My introduction to the work of Chad Ferrin was "Unspeakable", a twisted little picture with a truly disturbing ending that haunted me for weeks afterward. I knew that Ferrin would be one to watch so I eagerly anticipated his follow-up flick, "The Ghouls", and I was not disappointed. "The Ghouls" was a fun ride and hit all the right notes. Well written, well shot, and well acted (especially from the lead actor Timothy Muskatell), it was one of those rare movies that actually deserved to find a bigger audience despite its low budget origins. My appreciation for Ferrin's work as a filmmaker grew and I was very excited for his latest, "Easter Bunny, Kill KILL!". Could he go 3-for-3? Read on....

Don't ya just hate it when you hear a movie described as "modern day exploitation" and you get all worked up to see it, only to be disappointed with the end result? It seems that a lot of flicks are marketing themselves as just that nowadays and, like many of you, I quickly grab the box from the rental store shelves and excitedly make my way home to pop it in the DVD player, hoping to the movie-gods that I just discovered a hidden and overlooked gem. Then, 90 minutes later, I am left sitting on the couch with a look of disappointment on my face, saddened that someone would even attempt to market their film as exploitation when all it tried to do was mimic everything that the big studio pics are doing. I wanted to see something that harkened back to the days when a movie left a lasting impression on me from the sick and depraved things that went on onscreen. And after much searching I found it. Yes, Easter Bunny Kill KILL! is exactly what this lover of exploitation films needed in this day and age of remakes, ripoffs, and cookie cutter horror flicks.

We are introduced to Remington in the opening shots as he robs a convenient store wearing an easter bunny mask. Remington is menacingly played by Timothy Muskatell and he chews the scenery up. He is everything you love to hate about a character.....sleazy, manipulative, trashy.....and you can't wait for him to get his comeuppance. After the strong opening sequence we learn that Remington is dating a gorgeous nurse named Mindy (played by the luscious Charlotte Marie). Mindy lives with her mentally-challenged (and Easter obsessed) son Nicholas (Ricardo Gray). What a woman like Mindy would ever see in a sleazebag like Remington is beyond me, but she apparently trusts him enough to leave her son with him when she is called into work. This begins an evening of frightening situations for poor lil' Nicholas.

You see, Remington has places to go, people to see, and things to do. Plus he likes his drugs. So he calls up Ray, a slightly disabled drug dealing pedophile with a thing for special needs children. David Z. Stamp delivers a chilling performance as Ray making the character one of the creepiest in recent memory. There isn't a moment he's onscreen when he didn't ooze creepiness. His performance will have you locking the doors and checking on your own children twice before hitting the bed.

Remington leaves, picks up some new "friends", and does copious amounts of drugs before returning home. Little does he know there's already another guest inside. A killer wearing an Easter Bunny mask. With a drill. A big one.

Without giving too much away I will say that "Easter Bunny Kill KILL!" delivers in the ick-department, giving us both the gore or the goodies. As tense and unsettling as some of these scenes are they are exactly what the flick needed to push it to the next level. The kills are imaginative and fun, nasty and disgusting. The situations the characters are put in are ass-puckeringly scary.

What else needs to be said about this Killer Film? It's repulsive. Disturbing. Demented. But oh, so much fun. Ferrin knocks it out of the park, batting .1000 so far in the game. "Easter Bunny Kill KILL!" is the shot in the arm the genre needs right now and is the best modern exploitation film in many moons.