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Deserves higher rating


This movie was awfully stupid at times, but the stupidity often seemed intended. I found it enjoyable despite the mediocre CGI and story. The acting wasn't top-notch either, but the same could be said about a lot of Hollywood horror movies that have way higher ratings. I found this movie enjoyable, however it felt to me more as if it was a parody at times. I wouldn't pay a movie ticket or DVD of this, but for something that ran on my TV at 3 in the morning it was satisfactory.

The movie doesnt deserve ratings below 5 though, there are a lot of mediocre horror movies out there, and this definitely wasn't the worst, nor much worse than the expensive productions...

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This film cost 2.5 million dollars to make. I recently saw a movie that cost $20,000 to make (I forget the name at the moment but other great films that cost between $20,000-$30,000 to make are "Slackers" and "El Mariachi"), and I gave it a good rating.

My question is: where did the money for this film go? Not in the special effects, that's obvious, not in the actors (unless David Carradine took home a good chunk of the budget), not in the script, not in the direction, not...I could go on.

It's a watchable film but it deserves the accumulated rating by those here have given it. And if that's under 5/10, who is anyone to really argue.

Just because it's independently produced doesn't mean it deserves more praise than a big budget film, or any other film but then again, it was made for 2.5 million.

-Nam

I'm on the road less traveled...

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seriously 2.5 million? i thought this was a low budget B-movie
at least that is how it felt and i would have under no condition expected this to be a 2.5 million $ movie...

I think neither Carradine nor Robbin Williams daughter did cost so much for their short screentimes... god knows what they wasted all the money for

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When I made that comment I was 40 minutes into the film. I start at a film rating of 10, and it either drastically falls, gradually falls, or never falls from that rating. This film fluctuated for me. Near the end I was going to rate it 5/10 but then the end of the film changed my mind and I gave it 4/10.

It's cheaply made but that didn't bother me, mainly the direction and the script was sub par. Could've been better.

-Nam

I'm on the road less traveled...

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The 2.5 million are hard to believe. Maybe someone made a mistake and added a 0 as last digit by accident xD

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