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As Good As It Gets

Admirable film.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

If you're looking for an action and gory movie in which the main character fight back with cool and tactical action (like You're Next or I Spit on Your Grave), this is definitely not the one for you. This is a thriller movie with mild touch on the action and goriness. The main character is not quite a fighter, I think she is just lucky. The hide and seek scenes are quite exciting, but too bad, it lingers for too long. For those of you who pay extra attention on the lines and the acting, this movie would be a waste of your time. But somehow the twist at the end (watch out, there are several twists!) prevent me to rate this movie below five. With this ending, it definitely opens for a sequel, for which I request: please upgrade the quality.I'd say, watch this movie only if you run out of full-action movies.

What Berkshire County offers is a film which goes against the tropes of the genre while also embracing them. Sure it obviously borrows from seminal slasher flicks (as most do), but it gives us a fresh go at it. The film's central theme is about standing up for oneself. Kylie is essentially a victim of sexual assault who cannot find support at home and she's become the joke of the week at school. When she babysits on Halloween night and masked killers invade the house, we see Kylie undergo significant changes as she learns many life lessons through the experience, such as discovering the will to live, not merely survive, and the will to stand up for herself against those who threaten her. Berkshire County is one of the only slasher films I've seen where the deaths are perfunctory. While I won't say who dies, it doesn't really matter who dies, because the only purpose several characters have in the movie is to die because people need to die in a slasher flick, right?Instead of running around scared, Kylie does things most characters in these roles don't do; when two killers have her pinned upstairs, she distracts them and quietly climbs down a balcony, instead of hiding in a closet. That fact that Kylie rarely is physically involved with the killers is a testament to the unique approach this film took by making it a cat and mouse game that is tense and well made, and this film, from the sets, to the costumes and masks, to the camera-work and lighting, is a very well-made movie by director Aubrey Cummings, something it seems people who reviewed this film can't appreciate. The ending twist or cliffhanger or whatever you wish to call it is unfortunate sequel bait, but it's so common these days you'd have to be an idiot to let a minute and a bit of film taint everything that came before it. In the end, Berkshire County is a rare slasher film that doesn't glorify brutal violence, rewards intelligence, has something to say, and features a relatable, female lead who's given the chance to grow.

Mixed emotions about this flick. Why, because the story is so strange. let me explain. It starts of with the main lead Kylie (Alysa King) being abused by a guy. She has to give him a blow job which she finally does but is being filmed. Of course , being underaged, the whole school is laughing with her and she's being bullied about it by her friends naturally. Going home her mother tells her that the thing she performed will follow her for her entire life. It's halloween night and she going to babysit. Yes, you do read it correct, from the school we do move over to the babysitting without ever returning to what happened at the party. So it's in fact two stories being used in one flick.The babysitting does take a while until the door bell goes and things go awry. From there on it turns from mediocre into a home-invasion flick. A bit of cat and mouse and a bit of stabbing with a twist towards the end.Was it that bad, not at all, a bit strange with the first 15 minutes but from then on it slowly moves into a real horror.Gore 1/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Effects 2/5 Story 2,5/5 Comedy 0/5

Boo, boo, boo, all the way through.'Berkshire County' is your typical home invasion, babysitter nonsense. The first few moments of the film makes sure we never care about the possible victim. Making her out to be your typical mindless high school sleaze. That role is played by Alysa King, who is supposed to a high school student, but looks to be in her mid to late twenties. That's usually how these films go about casting, though, since finding a younger actress who can't act, isn't nearly as easy as finding an older actress who can't act. I guess? One of my favorite lines in the film, is toward the end, when our damsel in distress threatens 'Marcus' to report his video as distributing pornography of a minor... Fairly empty threat from a woman who looks like she was around for the release of Duran Duran's 'Hungry Like The Wolf' hit single.The film is a copy of many previous invasion films, such as 'The Strangers,' and 'You're Next,' but reminds me mostly of 'When a Stranger Calls 2006.' The reasons will be obvious while you're viewing the film. Since the film is called 'Berkshire County,' an obvious breeding ground for hillbillies, you can forget about any originality from the killers. They'll be sporting the usual pig masks, because, well, that's what all hillbillies do, right? Luckily, our sleazy victim manages to get through to the local police, where they then dispatch their finest two officers. One looks younger than the 40 year old actress playing the lead role - and the other looks like a night watchman at your local museum. You can imagine how this ends, right?Random Ramblings of a Madman: I've always been curious, how do hillbillies make pig sounds as well as they do? I try and try, but I can't seem to get enough bass in my voice. It just seems so easy for them.