Wonderful character development!

There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Offbeat painter Kay (Kendall) is joined by her brother Eric (Flynn), sister in law Brooke (Kottenbrook) and husband David (McRae) on a remote fishing island for a much needed vacation. Recently Kay has been plagued by nightmares, and upon arriving on the island realizes many of the details of her nightmares are here in the island and she has been painting them, including an unseen monster that is lurking around. It takes a while, but her Husband is decapitated in the basement by a trap door and is found hanging there. Later her brother is hooked by a large fishing hook and dragged out into the water at night. Brooke is stalked by an unseen thing that plunges a pitch fork through her back and out the front! Eventually Kay must confront the monster from he dreams for real. Director J.S. Cardone has fun with the graphic moments in the film, but the overall film would have benefited by a higher body count. Filmed of the coast of Georgia on Tybee Island, the movie has some great atmosphere and Cardone does a good job of building up dread and the stalking scenes have a nice touch of suspense to them. The middle section drags a bit and could have easily been juiced up by showing the impressive monster in a few quick cuts. Instead Cardone waits until the film's final frames before we get to see the very impressive monster which makes you wonder why we didn't see more of it. Creepy and atmospheric, this low budget outing curiously keeps your attention throughout and is effective in an odd way.

I really liked this movie. It was suspenseful and gory. There are very few kill in the movie but the ones in it are good. Two couples go to an island. They and the pilot are the only ones there. Or are they? No they are not a demented killer stalks the island soon hunting down the couples and killing them one by one. One of the women has nightmares that sort of come true. Soon her husband is killed and she is the only on to have seen it. He brother and his wife does not believe her. The killer is actually a monster. The monster is pretty scary looking and is sure to send shivers down the spine. Sadly the appearance of the killer is shown only for a few seconds. The movie is good.

I remember watching this movie on video many years ago, the title caught my eye seeing the fact that it had a previously banned sticker on it, but to be honest at the time I found it quite boring only saved by a few cool and graphic kills, but then it kind of faded from memory. Many years on I decided to purchase this movie on DVD, to see if my opinion has somewhat changed, and in a way yes and no.Now many years on I do appreciate the tension and the build up of this movie, and the effective POV killer shots, the story line is also quite fresh and original, well at the time anyway, a young woman having nightmares about a monster called "The Slayer". But also on my second viewing this movie still hasn't quite won my affection, the acting for one thing is quite poor and none of them are even memorable which prevents this movie from being scary. But the setting of the island though is very eerie and disturbing, and the cast do make the most of the creepy setting, and the fact that the main heroine is all alone in the head does build on tension and genially does feel unnerving.All in all an okay effort, saved by cool deaths but renders on the tedious side, while waiting for them to come.

An artist, Kay(Sarah Kendal)is haunted by surreal nightmares which have affected her work, hindering her success. Husband Doctor David(Alan McRae)and brother commercial director Eric(Frederick Flynn)are concerned for her well being and put together a trip to an uninhabited(..or so they believe)island to get away from it all for a vacation. Brooke(Carol Kottenbrook), Eric's wife, comes along on the trip. The nightmares, which contain a creature, could be premonitions because after landing on the island, Kay feels as if she has been there before, realizing that an abandoned, dilapidated building(..an old theater house) located near an old fort in ruins, was painted by her to canvas.Well one thing we understand is a big no-no in movies such as this and that's investigating noises in a large, dark unfamiliar house alone. There's this great nightmare gag with a severed head. JS Cardone(..who directed and co-wrote the screenplay)fashioned an interesting film many might feel echoes Wes Craven's Nightmare on Elm Street, the idea of a "dream monster" given life "while victims are asleep." We see how Kay attempts, by whatever means necessary(..such as burning her arm with a lit cigarette), to stay awake, and the psychological/physical damage that doing so causes. When given a sedative, against her wishes by her Eric, as a means for her to get some much needed sleep, it very well could, once and for all, release the creature from it's dreamworld prison. Cardone and company get a lot of mileage out of the island setting, but limit themselves to the detriment of slasher fans demanding a high body count and bloody carnage, because "The Slayer" has a small cast of characters, with little in the department of violence or gore. Being part of the notorious video nasty list does this movie little favor, either, as gorehounds will watch with bated breath hoping for grue. The film has several lengthly sequences where characters conduct searches, many built as suspense set-pieces with flashlights and lanterns peering into the darkness. I think the greatest sin which will contribute to many slasher fans' disappointment will be the misleading title..I imagine one would venture in expecting a movie featuring a psychopath stalking and destroying countless victims. Probably the most effective murder is the use of a pitchfork to impale a victim attempting to escape through a window. Much debated ending(..most considering it terrible) probably would've been better left out..it's a method towards establishing where the monster came from, and I, for one, think it was unnecessary.