I honestly try to keep the ratings 1/10 that I hand out on this website as few as reasonably possible. That means I fanatically look for redeeming qualities in every lousy horror film, and usually I find a thing or two to justify a slightly higher rating. In the case of "Rave Party Massacre", however, and from the very beginning already, it was idle hope to find something positive. This is truly an awful and irredeemably bad amateur production where everything went wrong. The plot is thin, but nevertheless pretentiously attempts to express social criticism and come across as politically relevant. Every single one of the five lead characters is obnoxious, self-indulged, pathetic and you couldn't care less if they all died a horribly painful dead. The era and setting, namely an illegal rave in an abandoned hospital in the year 1992, easily could have led to potentially great horror situations, but the uninspired & untalented writer/director Jason Winn lets it go to waste completely. The special effects and gore are weak, and the animal mask worn by one of the killers is bluntly stolen from "You're Next". All in all, not one sequence managed to hold my attention for longer than 15 seconds, so why waste further time and energy on the review? Just avoid!
