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Posted By: bdwolfe312 at 11:44pm, November 25, 2008
This movie was pretty stupid, to be completely honest, but it was reminiscent of some of the schlocky gems that came out in the late 70's/early 80's...the bad English dub only furthered that. The plot and climax, however, were downright ridiculous. Some good gore towards the end if nothing else.
I usually cut low-budget movies a little slack because of the limitations they have to work around, but this film just flat-out sucked. A complete failure in every way.
Personally I am not one to give a positive review to poorly acted films. In this case though, despite the campy acting by the three douche bags, I had a really good time by the end of this film. At the beginning I was a little hesitant to relax into this, but as the gore starts flowing, and we are introduced to the family, I think things really started happening in the films favor. Heavily influenced by 70's Italian giallo films. Dario Argento's unique color choices for his film sets where even utilized in an overt manner. Good homages, good gore, and a pretty intense twist, bad acting, but this is horror, and I can say it didn't bother me to bad in this case. Give it your own try and you might feel the same way.
This movie had some gore going for it but after that the two retards were just plain stupid with their ten cent makeup. The dubbing was terrible, and the story was just stupid. How this got 8 out of 10 from BD i will never understand. This was close to a waste of 90 minutes of my life.
I understand this is supposed to be a cheesy, gory throwback kind of movie. But no matter how much I tried the AWFUL, AWFUL acting made me cringe and made it almost unwatchable. The only redeeming quality was that this movie was definitely not afraid to show some gore and push some boundaries.
I liked this movie. It was dark, gory, and fun. It's hard to do anything original with the "hillbilly freak" concept, but I think this film succeeds. And even with all the death and destruction, you can't help but smile at the ending. I would recommend this film.
this movie takes all the usual regurgitated cliches and executes them poorly. the only way that this film has atmosphere is if you try really hard to convince yourself of it. in all reality it suffers from the lack of using lighting on the production, mainly natural light was used. the acting was mediocre for some characters, but mainly bad. this movie had my attention for small minute time frames then quickly sent me rocketing out of it with its lack of character and lack of story. overall this came out as a mess.
if you enjoy those old italian hack & slashers like deep red hatchet murders, you may like this one too. i reminded me heavily of argento, tons of atmosphere, gruesome killings & strange families. despite all the bad reviews, i think it's worth a watch. yeah, some scenes are hard to get thru, plodding along, but the film on a whole is pretty good fare.
A rehash of the Weird Family movies of the 70's is what you get here. Nothing new, nothing done very well. The look of the film is a throw back to the era, but the effects and acting are pretty bad (especially the 3 thugs and the 2 hillbilly retards). Plot isn't bad, but spirals into ridiculous at the end. The hillbilly retards don't really fit in at all and their makeup effects are awful. The cannibal kid is really never defined and the final denouement effects are something I did in my garage haunted house as a kid(and I think mine actually looked better). Only watch to say that you gave it a shot....(No Nudity, just allusions to it. Bloody violence never truly shown)
Posted By: Protecious at 11:44pm, October 15, 2008
pretty much kills this subgenre that was a fun ride for a while but grew tired after wrong turn 2, timber falls and many other "inbred looking
family of killers in the woods" films. i know alot of people have praised this movie and loved it for being a throwback to 70s style horror films, but not all throwbacks (in my opinion) are done very well.
annoying characters that had no charisma or entertaining features except for the main villian guy,
it feels like an unsatisfying journey of a dark depressing film that takes itself a bit too serious when some moments could have been more humorous than just serious and gory, i am open minded to all horror films, but this movie is pretty much what FRONTIERS could have been THANK GOD it wasnt and that film was a great film
Frontiers had
visual style, good direction, great villians and characters, suspense, mystery and very good terror and horror, and because of the wonderful qualities of that film you can be serious and dark and also be good at the same time.
this is the bastard cousin of frontiers, and that isnt a good thing because frontiers' plot wasnt very original
but the way they executed it shows that you can still use some tired formulas but do something original with it,
this film does nothing original. and seems to me a basic film in the vein of wrong turn, hills have eyes, timber falls, and so on, it's the same as vampire films and zombie films the forumula's are all overkilled but in order to stand out it really has to be great and impressive, in which this case, i dont feel impressed or entertained or interested in anything about this movie
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