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Aunt Rose, everyone's sweet old aunt that is just a bit mysterious and creepy. Sick and bedridden, poor Aunt Rose appears to be on her deathbed, waiting for the reaper to come and take her away. But this poor old lady has secrets that no one can explain, not even the writer or director or the plot for that matter. She's got powers. She can bring the dead back to life, but it takes away a part of her life when she does it. She can even disappear at will (that was never explained either).

Anyway, a trio of "wanna be" thugs (boyfriend, girlfriend, mutual friend) need a place to hide out for a crime they committed. Well, it just so happens they choose the wrong house. No one messes with Aunt Rose's family. So while this trio of thugs invade the home and take over, weird things begin to happen. Family members are killed and then brought back to life by sweet, creepy old Aunt Rose to get revenge on the thugs. One by one they all eventually pay the highest price for their deeds.

I had fun with this film. I love B-Horror movies, and this is just that. Take it for what it's worth and nothing more. Is it cheesy? Yes, but so are most B-Horror films. If you're looking for a good cheesy horror movie with some laughs, then look no further than Aunt Rose.

This movie is very low-budget, and whoever said that the naked chick's breast were a turnoff is either a gay male or a female. The scene in which the two twisted lovers cut the girl's breast implants out is one of my favorites. Besides the nudity, the plot was really good: a band of murderers hide out in the house of a family that they take hostage, but they wind up being terrorized by an old woman who can't get out of bed. There is a shocking ending, which answers the question of why there is always footsteps coming from upstairs when the old lady cant walk. I recommend this movie to anyone who pays more attention to plot than special affects. The movie does appear to have been shot with a hand held camcorder, but it's worth seeing.

"Aunt Rose" is a twisted and offbeat little low-budget horror flick that centers around a group of three violent murderers - Johnny, his girlfriend Robin, and Stewie, who plan on breaking into a house to hold up for a few days. The family in the house consists of a mother, father, and their teenage daughter with an attitude problem. One night their daughter invites her supposed boyfriend over to dinner, who turns out to be a girl, thus revealing to her parents that she's a lesbian. Within a few minutes, the trio of killers invade the home and terror ensues. But what the thugs don't know is that the family's dear, bed-ridden aunt Rose is upstairs, and she seems to possess some sort of strange supernatural power...

I've rented plenty of these direct-to-video horror movies, enough to know that the majority of them are really terrible. For some, this one may be no exception, but I personally thought it was better than the latter. Star Joshua Nelson also wrote the script for the film, which has it's fair share of problems, but tries to be semi-original at the same time. Treading familiar ground that has been covered in films like Wes Craven's 1972 exploitation classic "The Last House On The Left", the story is given a supernatural bend to it with the addition of the Aunt Rose character, who seems to possess a power unknown to the family. It's an interesting premise, but when looked at as a whole, the movie really doesn't go anywhere.

Low-budget is written all over this little horror picture, made quite obvious by the lack of different camera angles, unknown actors, and the poor special effects. The music was also unfitting and didn't make any sense at all. As far as acting goes, I was surprised a bit. Don't get me wrong, the acting is a mess in many instances, but overall it wasn't really that bad, I'd expected a lot worse. The actors are far from being very good, but they gave decent performances for the type of movie that this is. As for the way the film tied things together, well... there really is no resolution. Aunt Rose is never fully explained, which is unfortunate because the film is all set around (and titled after) her. What exactly was her power? Why did it bring people back to life? None of it makes much sense, but I'm not sure if it was ever intended to.

Overall, "Aunt Rose" is a mildly entertaining and offbeat little low-budget horror movie, that is semi-reminiscent of those cheap '70s grind house films. It has so many problems that it would take forever to name each of them, but underneath all of it, I felt like there was a fair attempt at something good here. If you have a strong dislike towards B-grade, direct-to-video horror movies, than I'd advise you steer clear of this. But if you don't mind them, it isn't too unbearable to watch, and is likely better than most movies of this type that you'd find on video store shelves. 4/10.

I knew nothing about this movie when I watched it and thought the cover looked good; old scary lady, typical of a horror movie but oh well, I gave it a go. The opening scene set up a mood for a somewhat of a lame script, the main female character who had an attitude problem, and the movie being full of gore.

The main part of the movie that stuck with me was the breasts of Robin. Other than that fact, the movie was enjoyable if you watch it with buddies, so that you can say how lame the lines were or how bad the acting was.

Overall, the character development lacked entirely. Aunt Rose; who was she? Why was she like she was? Only until the end the whole blood out of her mouth came to life, making the dead father alive. If you accept it for what it was and don't question what or why something happened, you'll be doing better than I was. I always wondered why Aunt Rose could bring people back to life.. it made no sense at all.

I think the movie focused too much on the three bad guys too much, over looking any other characters; I don't care about some guy going into a pet shop to get "money for his wedding" nor about the stupid blonde stripper, or as she wanted to be called, exotic dancer.

There was no reason or direction behind aunt Rose, and her son at the end, that ugly masked looking guy, had no reason to be there. Again it left me with questions, why..what and how. The ending itself I was left very disappointed; we finally see what was making those dumb noises out the window and it only lasted for a few seconds! Over all, aside from the gore in the movie and one of the last scenes where Mr. Tough guy vomits out his guys after his "dark soul" has been taken by Aunt Rose, which was again a really undeveloped idea, the only memorable scenes was the two females kissing, the breasts everywhere and when the blonde exotic dancer finally shut up.

The characters in this movie I could not stand; again the blonde stripper who would never shut up..and she deserved what she got, Aunt Rose being overly freaky and trying too hard to sound like Darth Vader and the "tony" girl sounding like a robotic cross dresser.

Unless you switch your brain off, watch it like a droid and don't think too much into it, the movie would be okay at best. Other than that, I would try not to go near it and look for another movie which has less annoying characters, a better plot and a movie which has some form of logic in it.

As far as low budget independent horror movies go, this one is pretty good. Its clear a lot of love went into it, and its shortcomings all seem more due to financial constraints than any lack of talent (its limited locations, with nearly no establishing shots is amongst the easiest budget indicators). The characters (some acted much better than others) are all unique, and for once, not carbon copies of every other horror cast out there. Great dialogue ensues, and a great deal more character depth than most horror fare treats us too (those are good things, if you want mindless splatter, steer clear, this one actually has some depth to our pro and antagonists) While much of the movie is left in the dark (why are the psychos on this current run from the law, and why do they draw even more attention to themselves by killing friends and family along the escape route?, why is Aunt Rose a magical old hag, and why has no one ever stumbled on her monstrous son in their own home?) Long story short, great writing, decent (and sometimes great) acting, decent fx and bloodshed, couple pairs of really decent tits, and a lot more character driven story than the vast majority of DVD horror out there. The DVD itself is kinda dry, a dull behind the scenes feature with a few cute crew moments, and a few of the cut special effects, some deservedly deleted scenes, and nothing else. No trailers, no interviews, no commentary, but still definitely worth the rental.

I like this movie because it is for me. So dramatic and pitiful and realistic. This kind of movie I think is in nowadays style. People are loaded with their dreams but no one want to think about talking with a gun. This film is not cruel, this film is like melted drug - random themes all around. This film I think about zombie in stress. So many zombie as I never saw before. Bandits want to know how long they will be alive, victims want to know are they victims or not. So this movie is strangely. But sometimes I liked behavior of actors. Especially behavior of legs - actors run so fast - so I suppose they needed ( I don't know why ) to run at the place of movie making. I like it movie because it is just movie.