The Haunting of Bates Motel. (2013)
A film with a fairly original storyline that utilizes the location of The original Bates Motel and Haunted Hayride Halloween visitor attraction. A scary theme park which opens just during October for the Halloween season.
The film is well acted for a low budget movie and features some classic horror kills such as death by combine harvester, death by band saw etc. Unfortunately the film lacks blood. I seem to be going through a few of these recently. Well made low budget films that forget to add the gory reasons we we watch these films for. Madison County is another example of this. Perhaps the film makers blew all the budget filming at the Hayride attraction rather than on visual effects.
Should anyone be visiting Pennsylvania in the next couple of weeks then the Haunted Hayride looks a hell of a place to spend your Halloween. However the film itself is not bad but hardly essential viewing.
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