Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove (2005)
Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove is a low budget, horror release that I saw sometime ago. As with low budget flicks of this nature, expectations must also be lowered. If you go in expecting campy dialogue, bad acting and no effects, then you stand a good chance coming out the other end with a bit of entertainment -- maybe even a few laughs at the silly attempt.
The story is a take on the old pirate song, sixteen men on a dead man's chest ... yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. Apparently Jolly Roger, the pirate, had his treasure stolen from him by his crew that had him walk the plank. He comes back from the dead, in fine form, but really bad make-up, when his skull is discovered in a ... wait for it ... dead man's chest by a bunch of teens at Cutter's Cove. After offing the captain, the pirate crew went straight and became the founding fathers of Cutter's Cove. To get his treasure back, Jolly Roger must now collect the skulls of sixteen men (or women) from the direct descendants of the traitors.
What follows is typical of the campy horror genre. Lots of blood and heads without bodies. As people get murdered by someone in a pirate's costume, the local sheriff runs around bagging bodies and wanting to call in the FBI. The mayor meanwhile, wants the sheriff to solve the problem on his own -- and is hiding some secrets. Two high school grads, that may be suspects in the murders, must dodge the sheriff and overcome their own lack of intelligence to solve the case before it's too late. Lucky for them, there's the internet and a convenient website with all the answers.
The story is a take on the old pirate song, sixteen men on a dead man's chest ... yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. Apparently Jolly Roger, the pirate, had his treasure stolen from him by his crew that had him walk the plank. He comes back from the dead, in fine form, but really bad make-up, when his skull is discovered in a ... wait for it ... dead man's chest by a bunch of teens at Cutter's Cove. After offing the captain, the pirate crew went straight and became the founding fathers of Cutter's Cove. To get his treasure back, Jolly Roger must now collect the skulls of sixteen men (or women) from the direct descendants of the traitors.
What follows is typical of the campy horror genre. Lots of blood and heads without bodies. As people get murdered by someone in a pirate's costume, the local sheriff runs around bagging bodies and wanting to call in the FBI. The mayor meanwhile, wants the sheriff to solve the problem on his own -- and is hiding some secrets. Two high school grads, that may be suspects in the murders, must dodge the sheriff and overcome their own lack of intelligence to solve the case before it's too late. Lucky for them, there's the internet and a convenient website with all the answers.
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