Five friends -- Nella (Lorena King), Cristina (Vivi Pineda), Diego (Eddy Acosta), Francisco (Alex Livinalli), and Marco (Fernando Vieira) -- are on their way to a Menudo concert (I'm not making that up) when they develop car trouble. They stop at a garage in a small town, but they are told that it will take a day to fix it. They can either sleep in the garage or walk ten miles to a motel. A local woman named Maria (Cecilia Huete) offers to let the group stay with her. They jump at the chance and accept her hospitality. Once at Maria's, the friends enjoy a cook-out, but things get dark when Maria shares a local legend of a boy who was caged like an animal and a masked killer which roams the local woods. Soon, the friends are attacked one-by-one by that same killer.

This may imply that Beware is a retro or nostalgia piece, but that isn't the case -- it's all played fairly straight. But, let's look at the problem here. When looking at movies from the 80s, Beware most closely resembles Friday the 13th, Part 3. And when I say closely resembles, I mean almost exactly like. Friday the 13th, Part 3 isn't a very good movie, but it works because it's a continuation of Jason's saga, and it introduced the world to the hockey mask. Having seen Friday the 13th, Part 2, we don't need an introduction to Jason and the movie can just run with its shenanigans. We come into Beware with no prior knowledge, but that doesn't stop it from just going on and on, giving us little info. Nothing happens for the longest time, and then suddenly a killer in a cheap executioners mask appears and starts to kill people. The movie then decides to come to a screeching halt to explain what is happening...sort of. I can't say that I've ever seen a movie which blends a paternity issue with child abuse with a masked murderer, but hey, I'm all for trying something new. The movie is a caustic mixture of no story and too much plot, mixed with scene after scene which have no point.

I truly have no issue with straight-ahead slasher movies, but Beware is scraping the bottom of the barrel. The movie's biggest mistake (and that's a big decision to make) is that all of the characters are insufferable jerks. Seriously, the killer couldn't get their fast enough, and I couldn't help but wonder why Daly thought that we'd be even remotely interested in these people. Static scenes, characters who come and go at random, lousy gore, and a head-scratcher of a story result in a movie which have you wearing out your fast-forward button. Beware indeed.

Beware insists on showing us a knock-off of Guitar Hero when it adds nothing to the story on DVD courtesy of Maya Entertainment. The film has been letterboxed at 1.78:1 and the transfer has been enhanced for 16 x 9 TVs. The image is somewhat sharp and clear, showing no defects from the source material. There is a sheen of grain on the image in some scenes. The image is somewhat dark at times, and the action is muddy in these scenes. The colors are OK, but they are washed out. The image is decidedly flat looking. The DVD carries a Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track which provides clear dialogue and sound effects. The stereo effects are pretty good, showing good separation. There are distinct sounds found the in left and right channels, and sounds off-screen are represented. However, I didn't hear anything from the surround channels, not was there any subwoofer action.

The Beware DVD contains two extras. "Behind the Scenes" (12 minutes) has Director Jason Daly stating the he "wanted to make a Friday the 13th-type movie". Well, you succeeded at that sir. This piece consists of clips from the movie combined interviews with Daly and the cast who talk about their characters and the story. We then get a look at the stunts and the make-up effects. This leads to a discussion of what things were like on the set. The other extra is the TRAILER for the film.