I assume that “Laid To Rest” is supposed to be a member of a new generation of slasher films. It’s not entirely bad but the movie features unnecessarily graphic violence and the characters are pretty stupid. I was hoping for more of a mystery film but what I got was a mere celebration of gore.

A young woman (Bobbi Sue Luther) wakes up in a casket with a traumatic head injury and no memory of who she is or how she got there. She soon finds herself struggling to survive the night as she is stalked by the relentless Chromeskull. It’s pretty much your average slasher flick with a masked killer hunting a small group of people.

The characters in “Laid To Rest” are rather dumb. I lost count of the amount of times that people failed to kill Chromeskull as they somehow miss shots from yards away. It’s that sort-of thing that makes you lose respect for the movie and its writers. The Chromeskull villain wears one of the most generic Halloween masks out there. Like Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees, Chromeskull does not speak. However, he does communicate through text messages and he also makes use of video cameras as the man likes to record his executions and send them to the authorities. However, any credibility he has goes out the window when you see him get defeated (I will not reveal how).

If you like watching particularly brutal murder scenes then “Laid To Rest” definitely delivers on that front. I imagine the people that enjoyed the “Friday The 13th” films and the “A Nightmare On Elm Street” series will have a lot of fun with this movie. Everybody else will find “Laid To Rest” to be nothing more than another bland film about slicing and dicing morons.