Closed For The Season

Horror

MTI Home Video

R1 DVD

Kristy has gone back to an old amusement park where she lost a teddy bear as a kid. The park is now closed but strange things are going on. The park seems to be infested with monsters and ghosts, memories of the park when it was in its heyday, and she is trapped there. She is accompanied by James, a local man who seems to have his own connection with the park from way back.

Their attempts to escape from the park seem to confuse reality with their deepest fears. What is real in this environment? Who or what is playing with their realities? It seems the park itself may have come back to life, and wants someone to amuse, or to amuse it. Its methods, though, are cruel and often bloody. It can resurrect all the people who have died on the grounds over the decades it has been in use, ranging from a Civil War general’s victims to a kid thrown from the roller coaster by a demented teenager.

The story becomes disjointed and fragmented as we try to work out what is going on. It is worth staying with the story, however, if only for the sight of Kristy in her well-filled tank top. How much of the story is reality and how much is in their minds is unclear as we jump between scenes. This may be deliberate on the part of the writer but it doesn’t make the story any easier to follow. The writer also didn’t give the actors much to work on as far as developing their characters is concerned and it is hard to feel much empathy with them.

Apart from those gripes the film has moments that will make you jump in your seat and enough tension to keep you on edge right through the performance. There is blood galore but it doesn’t get in the way of the plot. The film is overall a good example of how good a budget film can be.

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