Jim Storm

420 Massacre sounds like Cheech and Chong’s stab at a horror movie, right? A couple of stoners lost in the wood that get sliced up between spliffs would be the likely premise. But if you’re assuming that 420 Massacre is nothing more than a horror-comedy shrouded in bong smoke, you are sorely mistaken. This April release from Writer-Director Dylan Reynolds walks a line as thin as rolling papers in terms of tone, but delivers a surprisingly satisfying story along the way. Being as I’ve always “passed on grass” when the opportunity arose, I wasn’t quite sure how this film was going to land for me in terms of themes. I was having flashbacks to that scene in the Seth Green/Matthew Lillard comedy Without A Paddle where the crew end up being chased through a pot field by Larry Kubiac from Parker Lewis Can’t Lose and Frankie from Boy Meets World. And for the first 5 minutes of 420 Massacre we’re not far off from that scenario. The film opens with