Kolobos (1999)

I have actually not watched this since 2000. Quigley fans should not get too excited. Her career showing nudity was winding down after she did a shower in Jack-O. Her role here is as support for the struggling Kyra, joining a house involving others lodging together for a type of reality show that soon falls violently apart as the rooms are weaponized with saws triggered to slice open the spirited (very enthusiastic) Tina (Promise Lamarco), or the shower burns the face of pretentious Gary (Fairlie), who loves to talk and hear himself speak, with lots of anecdotes gibberish he thinks will provide insight others consider wise while nodding in agreement. Kyra (Weber) has delusions (including that of a killer peeling his face off on television, goes to attack her with that razor, or feels across her face while encouraging her to cut on her own face or continue gathering up more folks to "freeload" before dying horribly) and body cutting issues, putting a lot of that mental deterioration on sketch as a type of healing process. 

I can see this film really being off-putting to sympathetic folks who consider those combating mental health not something that should be exploited in horror. Such as Kyra seeing guts talking on the seat of a rocking chair (actually rocking excitedly), walking phantoms without a face, made fun of by those in attendance as wacko including pointedly targeting her medicinal help to curb the demons of her mind, or fending off a psycho manufactured by her delusions. Kyra seems happiest before arriving at the house, having left Quigley's "safehouse" for those looking to rehab their broken minds in the hopes of acclimating themselves into society. Too bad Kyra is unable to escape her fractured psyche, slides on the black gloves (her killer is kept off screen, going the giallo route by showing hands doing damage to victims close up), and kills in savage fashion...includes pressing pornographic actress, Erica (Pelerine) eyeball-first into a pointy antler of a deer's rack on a wall and smashing Gary's face/mouth into the corner of a cabinet top.

Face cutting is added, a subplot including an injured party hit by a car in a hospital recovering from wounds inflicted mainly by self mutilation and the vehicle damage, and Kyra listening to a doctor tell her that what she experienced throughout the movie was all in her head. That includes a body wrapped in cellophane stuck to the ceiling bleeding on Erica, a male chauvinist comic, Tom (Terranova), with his face all cut up, and a severed "disco head". 

That 90s frequency was turned up for me to a decent entertainment notch, even if the story wasn't all that tactile or the performances / characters all that interesting. Some of the 90s era direct-to-video gore is a lot of fun if you embrace that sort of chintzy charm that comes with low production practical effects. 

It was cool seeing this on Shudder. I wish Quigley was in it more. But she was just cute and adorable as always. It is also mercifully short. So we don't have to spend a whole lot of time with the characters. There is a reason the cast has faces we aren't familiar with. But that was late 90s and early 2000s low budget horror in a nutshell.