It Still Lives and I Think I Might Like It...! *SPOILERS*

I just now bought and saw it. To sum up some other posts, yes it had potential, it had it's moments for sure, and lacked a budget. But...

I've only recently gotten into watching the low-budget genre of horror. And it's a hard call to make when you're used to slick film-making. On one hand you're distracted by the video-quality and usually less-than-stellar acting. On the other hand, we've seen Hollywood throw hundreds of millions of dollars on horror films that just sucked!

We think we could have done it better, well so do a lot of others, and here I've gotten to enjoys some dvds like "Evil Cult", "Aunt Rose". "Better Living Through Killing", Feeding the Masses", etc.

"13 Seconds" had me bored at first, I didn't understand exactly where they were supposed to be, until near the end when it was revealed to be an old school(?). I wasn't sure why all the characters were wondering off instead of recording their cd. The different characters didn't stand out on their own until they were whittled down, possibly because they spent little if no time actually together in one room to see them side-by-side!

Of course a lot of that is explainable by the ending. The *SPOILERS* deaths and effects were great at the end, the body being snapped in half under the bed was better than another film that did the same (through a window, forgot which movie), the guy strangled with a hand from his chest, the upside-down crucifixtion, and the ghouls in general all were great work.

If I had to narrow it down to one complaint it was the editing, with the mood switching from horror with music to dead silence with people talking. It didn't sustain the mood with sudden jolts like that.

If anything I'd like to hope that future filmmakers do what all should do, see this work and improve on it with their talents and take the good with it too. I mean, what scares us anymore? Probably the cat jumping out of the cabinet trick is the only scare left that really works anymore, too many Fangoria magazines, "making-of" SFX features" and decades have passed for corn-syrup gore to really get to me anymore. Wait, needles in the arm still make me squirm, this movie did have that!!!