Four friends are heading to spring break down in Miami. When the highway gets too crowded for Steve (Josh Macuga) decides it is time to hit the back roads instead. They eventually pull over so David (Ernest Dancy) can take a piss, while Audra (Raine Brown) tries to figure out if they are lost. While taking his piss, David spots a bag in the field which ends up having a lot of money in it. Maggie (Kathryn Merry) finds an address inside of the bag and wants to at least make the attempt to give it back to the owner. They stop off in a small town to eat and get some gas and ask the waitress if she knows where the address is. She says she has no clue, but calls the Sheriff (Gerard Adimando) to tell him what the kids are up to. When they talk to the gas station owner, who says he has no gas, they learn the town they are looking for is the one that they are in, it just has been renamed a few years back. They find the house they are looking for, but no one appears to live there anymore. David and Maggie soon learn though that a black man was beaten badly years back and his body was left near the house they are all staying in, but the body was never found. Now the locals believe that the man still wanders the area, killing everyone he comes across. Is it just a local legend, or is it true?
Plasterhead was written/directed by Kevin Higgins. This was his first time out, and so far it seems his only film. This is a movie that starts off strong, but quickly goes down hill from there. While listening to the radio, we hear a voice over telling us a little bit about Plasterhead. While we listen to this, we see a reporter getting ready to leave, she is apparently doing a story about the beating that took place, and we see the guy without his self made plaster mask. From there we meet up with the four main characters, and it just never seems to have the same feel. The bag that they find is the ladies bag that the reporter had with her. We know what happens to her before we get to the main story. Higgins makes some mistakes from here on out. For one, we hear the story of Plasterhead more than a couple of times from the locals. Another is that the group of friends are almost out of gas. They are so low that they don't want to risk going the 50 miles they are told is the nearest place to get gas. Even so, they have no problem with driving out to the address they found, back into town and then out to the house again which is a few miles out of town. The house has been closed up for years, the whole area actually according to the Sheriff, yet it has running water and the place looks spotless. It was funny to see the actors making it look like it wasn't spotless though. Coughing when they first go inside, rubbing their fingers over stuff and giving faces like they can't believe how dusty it is.
Not a whole lot happens until about an hour into the movie. Stories being told and some driving back and forth is about it. It would have been fine if more than one story was being told, but no such luck. Plasterhead himself looked great without the mask. They did some very nice makeup there for him. The actor that played him, Brian Dixon, looks to be a big guy as well. Once he has his mask on, it only covers half his head which made me wonder how it was staying on. Plus it just didn't look good with the white plaster mask. The rest of the effects were just okay at best I thought. Not a lot of gore, but they do. The acting wasn't the best, but you get used to that in low budget films. I thought the worst was Gerard Adimando. It wasn't so much his acting as it was the accent he was trying to pull off. At least I sure hope it was a fake accent.
One thing I didn't get is why some of the people in town ended up getting killed. We only meet seven people from the town, if I am counting right, and almost half of those are killed off. One is understandable. He has something to do with the story behind Plasterhead, and is in the wrong place at the wrong time. The others though made no sense at all to me. I also wondered if the film crew had permission to film in the area, as often signs in the background get blured out. I guess that shows how bored I was getting when I start looking at signs that have nothing to do with the story. I can't say that Plasterhead was all bad, but it could have been a lot better than it ended up. I would say to skip this one, but there are those out there that did enjoy it.
2 out of 5 At least I can tell the difference between a dead or a living person
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