The story was boring, long and the acting specially from the male lead was really deplorable and supported by cheap CGI. Though actress had to do nothing other than sleeping in the complete movie. No development of characters.Lot of things were unexplained, In short dont waste your time!!! I think lot of comments here misled people into watching this dumb movie!!
shareNo Development of character's?? HUH? Who? If anything there was alittle too much character development! Lots of things were unexplained?? like what? I haven't found one hole yet. Dude, I don't think you saw the same movie at all. It's a low-budget indie film, so if you were expecting multi-million dollar effects, I can see how you would be disappointed. I'm guessing from your name cubalibre1, you're in cuba. Is this film out in Cuba? I've search everywhere for this film, and can't find it for sale, so you must be watching some crappy re-compressed pirated copy. You may wanna try seeing a better quality version on a bigger screen in 5.1?
shareI'm here only to see if this film is worth watching or not. But thats aside the point.
Illnglish. Cube Libre is a name of a drink, a cocktail to be specific (Rum and Coke). So I'm pretty sure his name has nothing to do with living in Cuba...
watch it from where? I can't find it being sold anywhere? All I've found is some re-compressed pirated copies in DIVX, which, besides being wrong to download, they look like crap when you blow them up on your TV. And I've seen this film in the theater at the LA Film school, it is not a film you can watch like that. It's so dark you'd miss everything in the shadows, and the VFX wouldn't look right. You really need a high quality dvd. Spixe - where have you found it at?
shareSadly, DivX is how most ppl watch movies nowadays, especially indie stuff. I mean, ultimately one can determine for themselves if a film is good (story-wise at least) regardless of compression quality, no? I'm sure if it holds up, people who have seen it (big screen or otherwise) will spread the word.
But yeah, a DVD or theatrical release would be nice.
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The REALLY sad part about what you're saying, is that if your a filmmaker who self-financed your film using your house - as the IMDB trivia indicates is the case with this film, then when they download or stream it they're now killing off the little guy, and not the Big studio's, as piracy started out doing. I don't get why they don't stick to studio films and leave the indie guys alone. Those guys are trying to make something out of nothing as it is.. I feel bad for the filmmakers.
You could be right about film quality, when your talking about something like the usual genre fair, or Crash or something like that, I don't know. What I do know is that unlike the Texas Chainsaw, Halloween Remakes and the other now formulaic slashers, where the visuals usually take a back seat, to character and are never really all that visually artistic. This film's subject matter naturally relies very heavily on the visuals for everything, - to set the tone, mood, atmosphere, to tell the story (most importantly), etc. And, because it is so visually driven, especially the dream worlds, when projected larger than life, and with sound blaring in your ears, those visuals seem to grab you and swallow you up, which can give you the feeling that you are actually in the films world with the characters. (at least I did) Which of course will color the way one feels about a film. I would imagine this can't happen from a poor quality version on a tiny computer screen, so I'd imagine the viewer would feel rather disconnected and could walk away thinking its not a good film. But then again I refuse to watch films that way, so I don't know.
Is this how you saw it?
Yeah, no kidding....downloading flicks is a very sad reality and hits ALL movies - studio and indie alike. Unfortunately indie stuff like this suffers more. My point was just that this is how a LOT of movies are watched regardless of quality or compression. I don't support it anymore - in addition to not having the patience to wait for a download that may just turn out looking like ass, or the wrong file altogether - thus I have not actually seen this movie. I'm nowhere near the locations of any of the screenings. You're lucky to have seen it.
sharethey dont make exceptions for indie movies. they rip everything. sadly i do get to watch indie movies this way? why? cause they dont get to my country, and im not going to fly overseas just to buy movies, now, will i? You can fight piracy if piracy is THE ONLY option to see a movie. you can either donwload it, or not watch it at all. I understand that piracy is killing little guys like this movie, and this is not a good thing, but people fighting against it should understand that sometimes people dont have a choice. piracy is not only thiefing, it also educates people, makes them acessible to cultural material, which they would not be without it.
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It's on DVD in Brazil
sharereally! Weird I would have thought a US film would get a US release first. But at least that means it be here soon.
shareIt will (legally) be out on R2 DVD in the UK/Europe on September 7th. The director, Bill Malone still has not found a North American distribution deal, sadly.
I've seen the film 4 times at various screenings here in L.A. and find something new in it every time. I'm hoping everyone gets a chance to see it (legally, on DVD) in the near future.
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Did you hear this from the Director? Do you talk to him HorrorMaven?
shareYes, I asked Mr. Malone personally at Monsterpalooza and got confirmation the R2 DVD will be out later this year. I've also contacted the European distributor for the confirmed date of September 7th.
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Hey lllngish , I am sure that you are associated with this movie. otherwise you wouldnt waste time to defend this garbage!!! And I looked up your account, you just post for this crap "Parasomnia". Stop misleading viewers!!
shareCan't answer my questions could you? I guess that's how I'd respond also, if someone called me out after I posted a bunch of nonsense about a film, that showed I didn't pay attention to the film.
FYI - You are correct, so far on IMDB I've only posted about Parasomnia. My Film school held a screening of this film with the filmmakers, they informed us of just how brutal it is for the indie's in the market right now, and asked that everyone who liked film, help them by showing support online, and specifically mentioned IMDB. So that's why I'm here. This is one of the very few good unique, creative, and sophisticated slasher films, I've seen in a REALLY Long time! The genre as a whole has seen only a couple of good original entries recently, Drag Me to Hell, and Repo, And I really like them. But where the genre is suffering the most is with slasher films, because the Studios seem to think we all wanna see the umpteenth Sequel or spin-off, of Halloween, Friday the 13th, Saw, or Captivity, which makes up the bulk of their releases. As I stated in my user comment, what I like the most about this film overall, is the HUGE statement it makes; - that the slasher genre has far more imaginative and creative possibilities, than the formulaic, drunk teenagers running from a speechless mindless, manic movies, that the Hollywood Studio's keep shoving down our throats. 2nd - I've NEVER seen a slasher film accomplish what this film does on such a tiny budget. It truly is a beautiful artistic contribution to the Art!
So yes I'm behind the filmmakers 100%. As a huge genre fan my usual forum hangouts are at Fangoria, Bloody Disgusting, and JoBlo, where I frequently post on ALLOT of different genre films, the last of those three is where I first learned of the film. With all the studio crap, It's extremely difficult these days for a horror film to get a great review from JoBlo, yet they wasted their time giving this film a most EXCELLENT Review. -See here http://www.joblo.com/arrow/index.php?id=15852 In fact every single press review that has come out so far, that I can find, has ALL been positive..... Are they associated with the movie also? or misleading people with their reviews?
I found it quite difficult to find a post of yours where you say anything positive about any film. Should I just conclued, based on your post's you are simply a flamer.
I haven't had a chance to see this movie yet, however it is obvious that cubalibre1 is an ignorant troll. Cubalibre can't even name any specific instance from the film for his statements.
I applaud users like lllngish that show support for indie films. You lead a sad, sad life when all you do is flame IMDB message boards to bash movies. Some people create films, wager their house on it like the case of this movie, and others are mere spectators whose only creation is a few sentences expressing dislike on a message board. Sucks to be you. In the case of William Malone, at least someone is doing something productive with his existence.
Well, it is difficult to name any specific instance from the movie when complete movie is garbage!!! look at those dream scenes. And don't tell me about supporting indie movies. When movie is up to the mark then everybody likes it e.g. Blair witch project.
And the guys like you who don't have talent or creativity to make good film should not try to waist their time or audiences time!!!
William Malone has the creativity to write and direct this film. Yet you have writer's block in naming an actual scene or plot point to actually criticize. Your only semi-specific complaint is the dream scenes? Really? This isn't a multi-million dollar budget film, so of course the film has weaker CGI.
Plenty of people hated Blair Witch. Just because you can name an indy film that someone liked doesn't mean your original post is any less dumb. If you don't want to waste your time with the possibility of seeing a bad movie then don't watch any movies. If this movie wasted your time why are you posting on the film's message board multiple times?
Myself, I have seen plenty of bad movies during my life, but I don't waste my time complaining on IMDB with blanket statements like. "that movie was garbage" or "worst movie ever." Halloween Resurrection was terrible, but I don't bother posting in its board, not worth my time. I have better things to do than to troll that board.
Sure this movie isnt for everyone...
But if your looking for something fresh and in my opinion... quite beautiful, check it out...
Not sure about plot holes (aside from the strange fact that a supposedly normal guy kidnaps a sick girl), and the character development seemed fine, but I must agree about the lead actor - DEPLORABLE! He simply was not cast well, but the lead actress, along with every supporting role, was quite good - CGI is crap whereever it is found, this movie is excused in that sense because 1) they keep it to a minimum, and 2) every other movie in existance now sadly seems to be made under the impression that CGI is better than people using creativity to accomplish the same task without stupid animation!
shareZapprowsdower. I agree with you regarding CGI. It is generally overused. I think CG is a great tool but it has now become a buzzword and inexperienced producers tend to think of it as the answer to everything. This film, however, has used it to its benefit, I think. Here, it has been used to create dreamscapes that I'm sure would have been nearly impossible on an indy budget to do any other way. Secondly, because they are elements of a dream, the distance from reality that CG brings actually helps the mood of this film. I have seen a couple of behind the scenes stills on this film that do show actors on a set which appears to have many of the "spinning plates" in full-size. Also there are pictures of an effects team filming miniatures including the "graveyard" and that weird house with the trees growing out of it. So perhaps we're making some assumptions that may or may not be true. Whatever the case, I do really like this movie and hope it does well. Re: The young male lead, I thought he was very like-able in a role that could have been deadly. I think that role was harder than it seemed ... and the girl... good actress... damn cute too.
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I thought this film was pretty mediocre, certainly not even vaguely scary and the lead character danny just got on my tits. Why the *beep* would a normal person resort to kidnap? Glad he got shot in the face.
The girl was irratating too, One minute the she couldn't speak hardly two words then she was gobbing away fluently. Ah well least she got whacked too. Shame volpe got killed cus I was rooting for him most of the film.
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I agree, too many things were unexplained.
shareWrong ... liar
It's great