After seeing his father and lumberjack foreman being hit by a protester and arrested by the police, Gus kills the protester with a chainsaw.
Jump forward a few years, and we meet Samantha, after being abused by her former boyfriend, travels with her friends to the American Free Love Festival.
Mayor Hal Burton and Deputy Buzz Hall try to organise the event, but a deranged psychopath wearing a mask of Ronald Reagan uses an axe to kill the stoned hippies......
Fair dues to Arquette for trying to make a fresh spin on the slasher movie, but, he fails miserably from the very beginning.
He succeeds in capturing the feel and essence of those really poor horror films of the early eighties that tried to rip off Friday, Halloween, and Nightmare, but those films were generally really cheap and nasty, and fell off the radar without a trace.
So why bother here?
Even though you have quite a prolific cast, the script and the story are just so poor, you wouldn't really care if all of the Hollywood A-Listers turning up for a massive party at the end, it wouldn't lift the nasty feeling the film gives you come the end.
With a pointless cameo from Courtney Cox, The Tripper will be known as another poor vanity project from someone who is in the 'where are they now' hall of fame.
Sorry David, keep praying for Scream 5
Jump forward a few years, and we meet Samantha, after being abused by her former boyfriend, travels with her friends to the American Free Love Festival.
Mayor Hal Burton and Deputy Buzz Hall try to organise the event, but a deranged psychopath wearing a mask of Ronald Reagan uses an axe to kill the stoned hippies......
Fair dues to Arquette for trying to make a fresh spin on the slasher movie, but, he fails miserably from the very beginning.
He succeeds in capturing the feel and essence of those really poor horror films of the early eighties that tried to rip off Friday, Halloween, and Nightmare, but those films were generally really cheap and nasty, and fell off the radar without a trace.
So why bother here?
Even though you have quite a prolific cast, the script and the story are just so poor, you wouldn't really care if all of the Hollywood A-Listers turning up for a massive party at the end, it wouldn't lift the nasty feeling the film gives you come the end.
With a pointless cameo from Courtney Cox, The Tripper will be known as another poor vanity project from someone who is in the 'where are they now' hall of fame.
Sorry David, keep praying for Scream 5