I get it that slasher films have been around a long time now and pretty much every creepy and unsettling mask has been used by some knife-wielding psycho. So, I guess someone thought it would be clever to use an 'Easter Bunny' costume as the maniac chopping the cast up. And that might have worked, if they'd leaned into the general silliness of it all. But instead, the film-makers tried to play this one with a straight face, as if it was an outright horror.
The film begins with a gaggle of twenty-something actors trying to pass themselves off as late teens, partying round a campfire before they head off to uni. Unfortunately, they have a but more of a heavy night than they expected and when they wake up they're all covered in blood and a girl with a weird Anglo-American accent is in pieces. Naturally, they don't call the police, but instead do their best to cover up whatever 'crime' they may or may not have committed and just do their best to live their lives. Unfortunately, a year later, they're all lured to a hotel by someone who knows what they did last summer... sorry Easter. Yes, you may have heard that plot somewhere back in the late nineties.
So the film isn't funny when it could have been. It isn't original. The gore is pretty much non-existent and the film often grinds to a halt sometimes when it realises it hasn't got anything new to say and starts throwing in pointless flashbacks just to pad it out. But - possibly worst of all - is that the dialogue and acting is pretty awful. I won't blame the actors as I've seen a couple of them in other things and they're perfectly fine when given better to work with, but the script lets them down here.
Overall, this film really doesn't have anything going for it, which is a shame, as it could have been a nice, cheesy little entry into the genre, but there just isn't enough here that's original, scary, gory or just good to really recommend it.
Oh, I said it wasn't funny. I take that back. The 'killer rabbit' costume was pretty funny, but that was probably not the film-makers' intention when they designed one of the most unthreatening and unintentionally funny 'murderers' ever.
