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pffffff..... pure *beep*


I think this is product of 3000$ dollars and bunch of people without anything to do but play whit digital camcorder. Absolutely no reason why anybody should see this movie....

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"whit"? "3000 $"? Not much on grammar are we.

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Who cares about his grammar. The point was the movie sucks, I hate stuck-up *beep* like you that can't take any criticism from people, like you yourself produced, directed and acted in the movie in question. So lame, so lame.

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Of course this movie looks cheap, it's a low-budget film! If you rented this thinking you were going to be watching a huge hollywood horror extravaganza then you are a tard.

For a low-budget indie horror flick this film really hold its own. This film is everything a good horror film should be, and it's quite funny that I found this movie to be more entertaining than any hollywood horror crapfest. My point is that if you don't appreciate low-budget films then why even bother watching them? Then you just get on the internet and bitch about it...pointless

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Everything a good horror film should be?

I disagree. Not to say it was a complete waste, but it had no point, no character development, no decent dialog, and what was with the writing on the wall? It was just some symbol, not actually anything anyone could read. lol. All in all some of the effects were good, the lead was a hottie.


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There wasn't an ounce of character development at all. And yes, it didn't have a point. That is all that needs to be said about this film. I feel sorry for the people associated with this film. Should've been a lot more nudity to make up for the *beep* dialogue.

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I gave this one 1 point only 'cause you can't give 0.
Damn, what a mess. :-) I've seen some bad B horrors in my life but... this one left me speechless. :-) This is probably the most accurate example how slasher shouldn't be done. Because there's nothing worse than a serious B slasher. And what's more: there's nothing more tiresome than a stupid story without any bit of distance. Director hasn't got any of it. In this case, that tells us everything about him - we're certain he wanted to do serious movie. But we know that you can't do a serious movie when you don't have characters. And that tells us something about the script... which is the script that one approach with distance, if he really wants to do it. Otherwise - it doesn't work.

Apart from the story, which is obviously ridiculous (hard to imagine that actually three people'd worked on the story, isn't it?) and happens to be one big cliche; apart from the setting the whole bloodfest in abandon prison which was everything but fresh; apart from the acting, which was simply horrible - i.e. amateurish, even though - paradox at its highest! - almost no one had anything to act; apart from all that... the whole thing is just uninvolving. We see few people, they go, they meet some more people, they go, they start to kill each other eventually, everything is so deadly serious throughout that when the ending credits hit the screen you've - out of boredom - almost became one of servants of Prince of Darkness, but since you have taste, it didn't last very long, you are back with old human feeling that you've just lost some time of your life...

You know, you watch movie sometime and you ask yourself: 'Why they do movies like that? We've seen all this so many times it gets boring.' This time, it's a bit different. You ask yourself: 'How much bulls--t they think I can swallow? Do they really think I haven't seen it already? It's arogance beyond decency to think I haven't and doing everything to prove me that I haven't.'
Sometimes, like now, I wonder what people like director of this one think when they do a movie that ends like thousands of them - with no point, no nothing. Lack of ambition? Lack of creativity? Lack of respect to the audience? Lack of brain? Hell, I bet four at once.

So, let's be frank: even though it's B-flick, the movie is a embarrasement. I suggest that everyone (sic!) involved in making this movie should reconsider their occupation (Well, OK, maybe except cinematographer.) Especially, I would advise this Ms. Hollis Zemany who can't deliver one single line without being pretensious.

It should be noted: Ms. Leslie Ann Valenza looked nice all wrapped up in blood. ;-)

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Oh man. You pull the words out of my mouth.

8th Plague is the the 2nd most awful movies (the other one is Dark Remains...it's even worse than 8th plague!) that I have watched based on dreadcentral's nice review. This kind of lack of ability to deliver a decent review from dreadcentral is really start to hurting their weight. At least to me.

Personally I think 8th plague is visually OK, but a complete mess in the script department. It's a collection of unwatchable and boring, yet overall speaking good-looking scenes sequenced together.

Avoid this movie. Life is too short to waste on it.

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I completely disagree I thought for how low budget it was that it was a great film. I've seen a lot of films with a way bigger budget that were ten times worse. I thought the plot was pretty good. I would say that this is the best very low budget movie I've seen. Maybe peoples opinions on the movie are based on what expectations they had for it. When I started watching it I nearly turned it off when I saw how low budget it was but it managed to suck me in. I didn't find it boring at all.

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Whilst I agree with your view that many cheap movies are not THAT bad being on a shoestring budget, I don't agree with your review methodology at all. It can be a complete disaster.

All movies have to be reviewed based on the consistent criteria. Otherwise the review/scoring system won't mean anything. Say, Dreadcentral should have given 8th Plague a score of 1 and of course the reviewer still could have added a few paragraphs stressing something like "for such a measly budget and as a homegrown amateur attempt it's very impressive", but that should not have affected the overall ratings of it at all. If any reviewer fails to recognize the importance of consistency of the scoring scale, his/her reviews will become worthless in no time.

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"This is probably the most accurate example how slasher shouldn't be done. Because there's nothing worse than a serious B slasher."

How is The 8th Plague a slasher film?

Hey, this guy's not gonna leak all over my ice cream, is he?

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