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It is safe to say that slashers are the most popular subgenre of horror movies. Anyone can see why, though They have established routines, countless disposable characters killed in wonderfully intricate ways, and iconic villains such as Jason Vorehees and Fred Kreuger, each with their own memento. They’re closer to some form of controlled therapy than they are actual movies. With this in mind, I felt the urge to watch another, upcoming, one, 4/20 Massacre, a stoner slasher. How could it possibly go wrong?
4/20 Massacre tells the story of a group of girls who identify as somewhere on the queer spectrum. They go camping for Jess’ (Jamie Bernadette) birthday which raises the concern for her safety. To begin with, they are warned by the ranger, Jim Storm, that this particular camping zone has been seeing a lot of guerilla weed growers and people have been going missing. He then introduces them to a delirious stoner, Mark Schroeder, who gives them a backpack full of weed right before running off and getting killed. This bit of the story leaves much to be explained. Realistic people would have emptied the package, now, but it’s 4/20, and the girls are getting the short straw once again.
My go-to aspect about slasher films is the kills. The question is, do 4/20 Massacre delivers on this front? Kind of. They are very much top tier as they blend together a bottle full of tongues and a hand shank. There does seem to be an intent, whether it is deliberate production or just the bare minimum budget, that 4/20 Massacre does not use night time to crank false tension and poor jump scares. We also see forced deep-throating of a bong and blinding via blunt as well as disembowelment and where else but a slasher would you expect to find such creativity. While slasher massacres are exaggeratedly violent, 4/20 Massacre delivers on the heritage.
The 4/20 Massacre was quite the let down in using weed as its income generating theme. For the most part, this too happened due to the girls taking the lead with zombie like qualities. A single girl among the cast is a stoner. The rest of them are just girls who enjoy partying and decide to go camping. They don’t have any of the irritating and superficial features common with slasher movie protagonists. All of the other characters surrounding them, such as Rick the park ranger, are borderline caricatures that belong to a slasher film world. These girls are one-dimensional and underwritten and there’s a lot of dialogue in the film that goes around them talking and trying to ungainly resolve issues, including one awful group bong hit. They were zestfully boring. Where are the stoners? It’s a weed movie for God’s sake.
The concept of the movie makes 4/20 Massacre interesting on paper. It has a fascinating premise, a rewarding internal logic (the slasher is attracted by the smell of weed), but there are two movies coexisting inside it. The unique concept starts outside and ends somewhere else. This means that you have to be careful of the audience yawning while watching a slasher movie like this. Therefore, I suppose the 4/20 Massacre was executed with creativity in the killing scenes.
I could not take my eyes off the cell phone for the entire time that the girls were camping in the woods until the actual murder began. This is rather harmful, however.
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