Even if you make a crappy movie, you've still made a movie. It's on IMDb and good for you. It took a lot of effort to get your friends together. You have good friends.
Frequently, though, you make an un-ironic version of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace with craptacular dialog like
Male victim: WHAT DO YOU WAAAAANT!? WHAT. DO. YOU. WAAAAAAAAANt Female victim: What does he want?
Or procedural claptrap like:
Detective: This is our only lead. I'm gonna need you to find out who this guy is, where he works and who he knows. Other Detective: I've already done it, sir.
It's a game of tell not show where the script writer grinds the momentum to a halt by writing useless lines like "Meet me on the third floor of the parking garage." Because...why?
There's a nice bit at the end explaining the reason behind the killings which gets squandered and blown to shite by...
*****SPOILER******
No ending whatsoever. None. Zip. Zero. Zilch. The entire movie is a set up for a sequel. Seriously. The killer ambles to his car and drives off. Cut to the police detective telling his force that more people will die if he's not caught. The end. Roll credits.
I'm all for breaking rules to do interesting things but this had no pretensions to be anything other than a genre horror picture. As such, your omnipotent, supposed-to-be-dead killer get the shite kicked out of him and appears to be dead. Then and ONLY then does he get to drive away. Otherwise you are cheating your viewers and/or whoring your next craptacular.
Frequently, though, you make an un-ironic version of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace with craptacular dialog like
Male victim: WHAT DO YOU WAAAAANT!? WHAT. DO. YOU. WAAAAAAAAANt Female victim: What does he want?
Or procedural claptrap like:
Detective: This is our only lead. I'm gonna need you to find out who this guy is, where he works and who he knows. Other Detective: I've already done it, sir.
It's a game of tell not show where the script writer grinds the momentum to a halt by writing useless lines like "Meet me on the third floor of the parking garage." Because...why?
There's a nice bit at the end explaining the reason behind the killings which gets squandered and blown to shite by...
*****SPOILER******
No ending whatsoever. None. Zip. Zero. Zilch. The entire movie is a set up for a sequel. Seriously. The killer ambles to his car and drives off. Cut to the police detective telling his force that more people will die if he's not caught. The end. Roll credits.
I'm all for breaking rules to do interesting things but this had no pretensions to be anything other than a genre horror picture. As such, your omnipotent, supposed-to-be-dead killer get the shite kicked out of him and appears to be dead. Then and ONLY then does he get to drive away. Otherwise you are cheating your viewers and/or whoring your next craptacular.