A repairman named Hadley
(Weston Blakesley) becomes obsessed with
his machine that was once the old haunted
laundry press that killed it's employees
a decade before.
He suddenly gets posessed by it and goes
to his clients homes, whacks them over
with a sledge hammer and brings them into
his home to feed to his machine.
Two criminals that break into people's
homes which happens to be a man named
Rick (Reggie Bannister) and his son Mike
(Scott Spieser) breaks into his home only
top discover many people being kidnapped
there and also discovering that they
cannot escape the house.
If I didn't read the dvd
cover that this was based after the
original movie of someone fixing the
posessed laundry press I would think this
is a different story alltogether as it
never explains it nor does it explain why
all of this is happening.
Thuis movie is extremely bland and made
on a Z-grade budget with barely a story
behind it.
Avoid it at all costs.
The acting is quite wooden
but not extremely terrible.
Aimee Brooks is rough in the
very beginning but she picks up her
perfromance a bit when she realises that
she is trapped in the psycho's house
showing her true fears.
Scott Spieser tries to put
energy in his performance playing a role
of a criminal and is not bad.
However, Reggie Bannister who
playas his father (Yes the ice cream man
from Phantasm) is too
over the top playing an asshole criminal.
Good thing he was killed off during the
first few scene's of his performance.
Aimee Brooks
is taking a shower and there's a camera
shot on her breasts.
People are butchered by the
machine and there are also body pieces
and lots of blood.
The killers face has some of his flesh
torn off.
Two directors
named Eric Cunningham and Eric
Gardner worked on this film as well
as wrote it. Their work is very dry and
stale on it. They tried to make the
scenery dark but they lack at doing so.
During the beginning of the film we have
actor Weston Blakesley having a
dispute at home with a small parted
actress named Sarah Lilly as
husband and wife. Although the aggression
is almost there the chemistry with the
direction isn't.
Blakesley does show good evil
expressions after he is posessed making
him intimidating.
There's many scene's when he hits a
sledge hammer on many of the victims
heads but it doesn't look believeable.
However, there is a great shot on him and
lead supporting actor Scott Spieser
which looks very Texas Chainsaw
Massacre stylish.
We have nice dialgoue sequences between Brooks
and Juliana Dever when they try
to escape from the house by finding the
right key which looks scary wondering if
they will make it witrhout being killed
or caught.
There are good shots inside the house
showing no chances of escaping whenever a
cast member who playsa a victim tries to
but that's about it.
We have some good sharp
sounds by the Climax Golden Twins which
can work on a better film than this one.
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