Uninspired and full of typical horror clichés

R-Clercx

I just saw Welp on a Halloween Night in Kinepolis Belgium.

A group of young scouts goes out for camp in the woods where a mysterious werewolf type of boy was sighted.

The production, the atmosphere and the acting are all relatively good for a director's debut, but Welp fails miserably by having an uninspired scenario and a story line full of clichés.

It's run of the mill, average, never surprising but luckily the photography manages to breath some atmosphere in it.

Horror buffs will immediately associate the forest camp setting as drawn from Friday the 13th (but this time with a younger bunch of scouts), while the rest of the story feels like a less haunting and gory Texas Chainsaw Massacre (minus the Texas family).

Just about any horror cliché is present: - forest setting (check), - young people on camp (check), - the gorgeous blonde (check), - masked mysterious figure in the woods (check), - booby traps in the woods (check), - gorgeous blonde gets tied up on a hook (check), ...

Frankly, there was one cliché missing: gorgeous blonde shows her tits. Might have made the movie better...

While this movie is getting some hype in the press in Belgium (for obvious reasons -chauvinism and tax shelter money is in it); as a (Belgium) viewer I could not stop wondering: is this really the best one can do with evaded tax money and should this kind of uninspired ultra commercial movies be government sponsored?

Because it's far from art and it's not even above average entertainment.

score 5/10

R-Clercx 31 October 2014

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