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THIS is what can be done with very little money!!!


Taking the budget into consideration, this was a VERY entertaining movie. I couldn't help but feel some Monty Python - inspired moments throughout, and caught myself laughing out loud numerous times.

For this movie to truly build a cult audience (which I feel it deserves), it would likely need to be cut back to about 85 minutes, but that would not be difficult at all.

A great addition to the Fantasia Film Festival!!

By the way, nice CLUTCH shirt.

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Entertaining but in what way?

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I agree. Major kudos to Tremblay for taking a non budget and making what I found to be a very entertaining film. I found it well paced and fell right into the mood. Im guessing the graininess of the film was intentional and, along with the costumes, made for some pretty creepy effects. Reading the credits I saw he had a hand MANY aspects of production and Id sure like to read what the critic above me would suggest to make this clever, low budget winner any better .

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seriously? well paced? entertaining?

I give credit to anyone who can even make a film but with this one, thats where the credit ends.

I found it very very slow and boring, I found the graininess of the film to be off-putting i understand that it was intentional but it didn't work for me.

Some of the things such as costumes where ok but others where again off putting and ruined the mood. the main character was wearing a modified motorcycle suit and a modified paintball mask, this was painfully obvious. I unerstand that this was made on a zero budget but some types of film need a bufget to work. this being one of them.

the special effects where terrible beyond belief, another thing that need to be half way decent in a film like this not to ruin it.

acting was poor but not the worst i have ever.

well done for making a movie, like i say my credit goes to anyone who can get a movie made but this was not a good movie and if i'm brutally honest it may be in the top 10 of the worst i have seen

"I have come here to Kick Ass and chew bubblegum and Im all outa Gum"

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Next time, take that money and flush it down the toilet!

The sense itself was I.

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This film will never become a cult film, reason nothing hardly happened in it, bloke wakes up in a barn, he leaves the barn walks a round a bit then go's back to the barn, a part from the aliens cooking is brains zip happened in the film, i will give the people making it credit for trying to go some thing different but with almost zero budget and hardly any story line, it was a bad film.

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