Skateway Massacre (2019)

Skateway Massacre: Directed by Daniel Zubiate. With Amanda Courtney, Caedmon Holland, Alan Humphrey, Kim Johnson. The closing staff of a local roller skating rink find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious figure in their midst.

“This is about as low budget as it gets. The acting is at best mediocre, and at its worse, plain terrible. And yet a couple of characters manage to elicit sympathy. Robert Posey even approaches something resembling charming likability on a couple of occasions (at least, I wouldnu0026#39;t kick him out of bed on a cold night).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eDirection and camera work is cliched at best, and sloppy at worst, as is the writing and editing. Yet I willingly watched the film to its predictable end. Most of the film is glacial character … um …familiarisation. The action all happens in the third act. The perpetratoru0026#39;s identity is obvious pretty-well immediately, and any attempt to rotate through diversions and misdirections is managed ham-fistedly. There is nothing scary about the slicing and dicing in this gorefestlet, and scenes that try for tension are as phoned in as the filmu0026#39;s many prank calls. But somehow, somehow, this film remains fun. Maybe it gets away with being so bad that itu0026#39;s good. Or at least not offensively devoid of any likability. Or maybe I just had a thing for Posey. We shall never know.”