Let's be realistic.

It is a performances centric movie

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Blistering performances.

I saw Albino Farm on cable late last night, and was pleasantly surprised. Four college kids in search of a local legend, which turns out to be the Albino Farm. Also known as Wrong Turn 4, this film featured the usual cannibalistic killings, and something else that is not the usual; some very fine acting performances. Most notably, an impressive turn by wrestling star Chris Jericho. While not his usual handsome self, his performance added a chilling component to the films otherwise predictable plot line. The film did have some interesting murder sequences, as well as the clever use of a particular Bible passage that helped the four main characters solve the mystery of the Albino Farm. Tammin Sursock also gives a credible performance as the main heroine of this shocker. Not bad for a straight to video feature!

What could've been a very crafty and very intelligent piece of horror turns into a very formulaic and very familiar piece of the slasher film genre we see far too much of. Albino Farm's premise is interesting, but the execution is very poor, and we can see the movie struggle to maintain its short eighty-five minutes by delaying action until around forty minutes in.Albino Farm takes forever to get going, and when it does, you only wish it had more to offer. The film focuses on four teenagers (Sursok Lagano, Richey, and Bala) who venture out to document the Ozark Mountains for a school project. When the duo get a flat, they head out to a gas station with a strange, unsettling owner who warns them to turn back. One of the dumbest, cockiest, lame-brained teenagers in recent memory convince the gang to travel up to see what the hype is about.They stumble across the town of Shiloh, which looks like a ghost-town. They learn that many of the town folk fear a legend called "Albino Farm." The teens split up with two going in search of the farm, and two going in search of a church. After doing the genius thing of getting picked up by a hick and two identical twins, they are taken out and abandoned at the Albino Farm. Let the horror movie clichés, jokes, antics, and chase scenes begin.I believe this film is based off of the legend of a group of College students adventuring around the Ozark Mountains and never returning home. Either this is the legend itself, or a followup to it. Whatever it is, it is poorly executed.Low budget horror films can't be critiqued by their budget. What you have it what you have, and I believe I shouldn't penalize the producers, directors, etc for working with what they had. I can respect that. But so much is done poorly. In order to believe the characters, you have to throw logic out the window. What makes you want to venture out to the deep part of the Ozarks in the first place? Curiosity kills the cat, and when you stumble upon creepy woods, it's likely to kill you as well.The sound editing is messy. One point there is dead silence, the next moment the bass almost blows your speakers followed up by very dim talking. Your remote may need to be in your hands at all times for this. Not to mention, the pitch dark lighting may call for a brightness tune up. What a temperamental film. You need to pretty much modify everything on your TV to be satisfied while watching Albino Farm.This also seems to be influenced by every redneck-slasher film on the market today. Throw three great horror films like The Hills Have Eyes, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Wrong Turn in a blender and it'll spit out this mediocre horror flick. Creativity is here, but the execution is like a dog on a leash fighting to inch itself closer to its desired destination while the owner is tugging back. Imagine the producers as the owner, the movie itself as the dog, and the destination being "typical redneck film schlock." There's a metaphor that will sum this up.The makeup effects is where this film starts to redeem itself in quality. The effects on the creatures are realistic, but then the film wants to add some digital effects on some of the people. You can pretty much do that on any free editing system, and do it a lot better. Not being a Mac user, I still am sure this can be done one way or another on the Photo-booth program that comes free with the computer. They can do that, but they can't add some sort of effect to brighten up the scenery.I can tell the crew were serious about making this film like the legend or something close to it. They didn't fall on their neck as much as they fell on their face in their attempts with this. Albino Farm, still, could've been great b-movie horror. What we have here, is just lazy editing and a lazy script ripping off so much of every other movie in its genre. It's a copy of a copy.Starring: Chris Jericho, Richard Christy, Tammin Sursok, Duane Whitaker, Alicia Lagano, Nick Richey, and Sunkrish Bala. Directed by: Joe Anderson and Sean McEwen.

I couldn't begin to tell you how many times I've been to the real Albino Farm, but it has to be dozens! It was a favorite hangout for teens and college kids during my college days back in the 80s, mostly due to its reputation for hauntings.This film presents a fresh new take on the Albino Farm, as the old legends I remember had more to do with ghosts and satanism, and less to do with cannibalistic mutants. The film is an exercise in the grotesque but avoids much of the cliché gore that is so common in the slasher genre. Unfortunately, the story suffers from underdevelopment, doesn't really delve much into who the mutants are or how they got there, although I did like the mystery touch they applied to the Revivalist mutants in the final scene (would they kill the girl, or accept her as repentant, would they show her mercy or mortal judgment?) There was also a lot of room for development in both Chris Jericho's character "Levi" and the character of the mute boy, which I wish they would have explored a little more. But hey, it's a slasher film, so what do you expect, Oscar-worthy writing?I watched this film with a magnifying glass (metaphorically speaking), eager to see just how many places and buildings I recognized from those old college jaunts, and it brought back tons of memories! I was pleasantly surprised to find some of it was actually filmed at the real Albino Farm. The round stone tower that the kids call the "watchtower" in the movie is probably the most iconic feature of the real Albino Farm. We used to climb that thing and hang out all night on top of the tower. The film never really shows the top of it very well, but it is topped with what look like castle battlements, leading some locals to believe the farm may have served as a strategic site during the Civil War, though I'm not familiar with any battles being fought at that location. Most of the other structures in the film are not actually found at the Albino Farm - there used to be two houses and one shack, as well as a barn, some chicken coops and the iconic tower, but the houses both burned down or were demolished decades ago. The last time I was there, probably fifteen or twenty years ago, the barn, the tower, the coops and the shack in the south woods still remained, while there were only foundations left of the main house and the shack at the north edge of the central field, which is just west of the tower. Today I'm not sure than anything but the tower still remains. I've been over every square inch of that place dozens of times, and I can state with nearly absolute certainty that there is no cave there. I believe the cave scene might have been filmed at Fantastic Caverns, a few miles northwest of the Albino Farm (which itself is actually right at the northern edge of Springfield, about half a mile due north of the Greenlawn Cemetery).Most of the ghost stories about the farm seem to refer back to that era, if they don't necessarily originate from that era. One old tale told that the farm was once used as a psychiatric institution that housed some albino patients, and that the farm got its name from that. That tale is probably closest to the theme in the movie, though the tale goes on to suggest that the farm is haunted by the spirits of the patients who died there. I don't think there's much historical support for that story, although it was quite fun to spread around back in the day! Another tale has it that there was an albino slave who killed himself by jumping from the top of the tower, and that it is his spirit that haunts the farm.Also common were stories of Satanism. There were numerous examples of satanic graffiti all over the walls of the now-demolished shack at the north edge of the field, and I personally once witnessed a ritually mutilated dog wrapped in a sleeping bag and partially burned in a fire circle in the same location after the shack had been torn down. But for the most part, I don't think there was any real satanism going on in earnest out there, I suspect it was mostly just kids trying to add to the reputation of the area. But whether it was kids being stupidly violent, or whether there was real occult activity, the real Albino Farm has long enjoyed a rich reputation for the paranormal, without even bringing mutants into the mix! Are all the ghost stories true? Who's to say?

Picking this film up you most likely were seeking out a B-horror film such as myself. After reading the back of the case I quickly realized that this film was in the "torture" genre which I do not favor but moved into the movie with optimism. The movie takes a slow approach, building atmosphere with bizarre images, run-ins with the locals, and even takes a stab at a little bit of character development. The gore does not actually begin until a good 40 minutes into the film, which some may consider bad and some good based on their opinion. Even after the gore began I still enjoyed the movie as it did not entirely abandon its atmosphere for blood and guts gross out scenes as many do. This isn't to say there are not some nasty scenes. I was also surprised to not see a single rape or sex scene which is another overly used piece in gore films today, although their are three brief moments of nudity.The acting and script was impressively tolerable, even believable at times.The characters are as you would expect, extremely typical horror cast of teens, the macho douche, the smart girl, the dumb girl, and the innocent guy. These character arche types can all feel a bit forced. The scenery and towns folk were well set up to fit the eerie desolate atmosphere.Overall I was pretty impressed with the films quality and kept me entertained the whole way through. You can still expect the usual tripping when the chase scenes begin and the seemingly suicidal stupid decisions as with any B-horror or horror film in general but otherwise this was pretty decent, entertaining, kinda fun. 6/10 overall for Albino Farm from me. Hopefully from this you can make your own decision if it is worth a watch.