Killer Kate!

First-time director Elliot Feld creates a star vehicle for his wife, Alexandra, with this tonally wayward home-invasion flick. Narrative and character credibility seem low on the priority list for Feld and co-scribe Daniel Moya as they saddle their inexperienced ensemble with rambling screeds of dialogue in setting up a relatively simplistic scenario. At its heart are estranged siblings Kate (Alexandra Feld) and Angie (Danielle Burgess), who seek to patch things up during the latter's bachelorette party with their caricatured buddies (Amaris Davidson and Abby Eiland). However, the family that owns their secluded cabin destination have ulterior motives for leasing it out. If the revellers are thinly fleshed out, then the sinister Briskman (Robert Donavan) and his offspring (Brandon Bales, Grant Lyon and Tiffany Shepis) are stick figures whose murderous ineptitude exposes the shakiness of Feld and Moya's conceit, and the clumsiness of the direction. The significance of a barbed wire-covered baseball bat gives this a certain cult cachet, but not much.