The Windmill Massacre (2016)

The Windmill Massacre: Directed by Nick Jongerius. With Patrick Baladi, Ben Batt, Charlotte Beaumont, Fiona Hampton. Seven tourists with troubled pasts find themselves trapped at a satanic mill in rural Holland. As they’re attacked for their sins one by one, the night becomes a fight for survival.

“The rather blandly named, The Windmill Massacre, breaks the golden rule of a good slasher flick and pays the price.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eLet me start by saying this is a film with definite potential. Its far from utterly bad. It employs a good cast of capable actors, a rather novel and fresh premise, plus some good horror elements. That said, it breaks the key rule of any good slasher flick, its not all that scary. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eTh reason The Windmill Massacre is not overly scary lies in its scripting. After the first death, thereu0026#39;s very little uncertainty as to who, how and when the next person, will die. Indeed, there is a u0026quot;lead inu0026quot;, that tells you for the most part, whats about to happen to who, next. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe net result is a film robbed of the sudden death, u0026quot;jump in your seatu0026quot;, surprise factor. Thatu0026#39;s what good slashers are really all about. Not the final dispatch but the dread and tension, leading up to that suddenly and violently realized moment, when the killer strikes. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIts a shame too, as this film looked promising. Even making a second film may not solve this issue, as the approach taken is more or less, u0026quot;locked inu0026quot;. That is, its intrinsic to the legend built around the killer. As it stands then, a moderately entertaining horror film, that offers some entertainment value, but could have been so much more. Six out of ten from me.”