Review of Totem

Totem (1999 Video)
7/10
Interesting Unusual and Accessible
9 June 2020
I first rented this from Hollywood Video in 2001. This time I watched it on Tubi Free w/ ads.

This is a cheap horror film from a director who started working for Roger Corman in 1980 and started directing cheap horror films in 1984 or so and is still doing so in 2020 with 162 Directing credits. You should calibrate your expectations accordingly.

This movie created a writing solution for the lack of shooting locations. The 6 twenty-something kids were compelled to come to this secluded cabin in the woods next to a graveyard by some unknown force in their head. Marissa Tait's Alma Groves illustrates this at the beginning as she wanders over a hill and into the cabin.

There is some interesting concepts in this movie that I haven't seen in other movies, though I haven't seen a lot of David DeCoteau's films.

If you are looking for nudity in this cheap horror film, you will be disappointed. Everyone is attractive, beyond Marissa Tait and Eric W. Edwards wearing tank tops and Sacha Spencer's shirt being a little tight, there's not a lot here in that respect.

I enjoyed all of the performances. I believed the characters.

I'm not sure I understand how the movie resolved, but I had a good time watching it.
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