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Terror Tuesday: Trailer Park of Terror (2008)

Original Title: Trailer Park of Terror
Year: 2008
Nationality: USA
Duration: 97 minutes
Director: Steven Goldmann
Writer: Timothy Dolan
Cast: Nichole Hiltz, Trace Adkins, Priscilla Barns, Ed Corbin, Matthew Del Negro, et al.

Trivia: Based on a comic book series by the same name.

   

Synopsis

Norma, a white trash princess abused for years at the hands of trailer park bullies, has decided to escape her horrid life with her boyfriend. After a deadly accident and a push from Satan himself (and his hand canon), sweet Norma takes matters into her own hands creating a bloodbath worthy of any found in hell. Little does she know that her destiny was baptized in blood that day and her eternity is now filled with exacting revenge on every person who plays in her trailer park.

Trailer

Critique

In my opinion, this is probably the best B-grade horror classic I've seen in over a decade. It has all the classic elements of the horror genre: Sex, Drugs, Stupid Kids, Sex, Beautiful Women, Satan, Blood, Camp … oh! and Redneck Zombies!

Of course the acting is not exactly top-notch, but the cast has quite a bit of small part experience under it's belt. Trace Adkins (Yes, the country music artist) plays Satan, although he looks more like a cleaned up Rob Zombie than the dark prince he's representing … (Well, maybe he just looks like a cleaned up Rob Zombie all the time?)

It seems to mesh together many different styles and eras of horror films and captures a general feel that I've just not seen done this well … and the music is very fun (sort of a demonic, rock-a-billy mess that is actually quite entertaining!)

The film, to its credit, refuses to take itself seriously giving it a balance of comedy, camp and horror that makes it at the top of my list of hardcore B horror.

A Closer Look at Trailer Park of Terror

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