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Posted By: draculaghost at 7:33pm, August 23, 2008
Cheesy horror flick and I do mean cheeeesy! Bad actors doin' what they do best. I guess it's worth a rental if you're desperate, but don't forget to return it. It's not worth a late fee.
After watching horror movies for the last 40 years and commenting on other sites about them, I'm going to break my cherry and actually write a review on one. I picked Side Sho to review because it's a classic example of what's wrong with the majority of horror flicks coming out these days, mediocrity.
If a horror film is going to grab my attention it has to have a hook of some type that makes me want to care enough about it to see it more than once and tell my family and friends about it. A hook can be great gore, great dialogue, great characters, and the ability to make me turn my head away from the screen or simply be a very well told story that makes you care about how it ends. A film doesn't need all the above factors to be enjoyable but give me a minimum of three at least.
Side Sho had the subject matter that could have been delivered so much better that it pissed me off that they failed so miserably. The only redeeming part of this movie was when it ended. The inbreds didn't look inbred, the lady in the bed was thrown in for what exactly, the dialogue was inane and what in the world was the reason for the breast shot except that you could entice viewers with the brief nudity warning on the DVD box?
When the same type of premise is used over and over again in today’s horror films you need to come up with something much better than Side Sho to entertain the audience.
My rating 3/10
Billy C.
Posted By: americangods at 10:05am, August 15, 2008
Shot in high-def at 60fps, it looks like something from the sci-fi channel. The effects are lame (the most believable of which is a wig one of the actresses wears), for most of the actors its their first movie and it shows. When the best thing, heck, the only good thing about a movie is the boobs on a woman's body double you know you're in trouble. Coming off of a PG horror movie (??) the director wanted to try his hand at an R-rated (and by R-rated, I don't mean explicit violence, I mean female nudity for about two minutes). So we have a man, his wife, his daughter and son on a road trip, with their daughter's best friend. They stop at a side show because the dad is a photographer (we're reminded of this constantly during the drive there) and wants to take pictures of the no-budget side show (which is comprised of a shed with props from a Party City costume store), in the meantime the son meets up with a deformed youngster who is used as a plot device later in the film. They leave and later hold up in a shack where the three women are kidnapped, and in the case of the wife, stripped while the side show barker oggles and gropes her (because she distracted him from her daughter's buxum best friend). The father and son go around killing those responsible, at one point the deformed youngster saves them, only to also die. One by one they're killed, the women escaping, all but one survives and the movie ends. It feels almost as if the writers went out of their way to avoid doing anything original here. There's so many cut away shots, because the budget couldn't afford to show people being shot, so we often cut to fake blood hitting a wall and a body slumping onto the ground. The makeup effects on the freaks is comprised of cheap face putty stuck to half of their faces. The acting is either characters acting disinterested or overacting to seem scared or angry. The whole film feels like it was shot during one weekend with several people who had pooled their money together to buy their first camcorder.
No No No, even Tex Massacre was somehow grasped by this piece. The worst casting job I have ever seen. As far as the movie is concerened... not much better.
Posted By: thedescent08 at 9:50pm, August 10, 2008
