The Rockville Slayer (2004)

I watch a lot of horror, I watch a lot of bad horror. Even in bad horror there is usually something of note, or something decent to latch onto and say "at least this part was good". not here. from the opening sequences which contained 2 of the worst performances ever captured on camera, I guess I knew what level of crap i was in for. On a technical level, it was amateur at best. the audio is atrocious fading in and out with different scenes. The special effects were sad and lacking, the plot full of so many unnecessary and just plain ridiculous twists and turns, and once again, some of the worst acting I have -EVER- seen. The plot tries to go for that "Scream" vibe where you suspect everyone, but it does so with no rhyme or reason, and definitely no clarity. Funniest of all, someone attached to the project seems to be voting nothing but 10's on here, but it still only has a score of 3. nice try. Avoid this one at all costs.

This is for anyone who wants to see THE ROCKVILLE SLAYER AKA UNAWARE. THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE REVIEWED THIS FILM IN THE PAST AND TO DATE HAVE NOT SEEN THE NEW CUT OF THIS FILM. I don't think they have seen the film period. They have also hit other sites degrading the film because they have nothing better to do. Shouldn't you be working on your own movie? The actors have not seen the new cut yet. If you notice in most of the reviews they don't mention anything about the film or story. They just put down the Actor's and director and tell you to see another movie. They are angry we did not make a better film than "Hitchcock" I have news for you. Nobody ever will. You have really high standards. These people are not professional reviewers. We know who you are and we are glad we no longer have contact with you. I am not posting this message to give my opinion of what I think of the film. I am simply putting this message up to protect it from people like this until it is released. Let's let the fans be the judge. Please, if you are interested in seeing the film follow any real reviews from the release date of Nov 1, 2005 or after. Don't listen to the angry bitter people in life.

Sometimes it pays to have friends in the biz, sometimes it doesn't. My buddy works in a film distributor's office and got hold of a screener for a film called Unaware. After seeing it he called me and invited me to watch a film that would simply "rot my mind." He told me the director is notorious for faking reviews and whining to people who say they don't like his movies. The notes for Unaware said it was supposed to be about knowing who you really are. I was expecting something in the vein of Hitchcock. What I saw was something along the lines of Ed Wood, Jr. on a bad day. The story is really about some psycho who goes around skewering the usual set of cardboard characters in a small town that might have some secrets in its history. When the town's only hope rests on the narrow shoulders of a deputy who looks like he was cast as Barney Fife's twin, and whose played by some guy named, I swear, Circus, I knew there was no hope for either the town or for me. You have a whole cast full of nobodies and suddenly bad b-movie stock actors Robert Z'Dar and Linnea Quigley show up (and show their age) and you immediately know they have to be the bad guys. They get theirs in a simpleton shootout ending and then Barney Fife drives away and leaves town. One of the Fed cops is good looking but she can't act a bit. The red-herring psycho girl looked promising but she gets wasted too early. Joe Estevez proves yet again why the rest of his family shows up in A-movies and in television series and he does not. When it was all over I asked myself why do the make movies like this? What did we do to have this junk shown to us? Show this to agitated criminals and save on medication money.So now they changed the name but they should have changed the movie. Do not waste a dime on this. See Hitchock's Frenzy instead. Or don't watch anything at all.

The producers are changing the name from Unaware to The Rockville Slayer: it won't help. I think they are changing the name because this was supposed to be marketed as a psychological thriller about knowing who you really are. That whole idea is completely lost in the clumsy writing, middling acting & unimaginative direction. Maybe now the producers think they are going to exploit the angle of the killer on the loose. But there's no terror inflicted by the slayer here. Each scene is lifted from the b-movie play book and you know who is going to get skewered 5 minutes before each plunge of the knife. There's some nice looking newcomers in the cast and they carry most of the action. If you can call it "action." There's a lot of standing around and talking and crying and self-pity. The lead cop is badly miscast. The veterans in the cast are clearly slumming for a check and probably forgot about their visit to the imaginary Rockville the day after their check cleared. Especially wasted are Joe Estevez and Robert Z'Dar. Haggard ex-scream queen Linne'a Quigley has never looked more tired. Whoever photographed her should never work again. I doubt you will ever hear from anyone else listed in the credits. Not worth a video purchase or a rental. Watch The Town That Dreaded Sundown instead.