★ 2 / 10
Can See the Forest for the Sand
rebeltaz-18705
Oh My Gosh. Where do I even start. The wrapper was a good , if not overused, premise - girl gets picked on and plans revenge. Just like any low-budget flick…
Oh My Gosh. Where do I even start. The wrapper was a good , if not overused, premise - girl gets picked on and plans revenge. Just like any low-budget flick, they didn't bother spending too much on extras. Apparently, the five 'students' that this story revolves around were the only ones who attend this school. Oh sure... we HEAR about all the other 'kids' that the goth girl invited to her party... but we never see anyone else. At the party, to which only four people were invited... can someone explain to me why there was a need to hire, not just a valet, but two!? When the guests arrive, it is dark outside, yet when everyone walks inside, the sun is shining in the doorway behind them. :eye_roll: I was expecting a different twist once the party got going, and the ending was not expecting... so that was good...
The stories themselves... The first one was ok. Really bad acting and for a bar on a weekend night... once again the lack of funds for extras really shows. As with the main wrapper, it's supposed to be night, but at times it looks more like broad daylight filmed through a neutral density filter and other times it flips from sunny to pitch black just like that. But it was a good tale with an ending that you won't expect. I'd have given that story alone four stars, maybe higher if they'd done a better job producing it and better acting.
The second story... holy 'ell. You've got a couple in the middle of the DESERT (keep that word in mind) and they are walking a ways off the road in the DESERT (with no car in which they arrived to be seen) and they walk up to a block building in the middle of the DESERT. They tell the old man there that they are looking for a good place to camp. He tells them that the FOREST is haunted and that they don't want to camp there. Just then, another guy drives up and, he too is looking for a place to camp. This is the busiest DESERT I have ever seen. And throughout the story, everyone keeps calling this DESERT a forest. There isn't a freaking tree to be seen, but ... sure. We have the same problem with day and night that we've seen throughout the rest of the film, with the added bonus of the couple changing clothes from one scene to the next.
The final story... all I will say about this one is that it rainbow approved.
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★ 7 / 10
Worth it for the Kappa!
icocleric
So when the first started I thought it was going to be a very average serious film, with a decent set up... I was wrong, this is gloriously terrible. I loved…
So when the first started I thought it was going to be a very average serious film, with a decent set up... I was wrong, this is gloriously terrible. I loved it, and had so much fun. If you are into bad horror, this could be a fun film.
Naturally being an anthology some stories are stronger than others, and I will admit that I was disappointed in the Mothman one.
However this film has Japanese Kappa creatures sucking souls out of people's a-holes, which is really accurate to the myths. But seeing it on screen, looks as hilarious as you'd expect.
I also think the end has some fun little twists, and I got a giggle out of it.
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★ 1 / 10
This movie is atrocious
kayaychell
I wasn't expecting too much from what is obviously a B horror movie on the surface before viewing. From the description, it seemed like a fairly entertaining…
I wasn't expecting too much from what is obviously a B horror movie on the surface before viewing. From the description, it seemed like a fairly entertaining prospect to see while munching a bag of popcorn on a throw away Saturday night.
Upon viewing, wow - po rn acting puts this to shame. On top of it, the story is wildly meandering, the set designs and scenes are poorly chosen and frankly distracting to the point of hilarious amateur hour.
The other reviews here, particularly "simon_cook" are unbelievably generous and I question their sanity as this movie can not be taken seriously on any plane of comparison.
It would seem that this was a project that did not have people with movie making experience, including an editor and director with far too much creative freedom, and far too little constructive criticism to ever give this a chance.
With a plethora of other contemporary B horror movies out there to draw upon, the producers, director and editor have missed the mark so far on this one, you'd think they were trying to re-invent how movies are produced.
I wish this "film" could fall into the "it's so bad it's good (or funny)" category, but this feature is an insult to movies that even loosely belong there.
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4.7/10
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