Just when you were convinced that (1): plagiarism is illegal, and (2): Lions Gate means quality; here is this steaming pile of cinema in which, if you were convinced anything, it's that even you can write a bad, unimaginative movie and convince a moron or two to capture it on celluloid. Just like bands that copy each other's riffs, this "movie" more than borrows, but hijacks elements from said titles. What we have here is your six attractive twentysomethings...on their way to...Vegas.Why are young people in horror movies always going to Vegas? Never anywhere else, it's always Vegas. Are they all gonna get together and make one collective bad movie or something? But I digress.Any horror movies with pretty people going to Vegas (or anywhere, for that matter) always begins with car trouble. Here, it's the telltale flat tire. If people in horror movies took care of their vehicles, there'd probably be no horror movies.You got the D-Bag With Blond Girlfriend couple, the Bi-Racial couple, and the Lesbian couple. Charming, indeed.In a brief synopsis: They change the tire, get accosted by a big ugly truck, play games with the truck, get one of the lesbians chopped in half (quite bloodlessly, I may add. There were no intestines flying or blood spewing, just some fake legs in jeans), freak out, run for help, and find...you guessed it...a creepy farmhouse. There is actually a line in the movie said by D-Bag, "don't you guys watch horror movies? You don't go in the creepy farmhouse". Is this intended as a sort of self-deprecation on the part of the movie makers in that they know they fkkked up...? (symbolism of sorts?) But Wait! There's More! People start getting killed by the mad couple living in the Creepy Farmhouse, including, as predicted, the only cop to actually investigate the matter. A chainsaw enters the picture...Tobe Hooper's lawyers were probably calling at this point. It's bad enough they had the balls to steal half of the last name from TCM for the Mad Couple ("Mayhew" from Hewitt. I couldn't have faked it better).In the end, a couple of them survive. Somebody had to live to tell the story, always armed with the defense: "I didn't write this, really. I just acted in it".If you've been living in a cave, under a rock, or have been in a coma since 1973, see this movie.If you know better, you probably wouldn't be reading this.

Butcher, The (2006) ** (out of 4) DTV horror film is in the same vein as countless others. Six college students are on their way to Las Vegas when they decide to turn down an old country road to save some time. They eventually get stranded and then are attacked and slashed by a deformed redneck. We've seen this type of film countless times over the past three decades and I'm sure we'll be seeing them in the next three decades. The film is actually better than a lot of the DTV horror films of today but there are still a lot of problems here. The cast doesn't give very good performances but their characters are at least entertaining. What really kills the film is how stupid the characters are as they are constantly doing the wrong things scene after scene. While stupid characters are a staple of horror films, the ones here are just so stupid that they become rather annoying. There's a small amount of nudity and good amount of gore to keep you awake but that's about it.

A bunch of REAL annoying college students are driving to Las Vegas. Their car breaks down on a deserted road and they search for help. They find a big old ranch house, in the middle of nowhere, with a VERY strange family who love killing...Sound familiar? Absolutely pointless rehash of "Texas..." minus the story, characterization and scares. This also has the gratuitous female nudity and the now requisite lesbian couple (notice we never see a gay male couple?). This is incredibly cheap with glaring continuity errors left and right--notice how one girl runs past the exact same tree twice in a row!!! The story is entirely predictable with some extremely stupid "twists" in it. Also these kids are killed off...for no reason whatsoever! Granted they're ALL annoying but I would at least like a reason! The acting, at first, was so bad I almost switched this off. Worst of all is Alan Ritchson--he plays such a totally obnoxious character (and badly) that I wondered why all these people hung out with him. As the movie progressed, Tom Nagel (as Adam) and Catherine Wreford (as Rachel) actually improved and ended up giving two not bad performances. Everybody else was hopeless.Stupid, sick, sadistic and utterly worthless horror movie. The only truly scary thing about this is that it was made. Skip it.

It wasn't too bad but i have seen so much better, you can bet i wont be watching it again, once was enough for me, needed more gore, then maybe it would have been a little better, but it really mainly needed a little bit of originality, it was too much like other slasher flicks like Texas chainsaw massacre, wrong turn, hills have eyes... the same movie over and over again gets kinda boring...but it would probably be an alright movie to watch once, but there is no way that there could ever be a reason to watch this more than that.i give this movie a 4, but it could have gotten better had it had a little bit more gore and originality...... ......... ......... ........