"Slaughtered" follows a group of friends that work at a local pub in Australia. Soon, someone starts picking them, and the pub's regulars off one by one. That's honestly as deep as the plot goes. When I read a press release that describes a film as a "gory slasher," I expected them to make good with their promise. Yes, this was technically a slasher. In fact, it's so by the numbers, this advertised fact becomes it's downfall. Every genre set piece known to man is on display here, from the masked killer in a duster, wielding some odd choice of weapon, to the "Scooby Doo" scare of survivors stepping over the killer's "dead" body. It's as if they had a slasher marathon, and made a checklist to guide them. Midway through, I felt "I Know Why You Screamed Last Halloween" would have been a more descriptive title for the film.

The main characters played their roles well, and were fairly easy on the eyes. Some of the extras though, I have no clue what they were doing. Every now and then someone would walk into the frame, and just stare into space like "Snowball" from "Clerks." There were several odd scenes where our main characters are running around covered in blood, being chased by a masked killer, and the pub regulars are all taking a nap in unison? It appeared that way, whether or not this was the intended effect, I cannot say. There was some severe problems with the audio, at least in the version that I saw. If they have this corrected in the retail version of the disc, then I apologize, but it was very distracting for me. Every time something loud happened, it went from fairly clear quality, to sounding as if it were recorded using a ninety's cellular phone.

I can see that director Kate Glover has sincere love for this genre of film, but unfortunately, that doesn't always translate into a good movie. I'll watch for future projects from her, and hope that she's given more support in order to bring her vision to light, but I can't recommend this film to anyone, as there's not really anything to enjoy.