The Greenskeeper (2002)

A Brilliant Conflict

One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

I don't know if I should laugh or cry when I think about this movie. I don't know if it's supposed to be a comedy or a horror movie. If it's a horror movie - it's as bad as it gets. If it's a comedy - it's as bad as it gets.This is the kind of movie you don't want to spend your money on, but you want to watch it with you friends so you can laugh and/or make comments on how bad everything is. If you like to do that, here's a movie for you. If you're looking for a funny horror movie, keep on searching.The story? A killer dressed as a greenskeeper murder a couple of "teenagers" with different golf tools. That's it. And it isn't funny, scary or thrilling.

It's really hard to tell if this a spoof or a serious slasher movie. It obviously has an attempt at humor, but the spoofs are lame and poorly directed. Not a good spoof nor a good campy feature. Baseball bigot John Rocker lumbers through a few scenes and the scenes themselves look to be nearly all first-takes. The only entertainment you'll get here is the bad dialog, bad acting, and cheapo sets. I doubt that's what they were aiming for, however. I don't believe this to be THAT clever of a film. Some of the scenes take place at the swanky country club that looks like somebody's back yard in an Atlanta suburb, and the golf course maintenance building scenes look to be a three-walled $100 set with a few cliché gardening props lying around. There's lost of drug references and local flunkie Atlanta DJ Steve Rickman attempts to create a funny country club tennis-pro character. His big scene with the automatic tennis server is minimally funny and proves that just because you're funny on the radio doesn't mean it transfers to the visual medium.

The world of low budget horror movies is infamous for turning out movies that are supposed to be funny and scary, yet in actuality just turn out to be disappointing. The Greenskeeper shatters this mold. The movie delivers a great deal of that good old slasher carnage, yet actually holds a plot and makes you laugh all the way through. The Greenskeeper's Murderous tactics all involve golf course tools. You may not have ever suspected a golf course to be a dangerous place, but this movie will surely make you laugh and think of promiscuous teens getting killed whenever you step onto a golf course from now on. It's par for the corpse!

I love John Rocker...I have loved every game he has pitched, and now every movie he has been in. No other American represents the intensity and love for horror that Rocker displays in this movie. I am not a big fan of horror movies....my fancy is more towards the comedies, but this movie just drew me in. The character development and the plot seem to intertwine to create one of the best shocking movies of the year. I was a skeptic I admit since I am from Atlanta and this movie was taped and filmed here. But this should not be a problem as this film makes itself available to all....and in a very shocking and horrific way. The ending will shock everyone that sees it and I hope people will watch it over and over again in order to truely understand what the meaning of this movie is. I rate it a 9 out of 10 and a MUST see. Especially among Atlantians!