I love Horrorfest but my town wasn't lucky enough to have it return in January (no surprise there, last year no one really came)so I was stuck waiting till the DVD releases.
On Tuesday I rented "From Within" and loved it more than any other horrorfest movie.
Today I rented "Slaughter" and though a little slow at times I really loved how the end went down. Really disturbing and out of comfort zone, especially the last shot.
Who else liked it?
i sure didnt.... i mean what is there to enjoy.... the villan is dominant over every1 and nobody fights back!!!
NEVER MIND WHAT HATERS SAY, IGNORE 'EM TILL THEY FADE AWAY!
This is the Dumbest movie i have ever seen in my whole life... it sucks.. no story... and the end is even more dumb...
Why did they waste there time and money on such crap..
My sugession is, dont waste your time like i did watching this movie.
I watched it last night and thought it was great too. It started a little slow, but it did not turn out at all how I thought it would. I liked how the abusive boyfriend almost saved the day, different than the typical friend coming in to do the job.
One of the other posters said "what is there to like...nobody fights back." Well as far as the main protagonist, she didn't fight her boyfriend, she ran from him which is what she was trying to do from Lola. All the heroes can't be Rambo.
I enjoyed the film.
My favorite "Afterdark" film this year though is Dying Breed, another dark twisted film based on actual events.
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I enjoyed this movie.
of course there are plot holes and things wrong with it, there is in every film, especially horrors. but one thing i enjoy about this particular film is it spent a little more time on character development than most other horrors, which is always a plus for me as i need to feel something for the characters in order to give a damn about whats happening to them.
as for the ending i preferred it to the normal 'and the good girl saves the day', of course she was no match for a homicidal maniac, and i guess she realised that too at the end, hense why she stopped fighting back
I've got a... dwarf, and I'm not afraid to use him!
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Couldnt agree with you more manta , this film was bad although i cant be arsed to disect it. Seems like the film crew, actors and fan boys for various reasons are bigging up this pile of tosh.
shareJust finished it a few minutes ago. I agree with previous statements--the acting is decent, as in I could suspend my disbelief really well throughout the film (except for the overtly shady father and older brother characters, but one assumes that they're supposed to reek of shadiness from the get-go).
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The ending does leave a bitter taste in my mouth. On the one hand, I can kinda appreciate that the bad girl's plans succeed, huzzah! route. The final girl survivor is itself a cliche, so I suppose it's good to have the villain actually succeed every now and again (which is a cliche itself, but hell, what can you do). What bothers me is the way that Jimmy and Cathy pop up out of the blue only to be gunned down so quickly. Part of the plot was built up around the Jimmy character, haunting Faith's sanity and sense of security in his encroaching proximity to her. She ends up in Atlanta strictly because she's trying to evade this destructive part of her past. I thought "oh snap!" when Jimmy pops up right as Faith is attempting her exodus; and it seems appropriate, if not poetic, that Faith isn't scared of Jimmy as she once was because her fear has been invested into her new tormentor.
As much as her "*beep* you, Jimmy!" statement was cathartic for her character, I wish that there could have been more interaction between them. Lola (or Lola's brother) pretty much steals her thunder. It's not like Faith tells Jimmy off for everything he's done to her. In fact, it seems a little problematic that Jimmy, inadvertently, saves her (momentarily) from Lola because of his narcissitic and delusional feelings for her. In that way, Faith still can't stand on her own two feet and defend herself. She couldn't even deliver the final blow to Lola in the end, so I suppose she probably wouldn't have taken Jimmy out either, had she the chance. He probably would've cut her up or killed her himself. ...So I guess Faith's death is a reflection of her flight instead of fight response. Hell, if someone had just ripped out most of my teeth, tried to kill me, killed my best friend, and sent my ex-psychotic boyfriend toward me only to kill him, I don't know if I would've been able to hold back from vengeance.
I think Cathy's presence was pointless. And I think it's sad that the little brother had no chance :(
Anyhoo, compared to last year's films, this one was still pretty decent.
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I think there were some problems with the movie, but overall I'd say it was loads better than some of the crap that's actually been going to theaters lately. It actually had decent character development for a good part of the movie, and didn't immediately jump into a slaughter/body count routine. This movie was like a slow burn, and managed to avoid most of the major pitfalls to become more of a psychological horror drama rather than a real horror movie. It was different, and that's why I enjoyed it.
shareThe film offers nothing new or original...it is just another in the endless parade of current schlock horror films
share"Hell, if someone had just ripped out most of my teeth,...."
She only pulls out 1 of Faith's teeth, and even that is only lazily implied by showing Lola putting the clamp inside her mouth and then Faith having blood around her mouth for a few scenes afterwards. Then Lola proceeds to pretend to pull out one of her own teeth, even though you can clearly see both characters have all of their teeth in the following scenes, only adding to the confusion...
She pulled out several of Faith's teeth; remember when Faith looks down from the table and sees several pulled teeth sitting around? And how Lola was describing that Faith's front teeth (her incisors) would be disintegrated by the shotgun blast, and only some molars would be left behind, et al? And before that, the camera in that tooth extraction scene blacked out while Lola was in the process of pulling a second tooth?
From Faith's subsequent open-mouth shot, it looked to me like Lola had pulled all of Faith's bicuspids, which are crucial in forensic identification. But that's eight teeth--four top and four bottom--so I'm sure we can forgive the director for not making us sit through six more brutal, non-ADA-approved tooth extractions.
At least Faith got off easier than I thought she would; I was so sure that Lola was going to rip out all of Faith's teeth. That would have been awful to portray or to watch (not to mention needless and very time-consuming for Lola, plotwise).
but in every scene following nobody is missing any teeth. You would be better off assuming it was a hallucination than bothering to try to figure out which teeth weren't removed.
share...or we can just chalk it up to a continuity error. The special effects people probably just forgot to black out their teeth (or greenscreen the teeth, or whatever they do these days) in the subsequent shots...or they might have just been lazy and figured that, with all the cheeks and lips in the way, we the audience probably wouldn't have noticed if Faith got her teeth back. It's not like bicuspids are our most visible teeth anyway....
It's either that or Faith and Lola are human-shark hybrids who can grow back their teeth at a drop of a hat, but that really would have shredded up the plot....
Its nice to hear something positive about the afterdark films. I agree about From Within. Great film. One of the only 8 films I actually own. The third year seemed like it turned out pretty good over all. I dont understand why a lot of folks bash these movies. As an avid horror fan I would rather watch someone try and fail then to not try at all.
shareAGREED.
I just watched "Slaughter" again. The ending just gets me. And I love the movie as a whole because of decent character development. It differs from the *beep* horror films mainstream. This one had feeling.
"From Within" was brilliant. I LOVED IT.
I love After Dark. It gives me a break from every day *beep*
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This movie sucked... it was very boring. I appreciate slow horror movies, but the build up has to be well done and at least interesting from a dramatic perspective if not from a scary perspective. My friends forced me to watch this, and I wished I hadn't. Sure, the twist was good, but the execution was retarded. The acting was terrible, the dialogue was incredibly cheesy and the first hour of the movie was pointless. I know they were trying to build up suspense, like the great movie "House of the Devil", but they failed.. the characters are so cliche and I actually did suspect the ending a little. So, I guess the only good thing about the movie would be the gore... but there wasn't any. This movie was a disgrace.
shareI can't belive no one has mentioned the huge flaw in her plan to fake her own death!
OK so the entire movie is based on the incorrect fact that dental records is the only way to recognize human remains... How can they not even consider fingerprints or DNA (It's not possible that the fire could disintegrate it all). The film is allegedly inspired of something from before that was invented, fair enough. But this is obviously happening in present day; fancy nightclubs, cell phones, etc etc.
It just doesn't make sense!