User Reviews

I saw this movie as a judge in a film festival for Fylmz.com. I was skeptical about it, but it was the best choice out of that genre. Ten minutes into the film I was ready to turn it off, twenty minutes in I had actually shut it off. Out of boredom, and lack of anything else to watch, it got turned back on. The longer I watched the more sucked in I got. By the end I was immersed in the storyline and totally in love with the characters. The acting was a little rough, as was the camera action, but all in all it was very good.

If you come across Slayer in your movie travels, give it a shot, you just might like it.

slayer - admittedly a title you've seen before, whether on a TV show or a band you might like. but don't let that stop you from checking out this movie, which is not what you think it'll be.

yes, it's a genre picture, but it isn't about gore, fancy action, or frivolous geeky details. it's about creating a mood, and if you ask me it's a commentary on the entire glut of Joseph-campbell-inspired "chosen one" type stories out there, with their hero's journeys and their ultimate redemptions. a movie to take seriously.

oh, and also, ed peduzzi is a virtuosic director who pulled off this professional-looking movie on the thinnest of budgets. worth watching for the cinematography alone. (full disclosure: i know the director and helped out in the tiniest way on some shots.)

Slayer is a brilliantly executed independent film with an interesting and "satisfyingly unsatisfying" frank and no-frills approach to horror and violence.

What's special about Slayer is its use of realism in a generally sensationalized and fantasy-heavy film genre. Peduzzi crafts fight scenes and violence that should be "cool" but shoots them with realistic sound effects and no music in a way that makes you sympathetic to the pain of the "bad guys" and forces a reexamination of the traditional cinematic glamorization of violence. I've never seen this concept executed as effectively as in this film.

The film also showcases Ed Peduzzi's virtuosic ability to tell a story through technical aspects of the medium of film. With colors that look like moving impressionist paintings of New England as often as deep crimson blood and gore. The animated-collage dream sequence is also a highlight.

Thumbs, toes, and all other available body parts up.