Terror Tuesday: The Bone Garden (2016)

Although this isn't a slasher movie, it does reunite Tracie Savage and Paul Kratka from Friday the 13th: Part 3 as a married couple at the end of their marriage, while paying tribute to a few classic movies.

With a flat tire caused by some nails in the road, an elderly woman (Susan Allenback) is on the phone and tells her grandchild that she's running a little late due to the flat. She knows how to change a tire and just as she's finished is confronted by the killer via the Friday the 13th close up shot.

The next day, housewife Alice Hardy (Savage) is sitting outside with her dog Jason, as her new neighbors Sam and Pamela Myers (Steve Bauer and Marianne Wittlesberger) are moving into the house next door. Her best friend Laurie Lynn Curtis (Tammy Kaitz) pulls up in her new car following her divorce and Alice tells Laurie that the couple have been fighting for days.

Laurie suggests that they go out for drinks to celebrate her divorce, but Alice would rather stay home and make dinner for her husband Norman (Kratka). However, she changes her mind when he tells her that he has to go back to school since he forgot his briefcase.

The ladies head off to Christie's Bar and Alice awkwardly acknowledges Norman's co-worker Ben Tramer (Terry McConnaughey) while the free-spirited Laurie picks up two college guys (Sam Lukowski and Johnny Benson). Alice looks out the window and sees Norman's car as he drives off.

She excuses herself by telling the table that she needs to go to the ladies' room and Laurie tags along, as Alice gives her the slip and walks home.

In the middle of the night, Jason wakes Alice up to go outside and she sees Sam carrying what looks like a body to his car and then she sees him watching her from his window.

Chilled by this, she gets Jason into the house and tries to forget about it until the next day when down at the lake she sees him dump it into the lake.

As she turns to leave, she's startled by new guy in town Bill (Donn Hutchins) and she's intrigued how he just picked up and moved to a new town, leaving his past behind.

Within days she starts an affair with him and Norman notices that the shirt she's wearing isn't his, as does Laurie when she comes over.

Detective Meeker (Ron Millkie) becomes interested in Alice as she's evasive to his questions and whenever he comes to the house, she always answers the door with a knife in her hand.

After a trip down to the lake, Alice comes home to find police outside the Myers' house as bodies are being taken out and Pamela is still missing along with Sam.

Norman doesn't like this "new" Alice and moves into his office. Ben notices this and offers him a place to stay, but he refuses since the two really aren't friends.

Hoping to run into Bill down at the lake, Alice finds Norman's muddy car and wonders why he was down there and later he tells her that he went to think before taking her home and making dinner for her, before all hell breaks out.

For a low budget movie, this was a pretty good little thriller, and the ending leaves you with that "whoa" face. It seemed pretty predictable and when that ending rolls around, you'll be thrown off. The actual ending happens during the end credits.

I enjoyed the mash up of both Halloween and Friday the 13th (along with Psycho and Children of the Corn) but there really isn't that much suspense in the movie. It is more of a mystery.

There were times when I thought that there were some missed opportunities as far as the writing but nevertheless, it was good to see Savage and Kratka reunited.