Ha ha
Just read that the makers of this and the other U.K. travesty: Infestation, are making a movie together called EVEN DEAD MEN DIE!!! This will make it the worst movie of all time!!!
Free advice to both: Do not try making these kinds of films if you don't have the money. Hollywood is the only place these movies can be made. NOT IN THE U.K.!!!!
OH MY GOD. Look I never want to insult someone directly but looking at both your reviews HAVE YOU EVER WATCHED A MOVIE before. Now not directly talking about these two (fine in my opinion) features but come on.
Carpenter a hack? Romero a hack? Watch Resident Evil or Bad Boys instead? Are you MENTAL!!!!!!
Not sure if your just 12 years old or just slightly insane but how can you really say that Res Evil or any of PT Andersons other crap is better than Dawn Of The Dead or They Live or Escape From New York or Martin or Dawn Of The Dead or ANY OF Carpenter's or Romero's films?
Really. Honestly. If you feel that, if you really believe that then you fine. But to spat such unintellegent, uneducation toss as back up for a review just makes your reviews seem pointless.
Come on man. Really. Watch a real film. Pull up a chair and watch They Live. Or Dawn Of The Dead. A film directed by a master at the top of their game. Then tell me HOW Res Evil could EVER be considered better?
For my money if these gusy DO team up It's a film I'd love to see.
Dude, you are hilarious. My mate told me to check out your comments. I also just read your infestation review, still haven't seen the film myself but i'm keen to see what they achieved.
Um for the record I'm the director of Left For Dead, it's definitely got its flaws but hey we did our best with what we had (virtually nothing except everyone working as hard as they can) and had a lot of fun and sleepless nights making it. Still can't believe people are able to rent and buy it and as a result we get to make our next film which we are intending to make a lot better in every way so I hope you stick with us and that you enjoy it.
However...
Ah hah, oh man, HAH HAH, you think Bad Boys 2 is a good film. Bwah-Hah! hahahhahhaaha. So funny. You're so funny. You think Romero and Carpenter's older films were bad. That's even more amusing. Next thing you'll be saying Halloween is bad when it's influenced virtually every horror film in the last 25-odd years. I totally agree with you in that Carpenter's more recent films have been a bit disappointing, but hey, he's hung on in there. Vitriol says it all for you I guess. I sure hope you haven't been happy with the recent spat of PG-13 nonsense hollywood has been calling horror movies. What about the Dawn Of The Dead remake (which i prefer to the original)? I'm not the biggest Romero fan but his work has, again influenced so many filmmakers around the world. Even if I don't love all of his films I still respect him (and Carpenter and Craven) for their legacy and influence.
Thank you for watching our film. I genuinely appreciate that you took the time to watch it and the time to review it as well. However, your comments about Shaun Of The Dead are misplaced. That film is SO good in SO many ways. Shame you didn't enjoy it. Just my opinion of course.
Best regards
Ross
Wow! The director answering his own critics. That's different! I watched Left For Dead with my partner as a double bill with The Purifiers. I ahev to say I prefered Left For Dead no end. I'm not a great fan of action movies but have to agree with you on Halloween. That was a great film. Again I prefered Dawn Of The Dead remake to the original but without the original there wouldn't be so many of the films I like.
This guy Vitriol is full of it. I guess its wasy to be a critic when you have never made a film. Full respect to you. Good work and keep it up!
Oh my God, I am honored.
The director spoke to me!!! Well I must have been pretty on the money for the actual director to start writing stuff on this board. (Little too close to the truth for you?)
Well seeing as you took the trouble to actually reply I will take the opportunity to personally appeal to you. STOP MAKING FILMS.
Low budget films are, by their very nature, CRAP! I'm sure you all sit round congratulating yourselfs on how clever you've been, but bottom line is these films suck. No one is interested, well I take that back. Obviously a few saddos on this board are, but how many times are you going to get your mums, dads and sisters to write reviews for you?!!
Here we go again.
On the money? I have no issue with your opinion of the film, I even thanked you for taking the time to watch it and write your review. What's your issue with that? What's wrong with using this forum as a filmmaker to discuss films with other people, even if they diasagree with my opinion?
Unfortunately I won't stop making films as long as people want to buy/rent them. On the relative strengths of LFD we've raised investment to make the next one which I readily invite you to watch and review. We intend to make it better on every level.
For every person who dislikes a film there are those who like it and we have had positive reviews on websites and in magazines internationally. We have also had negative reviews and we take these all in our stride.
It's sad that you don't enjoy low budget films but there ar eplenty of people world-wide who do enjoy them. I even enjoy films that are bad because sometimes they are so funny. Case in point you seem to think Bad Boys 2 is a great film when my personal opinion is it is an hour too long and Martin Lawrence is massively unfunny. I did however like the first Bad Boys a very great deal. We all have our different opinions. I like a whole different range of films for many different reasons, from American Ninja 3 to Some Kind Of Wonderful, from Evil Dead 2 to Double Indemnity.
The only point I take umbrage at is that you seem to think it pertinent to bring my family into this for some reason. My family are incredibly supportive of me but they'd never lie for me (I would not want them to) and they'd also never be bothered to write anything on the internet in any case. It's a shame you refer to people on this board as saddos as I really like the fact that this forum is open to so many different opinions. We've had masses of support from so many different sources that I don't know where to begin to thank them, and also some people who obviously have disliked the film, but hey as Dalton said in RoadHouse "Opinions vary".
As I said, we will all be trying much harder with our next film.
Best wishes
Ross
To add to that... I think your comments are brutal for no reason. We as the film makers aren't commenting to be defensive. We thank anyone who watches what we do and takes the time out to comment or review them. Good or bad.
I just can't stand groundless attacks on the industry and types of film as a whole. Whilst you hates this, others (many others if our sales figs are anything to go buy) didn't. Just because you hate our film why does that mean all low budget films are crap.
Star Wars, Clerks, El Mariachi hell even Jaws could be considered low budget. Are they crap (and if you think so then I'll stop there... there is no hope for you AT ALL).
But again I appricate your thoughts. But to clarfiy for others reading this who may be getting the wrong impression:
The fact our film has been sold in 12 countries and has a major UK release says otherwise.
The fact that our reviews have been 90% amazing says otherwise.
The fact teh film has been selected for festivals around the glode syas otherwise.
Have your opinion. That's fine. But have some respect also. That's only fair
As for reviews by our relatives:
Mike Leeder is one of the UK's leading KungFu critics. Mark Pollard runs THE kung fu film website. Meadows runs the best Indie film mag in the UK. Sanderson has been reviewing films for years and I have NO idea who the other guys are directly.
'If this film had been made in the 70's Tarantino would have cited it as an influence…'
Mike Leeder, IMPACT Magazine
“Taking low budget action cinema to new levels of delirium and viciousness, Left For Dead happens to be an amazing adrenaline rush of a film”
Matthew Sanderson, Rumourmachine.com
“Left for Dead is one hell of an action movie… pushing the action to extremes while maintaining an engaging plot”
Mark Pollard, Kungfucinema.com
“A great first time effort from a couple of talented enthusiasts…”
Vaughan Dyche, Film Asylum
“bloody and violent martial arts action… the fights come at you furiously… Left For Dead, thankfully, differs from the norm”
Gregory Conley, yourvideostoreshelf.com
‘Sets a whole new standard for digital video production… the UK movie scene just got its butt kicked!’
Dean Meadows, VENGEANCE Magazine
“…first time feature director Ross Boyask proves that with little money and a lot of talent you can make a film that stands head and shoulders above the high-budget fair of the US...”
Peter Hawkins, Yahoo Movies
Whoa! It's like hitting a hornet's nest!! They're all coming out of the woodwork!! Have you never heard of letting your 'art' speak for itself? The very fact that you feel you have to personally defend this crap shows how many people out in the 'real world' are fans of this travesty. I'm sorry you've taken 'umbrage' at the whole family jibe, but my point is that there is NO WAY that you could have got all these good reviews if all these people weren't your buddies or something. You obviously know a lot of people at these various 'magazines' and feel that ramming their so called opinions down my mouth in some way justifies your terrible film. What they meant to say was "This film sucked ass, but see it anyway because the film-makers are really good friends of mine".
Thanks for taking the time to write back with your hilarious responses. All the best for future projects although maybe next time spend more time writing a script that isn't completely moronic rather than responses to critics on message boards!
Hey Vitriol,
You do raise an interesting point actually, about defending our art/work/crap however it's interpreted. As mentioned before i find it fascinating that we can use this site as a forum to talk about all kinds of films that we love and hate, whether it's our own films, films made by people we know and respect or heck even dislike. Surely that can only be a good thing? In the end i'm happy to respond to/defend/discuss any film or TV show of interest as it goes. Why is it wrong that the filmmakers respond themselves?
Also I KNOW that i cannot speak for all the reviews, but as far as i know for the most part they are genuine. we have built up a positive rapport with the magazines, sites etc along the way, during course of production and in the end been able to generate positive P.R. without having the megabucks (or anybucks actually) to do so, and we've done it by genuine interaction with the professionals, and not by cosying up to people. Trust me when i say that is not our style. Are some of the user reviews by people who worked on the film or our mates? of course some of them are. They feel they wish to support us. Having said that I would always want an honest review good or bad, and the fact of the matter is, rightly or wrongly, some people enjoyed watching it. Actually to add to that we had a one-off screening in our local odeon which was attended by around 400 people. I was desperate not to be in the screening and was terrified, but there were laughs (good and bad) and cheers. So that was a good time for us. This is not to be boastful, I was genuinely terrified. Of course I'm sure some people there didn't like it, but in the end it was a very positive experience for us.
Everyone knows that it is very rare that the finished film is what the filmmakers intended it to be. for left for dead i wish we had had more time and been able to cut at least 15 minutes out of the running time and been able to insert a short scene at the very beginning explaining what the 3 hitmen are up to before they attack that large gang, but hey we didn't get the time due to our sales agents deadlines so we just feel lucky that it is out here and being sold and watched by so many people, and especially lucky to be making another one.
I apologise for rambling on, but i guess it might indicate some of the passion behind what we want to achieve?
Best wishes
Ross
i feel the need to post here, not in the defence of the film, but because Vitriol has a very bad taste in films. o.k so left for dead isn't great, maybe not even so to genre fans, but it is made for fans of the genre. so let them watch it and enjoy it or not. instead of you viewing something you will not enjoy before you have even seen any of the film, stick to what you might like.
Ha! Your right there. Ghost Ship? UGH! Torrid arse of a movie.
Vitriol can I recommend 2 Fast 2 Furious, Aeon Flux, Catwoman and XXX2. You will love them. TRUST ME!!!
As a student/beginner film maker/director, I support everything you have to say. Making a film is no piece of cake, even if it is about 5 minutes long.
The possibilities that are snatched away from you because you can’t afford them is a bit of a travesty but you learn to adapt (or at least that’s what I have tried to do)
To say low budget film's are crap, many low budgets have inspired the mega budget films of Hollywood to do something, since the Hollywood films of late have been getting stagnant.
I must say though I haven't seen your film so I wont defend any part of it, but I have made one film so far (a short documentary) and it did fairly well, we had zero cash we just borrowed equipment from our university. If that film was to get us money then I would put that money into making another and I don’t see what the problem of making a £8k film, getting money from it and then maybe making £12k film and going slow. A few thousand can go quite a long way, from what I have found.
I applaud you for taking it so far though, to the point of getting distribution and reviews, I would love to do that or even get to that point within the next few years.
Just my opinions.
Thanks Darkhawk... we know LFD isn;t perfect, far from it inplaces. But the next movie TEN DEAD MEN we build on what we did on LFD and are making a film fifty times better with only 2 x the money.
That's a ratio that works... keep plugging away!
Phil Hobden
I just checked some of your other comments on films, I've got to ask you (if you don't mind) how old you are?
you seem to think escape from new york is bad and yet Resident Evil, a film by Paul WS Anderson, is good. Okay I liked the Manson music but best zombie movie ever? You don't even see one until like 36 minutes in and it's all like lame scares, no gore, no nothing and really poor cgi at the end. it rattles along like a fun action film though. how about the dawn of the dead remake? so good!!! definitely prefer it to romero's original (personal opinion).
but ghost ship? are you kidding? okay the mass death at the start was excellent but it's all downhill from there, surely? except for desmond harrington who is an amazing actor, PLEASE check him out in the truly excellent Love Object, a very dark film.
how can you not like Escape From New York? And worse still, The Thing? Are you kidding me? These are classics, what about films like Rio Bravo or Double Indemnity?
And Shaun Of The Dead? Cannot believe you don't like it, or Dog Soldiers for that matter, both thoroughly entertaining, especially the DVD commentaries.
Wow. Like I said Opinions Vary. But Wow.
Best wishes
Ross
I'm not defending this 'crap' I just take offense at your appraoch, attitude and general taste in films.
Like or or hate it 'Left For Dead' has had good reviews, done well internationally and made money. It has openned doors for us and others involved. I don't need to defend something that speaks for itself, that I am proud of.
I just cant stand people like you who seem intent on insulting people and their movies for little reason.
Anyways I've wasted enough time on you. Thanks for helping draw people into the film with your attacks. Strangly sales seem to have increased the last few days... so thanks for helping me get more people interetsed and more copies sold.
Maybe I have it wrong. Maybe Vitriol planned to help us? Nice work my friend!
Why spend your time having a go at those bold enough to see through an exciting, artistic endeavor?
They did it.
They made the film and now it's out there in the world. That's how you came to see it, yes? That's what being creative is all about. Maybe if you tried something similar you would appreciate the results more.
Glad to hear that sales are up 'Left For Dead' crew!
Well woooooopeeeeeeedoooooo
That's so amazing. They made a movie.
I know it's 'out there in the world' as you put it, that's how I had the misfortune to watch it. Now I'm trying to do mankind a great service and STOP others from watching it. Just because I made a mistake doesn't mean others have to endure this crap!
Is this guy for real?
I really liked this movie. Okay not perfect but it was really good fun. I don;t think budget should be an issue unless it effects the way the film is. A good script can be a good film with almost any money. Look at Clerks or El Mariachi. Both great low budget films.
It just seems like Vitriol is being harsh for the sake of being harsh... does he has a personal grudge against these guys? It certainly seems it and if that's the case that's just wrong.
As I sadi no accounting for taste but no need to be so rude!
Yes, I do have something against these guys.
I had to sit through their pathetic movie!
I don't expect perfection. I just don't expect it to be this LAME!
I am being harsh so that others don't have to suffer as I did!
My god, vitriol, you are sinking to new depths.
NEVER tell someone not to go see a film. A simple fact of life is that any piece of art can be liked by anyone, and film is a form of art. You have NO RIGHT to tell people what they should and shouldn't go to see.
In fact, I have a VERY strong suspicion that this movie is in fact excellent, based on your opinions of other movies, so I will go and look for it in Blockbuster. Hope I enjoy it, and heck, if I don't, I won't go on an internet message board and start slagging off it AND it's director. You reject.
Mr Boyask...respect, man. Respect.
"What happened to your nose?"
"I used it to break someone's face..."
It's hilarious to read how Vitrol - no matter how civil and courteous the director and producer are towards him - cannot come up with a civil answer... "I'm trying to warn people not to see it", my ass... since when has one random on the 'net cared so much about assisting other people through their lives by telling them not to watch films?
I strongly suspect that Vitrol is having a laugh... it happens. I saw a thread on another forum the other day which stated, seemingly quite seriously: "How can I catch AIDS? I've asked in the local Boots Store for assistance." Now, it's obvious someone's having a laugh there.
Vitrol - if you're having us on, it's not funny. If you're NOT having us on, I pity you. I never realise they allowed those in mental asylums access to the internet.
Ha! Hopefully more people will take your point of view!!!
Whilst I agree that everyone should have their own opinion and be allowed to express it I think Vitriol does take it a step too far and his arguments see more personal attacks than actual fact on the film.
We always knew this film wouldnt be for some people, that much is a fact, but this guy... we'll he seems to take it a bit far.
Hey buy or rent the film, watch it and drop back with your own thoughts. I'm awlays open to hearing honest takes on our movies!
Goddamn man, you must really like wasting your time... If you hate the film so much, why are you devoting so much of your time to bashing it? I don't understand. Think of what you could be doing instead. heres a short list:
Taking a walk on an autumn day
Having sex with a beautiful woman
Having sex with yourself
Watching a film you DO like
Reading a good book
Taking up a hobby
Learning a foreign language
Helping the poor
Painting a picture
Having a nice relaxing bath
Stapling things to wood
Rubbing yourself with a fine paste
Filling a skip with dead wasps
Writing a play
Sitting in a comfy chair
All of these things would be a lot more productive than what you're doing now, yet instead you choose to come here and slag off a movie repeatedly because you didn't like it. YOu must lead an angry and unfulfilled life. I have pity on your soul.
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Wow this guy really didn't like this film did he! Ha... I guess different strokes for different folkes.
I actually enjoyed Left For Dead... but then again i grew up with Segal and fuilms like Exit Wounds so maybe it's me that has bad taste!