Im Sorry, But In This Day and Age..Film Producers and Directors can Produce So Much More Quality In a Horror Movie. This One was Just Appalling..I Switched It Off 30 Mins Into The Film Because I Couldnt Bear To Watch Anymore Of The Nonsense.
We think perhaps it would be better titled Cradle of Crap!
Simply put it both sucks and blows at the same time!
LoL.. I wanted to rent out a decent horror film, and found this agers ago.. and i thought ok i`ll watch it...and as i was? The whole way through i was like...." is this a film? or a programme?" not only that it was really corny? and really fake sick, like when that wierd baby thing comes out of her stomach? what the hells that about, it just looked so fake.
The only reason i continued to watch it.. was... because i had a lil lil crush on dani filth...(went through a crush phase on goth guys) when he was in the club staring at the goth girl...But that was about it?
Lol..if your truelly sick and twisted and like really fake horror film flicks, watch it.. if not..dont.
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this movie just seems like some goths (and i like goths i dont hate them) excuse to make a bloody mess and make a movie and have dani filth
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I have watched so many bad films in my life that I have developed a 6th sense allowing me to detect atrocious movies before starting them. But strangely, even when I know that it does not look good at all, I tend to give them a chance, and stay till the end, either by curiosity, or lazyness to switch off. I then curse myself to have lost 90 minutes of my precious life. But with this one, I am really glad it was so exceptionally bad, because only 10 minutes were lost. And not completely, because they allow me to write my opinion, and hopefully, save more time of other horror films amateurs.
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the uncut versoin of cradle of fear is banned in 8 countrys and un the uk
you probably just aren't smart enough to understand the whole point of the movie. dani has plenty of money to make a realistic movie but it wouldn't be as fun. also, dani is very sexy even though it's beside the point.
shareYou're right! The movie was great in it's own way. This wasn't made to win oscars or anything, but simple to make a horror, gore movie like. let' say, Braindead...
I loved Cradle og Fear... Extreme and very funny :)
Crap Crap And Crap !!!!!!!
This film is pure gold, it represents the film making at it lowest which makes this film so brilliant and sexual
shareAmen!!
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I completely agree!!!!Anyone complaining this is crap REALLY must be stupid or VERY ignorant because the whole POINT of the film is around the fact that it's a rough and ready B-movie.No one said it was going to be a Hollywood blockbuster,So get over it.
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Hahaha exactly!
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Certainly extreme but I didn't get any of the humour that you're talking about. Braindead is obviously funny but I saw nothing funny about girls stabbing themselves with sissors and snuff films (although "The Sick Room" was a very good story). The film was very well made though it did look like a bit of a student film. I appreciated it more after watching the 'making of' on the dvd.
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well that movie certainly was more entertaining and more educational than lord of the rings. and it had better acting too =)))))
shareI was a bit confused and troubled after watching this film. I was confused as to whether the film was was made intentionally to be as bad as it was. and I was troubled at the fact that someone was given funding to make this film and have it released and available to buy in your local MVC. I reckon it must have cost a few bob. So many other people out there could have used that money to come up with something more...insightful? Seemed to me to be a lame excuse for some poor, rich boy goth to show off his "gothyness" for the world to see. I mean it can't have been his " vision" can it?? I don't mean to be sarky or anything, but I was genuinely a bit baffled by the motivation behind it.
shareyou probably just aren't smart enough to understand the whole point of the movie. dani has plenty of money to make a realistic movie but it wouldn't be as fun. also, dani is very sexy even though it's beside the point
Smart enough to understand the movie? Are you joking? Please be joking.
I doubt Dani has enough money to produce a big budget film. Maybe if COF sold a few hundred million more albums.
Dani didn't produce this movie himself. Pragmatic Pictures did. And they had as much money as they could get. Which wasn't a lot.
You don't need to be on a big(ger) budget to make a realistic movie. Even allowing for budget constraints, it is a poor film. As with the majority of bad movies, the reason it's bad can be traced back to the script. Dani's sexiness can't do anything to save it.
Discussions on this movie would be a lot more mature if every other thread weren't some fscking teenage goth girl talking about how sexy Dani Filth is. IT DOESN'T MATTER.
A lot of movies have worked with VERY small budgets and managed to make them reallyh eerie and gory. Don't blame this on a lack of funding. Blame it on a lack of talent, so I wholeheartedly agree with your comment on the budget constraints.
Bad script, terrible special effects, but theres one thing they could bank on, and that is teenage girls and people into the "music" of cradle of filth being their built-in audience. They could have made this movie a whole lot worse (if thats even possible) and those same people still would have eaten it up.
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The special effects were only cool if you mean in the sense that they were so fake looking that it was hilarious. Yes, condensed soup vomit and tons of really fake looking blood, how did they achieve such a thing?!!?! Come on.
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Pi was a low budget film, but they didn't use excuses in the place of talent and it ended up being a good film.
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I don't describe myself as a "horror fan" because most of the horror films I see these days just aren't worth watching. I think the best horror films are the ones that seem very real or very eerie. An ounce of creepyness in the filmmaking is worth more than gallons of fake blood in my opinion.
So psychological horror movies, ones that are actually scary to me as opposed to stupid slasher movies with cheap props. I hope that answers your question.
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Movies are one of those things where I've seen so many that I can't really bring up specifics, especially in regards to horror movies, a genre of which I am not a fan. Obviously if I had some names I'd be able to tell if I had seen them or not.
Its kind of like when somebody asks me what my favorite movie is, I can't choose or think of examples to save my life.
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Hey Tenebrae_illuminious, your right he does plenty of money to make a realistic movie and he also could just video tape himself brutally murdering a bunch of random people and not get arrested for it because no one would want to get close to him our he would devour the whole. This movie is pure greatness and to all you people who think its crappy and stupid and gross, and childis and pus*yish i have two things to say, A. Go back to watching your gay Bambi movie you cock mongers , and B. Let me see any of you critizing motherf**ers make something remotely better then what Dani has put together right here.
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yeah rite. If I saw dani after watching a tape of him murdering people, id go and kick the *beep* out of him. And im sure that would be easy. And if you wanna watch a genuinly scary disturbing film, go watch irreversible. And the *beep* movie I made in high school was better than this COF *beep*.
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Hey purple_angel, did you know thats about the 3rd time youve replied to my opinions with a "right", its obvious you dont know *beep* about anything so stop wasting peoples time unless your gonna have a valid post ya dumb *beep*.
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I think Cradle of Fear was not only the worst film in the history of horror movies, but the most awfull movie in history of movies.
I rather watch Bambi instead of this junk. I mean Bambi is a great disney movie for kids, but I can`t see how Cradle of Fear is amusing for anyone.
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Dani didn't put it together you *beep* Ooh everyone is afraid of Dani Filth and if he made a tape of himself brutally murdering abunch of people everyone would stay away from him. Wtf are you crapping me??? I'm not afraid of Dani Filth, I think he's just some pretty boy Brit who happens to be in a... band that wishes it was black metal. How old are you anyway? For you to seriously think that if Dani Filth was to walk around killing people and videotaping it and nothing would happen to him you must be like 10 or something. Get off this board, please.
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Or maybe he isn't talented enough to write a decent movie.
shareOh good grief? Biased much?
shareYou ignorant little twit... He's only worth a few million, and didn't put any money towards this piece of trash. Probably because he knew he wouldn't recoup anything.
shareTry watching 'The Dominator' then, it is the worst film I have ever seen.
Dani Filth's film career is a bit of a joke.
hahaha like this movie could possibly be helped by an uncut version. i have the uncut version, i bought it on a whim and found it to be excruciatingly bad on all levels. its like a horribly cheap episode of neighbours (and thats saying something) in terms of quality. video editing and effects and settings that rival a bad 80's porno. watch it for nudity if for anything.
sharemhm...i know many people who hate cradle of fear.
but, i gotta say i like it!
of course, the are better actors in the world. and the budget wasnt really high, for sure.
but....alex chandon is giving something unique to the film.
its filled with so many cool ideas! the sick room, the figure of kemper and so on. and the dialogues are good too!
chandon can write good storys, and knows how to use special effects.
with such a low budget, he actually was actually able to do very much!
somebody posted here "i`m pro-violence, but in the case of cradle of fear..."
sorry, this kind of statement makes me sick! violence is ugly, either if its just bud spencer or gross s***t like takashi miike.
you were disgusted, werent you? i wasnt, but i would never say that violence is "must" in a film or even a good thing!
so, cradle of fear takes it to the next level. and i appreciate the directors courage and his consequence.
Well first, before i say anything. I have not yet seen this movie. I want to soooo bad. This could not be the worst movie of all time. House of the Dead and 28 Days Later are the worst movies of all time. Those two movies sucked ass. This movie can't be any worser than them two. Right?
share"28 Days Later" is not the worst movie of all time (I haven't seen "House of dead") and didn't suck ass. Danny Boyle's film is a good apocalyptic movie (well, they aren't zombies...infected better), it's original and its best idea was not including any big star in the cast. The main characters are normal people trying to survive, they aren't Rambo or any other armed-to-the-teeth character like we can see in many zombie movies.
I haven't seen "Cradle of fear", but I want to.
this was hardly the worst. usually in focus, and you could hear the dialogue.
but not much for new ideas. "28 Days Later" was essentially an uncredited remake of George Romero's "The Crazies", and wasn't especially original, just a reasonable excecution of the idea
Judging by your post you only half know what you're talking about. 28 Days Later was an awesome movie. No it wasn't really a horror movie, but that doesn't automatically qualify it for being bad. It's more of a study on human behaviour, and it was extremely well-made. House of the Dead qualifies as one of the worst movies, others that are even more worthy are: Red Zone Cuba and Manos The Hands of Fate. As for Cradle of Fear. Well, I love horror films, but I found it to be merely mediocre.
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"Dani Filth's film career is a bit of a joke."
Any career path belonging to Dani Filth is a joke. I wish I could sell thousands of records by ripping off Emperor, At The Gates, and the guy who wrote "Monster Mash."
On another note, I think "the Screaming Skull" is a much more awful movie.
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"I wish I could sell thousands of records by ripping off Emperor, At The Gates, and the guy who wrote "Monster Mash.""
Ha ha ha, genius. You made me "laugh out loud". And it's true. (I still sort of like them though)
Haha, I have "The Screaming Skull" in a set of 10 horror movies I got for Christmas, that's one of the few I haven't got around to watching just yet.
shareThis is maybe the dumbest movie ever...but can't you see it was intented to be that way???
I laughed like crazy with my friends when I saw this...damn,it's not supposed to be serious,it's supposed to be funny(well,in a gorish,ogrish or any other -sh way you want).
I reccomend that you get at least 2 friends to come and see this movie together and laugh your ass off at the stupid actors killing themselves.
My favorite scene is when Dani Filth eats the plate full of cat organs...that cracks me up every time I see it.
PS.Can you realy see the "punctured" cat's price tag?
"This is maybe the dumbest movie ever...but can't you see it was intented to be that way???"
Exactly,
No one should take CoF seriously or this movie. CoF don't take themselves seriously, just read the linear notes of their albums. They just really enjoy what they do and hope other people like it as much as they do. Small production studios like the one that made Cradle of Fear almost never make much money, and most hardly even break even. They make movies, knowing that they aren't good by most peoples' standards, because they enjoy making movies. Dani Filth didn't star in this thinking it would be an amazing movie, but because he felt that it'd be a fun way to spend a few weeks.
If you watched this movie and hated it, you have only yourself to blame, you should have known what you were getting into.
It's not the worst Horror flick ever. I just got done seeing it, expecting it to suck. But I was pleasantly surprised. I mean, it wasn't the next Evil Dead or anything, but it had it's good points. I was kinda laughing it up through most of the movie, up until the Sick Room segment. If that part were just released on it's own as a short film, I'd give it a 7.5/10. The rest of the film was kinda lacking, though.
sharethe only bad thing about the movie is its low budget, which translates into crappy acting and shooting. as for the tons of red paint, clichees and whole pieces of the plot taken from other movies, well that was on purpose. this is an english homage/parody of english (and not only english) horror films. emphasis on english, as in english humour. the whole pointlessness and crappines of it is meant to be there.
p.s.: when i first watched the movie, not knowing what it is, i also said to myself that it's 'the worst movie ever'
Hahahahaha, I saw mister Filth live a few weeks ago and that guy isn't Evil nor Cool, on stage he just looks like a cute little girl trying to impersonate Donald Duck. and in this pease of crap they call a "movie" he acts even worse then Mr.T .
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I thought it was wonderful ! So funny and energetic. I didn't realise it had anything to do with the slightly silly but entertaining goth metal band when I rented it. I couldn't imagine what there wasn't to like about it ! It was just dumb, cute, a bit try too hard to be sick (in a STACY or ICHI kind of way) and so much fun. Rent it out again with vodka and some goth mates and it'll make more sense. Personally I adored it, including it's myriad of faults. But then Visitor Q's my favourite movie....
"Maybe I could just lie here...."
To anyone who tries to defend this film on any grounds whatsoever: come on, admit it, it's dreadful. And you KNOW it is.
I don't actually think it was MEANT to be bad, as some people have pointed out. The reason why I think this is that Chandon actually seems to be quite proud of it and on the official website he's only posted positive reviews, none from anybody praising its crapness. Also, what would be the point of making a deliberately bad film? You might get away with it if there was actually some humour in it, but this doesn't (well, apart from the always laughable Dani Filth who- though probably quite well off- doesn't, I suspect, have the mutiple millions required to make a half-decent film, whatever anyone says).
Also, as far as it being an homage to Asylum, well, that's an outrage. Asylum is a great film, destined to fill late night TV slots for decades. Cradle Of Fear is probably destined to fill a large hole in the ground, if there's any justice.
If you are a goth or metal fan (I guess this the target market) and you actually like this film then you are proving the bad things that people probably already think about your taste and sanity to be true (I was a goth for years, so I know what I'm talking about).
It's a loser. Forget it.
I'm a retired goth too ! I've still got a love for the dodgier aspects of the genre especially. I don't think it's crap...it had a genuine entertainment value. It's in no way Highlander II or Shanghai Knights BAD bad really wrong bad. A guilty pleasure for sure, but I can think of a hell of a lot worse horror movies. The US re-make of Ringu is MUCH worse. Horses ???!!
"Maybe I could just lie here...."
"To anyone who tries to defend this film on any grounds whatsoever: come on, admit it, it's dreadful. And you KNOW it is."
And that, is why it's so awesome. There's really good movies that are good and there are really bad movies that are good. It's the mediocre movies you have to watch out for.
this movie would be good if it was done in a better quality......and with no dirty dan and his filthy crew, because nobody likes a band that does all this sh*t in a movie.
shareIt would be good if it was a different film. Made by different people, with a different plot, different actors (I use that term loosely), different script, different budget, different crew, different fx and the removal of that awful Filth man (again, loosely..)
shareIt struck me as a 1 and a half hour (give or take) 'lets-stroke-Dani-Filth's-Ego-athon'
Which doesn't necicarily make it a bad film (the lack of realism/plot/coherency did that) - would've been much better as a completley unconnected TV series, some of the short stories had nice ideas behind them (sick room, possibly the first, allthough I'd have apreciated a moral of some kind...)