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'May cause narcolepsy...' (may contain spoilers)

posted 10 years ago by xstrym
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Wow... just wow. I have seen better student films before (which I hope this was). If this was a professional endeavor, I cringe. I once worked for a so-called "filmmaker" that made countless films like this one and they were such rubbish it was unconscionable.

I literally QUIT my job to avoid being around a guy that made movies of this dreadful quality. My boss wasn't a student filmmaker either. He was an unscrupulous marketer that sold these trashcan DVDs to unsuspecting video stores in the days before red box, etc. I don't mean blockbuster either, it was mom-and-pop type stores that needed help in boosting their business. My boss fed them lies as he said these dreadful DVDs would help their numbers...

He would sell them as horror flicks and they would turn out like this. We had complaints from many video store owners such as: "The renter came back after 15 minutes of watching the movie and wanted their money back." or "The cover art was so good, that's why I rented it, now I just want to burn my membership card!"

Needless to say that all of these video stores wanted their money back, as well, from my boss. Which is why they were telling us about their customer's responses to these "films". Once I found out about the deep details of his business, I left. Not one movie that he "created" was worth even showing on youtube, for free! (FTR, youtube wasn't even in business in that time frame; 2003-2004).

Back to this dreck. My first impression was that this is very low-budget (duh). I checked the IMDB page for this shat and sure enough: $18,000. The setting? An underground(?) storage place with a dark past. This still didn't stop couples from making out in the halls, bosses brow-beating their employees and other general, but far-fetched scenarios. Why the 13th "unit"? "Unit 666" was too unbelievable? ugh

This movie is badly acted, badly lit, and badly titled. Bad setting, bad logistics, bad characters, bad first name of a writer/director (no offense). Wayyy over-reaching original title "The Darkness, Rage and the Fury"(original title) and subtitled (Trapped like rats, hunted by the beast).

Then they changed it to "The 13th Unit"?? I thought I was going to be watching a retrospective on a certain FDNY Department dealing with 9/11 again. It also could be a bad cop show that got cancelled halfway through filming the pilot! How about "Locker 13" or "Portal 13" or "The Devil's/Demon's Locker"... and that's 5 titles just off the top of my head.

The cover art over-reaches the most in this compost. From what I could make out in this poorly lit debacle was that there was never a full shot of a monster / bad guy. So, my question is, how can they put ol' bright eyes on the cover? Is that what I am "supposed" to believe that he looks like while I am watching this?

This post is called "May Cause Narcolepsy" because near the end the characters stumble upon a "weapon" that repels the baddie... think M.Night Shamylon without the talent. My son looked at me and said the title of this post. While I knew what he meant (epilepsy) I could see his inadvertent commentary as also being valid as there were a few times I suddenly awoke confused. lol

Dim, unrehearsed, overacted, slow, cliche, sub-subpar and a waste of time for the viewer as well as those involved with it's creation. My hope is that this "filmmaker" finds another job where he isn't allowed to deal with the public in such a misleading way again. Although car sales does sort of afford him that position... hint!

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[–] denzelfreeman-131-74463 10 years ago

I like watch watching low budget horror films, so I decided to give this one a try. A friends girl friend said she liked it - she is scared going into her storage unit at night.

It started a little slow, had parts that threw me for a second, but by the end I thought it was cool - the twist at the end was OK. I have seen a lot worse - especially high budget films. Its gritty, ok acting, music and creative...especially after I looked at what the budget was. Not bad...

[–] xstrym 10 years ago

Aren't different opinions wonderful? I wrote the OP late last night and just re-read all of it. Thanks for plowing through it all... looks almost as boring as the movie! lol

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[–] xstrym 10 years ago

Then they changed it to "The 13th Unit"?? I thought I was going to be watching a retrospective on a certain FDNY Department dealing with 9/11 again. It also could be a bad cop show that got cancelled halfway through filming the pilot! How about "Locker 13" or "Portal 13" or "The Devil's/Demon's Locker"... and that's 5 titles just off the top of my head.

Too crazy! Turns out there is a title just released called Locker 13 starring Ricky Schroder (I thought he wanted to be called "Rick" now? ) lol. Well, long story-short, cross this title off the list! This poop movie cannot catch a break! lolol

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[–] seans_life 9 years ago

Then they changed it to "The 13th Unit"?? I thought I was going to be watching a retrospective on a certain FDNY Department dealing with 9/11 again. It also could be a bad cop show that got cancelled halfway through filming the pilot! How about "Locker 13" or "Portal 13" or "The Devil's/Demon's Locker"... and that's 5 titles just off the top of my head.

Have you heard xstrym that the number 13 is unlucky? Also in storage facilities they have what are called units/locker units. Did you know that? Seriously the title is fine even though I like two of the titles you recommended.

$18,000

Yes xstrym that was the budget for the movie and so what did you expect from something like this? I think honestly the music in this was very good from beginning to end, some of the acting (not the boss and not the guy that ran the storage unit) was good or even more than good, lighting was proper, scenes played out well considering they could not show the creature much on screen and yet they still managed to have me glued to the screen to see what went on next. For $18K they did good for sure. I have scene far worse movies with a much higher budget.

This movie is badly acted, badly lit, and badly titled.

Again xstrym in regards to the acting it was solid or more than solid other than two performances and it definitely got much better in the last 2/3s of the movie or so. As for the lighting give me a break. It is a horror picture. The lighting was done that way for effect. Do you know what that is? As for the title of the movie it was ok but yes like I said before you came up with two decent titles for the movie but that doesn't make what they picked that bad. Heck one expects a cheese title for a horror film much of the time.

Anyway bottom line people I think xstrym can't appreciate cheap, horror flicks and if he thought this was going to be anything more than that he doesn't watch enough movies.