This film looks like it was made by a high school student and his buddies in the backyard of his parents’ house while they were gone on vacation. The sound is bad, the cinematography is woeful, and the acting…well, let’s just say it’s below par. Don’t even get me started on the editing. All the scenes end by fading to black, as if someone just turned off the home video camera. The best performance comes from Rebecca McCuen, who plays the sister of one of the dead models. She doesn’t handle her lines all that well, but she’s quite good conveying fear. The problem is she’s only in the film for about five minutes.

But who am I kidding…this movie is an exploitation movie hiding in a horror movie’s clothing. Rather than advancing the plot, Doublin kills minute after minute by training his camera on women as they undress. Over and over again. I know, this doesn’t sound so bad, but I never knew naked women could be so boring. And Doublin makes them so. Then, after the women are undressed, we see them tied up and killed. This is a common formula, but, again, it's executed poorly. And the effects are so amateurish, it’s really not worth the trouble. Don’t get me wrong; nobody loves a good exploitation flick more than I do. But Slaughtered is a bad nudie flick, it’s a bad gore flick, and it’s a bad…well, it’s just a bad movie all around. Even the continuity is bad. At one point, one of the main characters (a detective no less) says the name of the photog’s website, but she gets it wrong. And this is when she’s trying to get information to solve the case―a major turning point in the plot. If the filmmakers didn’t notice this, it’s sad. If they noticed but didn't bother to correct it, it’s even sadder.

What surprises me is that director Anthony Doublin has a quite impressive background. He handled makeup effects on Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator and From Beyond, two of my favorite horror movies of all time. And the makeup effects were awesome in those flicks. So, I don’t know where it all went bad for Doublin…but go bad it did. Maybe it’s because he had more budget to work with on the Stuart Gordon films. Slaughtered looks like it was made for about $50, plus pizza and beer for the cast and crew.

I am usually able to find some redeeming quality about the films I watch, no matter how bad they may be. I hate to just trash movies, because I know most movies are somebody’s dream come true. But Slaughtered has left me with nothing. I guess the score isn’t too bad. And Rebecca McCuen is pretty good at acting scared.

Let me just say this: If you want to see naked girls, buy a porn flick. If you want to be bored seeing naked girls, buy Slaughtered. Oh, and Brain Damage Films? For shame…