This is not a high calibre Slasher movie by any means, it's a very cheesy movie that tries its best to compete with some of the better horror movies of its time, but falls quite flat due to its tedious padded out pacing & questionable acting, that's poor even by this genre's standards, yet quite amusing at the same time with almost no conversation between these actors coming across at all natural, but the characters are quite likeable & a bit more fleshed out than being the usual cannon fodder.
The plot is pretty basic - a group of college kids go out to the desert to dig for ancient Indian artifacts deep in the desert mountains. But before long one of them becomes possessed by an evil spirit and starts picking off the teens one by one.
Yet there is a certain charm to the whole thing that does boast a decent yet eerie atmosphere, thanks to its setting in the desert with a very amateur guerrilla style filmmaking vibe to this movie and sometimes that can work & in this case, it kinda does, despite its shortcomings. Also the splatter & gore during its final third was worth the sluggish pace (almost).
Overall this is not that great of a movie & I really wanted to like this more, with its strange editing choices & boring pace, it does pay off towards the end, you just need patience to get there.
The plot is pretty basic - a group of college kids go out to the desert to dig for ancient Indian artifacts deep in the desert mountains. But before long one of them becomes possessed by an evil spirit and starts picking off the teens one by one.
Yet there is a certain charm to the whole thing that does boast a decent yet eerie atmosphere, thanks to its setting in the desert with a very amateur guerrilla style filmmaking vibe to this movie and sometimes that can work & in this case, it kinda does, despite its shortcomings. Also the splatter & gore during its final third was worth the sluggish pace (almost).
Overall this is not that great of a movie & I really wanted to like this more, with its strange editing choices & boring pace, it does pay off towards the end, you just need patience to get there.