BEEF: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT (2007 dir Pete Jacelone)

Screamkings Productions DVD

Screamkings, the low budget horror studio from Massachusetts that brought us CAMP SLAUGHTER (aka CAMP DAZE - 2005), the new FRAT HOUSE MASSACRE (2008), and the upcoming SCULPTURE (2008), bring us this unusual slasher/cannibal story.

Drew's (Matt Weight) life is falling apart. His girlfriend has left him because she thinks he cares more about his career in photography than her, he's been constantly pushed around and beat up on since he was a kid, and he wants to be a body builder, but can't seem to get the body for it. Desperate to try something that will help him accomplish his goal, he does research on Professor Daniels and his book entitled "Beef." It gives him the idea that the key to getting a body builder's body lies in a special diet. Drew suddenly loses his grip on sanity as he tracks down young body builders telling them he's a photographer and they can do modeling for him only to brutally murder them and store their dismembered body parts in his fridge to be used for his new diet.

BEEF manages to be a very original and different take on the slasher film offering new ideas and approaches to the usual formula that most horror fans have been so accustomed to over the years. The idea of a killer targeting body builders is definitely something new for the genre, the ending really does the story justice, and the young actors cast in the film did a pretty decent job for the most part. There's a good amount of gore on display ranging from dismemberments to a gross flesh and muscle removal with an electric carving knife to brutal stabbings and slashings to a disembowelment and more. Stephen R. Hicks did a fine job with the effects.

Screamkings' double-disc DVD edition of BEEF contains deleted and extended scenes, interviews with the actors (including horror newcomer Marv Blauvelt who's to appear in SCULPTURE and Alan Rowe Kelly's DON'T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT remake), interview footage from the movie's premiere in New York City featuring director Pete Jacelone, executive producer Alex Pucci and various other cast and crew members, and trailers for BEEF, CAMP SLAUGHTER, FRAT HOUSE MASSACRE and other Screamkings releases.

If any of you slasher fans ever desired to see a film where the maniac kills and eats body builders, this is the movie for you. Visit Screamkings at www.screamkings.com.