Slaxx

I can’t get tuned into the idea of the creators. They took a silly premise about murderous jeans and worked it out as a fairly serious parable about the rotten morality of large corporations. The conflict is so massive that I’m simply unable to enjoy it, even though in terms of the execution and the performances Slaxx is pretty decent. (12/03/2021)

The expected killer jeans are just average after all. The advantage is that the film is only 80 minutes long, so you don't have to wait much for anything, and the jeans start rampaging from the 10th minute. The story centers on the employees of a clothing store who are in lockdown and a new collection of jeans is out for blood. It's shot, original and fairly entertaining, although the characters are rather unlikeable, the entire fashion community feels like some kind of brainwashing cult, so you just look forward to their execution. It could have been saved by the gore, which when it did happen was excellent, but out of the fifteen characters most of the murders are off camera. But there are three or four gore scenes that are really cool, though I don't really understand why they didn't show all of them, I would have gone higher with the rating for sure. The humuor didn't work for me, so as a comedy the film fails. I was expecting more, but for the original idea, short running time and four decent murders, Slaxx gets 3 stars from me. 5.5/10. (08/03/2021)