Every town has a local legend. Not all of them are deadly. Headed to Miami to celebrate winter break, a group of four college students from New Jersey take a detour into the bowels of rural West Virginia. There, the unwitting friends uncover a grotesque legend that stains the fabric of Rolling Glen, a sleepy backwoods town. As the four friends quickly find out, some believe Williams still roams the woods on the outskirts of town, surviving on the slaughter of wildlife. Others claim to have seen Williams in person, a looming figure with a ghostly white visage, purportedly a makeshift cast to mask the scars and wounds left from the merciless assault. They have a name for Williams now: Plasterhead. Soon, the four friends find themselves holed up in an abandoned farmhouse, mired in a macabre web of terror. Sheriff Taggart will do anything to keep the truth buried: the truth that Plasterhead is frighteningly real. As these teens will soon learn, true evil has no face.
Practical Effects
The plaster mask actually looks creepily homemade.
Director
Kevin Higgins
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Kevin Higgins reportedly shot this in actual West Virginia with a crew of six and a budget that wouldn't cover one day of catering on a studio film.
Plasterhead belongs to that brief 2005-2008 wave of 'tortured urban legend' slashers trying to ride the coattails of Wrong Turn and The Hills Have Eyes remakes — except without the budget, marketing, or competence.
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