I Just Saw This


This movie is very typical of what's done in the slasher genre. It has a psycho bad guy who kills for no real reason. Yeah, they said he has PTSD, but come on. He lives in an abandoned hospital and kills anyone who happens to trespass in it. It also has the audience rooting for the killing of the very unlikeable characters. Of course, it's not a slasher without the slasher movie props of blood, gore and boobs. Three of the girls show their breasts. The ones who don't are Bridget (Amanda Manddox) and Stella (Alison Lani). That figures, since they're the only two people in the entire movie I liked.

Of course, cliché after cliché is used. Clichés don't mean something will be bad, just like lack or originality doesn't mean it, either. However, if they use clichés and repetitive story lines, at least try to do a good job on them. In this movie, they didn't. They have some of the characters running for their lives down the hallway. The killer is just walking after them. Somehow, the killer always catches up to his prey. Come on! Put that pathetic cliché six feet under already! This is the 21st Century. Is the audience really supposed to believe that somebody walking can catch up to people who are running? Ugh! No cell phone reception? Really? I know in hospitals - the ones that are working - cell reception is hard, but that's because of the machines that are in use. This is an old, abandoned hospital, and they can't get a signal? The writing was in serious need of help. The characters, most of them, were in serious need of being killed. I do not recommend.

The one victim that keeps suffering every time a movie like this is made is the slasher genre itself. When someone hears another slasher is out, people roll their eyes, and it's because of movies like this, The Cemetery, Varsity Blood, and I can go on and on with other failed slasher titles. Stop killing the slasher genre, folks! I gave this 2 stars. One for Amanda Maddox, and one for Alison Lani.

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I agree with most of your views. Though I will say this: for a slasher film, there was a remarkably short supply of gore other than some Haunted House-level "severed" heads and fake intestines.

I like bad horror movies. I can tolerate a poorly made horror movie if it's done in earnest. But here every character was a cliche, the killer work a helmet that blocked his face and we never saw it because... that's what slashers do, and everyone acts like an idiot. That and the costume design/make up department were horrible. Stella's Ben Franklin glasses and stupid hat and the token Homosexual Latino guy constantly wearing a scarf and holding an unlit cigar? Horrible. And actors in the same scene appear to be in two different climates: the males are constantly dripping sweat while the females, in the exact same scene, aren't.

A low budget slasher can work even if it has questionable acting, a low budget, and shoddy costumes. I instantly thought of Sweatshop when this movie started. There the movie is obviously done on a shoe string budget but every kill at least looks pretty amazing and creative. The practical effects more than made up for the lack of anything else. This movie had nothing to save it.

I'm guessing the film makers thought they were giving their movie more gravitas by including the PTSD war veteran part. Except it makes no sense.

Wasted opportunity and I'm sure will one day become just another junk space filler on Netflix and on Chiller Saturday afternoons.

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This movie was so bad I'm surprised it had any sort of release.

It needed some serious retooling on the kills to even be watchable on a FUN level.

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I feel you! It's not very good, but as a slasher fan I'll take whatever I can get these days (unfortunately, that results in watching a lot of garbage). I wish we could get some creative, great slasher flicks. The Hatchet series was pretty fun & cool, but other than that it seems like there hasn't been much. As a slasher fan I appreciated this, but all in all it's pretty bad.

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Yeah, I trawl through garbage looking for the odd gem...I guess I'll never learn

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