Tracie is driving along the countryside on her way to meet up with her rock and roll wannabe law student boyfriend when she is mysteriously warped back in time 40 years. She wanders onto a farm where she witnesses a man behead someone. After she is chased off the property she finds herself back in modern time. Upon further research she learns that the wrong man was executed for the crime. Her and her boyfriend travel back to the farm to find out just what happened all those years ago.
Frenchman's Farm starts out promising with a decent decapitation and chase sequence. Then the two lead actors are expected to carry the rest of the film to it's climax. They're quite dull. Hell, the whole story is dull. The only thing attention grabbing about the protagonists is their wardrobe. The plot trudges along at a snails pace while these two boring kids just ask around about the farm. It's really a chore to sit through.
The story lacks any sort of consistency. One minute people are traveling through time, the next they seemingly don't even care about the experience. For all the researching and exploring done in this movie they forget to explain one major plot point. How and why did this happen? You'll never know. Sure there is a ghost running around the farm. But time travel? It happens once and then it's done. No need to explain the cause, I guess.
The cover for Frenchman's Farm makes it out to be some generic slasher movie. It probably would have been better off if it was. It's not totally without merit though. The ghost killer is actually creepy looking and the twist ending is alright. But is any of this worth an hour and 10 minutes of yawn inducing characters asking about a murder that happened 40 years ago? Not really.
Body Count:1...maybe 2?
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