"There are horror movies that walk the viewer through their deepest fears, others that use the genre to explore broader social issues and anxieties, and others that are just about thrill rides and LOLs. And then there is silly, sadistic trash like this: a micro-budget ripoff of cannibal-killer franchise The Hills Have Eyes, its lousy sequels and suchlike. It even features an actor from the original 1977 Hills' cast: Susan Lanier here plays Martha, a blowsy barmaid with a taste for human flesh."
"Passengers include Chad's permanently bikini-clad girlfriend Dana (Meghan Carrasquillo), stag buddy Franklin (Jamal R Averett), and lesbian couple Brandy (Amy Byrd) and Jess (Caitlin Rose). Yards of cocaine are snorted, gallons of booze consumed and makeouts embarked on as teasers for the film's real idea of fun: putting the young'uns at the mercy of the tattooed boatyard body-eaters, who bring them ashore when the yacht runs out of gas at sea."
The Boatyard is a micro-budget cannibal-killer film that apes The Hills Have Eyes and its sequels. The cast includes Susan Lanier as Martha, a barmaid who craves human flesh. A group of mostly foolish twenty-somethings party aboard rich boy Chad's yacht, consuming cocaine and alcohol before becoming victims after the yacht runs out of gas. The antagonists are tattooed boatyard cannibals who drag survivors ashore. The film is less gory than its models, but it suffers from pointlessness, a lack of backstory, no wit or empathy, poor filmmaking craft, and exceptionally bad acting.
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