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Epic fail. Tremendous douchebaggery.

posted 10 years ago by fingermonkey4
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Let me begin by saying that for over a decade I been looking at user reviews on IMDB first and often they provided a more accurate picture than critic reviews. I got tricked by a friend into seeing this, and it was boring, the acting was bad, storyline was predictable and lame and the film offered nothing at all. I would have laughed it of and moved on, but then I saw the reviews. Oh boy, that got me super mad, and I had to write my first review ever.

I understand tastes differ, but giving this movie a 9 or a 10 is a crime against cinematography and spits in the face of all the great movies in history that truly deserved such high marks. It is obvious that those who praise this movie, the acting, how it was suspenseful and brilliant, are probably it's cast and crew and their families. This is extreme douchebaggery. What's amazing is they, the douche bags, seem to be continuing this even after several people pointed it out. This is shameless. And it's so obvious too.

So to whom it may concern, the real reviews of this movie are the ones that range from 1 star to 3 stars at best, everything else is fake. The director showed no talent at writing/directing, the waitresses/actresses showed no skill at acting. That being said, there are far worse movies, but at least be honorable and let the people rate your work for real. There is no way your low budget, low intelligence movie can have the same marks as Shawshank or any top rated movie. Some of these idiots rated movies like Cast Away and Dark Knight with a 9 but gave The Scarehouse a 10? You have failed.

[–] The_Final_Boy 10 years ago

OR maybe everyone is allowed to their own opinion? People can hate and love whatever movie they like. I'm sorry you didn't enjoy the movie, but it's okay if other people did. It's considered an opinion and not a fact.

I stuck a blender in his head and killed him.

[–] alphaboy 10 years ago

I am not associated with the director or any of the actors, but I did enjoy the movie. I liked the atmosphere, cinematography was suitably stylish (especially in the use of lighting, which is hard for a low-budget production like this), and the relationships between the characters were complex, sometimes surprisingly so. It certainly held my interest and entertained me for most of the time.
I gave it a 7 for cinematic accomplishment and entertainment value. It's not brilliant, but it was certainly MUCH better than the average fare if you're looking at low-cost slasher filmmaking.

[–] silverscreenvacation 9 years ago

I'm with you in your take on this movie. I also gave it a 7, for much the same reasons. Comparing this movie to Shawshank is like comparing apples to alpacas. Maybe at some point they should have had someone laugh and cry and otherwise powerfully emote in the rain...sheesh.

Anyway, thanks for standing up for this mix of Mean Girls and Saw and in my view, Set It Off and a weird flavor of Fight Club. I enjoyed it with all its imperfections, and it made me happy to see that someone else did, too.

[–] nkavy71488 10 years ago

Why are you using this thread to respond to an entirely different post?

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[–] nkavy71488 10 years ago

lol it's not fake. The responses to myself were fake. But I really was bothered by the scene. And I have seen most of the boundary pushing horror and 'torture-porn' movies of the past decade or so. That particular scene got under my skin a bit more than most of the graphic tortures I've seen depicted in films like Saw 1 through 796, Hostel 1 and 2, etc. Probably because it was more about the unseen than the seen. You imagined what was happening to her torso instead of being graphically shown.

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[–] nkavy71488 10 years ago

I like to be disturbed. That's why I watch horror movies. The next girl's torture was actually worse, physically, but didn't get in my head as much. Once that torture was over (the implant removal) I almost turned it off because I figured the violence would only escalate from there (and I was already slightly nauseous from both of those sequences back to back) but the movie actually got a bit softer from then on so I finished it. Honestly if they had actually used that glass shards, glue and God knows what else - covered dildo, I would have turned it off. I'm glad they didn't go that far. That would have been cruel...even in a fictional story.

It's just that it had been a while since I watched a Saw/Hostel type movie where the main set pieces/gags are torture scenes. So my tolerance for it had gone down.

I shouldn't say I was disturbed so much as unsettled. It kept popping in my head for the next few days randomly. Images of corsets and wires tightening. Ick. And the seemingly sweet girl it was happening to. Kind of like how the blood bath scene from Hostel II was so disturbing because the girl was so innocent and undeserving.

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[–] nkavy71488 10 years ago

Just because I said that she was undeserving does not mean that the rest of the victims in slasher films deserved to die.

And just because the girls in this film weren't innocent doesn't mean they deserved such horrible deaths.

Rewatch Hostel: Part II if you don't remember the bloodbath victim being helpless and almost child-like in her innocence. That was done on purpose to make her especially nasty and drawn out death all the more horrifying.

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[–] Ithilfaen 9 years ago

Someone that doesn't watch horror movies might have had a hard time sleeping after watching it.

You mean someone who's still in touch with a shred of humanity?

But being bothered by it for days? They shouldn't be watching horror movies if that bothered them for days.

I pity people who are so jaded that they are not disturbed by *beep* like that. Are you even alive anymore?

For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco