A group of teenagers fear for their lives in the swamps of Louisiana, chased by Mr. Jangles, a man possessed by 13 evil souls, and now relentless in his pursuit of new victims.A group of teenagers fear for their lives in the swamps of Louisiana, chased by Mr. Jangles, a man possessed by 13 evil souls, and now relentless in his pursuit of new victims.A group of teenagers fear for their lives in the swamps of Louisiana, chased by Mr. Jangles, a man possessed by 13 evil souls, and now relentless in his pursuit of new victims.
- Terry Parker
- (as Marcus Brown)
- Paramedic
- (uncredited)
- Officer on crime scene
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe filmmakers hoped this would be the first film in a long-running franchise. They intended to make Ray Sawyer the next iconic horror villain, like Jason Voorhees. When the film bombed at the box office, plans for future sequels were scrapped.
- Goofs(at around 52 mins) When Sean is pulled through the window with the chain by Ray Sawyer, the whole window behind him shatters. However, a few moments later inside the house - the window has somehow repaired itself.
- Quotes
Ricky: [Grabs Tammy's bra strap] So tell me, is this synthetic leather?
Tammy: We got it at Lacey's in Baton Rouge.
Patty: No, *you* go it at Lacey's. I was in Barnes & Noble flipping through Janes. Do not make me a part of your felony.
Ricky: You stole it?
Tammy: Well, I wasn't gonna buy it! It was too ugly! And I felt bad taking a nice one. I *have* a conscience.
Patty: You're still a crook.
Tammy: [Pulls her shirt down] Yeah, a crook with a nice rack.
[to Ricky]
Tammy: Don't you think?
Ricky: [Looks at Ray in his truck, watching them] You may not wanna pull those out too often.
- Crazy creditsAt the end of the credits we hear the sound of Ray's keys jangling
- SoundtracksJust The Girl
Written by Adam Schlesinger
Performed by The Click Five
Courtesy of Lava Records/Atlantic Recording Corp.
By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing
People tend to call these type of movies new age horror but fact is that these type of movies have been around since the '70's, in which a bunch of hot looking teenagers are all getting killed one-by-one by a maniac/monster. Not much has changed since the '70's, except for its style and look.
Storywise this movie is of course very formulaic in every way thinkable. It's actually a very simple written story, in which basically nothing out of the ordinary happens and everything progresses and happens by the book. It's the type of screenplay that makes you go think; Hey! I could have written something like this! The story is perhaps the movie disappointing aspect of the movie, since otherwise this is basically a fine and well made movie.
I liked the movie its style. It kept the movie going, even though when nothing was happening in the movie. It makes sure that you never get bored. This is also thanks to the editing by Paul Martin Smith, who is a good editor but hasn't really been given good movies yet to proof his skills to the world. The directing was good and fresh and it seems to me that Jim Gillespie has some talent as a director, even though he hasn't really showed it with his movies yet. Perhaps he needs to stop working with Kevin Williamson, perhaps then he will get some better movie propositions to direct. Ever since "Scream" Kevin Williamson hasn't done a decent thing for the genre anymore but he's still active in the business, probably because he is the guy who wrote "Scream". For this movie he serves as a producer. He also wrote the previous Gillespie directed movie "I Know What You Did Last Summer", which became a success, though probably only because it got released so shortly after the success of "Scream" and the genre was hot and popular again at that time.
This is not the type of horror movie that should ever scare you, it's more a movie that entertains with its horror, perhaps of the reason that everything happens in such a predictable way. But Jim Gillespie obviously understands the genre though and knows what is important. So there is some gore and good make-up effects as well as a good 'killer'. You don't really ever start to care about the rest of the characters though, mainly because they remain so superficial and obviously also aren't being played by the most talented actors.
The movie brings zombie movies back to its roots; Voodoo. The earliest zombie movies, from the '20's on, always featured voodoo themes, whenever zombies were involved with the main story. Just too bad that the didn't really used much of the voodoo concepts to make this movie a bit more interesting and original to watch.
It's enjoyable enough for the fans of the genre and certainly not as bad as everyone tries to make you believe it is.
6/10
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $881,779
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $501,000
- Sep 18, 2005
- Gross worldwide
- $881,779
- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1