Shredder (film)

Shredder is a 2003 American slasher film directed by Greg Huson and starring Scott Weinger and Lindsey McKeon.

It was filmed at the Silver Mountain Resort in Kellogg, Idaho, and released direct-to-video in the United States by MGM Home Entertainment.

Meanwhile, college student Kimberly is going on a trip to an abandoned ski resort, which her father will be buying soon, with her boyfriend Cole, cousin Pike, and friends Skyler, Robyn, and Kirk.

The two make out and decide to stick together but Bud appears and sends Shelly home, warning Skyler to leave the resort.

With a late start and a short winter, the project was canceled, quickly picked up in turn-around by Iris Entertainment producers Geof Miller and Rory Veal.

Shredder was filmed on location in March 2001 at the Silver Mountain Resort in Kellogg, Idaho over a period of seventeen days, with a budget of $750,000.

[8] The film failed to find distribution in North America until the following year when it was acquired by MGM Home Entertainment, who released it direct-to-video and DVD on December 16, 2003.

[9] Steve Barton of Dread Central gave the film an unfavorable review, writing: "As a horror movie, Shredder couldn’t fail any worse.

It’s not scary; the murderer is ridiculous (particularly when he’s skiing down the slopes in pursuit of victims) and the deaths, while mildly gory, fail to deliver any payoff whatsoever.

"[10] AllMovie reviewer Jeremy Wheeler gave the film a 1.5 out of 5-star-rating, writing: "Shredder is the kind of straight-to-video junk that proves there's still life in the bottom of the rental racks.

Working off the archetypical frame of the "killer in the woods" scenario, this particularly bloody gem starts off with a gratuitous beheading and takes off from there.

Of course, things do tend to get tedious after a while; with murders relegated to lame setups while the backstory plot nonsense takes the center stage.

Thankfully, writer/director Greg Huson keeps the pace going and the mood light... Of course, this being an extreme sports flick, there has to be your obligatory, obnoxious snow boarder "dude" spouting off truly terrible—and at times, questionably dubbed–lines that'll make any viewer cringe far more than your worst bloody kill.

"[11] In a 2022 reassessment of the film, Paul Lê of Bloody Disgusting wrote favorably of it, observing: "What Shredder lacks in high production values it makes up for in sheer energy and cocky style.

In addition to Alan Derian’s effectively sinister score are a number of pop-punk tracks that do little to stand out from one another, but they add to the movie’s overall zest.