Written by Kevin Greene and Alex Weir and directed by
Greene, Adam Johnson and Tripp Norton the film The Greenskeeper (2002) is a
film filled with the indie horror spirit.
A down on his luck screenwriter who moonlights as an assistant
greenskeeper of a golf club Allen (Allelon Ruggiero) has a beautiful girlfriend
who can’t stand him and former classmates (who are also members of the golf
club) who degrade him for having fallen so far when his father owned the golf
club. He only works at the golf club
because it’s the only job his stepfather who runs the club would give him.
Feeling peer pressure from his girlfriend he allows her and
her friends access to the golf club at night to party and have fun when no one
is around. Unbeknownst to any of them
the myth of the Greenskeeper, a burned formed worker of the golf club that
kills anyone who ventures there at night, is real and that they are all being
hunted one by one.
Despite being hampered by a meager budget and uninspired
cinematography and barely adequate acting the film does score points with the
gore factor and the fact that there is nudity is high. The kills are imaginative and they don’t shy
away from the blood. The film also
scores points for a very self aware script and many jokes that are aware of the
type of film that it is. This being
said, the film does drag in some places due to the fact that the plot is
predictable and offers nothing new as a slasher film but that’s generally the
point. This is your basic ‘80s slasher
film which is thin on plot but big on sex, nudity and kills and if that’s what
you want in a film then that’s what you’ll get.
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