Rent Butchers (2020)

You wouldn't want to buy your Sunday roast from this lot! - Butchers review by NP

This is a ‘Wrong Turn’ clone, but with less blatant and gratifying horror trappings. The teen crew we meet after the prologue are possibly the sulkiest bunch I’ve ever come across. Whatever relationship breakdowns there might have been prior to events here, this bunch can barely even look at each other, and conversations are restricted to the barest minimum. The ‘butchers’ of the title, when we first meet them, are far more communicative and personable – even if it’s all just enforced jollity to detract from their villainous ways. Whereas in ‘Wrong Turn’, we fell afoul of a group of mutant inbred hillbillies we never got a really good look at, here the antagonists are big lads with beards – who may be comparatively well spoken, but their manners aren’t much improved. There’s also something horrible lurking in the shadows.

Other than undeniable similarities, this is a good, well-paced, violent and brutal horror film. My score is 7 out of 10.