Slasher Films

Bad Apples clues you in to its devious nature right up front, with an opening scene so violently shocking you’ll be left wondering how far writer/director Bryan Coyne is willing to take his story of small town terror. This Halloween night kill-fest is low budget horror in the purest sense, but there’s a sense of reality throughout that is hard to ignore. Let’s carve our way through this frightening February release from Uncork’d Entertainment. From the opening titles Coyne invokes a palpable feeling of unease as two silent teenage girls in creepy devil doll masks ride through a run-down trailer park with uncertain intentions. We are obviously meant to infer from the pre-credits scene where a pregnant woman is knifed to death on Halloween, leaving twin babies wriggling on the kitchen floor, that these are those survivors. Their mental state is what’s in question. Interestingly enough, “The Twins” as I call them (never named in the film) are not the focus of the film. Instead we are introduced to Brea