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After Effect (2012)
Surprisingly good
Good acting. Good story. Good amount of gore. One negative..the reason behind the study. Way over the top. Overly ambitious and unrealistic. Movies like this have been done before. They've been done much better. The Killing Room would be an example. I take (and rate/compare) this movie for what it is. Low budget horror with unknown actors (besides Baldwin) and a pretty cool script. The movie has some bumps. You will roll your eyes a couple times during the Baldwin scenes. Other than that, no real complaints. The ending was especially well done. It doesn't take the easy route like most. I find the low rating bizarre. All I watch are horror movies. I've seen it all. I've seen plenty that deserve a 3. This isn't one of them. 8/10 on a low budget horror scale 5.5/10 horror in general scale
The Bunnyman Massacre (2014)
Loved it
Watched Bunnyman and Bunnyman 2 (Bunnyman Massacre) tonight. I had always passed over the movies just based on the title. I imagined an extremely corny movie. It wasn't. It was surprisingly raw and brutal. There is no humor to it like the name might lead you to believe. It is a legit slasher. I see a lot of negative reviews. I have to assume most of them aren't hardcore horror fans nor do they watch many indie, low budget ones. And yes, 9/10 is an absurd grade for the movie but I compared it to indie horror and this is top notch in that category. Bottom line, if you're looking for a fun 90 minutes (or 180 if you wanna check out the first), I think you will dig it.
Bunnyman (2011)
Actually quite good..and yes I'm serious
I passed over this movie a bunch of times, mainly because the title "Bunnyman" just screamed bad. However, I finally watched it as I was running low on options. I watch a lot of horror. The movie is surprisingly good by horror standards. Not scary, just brutal and fun. I expected it to be corny based on the title alone. It was nothing like I expected. It borrows (or rips) from Texas Chainsaw. I'm fine with that. I don't get the negative reviews. It's no Halloween or Suspiria, granted. However, for an indie horror flick it is pretty good. The sequel is even better. Check it out if you enjoyed this (though it seems most of you didn't). P.S. I realize an 8/10 is a bit absurd but I'm rating it purely on an indie horror scale. If you're a horror fan, you know most indie films are awful. This is an exception.
Sam's Lake (2006)
Ignored the bad reviews, LOVED it.
If you're a huge horror fan like me, you know you run low on options sometimes. This site comes in handy when you come across an obscure one that you don't know anything about. Good way of saving time and avoiding the train-wrecks. Anyhow, I went against the overwhelmingly bad reviews. Something about friends doing road trips to secluded places..that campy experience..nothing supernatural involved...right up my alley. Figured what the hell, I'll give it 15 minutes. Long story short, I loved this damn movie. I loved the characters. For amateur actors, they did a hell of a job. And the twist...the twist got me. Horror movies are so cliché now, you can guess the twist long before it happens. I guess it's that I just didn't see any reason to suspect a twist. The movie was so straightforward. You can usually see them coming from a mile away. Not this time. If any of you have ever seen "Adam & Evil"..It has terrible reviews on here too but I loved it. Same general plot, not as good as this though. Bottom line: Obviously I'm in the minority, but I'm not an idiot. I've seen probably a thousand horror movies. I know garbage when I see it. That said, I loved this movie. Give it a shot if you come across it. Find it on the internet or at the bottom of a clearance rack DVD bin. You might be surprised. PS. I gave it a 10 just based on the principle. People throwing 1 star ratings at it is absurd. So count me in on the absurdity.
Wrong Turn 5 (2012)
Really good, surprisingly
Not sure why people are giving this movie such a hard time. I thought it was actually really good. When i say "really good", please understand that about 99% of the movies I watch are horror. I like all of the classics..Halloween, Suspiria, Rosemary's Baby, Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horrors (jk lol) F13th, and on and on..This isn't in that category obviously. Not even close. What it is, however, is a fun and brainless gore fest. Very cool kills, funny in a way. I was a huge fan of the original Wrong Turn and believe it or not, I actually enjoyed the 2nd one more (the one with Henry Rollins and the reality TV show thing..may have been the 3rd one, cant remember). The 4th one had an amazing setting and atmosphere with the snow and asylum yet somehow managed to be one of the worst horror movies I've ever seen. I saw the trailer for WT5 on youtube and it made this movie look awful. The director or whoever was responsible for the trailer is an idiot because most people will just dismiss the movie based on that. I'm glad I didn't though. Chalk it up to boredom and curiosity on a Thursday night. Bottom line: See the movie if you enjoyed the sequel with Henry Rollins, I apologize for not knowing if it was 2 or 3. Very similar with the cool kills and gross out humor. Accept it for what it is and enjoy.
Dead Man's Luck (2006)
Great idea, terrible movie
The reason I wrote this review is to give a heads up to people like me who check this website for a film and it's ratings/reviews to get an idea of whether or not it is any good. The plot of 'Ante' is very original and interesting. The writer delivered a very cool idea. The movie itself, however, is awful. You get a nice opening 20 minutes or so but the rest of the movie is absolutely terrible. It slowly becomes more and more ridiculous to the point you can no longer take it seriously. The closing scene caps off the absurdity. Cringe-worthy. Don't be fooled by the score. Ante is not worth viewing.
Last House on Hell Street (2002)
Watch this movie! Seriously
I saw Only Shack on Deserted Field about 7 or 8 years ago. I remember this movie because of the joke I played on my friends with it. Being as it was the worst movie experience of my life, I felt a strange sense of anger. I was bitter. I felt that I had been wronged, and I wanted others to feel my pain. I then burned 2 copies and gave them to 2 of my friends who love horror movies. I told them I had just come across an amazing horror movie. Their reaction goes without saying. Halloween holds the title of greatest film ever for me. Any horror movie I see I rank on a scale of Last House on Hell Street-Halloween. It's my own scale of 1-10 ranking, if you will. 8 years later and hundred of horror movies later, my scale remains intact. With that being said, I recommend this movie. Why? We see average and below average horror all the time. It passes the time and pretty much goes in one ear and out the other. I absolutely guarantee this movie will forever stick with you. After you see this, you will never utter the lines "worst movie I've ever seen" again. If you do, please pass the title along, I would love to see something that beats this.
The Outer Limits: The Refuge (1996)
By far the best episode
Love the blizzard scenery and mind puzzling plot. Not at all what you're expecting, as the twist catches you completely off guard. Deals with a man stuck in a blizzard wandering into a refuge as an outsider, with some very strange activity from the seemingly normal guests. Let me say this is not a bunch of aliens or anything weird like that. These are normal people dealing with very abnormal circumstances, circumstances they are completely unaware of. You will like this episode if you are less into the sci fi alien sort of episode dealing with space travel and spaceships or war. Much better. If you haven't seen this, please do check it out. This episode and "The Havem" (very similar titles, completely unrelated stories however) are the two best episodes there are.
Megan Is Missing (2011)
Great Movie
This is a great film. I seems weird, maybe insensitive, to say that but as a horror movie fan, I thought it was very good. Very creepy film, it gives you that 'sense of doom' feeling, knowing (because of the title) that Megan will be abducted at some point. I had no idea it would end the way it did, and I applaud the director for not backing off. This is a figurative slap in the face of the audience. A good slap. This is a REAL issue. These things DO happen. I'm a college student, far from a parent, but a parent telling their child not to do something usually falls on deaf ears. It's the "this can't happen to me" thing. I see people on this website saying they would never show this to their child as it is too disturbing. I'd say it is not quite as disturbing as your child being abducted because they are naive to the fact that the world is indeed a very ugly place at times. If it offends, shocks, disgusts, or lingers with you, or more importantly you child...it worked.
*One criticism- The director has described this as well meaning and a cautionary tale. I agree. HOWEVER, the problem is with the last 20 minutes. The footage on its own is great, it defines the film and the brutal reality of the internet world. It is, however, unnecessary to say the last 20 minutes are REAL footage. That is just silly and contradicts the director's stance (not to mention, anyone with a brain or over the age of 12 knows it is just a movie). This made the movie veer into Blair Witch territory. The movie would have been just fine presenting itself as simply a movie, nothing more (if the director wanted to just present a cautionary tale)..The idea to call the ending real footage makes me question the director's sincerity, bordering on exploitation and shock value. If you are one of the easily offended, THIS is the only thing that should offend you.