“Paintball Massacre” (*1/2 out of four) was a stultifying pile of horror cliches set in the English countryside in which a group of friends (Katy Brand, Lee Latchford-Evans, Robert Portal, and others) have a reunion on a paintball trip in the middle of nowhere when they are stalked and slashed one-by-one by a deadly masked killer and they realize they have to turn into survivalist mode to stay alive. Umpteenth story of a killer in the middle of the wilderness is routine and blah; film just stops, rather than ends, for anyone who even makes it that far. For the right way to make almost the same story, watch 2003’s “Wrong Turn” instead.

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