vacant at first). Oh yes Stevie is going to have so much fun, the teens....not so much.I really enjoyed this low-budget slasher film. It doesn't try to reinvent the wheel, so to speak, but you can tell that writer/director Drew Barnhardt is definitely a fan of the genre. He hardly misses a beat in this one. The acting is much better than average (for a film of this type), the soundtrack is great, throw in a bit of nudity, gore & some honest to goodness tension later in the film and you have a winner on your hands. Fans of low-budget horror films usually have to wade through a whole lot of excrement in order to find a (too few) diamond in the rough. This movie is one of those diamonds. I'll definitely be keeping my eye out for Barnhardt's future endeavors. Eye Candy: Mary LeGault gets toplessMy Grade: A-DVD Extras: a 7 minute making of; 'creating a killer' featurette (5 minutes); Director's notebook (9 minutes); 'Scoring the film' featurette (11 and a half minutes); Title madness (about 14 minutes on why they choose the title of this movie); photo and artwork gallery; & original trailer for the film