Very amateur, student-film quality.Maybe Christopher Pike or RL Stine wrote this as a practice exercise.Inconsistent plot, full of holes and bad transitions.People who are supposed to pass for college? possibly HS students play a most unconvincingly lame and tedious game of hiding in a cemetery.Yawn for several minutes as each of 6 enters through the iron-staked broken gates as what passes for character introduction.Despite the fact that someone is tragically impaled there (in a very transparent practical joke gone wrong), when the movie cuts to 5 years later, no one has repaired the obviously dangerous and previously fatal ironwork.Bobby, who did time for this accidental manslaughter, acts stand-offishly cold. SO why is he there for this stupid closure/ reunion, anyway?Oh, to play a joke on someone. Not even a good one. 5 yrs in prison, and still a one-act cornball.People are dying... (yawn)You can figure out who's shady.Meanwhile there are a few Goosebumps- type red herrings, which are more annoying distracting than remotely convincing.Some convoluted sex along the way, just to make sure you're paying attention, and remind you that anyone who gets laid in a horror movie ends up dying. Some sideplots that you wouldn't care about, except that the main plot is so basic you'll want to divert yourself into thinking this is one of those movies where the tangents all come together.It's not.The ending is very Christopher Pike/ RL Stine.I was able to rent this for free, and I got my money's worth.

I guess if you spent your life watching every slasher flick ever made, you might be bored by another one. However, if you have only seen a dozen or two horror flick, this one is really not bad.It had plenty of suspense and creepiness. Sure, I guessed who the killer was within 10 minutes, but that didn't spoil it for me. Seeing who, if any, would escape was worth waiting for - and confirming my guess, too.The best part was, of course, Eva Derrek. I am so looking forward to seeing her in Werewolf in a Women's Prison, which is supposed to be out this month on video. Let's just say that there really isn't much of her left to be seen, but it will be a great reunion.Lindsay Ballew (Mr. Woodcock) was great in the lead, as was Patrick Scott Lewis (Zodiac). The Sheriff (Sam Bologna) was a real hoot.Sure, there are plot holes big enough to drive a mack truck through, but hey, this is a slasher flick, not an Academy Award contender. Relax and enjoy.

"The Graveyard" is a rather decent slasher with a few pretty good parts.**SPOILERS**Released from prison, Robert Bayleen, (Patrick Scott Lewis) decides to go back to an abandoned camp to put it behind him. Meeting friends Michelle, (Lindsay Ballew) Allie, (Trish Coren) Charlie, (Chris Stewart) Jack, (Leif Lillehaugen) his girlfriend Veronica, (Eva Derrek) and Sarah, (Erin Lokitz) at the cabin to face his demons, they all welcome each other with extreme hesitation. As they each blame everyone else for the accident, it starts to wear on everyone and tensions run rampant. Finding out that a serial killer is among them after finding all their missing friends dead, they all turn to the remaining group to see who it is. Eventually finding the killer's true identity, they try to get away before they can kill the remaining members of the group.The Good News: There isn't much here with this one that really works. Whenever the film is set during the night, it's at its best. It goes through several different types of good points, where going from suspense to impressive scenes all the way to chasing and killing are done at it's best at night. The beginning cemetery scene is pretty suspenseful, most notably the sequence where the killer has a victim trapped within the monument viciously slashing away in desperation before an accident lets him free to get away. Another later sequence, where the killer stalks a victim up a mountainside, and toward the top, a fog-bank can be seen moving in. It creates a really wonderful image and delivers a great suspense scene as well. Even mixing in a rather brilliant suspense stalking sequence inside a completely steam-filled bathroom is simply chilling, as there's a lot of greatness in it about what is included. This has a lot going for it, as there's plenty of off-screen noises, a huge amount of steam covering everything in the room and there's even a fantastic conclusion that differs so much from conventional types it really leaves a great mark on the film. This barely covers part of the film, as anytime out in the night is a great scene. Other than that generalization, the only other part that works is that, for the first few times on-screen, the killer looks great. It's hard to really tell what it is, and the mask gives it a really good look to it. It loses it's luster when seen later on, but it looks good at first, and is a great way to cap off it's good points.The Bad News: This here wasn't all that bad, but it does have a couple of flaws. One of the big ones is that there's hardly anything new presented here. This here feels like just about every other camping slasher out there, since it mentions all the clichés to obvious to even list, including the failure to recognize who's doing the killing or that there is one to begin with. That alone is quite hard to believe, since they all notice that everyone is missing yet it takes until nearly forty-five minutes for them to even think that something is going on. That seems highly unlikely and doesn't seem realistic, since it makes them seem completely blind. This one also has a problem with the kills in here. There really should've been more variety here, as almost every single one involved uses a knife for the kill point. A couple aren't, but most are, which is what the film doesn't need. The last flaw is that the killer becomes far less imposing. They look way too cheesy as time goes on, which is quite surprising since it starts off good looking. These here really lower this one.The Final Verdict: Certainly not the best slasher ever, but this one does have more than enough going for it to make it watchable. Give this one a chance for those who enjoy these kinds of slashers or are curious, while those who aren't that high up on the genre should heed caution.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Nudity and an long, mild sex scene

***SPOILERS*** A romp in the graveyard at midnight didn't turn out to be such a good idea for young Eric as he ended up being chased by a masked psycho ending up impaled on a steel fence. We soon find out, what Eric didn't live long enough to, that the whole thing was just a joke, a deadly joke, played on him by his friends. The joke not only ended up killing him but the person who was chasing Eric, that lead to his untimely death, Bobby ended up doing time, five years, in prison for manslaughter. It's now five years later with Bobby released on parole and him and his friends, who were involved in Erics death, now back at the scene of the crime. Everyone involved with Eric's death want to reflect and meditate at what they did to the poor guy and finally have closer to what happened; but closer is not what Eric or whoever the masked killer is wants he wants revenge!Not bad slasher flick that keeps you guessing to who's doing all the slashing with this masked psycho doing in everyone at Camp Placid where all of Eric's friends are staying. There's a lot of very heavy action going on at the camp as well with the big stud Jack, or "Jock de Lovier", of the group of young people trying to make it with all the cute and sexy chicks there. Intead of making it Jack ends up losing his head, literately, when things start to go over it as well as get out of control.Bobby the ex-con of the bunch who at first didn't seem to care less of what's was going on at Camp Placid later started to get very apprehensive over all the killing. Bobby feeling that he's, being a convicted felon, going to be held responsible for them by the local authorities. He then tries to get help only to end up arrested, by the county's cop or Man of the Year 1974, and put behind bars for a murder that he not only didn't commit but didn't even now about: the killing and decapitation of some unidentified biker.The masked killer does in almost all the people who came to say grace and reflect on Eric's life and death but also adds a new victim to his list Zoe a dike. Zoe was after one of Eric's friends Sarah who broke up with her because she was getting too much into the hot and heavy leather scene. Not at all interested in the rough trade Sarah felt that it was time for her to split. With Bobby found innocent, through a fax from the state police, of the bikers murder he's released by Sheriff "Man of the Year 1974" and shoots, with the dead bikers bike, straight to the graveyard knowing just who the killer, from the fax identifying the headless biker, is and trying to save, it turned out to be sweet Michelle, whoever is still left alive of the group that came there with him.You don't exactly expect to see "Hamlet" or "Citizen Kane" here but for a slasher film its not all that bad at all. The on the loose psycho really gets to do his thing in a number of bloody and gruesome cut-up jobs before he reveals himself. It then, knowing that this is going to be his big moment in the movie, he lets it all hang out especially his tongue and eyeballs as he goes completely wacko. Trying to finish off those still left alive including "Man of the Year 1974" who does such a good job in apprehending the killer, in fact he screwed everything up, that he's promised by his boss, the county's top cop, that he's been put in for being honored as "Man of the Year 2006"; but not to hold his breath waiting to get the award.