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Founders Day Reviews
Founders Day is like Thanksgiving’s quieter, more polite younger brother but takes enough decent stabs at the genre to ensure it’s worth your vote -- for at least one term.
Brothers Erik and Carson Bloomquist ... are trying to blend the conventions of the slasher genre (red herrings, multiple suspects, mutilated teenagers) with campy political satire. ... Founders Day pummels us with the obvious.
It's a bit all over the place and struggles to nail a consistent tone, but when it works, it works.
With a disjointed script and feeble performances, what could have been a timely metaphor for the upcoming—and dreaded—real-world election cycle unfortunately doesn’t exist.
It's boring, it's cheesy, but still not fun or funny. It did not have engaging characters.
Bloomquist thinks that by making a self-aware film that’s intentionally bad, the movie is beyond reproach. It’s like someone trying to meme their own photo - it just doesn’t work when you try to make yourself the butt of the joke.
Founders Day is a modern horror cliché that had me asking myself, “Why should I care?” after almost every plot point, attempted jump scare, and death.
Lifting ideas from dozens of slasher movies that came before it, this uninspired, predictable horror satire is too tame to be really incendiary and too sluggish to be terribly surprising.
If you’re looking for anything remotely fresh you won’t find it here. Otherwise, there’s enough bloody fun to satisfy the genre faithful.
The intended satire [is] feeble, while the relatively straightforward horror aspects register just middling effectiveness in a standard slasher vein.
A nice homage to 80s slasher films with some clever surprises.
Giving this psycho-killer saga a political bent is just the charge of freshness the genre needs...though the filmmakers have wisely avoided too many direct analogs or allegories to the current situation.
A couple of pedal-to-the-floor melodramatic twists suggest that “Founders Days” might’ve been a bolder or just meaner genre movie, but its toothless satire, like its timid horror drama, sadly doesn’t cut it.
What it lacks in production budget, it more than makes up for in story ambition. The twists might go off the rails, but they're quite entertaining.
The checklist of Eighties slasher cliches here is insufferably long.
“Founders Day” is so entangled with itself, it never manages to turn a hilariously convoluted plot into something memorable.
No serious bonafide horror movie enthusiast would allow a crapfest like this one to get by, so I won’t either. Avoid at all costs.
It's too busy with half-hearted melodrama and a convoluted yet predictable mystery to take advantage of such easy targets.
Founders Day is a second-tier slasher that crosses too many plotlines in an overly complicated small-town massacre.
Founders Day has a lot of potential, but its story and characters aren't strong enough to deliver an engaging film with something clear to say.