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Overrated and overhyped

The acting in this movie is really good.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

I love to watch horror movies. I watch them if they are bad or good, usually even the worst movies have something to redeem themselves. That is not the case with this movie. When watching it I kept wondering if this was a group of university students that got together and did this as their end of year project. Here are some of the points I had issue with.Plot: I am not sure there was much of one. Had they gone with the biker gang or the killers they might of had something going but this was just a jumbled mess. No idea where the actors were going or what they were doing there. No idea who the killers were. No idea what the story behind Boot Heel New Mexico was. Characters: No back story to any characters in the movie at all. The little back story they did give doesn't make sense. One had fought in a war and said that "Charlie" had been to a village. That got me to wondering if this was supposed to have taken place in the 70s but the cloths and hair don't look like it to. No idea who the good guys or bad guys were.Acting: Wooden would be the best way to describe the acting. It felt like they were reading from a prompt off screen. The biker leader I think was supposed to be scary but he did not come across that way. The best acting were the "killers" because they had no lines and you couldn't see their faces.intangibles: Most B movies throw in lots of gore or nudity to make up for other things that are lacking. This movie had little gore and no nudity. Sometimes a show is funny or for some reason or another makes you feel like your time wasn't wasted. This has none of that.

I appreciate this type of film for it's simplicity. The actors are a bit green, the editing could have been tightened-up, the scoring could have intensified certain scenes and I might have enjoyed a bit more expansion or backstory on the masked ones. It had elements not too far removed from TCM and Hills/Eyes, but the suspense was a bit subdued and the antihero iconography couldn't seem to find it's footing. Nonetheless, nothing really pulled me out of the story and I enjoyed it for what it is - a novice indie road thriller that managed to tell it's tale without Hollywood money or big-name actors. So, for me, this film didn't suck at all, and unlike other reviews, I don't hold it up to any expectations. I know what it takes to get a film made and even tougher to get some kind of distribution - theatrical or not - so, hat's off to the filmmakers for a decent ride. Keep rockin'!

To start, if I could give it a zero, I would.Absolutely terrible acting (yellow shirt and bad wig in particular, if you've already seen it) almost no plot to speak of, and heavy reliance on creepy masks in order to justify it as a "horror" movie, with no other actual horror or suspense to speak of.Anyone who actually recommends this movie either played a hand in making it, is in denial, or possibly so extremely sheltered that this is the ONLY movie they have ever seen, and thus have nothing to compare it to.If possible, I'd give it .000001 stars, because the only thing remotely scary about it is how terrible the acting and plot was.

If your guilty pleasure is a dark night with a horror movie; you may be tempted to pick up "Eaters" by Johnny Tabor. There are not many people who have even heard this title by name. The image depicted on the cover of the movie "Eaters" tantalizes a horror junkie with a creepy scarecrow-like figure. This figure has human-like features covered by a tattered potato sack with large "X"s sewn into the eyes. Sounds interesting enough, Right? This review will look at the facts as I examine this low-budget horror film. This film is an amazing example of a poorly attempted horror flick. The plot was quite unclear. To any low-budget horror fans; you may want to watch the movie before you continue, in order to avoid the spoilers. The beginning of the movie leads you to feel like you are in a House of Wax-esque segment. This feeling lingers throughout the film and leads to a pile-up of questions that go unanswered. You find yourself in the cab of a car with five young adults on a road trip through New Mexico. Barren wasteland is the apparent setting. Driving on a never-ending stretch of two-lane road, they come to an eerie abandoned rest stop. They come face to face with a motorcycle gang. When one of the girls in the group goes missing, her arrogant hot-headed boyfriend is quick to point the finger at the gang of ruffians that were at the rest stop with them. After a brush with death in confronting the bikers, they continue driving and find themselves in need of gas. They all see an old wooden sign with chipped paint indicating down the road is food and gas. They head down the dirt road and decide to follow it to a town that they discovered was deserted. They find themselves without their hot- headed friend as he wanders off into a barn. The other three friends then realize they had been followed by two men from the biker gang, so they hide in fear. The bikers see a child with the same type of eerie sack over it's face. They begin to bully the child as the three friends watch (what we would assume to be the child's father) a large man with a giant wooden mallet defend the child. He knocks out one of the gang members and smashes the other's head like a watermelon with the over-sized mallet. This is where the killing starts. One of the friends died of blood loss from having his tongue cut out by the mysterious man in a sack who had killed the gang member. Another dies at the hands of the leader of the biker gang after traveling by foot along the road to get away from the death- filled-farm-town. The two survivors meet back up and continue traveling down the road until they come to another town. This town is filled with more of the people in sacks that killed their friends. The murderous leader from the last town has followed them and traps one of them as he stays behind to let the last friend survive. She travels as far as she can and passes out. The last scene of the movie shows her being picked up by a stranger that, thankfully, does not have a sack over his head with those haunting black stitches. They ride off into the distance in his truck and the credits populate. The movie itself was heavily flawed. Many unanswered questions that only lead to more questions. So many loose ends and missing information throughout the movie. Most movies, especially horror, are slow to begin. The ending was atrocious. The antagonists were never brought to justice, and yet there was no such cliff-hanger to imply a sequel to gain the necessary information to answer the many questions left before us. I doubt a sequel would be worth the time to see. This was an extreme let-down. When the movie is at its very best it's somewhat entertaining. So much time was wasted to get the story to an entertaining pace. Then there were the small bursts of interesting information that would lead right back into a slow time- wasting segment. I wouldn't suggest this movie. Overall the story was much more appealing in description, but if you like low-budget horrors you just might like it.