Film Review – Slice

Writer/director Austin Vesley has a lot of influences and interests he’d like to put on the screen with “Slice,” but no particular game plan on how to do it. A horror comedy with its heart in the right place, the movie is a messy presentation of genre imagination and production realities, with the low-budget endeavor struggling to make sense of itself. It only runs 79 minutes, which may help to understand what happened between the feature’s 2016 shoot and its 2018 release date, with Vesley’s vision subjected to severe editing, finding the brutal cutting shaving down “Slice” to the bare essentials of world building and monster making. I’m sure it was a fine screenplay at one point, but in its finished form, the picture is a jumble of ideas that never gels.  Read the rest at Blu-ray.com