Directed by William Dear Starring: Crispin Glover, Margo Harshman, Greg Cipes, Kelly Vitz, Artie Baxter, Carrie Finklea, Lori Lively, Bruce Glover, Blake Lively Review by Melanie Tighe
SYNOPSIS:
Five college friends choose to spend their vacation debauching at the riverside. They find the perfect place to camp out, but end up crossing paths with twin brothers, Simon and Stanley. The twins then begins to knock off the campers in some extremely creative (and extremely gruesome) ways. Enjoy the splatter.
It is refreshing to see Crispin Glover playing a wide-eyed maniac, as opposed to a shy, retiring maniac. He appeared as an oddball in films such as Bartleby, Willard and Back to the Future, but to see him running around the woods dressed in camo gear and dragging people through the undergrowth by their hair is a hugely enjoyable experience.'
When a terminally annoying group of teenagers stop at a small gas station and poke fun at its owners, the fun begins.
Identical twins Stanley and his back-woods brother Simon run the place.
Simon does not take kindly to being called retarded by the young travellers and Stanley is understandably protective of his brother.
Stanley is relatively hospitable towards the kids but they leave feeling uneasy, and rightly so.
Despite (and perhaps because of) their numerous flaws, the teens are likeable enough for us to care about them.
This is no mean feat as with so many other recent hillbilly slasher films it is hard to care whether the characters live or die.
Granted, we are invited to lean more towards wanting the kids dead, but there is plenty there for us to want to invest in.
Glovers’ Simon/Stanley character(s?) is an amusing addition to the homicidal maniac hall of fame. Glover has a riot charging through the trees, expertly picking off the dumb campers. He’s so much fun to watch.
Simon Says ticks every slasher movie requirement and is reassuringly predictable.
If you want to see every B-movie horror cliché put to stellar use, this is the movie that does it.
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SIMON SAYS, 2006
