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Best movie of this year hands down!

Absolutely the worst movie.

A lot of fun.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

I wondered how I had missed an effort by the usually brilliant Ti West for over a decade, especially since the intro, so humorously filled with spooky old Hollywood themes (including a tombstone in a 19th century graveyard that without a trace of subtlety says YOU lol) seemed like a promising horror comedy... It has all the tropes, including a distinct modernized Night of the Living Dead feel, which will appeal to those of us who have seen too many horror films, and a truly eerie soundtrack which reminded me of NASA Sounds of the Planets on YouTube. ..but for all of this somehow the film drags and you just don't care about any of the bitchy, whiny 20- something main characters at all. Fun background flick for Halloween season or a one time necessary viewing for die hard horror fans, but as a stand-alone film it seriously falls flat. Everything else I've seen of his is so good I wonder if this was his college film class project.

Do you like killer bats and undead corpses and a bit of tense horror? Those who hate- let them hate! Ti West's debut feature The Roost just arrived on DVD in the mail today, and of course I immediately popped it in for a watch. I expected it to be decent, a satisfactory low-budget horror, but it turned out to be a really great homage to 80s horror flicks.The effects were well done, in my opinion. West avoids lingering too long on certain things, so as to not draw any ire for things looking cheesy. Especially when we get one or two little gory bits, it looks really good; the practical effects added more old school feel to the film. West always relies on atmosphere for his films, which is evident when you look at his later works like The House of the Devil and The Innkeepers specifically, and here he doesn't disappoint either. The look of actually filming with film instead of digitally really pays off here, and if you didn't know better, in a few scenes you could actually mistake this for something filmed 30 years ago- and not in any bad way either.I think the acting, dialogue, the gore, the scares, the chilling score, that throwback 80s look- it all makes for a wonderful little horror film. Ti West is one of my favourites. I anxiously awaited the arrival of my DVD, having never ever seen the film before, and it has not disappointed. I'm currently watching the Special Features, right now it's The Making of The Roost, which has some great little bits with Larry Fessenden, and shows off some of the practical and digital effects the film uses. Highly recommended, and I give this an 8 out of 10 stars. I wish there were more efforts like this coming out these days; it's great to catch them when they do.P.S Tom Noonan and his segments, the horror show framing device, plus his ending = wonderful!

I am a sucker for zombies, but this one definitely needed more.The whole film took place on a deserted road and in a barn. A roost of bats turned people into zombies. That's it. No explanations. Just people getting turned into zombies.This could have been a 10 minute YouTube video and it might have been interesting, but stretched to 80 minutes, it just didn't have anything to recommend it.The music was good, and it did have a creepy atmosphere, but like most low budget productions, the lighting was terrible.Try something else.

I really wanted to love this moody and minimalist zombified-by-bat-bites flick, but it was unbelievably slow-paced. It has a brooding and creepy atmosphere, but nothing occurs in the first 40 minutes except bickering amongst young folk. I appreciated that the main story went for horror and not comedy, unlike most contemporary zombie features, but that goes out the window with the fact that the movie is introduced (and interrupted) by some silly fake TV horror host. That part of the film comes across as filler, which is unfortunate in a film that already moves way to slow and has a lack of action, dialogue, etc. If 30 minutes were edited, this could make a sweet short film or TV episode.