Any good?

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One of the better slasher style movie in awhile, I thought anyway.

"I will have to read a couple of blogs before I can form my opinion on that"

It wasn't "garbage" but it was pretty forgettable. Same old, same old. I didn't care for the mediocre acting and atypical horror movie motivation (My mother made me CWAZY! Now me must KILL!). It was all too cliche and unoriginal. Basement Jack simply yearns to be another in a long line of iconic slasher flicks that can spawn 127 sequels. But don't trust me, go to "external reviews," and decide for yourself. Just remember, horror review sites often take it easy on their own genre.

We as fans simply can't get a halfway decent brutal horror made these days. Even less surprising is how everyone seemingly involved with these turkeys comes to IMDB and spams away with little else but lies and deception. It's a tad sickening.

If they want to sell their product, be honest and simply do a better job. Every indy horror uses the same set pattern, poor acting and overuse of FX, red corn syrup, or whatever they use nowadays. I can't remember the last horror that took my breath away with its brutality and realism. Of course, it seems every horror is now a lame battle between some average FX guys. That's not what makes a great horror. Anyone and everyone already does that. Hack and slash, hack and slash, hack and slash. So freakin' original.

I still don't think anything has ever disturbed me as much as something like "Henry: Potrait of a Serial Killer." That barely had any FX at all. Simply good acting, real scenarios we could relate our common fears with, and even semi-realistic violence.

We have enough horror around us everyday with shooting, stranglings and so on. Instead of building on classics like "Henry..." and making them even more disturbing, everything these days has become your typical FX filled gross-out horror, or CGI filled fantasy horror. It's not about the genre anymore as much as it is about cashing in on whatever made green last. I suppose we will be getting a boatload of "Paranormal" ghost-horror flicks, both large and small, in the very near future.

Then again, when it's all about the green, what do you expect? I imagine we should expect nothing but more lies, more deception, more bad acting, and more of the same. But hey, I'm generalizing. Not pointing fingers.

Well, the storyline wasn't terribly unique. That was my only real complaint, but for what it was, I enjoyed it. I would have prefered if they hadn't used CGI in a few spots, but as a whole it was just entertaining eye candy. Considering I sat through some really bad stuff like "Dead Country" and "Splatter Disco," this is one of the better low budget flicks I've seen lately.




Vampire penguins? Zombie guinea pigs? We're done for....done for.