Trailer Park of Terror (2008)

just watch it!

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

All "Norma" (Nichole Hiltz) wanted was a chance to get out from the trailer park she lived in and start a new life with her boyfriend. But when he comes to visit her, he is accidentally killed by the trailer park ruffians and she believes that her chance is gone forever. The devil then appears and convinces her that she can have revenge on those who took away her golden opportunity in exchange for her soul. So she accepts the weapon the devil gives her and kills all the residents of the trailer park. After that she burns the trailer park down and kills herself. Many years later a church van full of troubled young adults gets caught in a storm and comes to a stop near that same trailer park which has mysteriously reappeared. And Norma is there to greet them. Anyway, rather than reveal the surprises which follow I will just say that this was a surprisingly good movie which contains both horror and gore in equal measures. It also has some very dark humor throughout, along with some very graphic scenes which might not appeal to those unaccustomed to a violent gore-fest of this type. The fact that it was nominated for a "Fangoria Chainsaw Award" in 2009 should be a clear indicator that this film is definitely not for the squeamish.

as i was browsing through my local DVD shop the other day i stumbled on this movie, now i love horror movies, and horror comedies and this looked right up my street, redneck zombies, cool, came with a comic book nice, was looking forward to some sweet gore, and loads of laughs, and got neither, nor did i get my redneck zombies i was promised. the movie was poor in every way, some OK special effects nothing to write home about. the lead actress was OK, but it could of been much better, and it thought it was clever but it wasen't. now look i love me a bit of horror cheese ya know 'evil dead 2' 'braindead' and 're animater'. but where as they were genuinely funny and meant to be, i was surprised at how serious the thing tried to be, dashes of humour here and there, but it was trying to be to dark and fails. there was one scene that was pretty cool, when a dude gets boiled/fried but other than that this did not impress me one bit, its so far from the cult classic its supposed to be stay away, its just trash

This movie's billing as a Zombedy is just right. It's totally gory and funny all at the same time. The acting was good, and the cinematography was noticeably creative. Trace Adkins as the devil was a treat - wish he'd had a bigger role! The characters were well-drawn for a horror movie. The trailer park set was terrific: the stuff of nightmares! My only complaint was the make-up on the zombie faces. I thought it would have been more effective had it been a little more refined. These are a different kind of zombie than we usually see. They're intelligent (or, rather, as intelligent as they were in life), had memory of their lives, behaved more like vampires in that they worked together as a group. This would make a great movie to show at Halloween. Grab a bowl of popcorn and enjoy the fun!

Trailer Park of Terror starts as Pastor Lewis (Matthew Del Negro) from the Vertical Trinity school for loser kids stops off a road side diner, on his bus are several troubled kids he intends to take out for a bonding weekend in the woods or something like that. However word is that a severe storm is causing problems & rather predictably Pastor Lewis crashes the bus during heavy rain, stuck in the middle of nowhere Lewis sees a sign for a nearby trailer park & decides to check it out in the hope of finding help. There a pretty woman named Norma (Nichole Hiltz) says they can all spend the night there. Unfortunately the trailer park belongs to zombie Redneck freaks who like to torture & kill anyone they meet, will Pastor Lewis or any of his kids escape alive?Directed by Steven Goldmann when I first heard the title Trailer Park of Terror I actually though it was going to be one of those compilations of old horror & exploitation flick theatrical trailers, it's really only when I sat down to watch it that I realised it was a film in it's own right & while not a terribly bad film it's not terribly good one either. The first half of Trailer Park of Terror is rather dull & drawn out, not that much happens really & there's an attempt spice things up with a fractured narrative with flashbacks & a large chunk of the plot out of sequence. The first half of the film also spends a fair amount of time on the bickering between the various kids who all have troubles like a shoplifter, a junkie & a whore which is then totally dropped from the second half of the film as character development becomes zero. The film really gets going after the 50 odd minute mark as the killing & depraved sexual goings on start, we also get Redneck zombies & a total lack of plot or reason. Apart from some vague rubbish about a pact with the Devil there's no reason why there are zombies, it was Norma who made the deal anyway so why are the other zombies there? There's no reason why they are so sadistic, there's no reason why they just kill anyone they see other than that's what zombies do I suppose. Set in & around a trailer park this film does not show trailer park residents in a good light, it show's them as backward, sadistic, disgusting, fat, depraved foul mouthed criminals who live in squalid conditions & treat each other like dirt & as such couldn't be called flattering.Available in both 'R' rated & 'Unrated' versions (in the US anyway, I would imagine international versions would be based on the Unrated cut) I saw the Unrated cut which is basically a few seconds longer (about 40 seconds to be precise) & has no additional plot or exposition but does contain a few extra frames of the arm cutting scene & more shots of the skinning. To be fair there's some good gore here, there's a ripped-off head, bloody gunshot wounds, a ripped out spine, skinned & gutted animals, some intestine eating, a cut off arm, plenty of blood splatter, some rotting zombies & a very grim & sadistic scene in which a guy is skinned alive, fed his own flesh & then deep fried. There are also some sex & nudity here, I still don't understand why these zombies would want to make a sex video but they try anyway. Overall this is quite well made with good effects & decent photography although I hated the soundtrack with it's awful songs, the scene in which the two kids are forced to have sex by Norma is inter-cut with a zombie playing guitar & singing a truly awful awful song which made my head hurt. A lot.Apparently shot in about eighteen days in Georgia the production values are pretty good & don't have that cheapness many recent low budget horror films do. The acting is alright with the pretty Nichole Hiltz particularly good value.Trailer Park of Terror is one of the better recent low budget horror films, that's scant praise in itself I suppose but you could do worse if your looking for some blood, gore, depravity & sex without anything like a story to get in the way. Better than I expected but that's hardly any recommendation in or by itself.