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Director: Jim Gillespie
Movie review
From Time Out New York
Shot under the title Backwater and test-screened as The Reaper, this puddle of swamp bilge produced by Scream writer Kevin Williamson is the kind of thing that used to slither into Times Square on Halloween weekends. But the bad old grindhouses are gone, the jack-o'-lanterns aren't out yet, and those standard-issue stalk-and-slash conventions are looking pretty moldy: A voodoo mishap turns a redneck tow-truck driver (Cramer) into an undead serial killer. The slasher clichés on reshuffle are old enough to predate the births of most of the flick's nubile victims-to-be, including tight-T-shirt wearer Agnes Bruckner.Author: MM
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Cast & crew
Director: Jim Gillespie
Producer: Kevin Williamson
Cast: Agnes Bruckner, Method Man, Bijou Phillips, D J Cotrona, Jonathan Jackson, Meagan Good
Duration: 85 mins
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