Six college students celebrate Christmas break at Liberty Manor, but learn that the place is cursed because it was built on an Indian burial ground. In the meantime, a creepy masked man stalks the premises and bodies start mounting up. Michael Madsen has a small part with some narration.
"Burial Ground Massacre" (2021) is an Indie slasher featuring the typical cabin-in-the-woods plot although, in this case, it's a wealthy manor. Despite the conventional milieu and slasher tropes, the story's more ambitious than usual, such as the tie-in to the Wampanoag tribe and the bit revolving around a cursed ring. Yet it loses points for lousy voice dubbing and trendy antiwhite elements (speaking as part-Abenaki). I suppose the romantic melodrama could be viewed as questionable, but it's meant to amuse.
Raven-haired Chelsea Vale is decent as the proverbial final girl while Brittany Toczko is fetching in the role of Kayla, as is redhead Sarah Elizabeth Jensen in a small part as Laney (her nude scenes, by the way, were done by a double with a wig).
Speaking of which, there's a lot of gratuitous female nudity, especially involving some Indian lasses in a torture chamber. Why the writers included these scenes is a mystery; I guess they wanted to show what Damon does in his spare time and the irony of the Indian mafia's links to him. Speaking of Damon, the creators came up with a great look; and wrestler Vinny Marseglia does an effective job illustrating his masked creepiness.
I shouldn't fail to add that there are 2-3 quality songs on the soundtrack, like "Wanna Be" by Jennifer Hill.
A sequel called "Damon's Revenge" was released the next year, which is technically better (for instance, they fixed the dubbing), but the story's not quite as thought-provoking. It's still worth checking out for those interested. Like this one, it gets creative with the done-to-death plot.
At the end of the day, this was filmed on spit, chewing gum and home-movie enthusiasm. They had enough funds to hire Madsen for a day's work. Some people can't handle the micro-budget issues but, if you can roll with them, there's meat 'n' potatoes within the shallow formula.
The film runs 1 hour, 40 minutes, and was shot in Rhode Island at East Greenwich and North Kingstown, which are south of Providence, as well as Foster, which is west of the city. There are also some second unit scenes involving Foxwoods Resort Casino, which is a few miles across the border in southeast Connecticut at Ledyard.
GRADE: B-/C+
"Burial Ground Massacre" (2021) is an Indie slasher featuring the typical cabin-in-the-woods plot although, in this case, it's a wealthy manor. Despite the conventional milieu and slasher tropes, the story's more ambitious than usual, such as the tie-in to the Wampanoag tribe and the bit revolving around a cursed ring. Yet it loses points for lousy voice dubbing and trendy antiwhite elements (speaking as part-Abenaki). I suppose the romantic melodrama could be viewed as questionable, but it's meant to amuse.
Raven-haired Chelsea Vale is decent as the proverbial final girl while Brittany Toczko is fetching in the role of Kayla, as is redhead Sarah Elizabeth Jensen in a small part as Laney (her nude scenes, by the way, were done by a double with a wig).
Speaking of which, there's a lot of gratuitous female nudity, especially involving some Indian lasses in a torture chamber. Why the writers included these scenes is a mystery; I guess they wanted to show what Damon does in his spare time and the irony of the Indian mafia's links to him. Speaking of Damon, the creators came up with a great look; and wrestler Vinny Marseglia does an effective job illustrating his masked creepiness.
I shouldn't fail to add that there are 2-3 quality songs on the soundtrack, like "Wanna Be" by Jennifer Hill.
A sequel called "Damon's Revenge" was released the next year, which is technically better (for instance, they fixed the dubbing), but the story's not quite as thought-provoking. It's still worth checking out for those interested. Like this one, it gets creative with the done-to-death plot.
At the end of the day, this was filmed on spit, chewing gum and home-movie enthusiasm. They had enough funds to hire Madsen for a day's work. Some people can't handle the micro-budget issues but, if you can roll with them, there's meat 'n' potatoes within the shallow formula.
The film runs 1 hour, 40 minutes, and was shot in Rhode Island at East Greenwich and North Kingstown, which are south of Providence, as well as Foster, which is west of the city. There are also some second unit scenes involving Foxwoods Resort Casino, which is a few miles across the border in southeast Connecticut at Ledyard.
GRADE: B-/C+