American Fright Fest, Dozens Shredded

A chainsaw! An axe! Electricity! A shotgun! Those are only some of the props that will work the plot in 2018's "American Fright Fest" in order to mutilate and destroy dozens of poor schmucks. This isn't one of those slasher films that ends up with a kill count of five, or six, or even nine or ten. The kills will be in the dozens...count if you can, but I would estimate between 40 and 50. Plot? Like there is any time for a plot...nevertheless we will delve into that now.

Spencer Crowe (Dylan Walsh) is a famous low-budget horror film maker. You remember "Death Bitch," don't you? He just got out of rehab (it didn't work) for drugs and alcohol. His lawyer gets him a job in a small town to run their Halloween Fright Fest. An abandoned mental asylum will be handed over to him and he'll convert it to a haunted house attraction. His past cast members will join him, they also need jobs. Uh oh, the drunk Spencer drives down a road causing a prison bus to crash. The crash sees two psychos escape, Ruben (Jonathan Camp) and Mason (Luke Baines). They immediately head to the abandoned asylum just as the attraction opens to the public.

Ruben is the mean one. He'll mow through cops, security, and actors like crap through a goose. The most heartbreaking one (okay, gratuitous, but maybe not heartbreaking) is Maxine (Ashley Blankenship). Maxine is a large breasted blonde actress who is very proud of her two assets...Ruben will make short work of her. Meanwhile Spencer locks himself in the control room, witnesses all the carnage, and taunts Ruben...he's high as a kite, as they say. Hunks and babes will die horribly and Taylor (Madison McKinley) who plays a horror-nurse at the attraction, seems to emerge as a potential final girl. Double uh oh, another escapee Mason, joins the potential victims, and desires to kill Ruben claiming he knows how evil he is...but is Mason really one of the good-guys?

Does Mason seek to stop the killing, or to continue it? Will the very pretty Maxine have what it takes to kill the psycho (or psychos) and perhaps get to slap Spencer in the face? Is Spencer really secure locked away in the control room, or does an extremely bloody fate await him? This is a bloody one and the kills will be thrown at you in rapid succession. Directed by Ante Novakovic, and shot in Pennsylvania, "American Fright Fest" is one of those slasher films that doesn't keep the kill count in single figures.