KILL HER GOATS (2023)

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Directed/Written by Steve Wolsh.
Starring Arielle Raycene, Elllie Gonsalves, Danielle Mathers, Monica Sims, Amberleigh West, Skyler Seymour, Eric Littlefield, Colleen Hagerty, Donald Drew, Matthew R. Staley, Brianna Kellum, Kane Hodder as Goatface!
Find out more about this film here!!

When Audra (Arielle Raycene) is gifted a country house for graduation, she is excited to move in and brings her two besties along to help with the move. The house, called the Tupp House, has a long history of violence as it used to be the home to a family of serial killers. Unbeknownst to Audra and the gals, a mysterious monster of a man who wears a goat mask aptly named Goatface is lurking in the woods and eager to kill.

Some horror has deep meaning and themes that resonate with modern issues. And then there are films like KILL HER GOATS that is just your basic slasher film. It doesn’t bother with why the Tupp family kills people or why Goatface wears his goat mask or even why his chainsaw has sparklers blazing from all ends of it. That’s too heady for this movie. KILL HER GOATS is about showing off beautiful women and then having a guy with a chainsaw and a goat mask kill them one by one. That’s pretty much all that goes on in KILL HER GOATS and I’m ok with that. Sometimes surface level horror is simply fun to watch.

Director/writer Steve Wolsh isn’t reinventing anything with this one, but he does know how to stage a scene. The film really looks pretty slick and while there isn’t much story to speak of, it all looks pretty good. Basically, this is a stalk and slash film, but there is a nice claustrophobic feel to it all, at least in the first half of the film where the three damsels are in the house. The last half gets a little messy, story-wise as one group is killed off, so another couple of people show up at the last minute to make the film reach the hour and a fifteen mark.

The gals are gorgeous and by far, what the filmmakers were most concerned with. I can’t compliment them on their acting skills, but they do look good in the various states of undress the film requires them to be in. Other than sit around in their undies and watching TV or occasionally taking a shower—everyone takes a shower and has to change their tops at least once in this one, they really don’t have much to do other than scream and die, which they do capably.

It’s great to see Hodder as Goatface, but I can’t say I was blown away by his performance. I understand Hodder is getting up there in age, so this performance isn’t as physical as it could have been. Still, the Goatface mask looks creepy and he is able to swing the chainsaw with ease, but that’s the length of the effort he seems to give here.

I can’t say KILL HER GOATS is a must see, but it’s a capable slasher. I’m not sure we needed the end credits scene where we not only find out the real names of the babes we have just seen killed, but what episode of Playboy they appeared in or beauty pagent they won along with repeated scenes of them getting undressed. It reminded me of Sybil Danning’s gratuitous topless scene repeat loop at the end of THE HOWLING II. Blood covered babes bouncing through the woods and running from chainsaws. If any of those words interest you, then you’re the type of horror fan for KILL HER GOATS.

Check out the trailer here!!