Film Review: Trailer Park of Terror

Summary:

Trailer Park of Terror is heavy on the gore and has a few laughs thrown in as well.

More DetailsAbout Trailer Park of Terror (2008)Zombie horror as a group of stranded teens find themselves on the menu when the sun goes down. Six wayward teens and their chaperone are forced to find shelter from a storm when their bus taking them home from a team-building weekend breaks down. Finding a deserted trailer park down the road, the bedraggled group think they’ve struck lucky when they’re enthusiastically greeted by the vampish, well-endowed Norma (Nichole Hiltz). But as night falls, the group are in for a grim awakening, as the park’s hidden residents, a host of flesh-gorging zombies, emerges to begin a feeding frenzy.

Starring: Nichole Hiltz, Tracie Adkins, Priscilla Barnes, Stefanie Black

Directed by: Steven Goldmann

Runtime: 96 minutes

Studio: Summit Entertainment

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Review: Trailer Park of Terror

Steven Goldmann’s horror unsurprisingly begins in a trailer park where Norma (Nichole Hiltz) is meeting her boyfriend. An altercation with some of the locals leads to her man being impaled on an iron fence where he quickly dies. Norma then meets a stranger (Trace Adkins) on the road who aids her in taking revenge. After gunning down the trailer park locals, Norma sits in her trailer and willingly blows up the entire park including herself. The film then switches to Pastor Lewis (Matthew Del Negro) who is escorting a group of troubled teenagers back from a trip. They lose their way and after a crash end up in a trailer park where Norma is more than happy to accommodate them.

After the arrival in the trailer park the group find that Norma is an enthusiastic hostess, so much so that our devout pastor is tempted by her. It soon becomes apparent that Norma and the trailer park locals are all still around though they are now of the undead and take great delight in picking off the teenagers one by one. Whether it’s a massage to forget or some heavy guitar riffs, our undead clan are certainly inventive. Among the teenagers is Bridget (Jeanette Brox) who seems the hardest to get to and proves somewhat resourceful. Norma and her friends soon revel in trailer park bloodshed though and the question is who will survive?

Although I wasn’t bowled over by this film I certainly wasn’t rolling my eyes and wanting it to stop either. The effects are okay and there are some gruesome but pretty amusing moments. It’s a silly and comical horror rather than a dark and eerie one. You will cringe at the hapless group of teenagers and even the naive pastor. The ending is a little corny but this is a watchable little horror.

Trailer Park of Terror is heavy on the gore and has a few laughs thrown in as well. A bunch of unlikable characters won’t move you greatly but seeing them picked off in a series of inventive ways may raise a smile or two. This falls short of being a good horror film but it’s certainly not a bad one though.

Verdict: 2/5

(Film source: reviewer’s own copy)

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I was born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England and have always been a bookworm and enjoyed creative writing at school. In 1999 I created the Elencheran Chronicles and have been writing ever since. My first novel, Fezariu's Epiphany, was published in May 2011. When not writing I'm a lover of films, games, books and blogging. I now live in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, with my wife, Donna, and our six cats - Kain, Razz, Buggles, Charlie, Bilbo and Frodo.