Paul Ragsdale’s CINCO DE MAYO deserves much better than to be lumped in with the increasing number of tributes to exploitation cinema that have been piling up since the release of 2007’s GRINDHOUSE. Certainly it revels in the cliches and tropes of 80s slasher cinema, and throws in the requisite fake grain and film damage for good measure,  but this is far from a retread of what genre fans have seen dozens of times before. Instead, Ragsdale has made the inspired choice to combine social drama with horror – as he puts it, to meld STAND AND DELIVER with FRIDAY
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