Starring the extremely creepy Crispin Glover as a pair of homicidal twins, this movie has a small collection of the most annoying humans ever — a group of teenagers — going out into the wilderness to go camping and do what all teenagers want to do: have sex with each other and do drugs.
The movie isn’t completely clear at any point about what actually made the twins (Stanley and, of course, Simon) turn into complete and utter freaks, but it touches on the fact that one of them had a penchant for hurting things less capable of thought than himself (Stanley) and one of them was pretty simple, borderline mentally challenged (Simon). Presently the two of them run a very brokendown gas station just on the outside of, um, somewhere. There are ghosts and corpses and other characters who only appear for the sole purpose of being killed in the most extremely inventive ways. And none of it is really ever explained and, honestly, that’s part of this movie’s charm. The plot tosses itself from place to place, from kill to kill, with a reckless abandon for whether or not the audience can even keep up. It’s spectacular, really.
I must say that there were the most wonderful things done with those kills, too. Pick axes, lighters, and so many more things I can’t say without ruining it for you because you are, of course, going to run to your local video store and find this movie. Obviously.
Lastly, I must say that as you can tell I immensely enjoyed this movie, but when I came out, however, I was revolted to discover that as Crispin Glover gets older (and farther away from George McFly) he’s actually becoming kind of… sexy. I mean when he’s busily running around and killing people I was actually mildly attracted to him. I’m not sure if it was the zeal with which he took really, really stupid people’s lives or if it was simply because he’s just a sexy beast, but I’ll let you decide. You tell me. Sexy or no? But first you have to go see this movie because, independent or not, it’s certainly a welcome change from the obscenity that is Torture Porn.
