Unfortunately, neither the Riverton Ripper nor his faceless successor is likely to compete with Freddy Krueger in iconic horror-movie villain terms, and the overall proceedings lack the wit and style that marked the best of the “Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Scream” series.Ĭraven’s trademark satirical humor sadly is in little evidence here, though he does try at times, most notably in an absurd sequence that riffs off of the classic mirror routine famously performed by the Marx Brothers in “Duck Soup.” Their number soon dwindles as each proceeds to suffer a gruesome death at the hands of a faceless killer, with the most obvious suspect being Bug (Max Thieriot), a rather disturbed youth with a strange obsession for the vulturelike California condors. We are then introduced to the Riverton Seven, a septet of local teens who were born on the day the Ripper died, with one of them possibly harboring his murderous soul. After a fairly slam-bang opening sequence introducing serial killer the Riverton Ripper, who is promptly dispatched (seemingly) after attempting to murder his family, the film fast forwards 16 years.
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