SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

People are voting emotionally.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

"Satan's Blade" follows two separate groups of people lodging at a mountain resort in the aftermath of a bizarre murder. Local legend has it that a "mountain man" native to the area still lurks (in spirit), possessing individuals to undertake his murderous impulses via a mysterious dagger.Even by most slasher fan standards, "Satan's Blade" is a disaster, not just because it's generally shoddily-made, but because it's predictable. Bad filler dialogue played over during shots of cars meandering up the road? Check. A stilted monologue about a vaguely-sketched supernatural villain told from the front desk lady (which she happens to unload just as two large groups happen to arrive)? Check. Disparate characters (largely female) who spend inordinate amounts of time in various states of undress? Check.You get the picture. All this said, I'll admit it: I liked this film. Its cardinal sin is that it's tedious for a good deal of its middle part, but the beginning and ending are surprisingly engaging. The lull in the middle is largely laborious to watch because not only does very little happen, but what does is serviced with underdeveloped dialogue, weak acting, and little intrigue. The shoestring budget (and lack of experience) shows.The film is actually well-photographed and captures the wintry mountain setting nicely, and once things do pick up, there are some surprisingly brutal murder sequences where the effect belies the technical limitations. The film evokes a distinctive late-seventies atmosphere (it was apparently shot in 1980, but not released until 1984), featuring cabin decor that would horrify even your grandmother, but it does add to the film's charm and time-capsule appeal. Atmospherically, I'd liken it to something of a mashup between "Madman," "Ghostkeeper," and "Unhinged." As I noted before, the acting is not good, although the leading heroine does prove herself to be serviceable in the finale.Overall, "Satan's Blade" is a textbook example of an amateur horror film, but it does have flashes of charm and is no less spunky and atmospheric. Its biggest problem is that it doesn't really know what to do with itself, which is indicative of poorly-planned and/or poorly-executed writing. It feels thrown together in a lot of ways, but this is part of what makes it endearing. It's a technically bad film with enough atmosphere and well-executed set pieces to keep a select few genre extremists on board—and I suppose I'm one of them. 6/10.

"Satan's Blade" opens with a nasty bank robbery.Two female robbers murder two bank tellers after bit of sexual humiliation and run to a snowy resort in the mountains.Girls hope to hide out for a while and meet their third partner but they are all murdered.The next day Tony,Lisa,Al and Lil come to the same winter resort when criminals were killed.A group of girls hires another cabin.Old lady tries to warn all of them about the legend of crazed mountain man,but nobody cares.Bad mistake because after some scenes of talking and wandering around the killer starts slashing his victims with titular knife.Amateurish but surprisingly nasty slasher flick with surprisingly decent acting and fairly complex script.L. Scott Castillo's direction is pretty uneven but the stabbings are mean-spirited and the agony of actresses is well-captured.This film is much better than "Savage Water".6 satanic blades out of 10.

Firstly I beg to say I love low, even zero budget horror movies, but even my patience can be destroyed by something so horrible like early 80's slasher flick called 'Satan's Blade' I can understand plenty mistakes when movie has no budget and to be honest,mostly watching this kind of movies is really funny and absorbing, but 'Satan's Blade' is definitively one of the worst movies ever made and for sure worst slasher movie I ever seen (And I saw tons of them). Seriously - even Paul Kener's 'Savage Water' is better movie than this piece of crap. Plot is just typical for backwoods slashers - two couples and four girls are spending their winter holidays in the mountain resort. What they don't know there is a mysterious killer with demonic knife, watching and waiting to kill them all with cold blood. Is there any chance to get out alive from cursed mountain? Although this movie isn't really long, it's seriously boring for most of the time, even for most patient viewers. There is absolutely no suspense and no gore at all(some knife stabbing only, where you can see blood looking more like a barbecue sauce than real blood). Acting is just hilariously bad, but it shouldn't be very surprising 'cause most of the acting crew were just students from local school and no real actors. I have heard this junk was made for almost one million bucks! Have no idea how it's possible 'cause there is no trace of budget in this movie and it looks more like a student's project or family movie made for a six pack of beer. Such a shame one is the lowest possible rating 'cause zero is what really 'Satan's Blade' deserves.So don't be fooled by interesting plot and avoid this amateurish garbage like a curse.

I was there when this horrible nightmare began. I'd known Scott for years when he was given the opportunity to produce a horror film ala Halloween when someone (I think his name was Pat???) fronted the money. It was too bad Scott's experiences had been in 8 mm home-style and not in reality because he spent more on looking like a producer than being one and putting out a quality film.But I was a young innocent in my mid-twenties, like most of the people involved. We were all promised a percentage of the film (which we never received even though I have my contract somewhere) and I was promised an assistant and a writing credit which, you can see, doesn't exist. Tom Cue and I sat for many nights trying to put together a script that was constantly being changed. And like the actor Tom Bongiorno said, the film was doomed from the start and is one of the worst ever made.As bad as the film was I will say it was one of the most fun times I'd ever had. It was the closest I'd ever get to Hollywood and I knew it. It was like an ongoing cast party. The only people that really seemed to know what they were doing was Terry Kempf, the cinematographer, and Paul Batson, the makeup artist.It was so unorganized everyone did everything. Not only was I the assistant and a scriptwriter, I ran errands, changed lighting, was in charge of props (and so many other things I can't remember). I dropped off the production staff shortly after the film was in the can because I didn't agree with the way the money was being spent - which is probably why I'm not in the credits anywhere (ya think?).I didn't walk out of the "premier" but I spent the entire time laughing, it was so damn bad. They'd called it Satan's Blade but I wanted to call it Ski Bunny Blood Bath because that's what it was . . .