“そこは、生き地獄。喰われるか？飼われるか？迷い込んだら最後、あなたは一匹の獲物となる。”
ドライブ旅行に出かけた男女4人の若者たちが、自然豊かな郊外の一本道を走っていたところ、車が故障して立ち往生してしまう。そんな彼らを、森の陰から“獲物”として狙う者たちがいた。近くの村に住むワトソン一家は道に迷った者たちを拉致しては捕獲し、男は食料に、女は繁殖の道具に利用するという、狂気の食人一家だった。若者たちはワトソン一家に次々と捕らえられ、監禁されていく。
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監督: Adrian Langley
脚本: Adrian Langley / Daniel Weissenberger
制作: Adrian Langley / Doug Phillips / Kevin Preece
制作会社: UNIT XIX
_**Realistic hillbilly horror**_ Two young couples break down in the sticks of the Northeast where they encounter some questionable shack-dwelling yokels (Simon Phillips, Michael Swatton, etc.) who have a pregnant captive (Samantha De Benedet). “Butchers” (2020) is a wilderness slasher that creates a feeling of mundane, solemn realism similar to the tone of "Wolf Creek" (2005) whereas "Wrong Turn" (2003) became increasingly cartoonish. Remember the sequence in the latter where the protagonists try to evade the hillbillies by walking way up in the tree branches? Why Sure! "Wrong Turn 2: Dead End" (2007) is even more comic booky, campy and thoroughly unbelievable. Don't get me wrong, they're both entertaining for what they are and have loads of gore, but they don't really create a sense of horror. “Butchers” does, very much so. It recalls the realistic backwoods horror of “The Shuttered Room” (1967) and “Deliverance” (1972), just from a slasher angle and with a lower budget, which you wouldn’t know from the proficient filmmaking. Other than De Benedet (Celeste), Julie Mainville (Jenna) and Anne-Carolyne Binette (Taylor) appear on the feminine front and are more prominent. So why not a higher rating? It’s probably too mundane & grim for its own good and therefore is NOT a fun film, like the Friday the 13th flicks, which ironically is the basis of my praise above. Plus they coulda done more with the women, particularly Anne-Carolyne Binette. The movie runs 1 hour, 32 minutes, and was shot in the Eastern Ontario townships of Merrickville-Wolford and Elizabethtown-Kitley, as well as Cumberland Heritage Village, which are in the Ottawa area and to the south toward the St. Lawrence River. GRADE: B-
