Shredder (film)
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Shredder is a 2003
Comedy
/horror
-slasher film
directed by Greg Huson. It stars Scott Weinger
and Lindsey McKeon
and centers around a group of friends being stalked and murdered by an unknown figure at an abandoned ski resort.
down a mountain, when suddenly an evil skiing attacks him. Chad attempts to get away, but is decapitated by a piece of wire strung up between two trees.
College student Kimberly (Lindsey McKeon
) is going on a trip to an abandoned ski resort, which her father will be buying soon, with her boyfriend Cole (Scott Weinger
), cousin Pike (Juleah Weikel), and friends Skyler (Billy O'Sullivan
), Robyn (Holly Towne) and Kirk (Peter Riggs). While stopping off at a gas station, the group bump into the Europe
an Christophe (Brad Hawkins
), who they quickly invite along with them. Arriving at the resort, the group break in before snowboarding where they do not realize the Evil Skier is stalking them.
Cole and Skyler go back into town to retrieve beer, but are warned away from the resort by a bartender Bud (Ron Varela). Skyler also briefly meets Shelly (Candace Moon) whom he takes a liking too. While leaving, the pair notice a shredding truck. Arriving back at the resort, the group partake in drinking games until the town Sheriff (Seth Reston) shows up. Kimberly and Robyn manage to bribe him to let them stay there for the night, despite his warnings away from the area as it is unsafe. Kimberly then tells the others that a few years previous, a group of snowboarders murdered a young girl at the resort, and that's why it had closed down. Cole and Pike manage to turn on the resorts electricity, activating the mountains lights and chairlift
. After eveyone goes to bed, the Sheriff is stabbed to death outside the cabin.
The next day, the group go snowboarding. Christophe and Kimberly go up the mountain together after she falls out with Cole. Meanwhile, Kirk stumbles upon a small building hidden in the mountain. As he enters to investigate, he is attacked by the evil skier, who stabs him in the stomach with an icicle
. As Cole and Pike snowboard, the two bond before Cole's snowboard breaks, forcing the pair to walk down the mountain back to their cabin. While Robyn uses the chairlift, the evil skier boards with her. At first Robyn thinks it is just a friendly skier trespassing, however they attempt to push Robyn off the chairlift. Robyn fights back and manages to push the skier off the chairlift. Meanwhile, Skyler bumps into Shelly while she ski's. The two get on well and decide to stick together, heading to the chairlift. As Robyn prepares to deboard the chairlift, her scarf wraps around the bar and begins to drag her with the chair. The chairlift stops when Robyn hits an emergency stop, but Skyler and Shelly unknowingly activate the chairlift again, hanging Robyn in the process. While on the chairlift, Shelly seduces Skyler and the pair make out, however after deboarding, Bud appears and tells his daughter, Shelly, to go home to which she obeys, before he threatens Skyler.
At the cabin, Skyler meets up with Cole and Pike, and tells them of Shelly, before the trio stumble upon the Sheriff's body. The group are quick to suspect Chrisophe as the murderer, and set off to warn the others. Meanwhile, Christophe and Kimberly find a hot tub, where Kimberly finds out that Christophe is really an American, who was one of the snowboarders who murdred the little girl at the resort, although he swears it was an accident. Since then, all those involved in the accident have been murdered. He tells her he purposly got himself invited to the resort as he believes Shelly's father, Bud, killed his friends to get revenge for the death of his youngest daughter and also that he hates snowboarders because of the incident. Cole finds Robyn's body, while Pike and Skyler make their way to the hidden house in the mountain. Here, they find the killers lair, where the little girl has been preserved in ice. The pair discover Kirk's body before they are attacked by the evil skier, who stabs Skyler in the leg with an axe, however both of them get away. Cole stumbles upon Kimberly and Christophe having sex, and angrirly leaves. Kimberly follows him and they bump into Pike and Skyler who tell them of their attack. The group realize that Christophe is not the killer and rush back to warn him. As he is in the hot tub, Christophe has an encounter with the killer, who beats him to death with a shovel. The group return, only to find his dead body.
Returning back to the cabin, they find the car has been broken and the dead bodies of their friends lined up in the snow. Going into the cabin, Cole and Pike take the injured Skyler upstairs and tend to his leg, while Kimberly gathers weapons. She ventures down into the basement, where she discovers Christophe's dead friends. They decide they should try to escape, so Cole and Pike go outside to fix the car, where they kiss. While Kimberly is inside, she does realize the killer sneaking into Skyler's room. The killer murders Skyler, stabbing him through the eye with a ski pole. Kimberly notices Skyler's blood and hides in a cupboard from the killer, where she finds Chad's body. As she tries to contact Cole on the radio, the killer finds her and begins to break a hole in the door to get in. The killer soon gives up, prompting Kimberly to try to escape, but is attacked when she opens the door. Cole hears Kimberly's screams and rushes into the cabin where he finds her dying. The killer then traps Cole in the cabin.
Outside, Pike manages to get the car started but is attacked by the killer, who causes her to crash the car. As she tries to escape, she is hit in the head. Cole escapes and finds Pike's body with the rest of his friends. Enraged, he boards the chairlift taunting the killer as he does. The chairlift stops and an unknown figure arrives on a snowmobile
and attempts to shoot Cole. He drops down from the chairlift and encounters the figure, revealed to be Bud. However, Bud reveals he just wanted to scare the snowboarders away from the area due to his hatred for the sport. However, Cole does not believe him and attacks him before running away. Bud chases him on the snowmobile, but is decapitated by the wire strung up between the tree's. Cole makes his way to the town, and enters a small alley where he becomes trapped in when the killer drives the shredding truck into it. The killer gets out the truck and reveals themselves as Shelly (who wanted more revenge than her father). As she is about to murder Cole, Pike arrives and shoots Shelly, causing her to fall back into the shredder. Cole and Pike leave the town, persumabley starting a relationship.
in the USA, however had a limited thearetical release in the Pacific Northwest of the USA. It was Rated R for violence/gore, sexuality, language and some drug use. In Japan, the movie was released under the name Jason Z.
On Rotten Tomatoes
the movie has received one 'fresh' review and one 'rotten' review from critics.
2003 in film
The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Pokémon Heroes, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,...
Comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
/horror
Horror film
Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...
-slasher film
Slasher film
A slasher film is a type of horror film typically involving a psychopathic killer stalking and killing a sequence of victims in a graphically violent manner, often with a cutting tool such as a knife or axe...
directed by Greg Huson. It stars Scott Weinger
Scott Weinger
Scott Eric Weinger is an American actor, television producer and writer, best known as the speaking voice of Aladdin in Walt Disney's eponymous feature film. Weinger would reprise the role in two direct-to-video sequels, for the Disney Channel television series, and the Kingdom Hearts Series. He...
and Lindsey McKeon
Lindsey McKeon
Lindsey Johnson McKeon is a two-time Daytime Emmy-nominated American actress, and distant relative of Australian celebrity, Harry McKeon. She is best known for her roles as Marah Lewis on Guiding Light and Taylor James on One Tree Hill...
and centers around a group of friends being stalked and murdered by an unknown figure at an abandoned ski resort.
Plot
Chad (Elliot Olson) is snowboardingSnowboarding
Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set onto mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was inspired by skateboarding, sledding, surfing and skiing. It was developed in the U.S.A...
down a mountain, when suddenly an evil skiing attacks him. Chad attempts to get away, but is decapitated by a piece of wire strung up between two trees.
College student Kimberly (Lindsey McKeon
Lindsey McKeon
Lindsey Johnson McKeon is a two-time Daytime Emmy-nominated American actress, and distant relative of Australian celebrity, Harry McKeon. She is best known for her roles as Marah Lewis on Guiding Light and Taylor James on One Tree Hill...
) is going on a trip to an abandoned ski resort, which her father will be buying soon, with her boyfriend Cole (Scott Weinger
Scott Weinger
Scott Eric Weinger is an American actor, television producer and writer, best known as the speaking voice of Aladdin in Walt Disney's eponymous feature film. Weinger would reprise the role in two direct-to-video sequels, for the Disney Channel television series, and the Kingdom Hearts Series. He...
), cousin Pike (Juleah Weikel), and friends Skyler (Billy O'Sullivan
Billy O'Sullivan
Billy O'Sullivan is an Irish sportsman. He played hurling with his local club Ballygunner and with the Waterford senior inter-county team.-Early life:...
), Robyn (Holly Towne) and Kirk (Peter Riggs). While stopping off at a gas station, the group bump into the Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
an Christophe (Brad Hawkins
Brad Hawkins
Brad Hawkins is an American film actor and television actor and a country singer and martial artist, best known for playing Ryan Steele in the TV series VR Troopers...
), who they quickly invite along with them. Arriving at the resort, the group break in before snowboarding where they do not realize the Evil Skier is stalking them.
Cole and Skyler go back into town to retrieve beer, but are warned away from the resort by a bartender Bud (Ron Varela). Skyler also briefly meets Shelly (Candace Moon) whom he takes a liking too. While leaving, the pair notice a shredding truck. Arriving back at the resort, the group partake in drinking games until the town Sheriff (Seth Reston) shows up. Kimberly and Robyn manage to bribe him to let them stay there for the night, despite his warnings away from the area as it is unsafe. Kimberly then tells the others that a few years previous, a group of snowboarders murdered a young girl at the resort, and that's why it had closed down. Cole and Pike manage to turn on the resorts electricity, activating the mountains lights and chairlift
Chairlift
An elevated passenger ropeway, or chairlift, is a type of aerial lift, which consists of a continuously circulating steel cable loop strung between two end terminals and usually over intermediate towers, carrying a series of chairs...
. After eveyone goes to bed, the Sheriff is stabbed to death outside the cabin.
The next day, the group go snowboarding. Christophe and Kimberly go up the mountain together after she falls out with Cole. Meanwhile, Kirk stumbles upon a small building hidden in the mountain. As he enters to investigate, he is attacked by the evil skier, who stabs him in the stomach with an icicle
Icicle
An icicle is a spike of ice formed when water dripping or falling from an object freezes. Typically, icicles will form when ice or snow is melted by either sunlight or some other heat source , and the resulting melted water runs off into an area where the ambient temperature is below the freezing...
. As Cole and Pike snowboard, the two bond before Cole's snowboard breaks, forcing the pair to walk down the mountain back to their cabin. While Robyn uses the chairlift, the evil skier boards with her. At first Robyn thinks it is just a friendly skier trespassing, however they attempt to push Robyn off the chairlift. Robyn fights back and manages to push the skier off the chairlift. Meanwhile, Skyler bumps into Shelly while she ski's. The two get on well and decide to stick together, heading to the chairlift. As Robyn prepares to deboard the chairlift, her scarf wraps around the bar and begins to drag her with the chair. The chairlift stops when Robyn hits an emergency stop, but Skyler and Shelly unknowingly activate the chairlift again, hanging Robyn in the process. While on the chairlift, Shelly seduces Skyler and the pair make out, however after deboarding, Bud appears and tells his daughter, Shelly, to go home to which she obeys, before he threatens Skyler.
At the cabin, Skyler meets up with Cole and Pike, and tells them of Shelly, before the trio stumble upon the Sheriff's body. The group are quick to suspect Chrisophe as the murderer, and set off to warn the others. Meanwhile, Christophe and Kimberly find a hot tub, where Kimberly finds out that Christophe is really an American, who was one of the snowboarders who murdred the little girl at the resort, although he swears it was an accident. Since then, all those involved in the accident have been murdered. He tells her he purposly got himself invited to the resort as he believes Shelly's father, Bud, killed his friends to get revenge for the death of his youngest daughter and also that he hates snowboarders because of the incident. Cole finds Robyn's body, while Pike and Skyler make their way to the hidden house in the mountain. Here, they find the killers lair, where the little girl has been preserved in ice. The pair discover Kirk's body before they are attacked by the evil skier, who stabs Skyler in the leg with an axe, however both of them get away. Cole stumbles upon Kimberly and Christophe having sex, and angrirly leaves. Kimberly follows him and they bump into Pike and Skyler who tell them of their attack. The group realize that Christophe is not the killer and rush back to warn him. As he is in the hot tub, Christophe has an encounter with the killer, who beats him to death with a shovel. The group return, only to find his dead body.
Returning back to the cabin, they find the car has been broken and the dead bodies of their friends lined up in the snow. Going into the cabin, Cole and Pike take the injured Skyler upstairs and tend to his leg, while Kimberly gathers weapons. She ventures down into the basement, where she discovers Christophe's dead friends. They decide they should try to escape, so Cole and Pike go outside to fix the car, where they kiss. While Kimberly is inside, she does realize the killer sneaking into Skyler's room. The killer murders Skyler, stabbing him through the eye with a ski pole. Kimberly notices Skyler's blood and hides in a cupboard from the killer, where she finds Chad's body. As she tries to contact Cole on the radio, the killer finds her and begins to break a hole in the door to get in. The killer soon gives up, prompting Kimberly to try to escape, but is attacked when she opens the door. Cole hears Kimberly's screams and rushes into the cabin where he finds her dying. The killer then traps Cole in the cabin.
Outside, Pike manages to get the car started but is attacked by the killer, who causes her to crash the car. As she tries to escape, she is hit in the head. Cole escapes and finds Pike's body with the rest of his friends. Enraged, he boards the chairlift taunting the killer as he does. The chairlift stops and an unknown figure arrives on a snowmobile
Snowmobile
A snowmobile, also known in some places as a snowmachine, or sled,is a land vehicle for winter travel on snow. Designed to be operated on snow and ice, they require no road or trail. Design variations enable some machines to operate in deep snow or forests; most are used on open terrain, including...
and attempts to shoot Cole. He drops down from the chairlift and encounters the figure, revealed to be Bud. However, Bud reveals he just wanted to scare the snowboarders away from the area due to his hatred for the sport. However, Cole does not believe him and attacks him before running away. Bud chases him on the snowmobile, but is decapitated by the wire strung up between the tree's. Cole makes his way to the town, and enters a small alley where he becomes trapped in when the killer drives the shredding truck into it. The killer gets out the truck and reveals themselves as Shelly (who wanted more revenge than her father). As she is about to murder Cole, Pike arrives and shoots Shelly, causing her to fall back into the shredder. Cole and Pike leave the town, persumabley starting a relationship.
Cast
- Scott WeingerScott WeingerScott Eric Weinger is an American actor, television producer and writer, best known as the speaking voice of Aladdin in Walt Disney's eponymous feature film. Weinger would reprise the role in two direct-to-video sequels, for the Disney Channel television series, and the Kingdom Hearts Series. He...
as Cole - Lindsey McKeonLindsey McKeonLindsey Johnson McKeon is a two-time Daytime Emmy-nominated American actress, and distant relative of Australian celebrity, Harry McKeon. She is best known for her roles as Marah Lewis on Guiding Light and Taylor James on One Tree Hill...
as Kimberly - Juleah Weikel as Pike
- Billy O'SullivanBilly O'SullivanBilly O'Sullivan is an Irish sportsman. He played hurling with his local club Ballygunner and with the Waterford senior inter-county team.-Early life:...
as Skyler - Holly Towne as Robyn
- Brad HawkinsBrad HawkinsBrad Hawkins is an American film actor and television actor and a country singer and martial artist, best known for playing Ryan Steele in the TV series VR Troopers...
as Christophe - Peter Riggs as Kirk
- Candace Moon as Shelly
- Ron Varela as Bud
- Seth Reston as Sheriff
- Elliot Olson as Chad
Release and reception
The movie was released Direct-to-DVD on 16 December 20032003 in film
The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Pokémon Heroes, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,...
in the USA, however had a limited thearetical release in the Pacific Northwest of the USA. It was Rated R for violence/gore, sexuality, language and some drug use. In Japan, the movie was released under the name Jason Z.
On Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films—widely known as a film review aggregator. Its name derives from the cliché of audiences throwing tomatoes and other vegetables at a poor stage performance...
the movie has received one 'fresh' review and one 'rotten' review from critics.