Beastly Boyz. USA 2006. Directed by David DeCoteau

Travis finds his sister dead near her lake front house, and promises to seek revenge from her murderers. U.S. - born director David Decoteau, now living in Canada, gave us some hugely entertaining horror feasts like Sorority Babes in Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama and Dreamaniac. Now he's famous for his homoerotic low-budgeteers (like Brotherhood -series) and this time we got an experimental film, which trusts no less than in male skin and lots of blood! But don't expect some college horror crap, since Decoteau has gone farther than he has gone before - with violence and the seriousness.

The title, Beastly Boyz gives an impression of teenage horror comedy with lots of T's and A's in the whole mix. Instead, Beastly Boyz is dark, bleak horror film with not much of a plot but straightforward "hunt & kill" -story. And yes, there is a lot of skin - mainly for gay & female audience.

Filmed with Super 16, the film looks great and the part of the praises should be pointed to the director of photography Todd Turner. The young actors here do their work properly, even if you are not probably amazed of their talents.

As an experimental film, Beastly Boyz serves well and brings a fresh breeze to low-budget horror genre as well as DeCoteaus filmography. Note that this film does contain a minimal amount of dialogue, and all of that is also done in voice-over. So, Beastly Boyz trusts in power of visuality and atmospheric soundtrack. And it does that well, creating an unique and dark mood. This is the direction that is also truly welcome in the Decoteau fan crowd.

DVD release of Rapid Heart / Royal Commonwealth Releasing looks fine, as the colors are natural and bright. Also on the DVD you can find nice & interesting commentary track by the director himself and making of -featurette.