Fender Bender (2016) Reviews

• Stupidest slasher film I've seen in a while

  landont-61-6610452017-03-28

  So, first I'll describe the good things about this film. Some of the shots were brilliant, and the atmosphere, tension, and the excellent stalk-and-slash eighties feel of this film was very nice. Just a guy in a mask stalking some teens, very nice job. Then we get to the ending and I was screaming at the screen. The heroine was a total idiot. She burns him with a cigarette lighter for like five seconds, thinks hes dead, doesn't bother to pick up his knife and finish him off, and goes back inside the house into a room with no other escape and starts calling 911. Why didn't she get in one of the four operating vehicles on the premises and leave? There were FOUR cars on that lot, all working, and then when the killer corners her back in the house, she refuses to jump out the huge window beside her, and backs into a corner to meet her fate. Honestly, that ruined the entire thing for me. The blond girl is also equally as dumb. She lies there and watches the car roll over her, instead of lying in the middle of the tracks and sliding under it. If not for the stupidity of the characters, this would have been a great flick.

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• FF

  westsideschl2018-07-28

  Another teen slasher/stabber movie with the same old tired plot of a lone female teen (sometimes accompanied by fellow victim friends as pre-meal snacks) about to meet her maker, at night, eventually alone. Always a female who seems to always make dumb/stupid mistakes to prolong the agony for 90 min. Age & gender discrimination; the producers should be sued for demeaning a segment of the pop. I hope it wasn't left open-ended for a sequel, but thank the movie gods for ff.

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• The Return of Mark Pavia

  gavin69422016-05-25

  In a small New Mexico town, a 17-year-old high school girl (Makenzie Vega) who just got her driver's license gets into her first fender bender, innocently exchanging her personal information with an apologetic stranger (Bill Sage). When listing off the so-called masters of horror, the name Mark Pavia does not typically come up. But Pavia did make a great horror film -- "The Night Flier" -- and has finally returned to the director's chair for "Fender Bender". Where were you, Mark? We missed you! This time, in cooperation with Scream! Factory and Chiller, Pavia takes on the slasher film. This is his baby, through and through: he wrote the script based on his original idea, he directs and he helped produce. And what we get is a pretty decent addition to the genre. Although this is more of a PG-13 horror (no nudity or cursing), it still has its share of gore and it really excels in the way it handles pacing. Cinematography Tyler Cushing lets his camera hover on various things just long enough to build suspense and keep us on edge. The story also has a nice subplot. Although the identity of the killer is firmly established early on, a cheating boyfriend (or ex-boyfriend) also plays a significant role... and leaves the audience guessing who is going to be the one showing up at the door. And who is more dangerous, a stalking killer or a drunk and emotional ex-boyfriend? While "Fender Bender" is definitely not going to be as big of a hit as "Night Flier", it is still far better than basically every made-for-TV horror and sci-fi film out there. Pavia relies on classic storytelling and shies away from cheap scares and terrible CGI. With the exception of perhaps the "Sharknado" series, SyFy has never come close to what Chiller is unveiling with this. Welcome back, Mark Pavia. Please don't be a stranger.

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• Too many glaring errors that can't be over-looked

  mitchellfinesod2016-06-04

  Another stereotypical slasher flick where, at the climax, the victim kills the slasher, BUT OOOOOOOOOOOOOH, he's not really dead (didn't see that coming did ya...lol). Fortunatelly, the director was Politically Correct and made sure to have all the following PC crap on his check-list: 1. Hispanic girl is good 2. Gay friend is good 3. Jock boyfriend is bad 4. White male is an evil killer The only thing missing was a black female hero. While all of this can be overlooked, the following glaring errors can NOT. Every driver knows that you exchange driver's licenses. If that had been done, the rest of the movie would never have occurred. The cake was drugged, but, the killer could never have known that the victim was going to have her friends over and eat it. Finally, the killer kills the electric off in the house miraculously while he's standing in front of the three friends. If the producer can't work-out these simple errors, he should not be making movies.

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• Dreadfully poor and beyond words

  makka-009552016-12-26

  I have seen some reviews claiming this is a 'return to the slasher era'. Well, that about says it all. Cheap, badly written script, poor direction and old hat. It takes 49 minutes for our slasher friend to actually do something at all. He is the most unbelievable slasher of all time. Looks like a bank teller, moves and speaks like he has a brain malfunction and might as well have had a red neon arrow on his head saying 'weirdo', but no one notices. He likes to kill people with what looks like a sharp door-handle, come plasterer's trowel and is so slow a snail could escape him. His victims deserve to die, because they are utter and complete morons. The plot is obvious and the end is even more so. The acting isn't half bad, to say the script was appalling, but the sheer absurdity of it all is laughable. A better title for this farce would have been 'gender bender', because, for reasons never apparent, the killer chooses to carry out his crimes dressed as a gimp. My grandmother could have outrun this douche and she had one leg (ok out-hopped). If you have a feeble mind you may enjoy this drivel, but if you have a brain, don't waste your time and/or money watching this Halloween-clichéd, boring, poor excuse for a movie.

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