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The Worst Film Ever

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

This was a pretty scary and very decent horror movie! Director insists very much on John Carpenter Halloween style, but still the movie has its own rhythm which is soo creepy! I love the way that director plays with the camera - it is so tense! Done in the classic slasher style scenes are not made in modern explicit bloody ways full of fountain blood splashes. Still they are much more scary than any other Hollywood horror movie I have seen for a very long time. Once again, director goes too far with imitating good old John from time to time with Michael Myers image, music and even identical scenes from time to time. Still, I am nicely surprised by this movie and the reason I am posting a comment is because I believe that this flick is unfairly underrated.

Low-budget slasher movie plays like something out of the 1980s, although the modern, crisp camera-work betrays its more recent creation. Would-be bank robbers and their hostages end up on the run and right into the arms of a brutal killer holed up in an old, rural slaughterhouse. The film is played straight and is a bond fide "R" horror flick in an era of way too many PG-13 horror flicks. The gore is there, the scares are there, and no one cracks a joke, thank God. This is serious business. The filmmakers obviously know the classics of the genre, most notably TCM. The acting is acceptable, which is rare for this type of movie.

In between the backwoods, slasher & maniac sub-genre effortlessly navigates this great indie horror film whose only failure is its very generic choice of title.The plot is minimal, like most great horror movies by the way, and reminds of another recent movie, "Freak". Both are obviously very influenced by raw horror from the late 70's and early 90's. Much like "Freak", the unlikely heroines here are a middle-class mother and her child, thrown into a cavalcade of horrors in the middle of nowhere because of an unfortunate encounter with felons. Even the ending was similar.No, 20 minutes of exposition is not too much. My beef would rather be the ending, which genuinely felt like padding, and the last-minute twist, that's completely out there. The soundtrack can feel outdated at first, with an electronic theme and belching strings that come right out of your early 80's slasher, but retrospectively, that was probably the point.For the obviously restricted budget, I never once felt ripped off and the director made the most of what he had. The tension left me riveted to my screen and I never once wandered off to the kitchen to grab a smoke, which I guess is the best compliment I can make to a movie. True horror connoisseurs will appreciate.

A bank robbery goes awry for the four who committed it, three of them meeting at an abandoned farmhouse planning to distribute the loot equally. Julian(R Brandon Johnson)is convinced by his girlfriend, Marylin(Heather Magee)to assist her recently paroled ex-con brother Max(Keith Chambers)and his colleague Kurt(Richard Glover)in a robbery so that he could pay off debts to loan sharks. Max in gut shot, as Julian and Marylin drive in hysterics to a farmhouse in the middle of a rural location. Kurt is in another car, with the loot, when his tire flattens. In desperation he confiscates the van of a woman, Samantha(Samantha Dark), kidnapping her and her daughter, Courtney(Courtney Bertolone). Arriving at the farmhouse first, he momentarily binds the females, but Courtney frees herself. This is when Kurt follows her to an old meat / poultry slaughterhouse, closed down in the 70's. This is where we discover that a killer is in the midst. Once they bury Max, Julian and Marylin are in for a rude awakening, as Kurt is nowhere to be found, only a bound Samantha wanting to find her daughter.Slasher flick with not one original idea. Just a series of story elements derived from a variety of sources, from the killer's look(..sack over head, taken from Kurt, reminding us of Jason Voorhies from Friday the 13th Part 2), to the musical score which has plenty of Carpenter's Halloween in how it sounds. Ed Gein's back story is used for the killer's background as is Texas Chainsaw Massacre. There's really not a lot of plot, with most of the movie over by the half-way point due to such a limited set of characters. I mean, Max is dead within fifteen or so minutes and Kurt doesn't last much longer. That's kind of disappointing since the film's villains decrease a bit too quickly with only the boring psychopath remaining to lurk in the shadows, in the distance, with plenty of creaking doors and characters moving throughout areas looking for what caused a noise. Julian is established as a rather likable young man who got caught up in a situation due to a number of mistakes, including being influenced by Marilyn, so he's not much of a threat. And, Marylin, although she barks orders, isn't that imposing as a villain, either. Then you have this long-winded finale after the big chase scene where the remaining survivors attempt to flee their pursuer, and we get to understand what caused the killer to act the way he does, which hearkens us back to Hitchcock's Psycho. Good rural locations and ominous decaying buildings for the killer to hide are one of the movie's lone assets. The cast is merely adequate. Not much worthy in recommending to slasher fans since there's no real visceral(..the violence is cut away from, the knife never shown being buried into the bodies of his victims) or cheap thrills(..only two women important to the plot and neither is really a floozy or a character normally expected to undress) present.