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(2008 Video)

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2/10
like a home movie and just as exciting
movieman_kev11 October 2008
The Cochwoods killer comes back to life after a guy jerks off in the woods (yea I know, right, don't ask). Anyways he goes about killing those who venture into the woods. Meanwhile friends Sam and Gino have to find a way to stop the monster in this supremely low budget horror-comedy with a pretty bad hit to miss joke ratio. This film is a sequel to the "evil Awakening" short film that Geno made when he was younger (conveniently located on the DVD as an extra) that wasn't really that good.This movie is a tad better though not but much. However even baby steps to honing your craft are steps in the right direction I guess. If you don't enjoy low low budget movies (for instance, I could find the budget for this one in between my couch cushions) then stay far away from this one, but if you're (MUCH) more adventurous and a tad undiscerning then give this one a go but even then don't expect too much as a lot of it is like watching a home movie.

My Grade: D

DVD Extras: Commentary by writer/director Geno McGahee, co-director Jeremy Weiskotten, & actor Steven Adams; Bitchslicer performing the movie's theme song; 1996's Evil Awakening short; trailer for the movie; and teaser trailer for "Rise of the Scarecrows"
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1/10
Worst-of-the-worst shot-on-video horror
Leofwine_draca23 March 2017
Warning: Spoilers
EVIL AWAKENING is a really terrible shot-on-video horror film made in 2008. You should know the routine already with this genre: it's cheap, nasty-looking, badly acted and dumbly plotted, particularly dumb in this film's instance. The setting is one 'Cock Woods' (no, I'm not making this up), in which an act of masturbation (yes, seriously) causes an evil spirit to rise from the grave to wreak havoc on the living.

This truly is execrable material, consisting of nothing more than a bunch of idiots getting themselves killed one by one in wholly derivative scenes. The monster is a guy in a lame mask, ketchup is liberally splattered around, but the only time you'll be cringing is from the wooden acting.
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