The Collapsed Movie Review

The Collapsed

                                       

The Collapsed is a horror thriller movie released in 2011. This film is written by Kevin Hutchinson and Justin McConnell and directed by Justin McConnell. The four main characters of the movie The Collapsed are played by John Fantasia, Steve Vieira, Anna Ross and Lise Moule.

The Collapsed is about a family of four members, who tries to survive from some mysterious people who are on a hunt to kill everyone around.

A scene from the movie The Collapsed

Plot:

The plot of The Collapsed starts with a family of four; the dad, the mom and the brother and the sister, hiding in a dark place in a city from some strange dangerous people. They find the existence of those dangerous people in their hiding place, so they leave that place very carefully and move to a basement train station. They spend the night there in the dark. Later at that night, the father hears some strange noise.

On the next morning, they finds a car with some dead bodies around (and inside) it and then they take the car to leave the city. Their target is to find the other brother who lives a little far away and they guess that place will be safer as it is a less crowded area.

On the way, they find that their car is running out of gas. So they stop at a gas station. Although they find the gas refill machines out of order, but they manage to get some supplies from the store there. But soon two masked man come there with guns, so the family runs away from the store through the back door and continues their journey through the woods by feet.

At one point, they stop to take some rest. The sister gets separated for a while but comes back to others safely. After a little argument, the father and the son goes back to the store again to get some more supplies and to take back their car. They find their car fully out of gas, while they manage to get some supplies. While coming back to the mother and the daughter, the son falls a little behind his father and they find that the mother and the daughter both have been killed in the meantime. They bury the bodies. The son wants to go after the killers, but his father stops him.

Now the father and the son continues their journey. They find a cabin in the woods with some foods and beers. They spend the night there, where the father and the son talk about some of their family issues.

On the next morning, they start their journey again. They spend that night open in the woods but they survive without facing any danger. On the next morning, they were on their journey again as usual before they sense someone's presence around them. Then a sniper shoots the son on the leg. He falls down and the father tries to save him, but the sniper finally kills him. The father follows the sniper, which leads him to cabin where some of those strange men and some survivors were residing. There the father tries to take the revenge of all the deaths of his family members but in return, he gets the horrible answers about the mystery happening around that place. 

  My review about the movie The Collapsed:

The whole movie The Collapsed didn't seem impressive at all, except the last five minutes.

The plot is very simple and straightforward until the ending. Throughout the whole The Collapsed, I kept wondering about those mysterious men who are trying to kill them. But almost nothing about their intention was shown until the ending, which, instead of keeping the thrills up, felt annoying. The direction and the screenplay also felt very poor. The charters didn't seem realistic all the times in The Collapsed. For example, when two killers were out there nearby with guns, how can a girl go away from the group to shave her legs? Again, in a situation like that, how come the father and the son get separated with the guns leaving the mother and the daughter defenseless in the jungle?

The whole movie kept on going boring and I can't blame anyone if he/she gives up watching this in halfway. But those who are patient enough to continue watching The Collapsed till the end, will be rewarded with some good excitement at the very end. The twist was somewhat unpredictable and I must say, impressive. Although it doesn't give a very good explanation or most of the answers that comes to the mind while watching The Collapsed (even some of the most basic ones) but as a fantasy, it felt good.

The acting of none of the characters of the movie The Collapsed were very good. To me, the acting of the leading character, the father, felt worst. The dialogues were also very poor. At some parts, the dialogues felt redundant.

On the good sides of The Collapsed are the music, the lighting, the location and the set design and the camera effects. The combinations of all these are good enough so that you won't get a feeling of watching regular B grade movie.

There are no nude scenes in The Collapsed. But this movie contains some gore scenes, so I think you shouldn't watch it with children.

So, finally, as I've written above, The Collapsed is a below average movie with a good ending. The twist in the ending makes this movie its worth, but the lack in other important issues (like acting, dialogues, screenplay and so on) pulls it down so much that the ending alone can't cover them up. I wouldn't recommend watching The Collapsed to others.

How did you like The Collapsed? Do you share the same feeling about it with me? Share with others in the comments.

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IMDB link : The Collapsed IMDB
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5 Souls Movie Review

5 Souls

                                     

5 Souls is a horror drama movie released in 2011. This movie is written by Colet Abedi and directed by Brett Donowho. The main characters of 5 Souls are played by Samaire Armstrong, Steve Bacic, Ian Bohen, Allison McAtee and Charles Solomon Jr.

The movie 5 Souls consists of two plots, where at one, a man whose wife and little girl have been killed in a collapsed building, is trying to find who is responsible for the accident. In the other plot, a man in coma is faced by a demon who is pushes him to kill five people.

Steve Bacic and Allison McAtee in 5 Souls

Plot:

At the beginning of 5 Souls, we see a small clip where a little girl followed by her mother runs to a building and then the building starts to collapse.

Then we see a man named Sam, an ex-police officer and the father of that little girl, leaving a lonely, depressed life and attempts to commit suicide but refrains himself at the last moment. Another building has collapsed and he goes there. He enters the restricted zone and a detective, named Sara, questions him. He says that he is a government officer and convinces Sara to let him stay there. Then another police officer comes and recognizes him but Sam doesn’t tell him that he has already fooled Sara.

Later on, Sam and Sara meet at a bar and Sara thanks Sam for not making her look like a fool in front of her colleagues. Then they make out. After that, Sam tells Sara that the owner of that building is responsible for the collapses by using poor material and he is also the owner of the building where Sam’s daughter and wife died. Sara agrees to take his help in her investigation.

On another side, on the day when the building collapses, a man named Noah, who is going to get married soon, goes to a doctor to get some vaccine. But just after taking the vaccines, he feels sick and then falls into coma after he’s taken to a hospital.

In the hospital, he sees a man in his room who has some very special abilities. That man says he has come to kill Noah, but after Noah’s begging, he gives him a chance. He says, Noah has to kill five people to save himself. Seeing no way out, Noah agrees and then proceeds to the killing. He kills the first victim, and sees that nobody can see him. He also meets a blind girl who can see him and she offers him her help but he refuses.

Meanwhile, Sam and Sara start to live together and continue their investigation. They find some clues of using low grade materials by the building owner. They go to his office and meet him, and he grants them access to company’s files. Their further investigation leads them to Noah’s fiancée, who is an employee of that company. But in these times, some personal issues and Sam’s past records irritates Sara and she wants to stay away, but finally Sam convinces her to keep him in the investigation.

At the hospital, Noah keeps on filling his quota of killing five people. The ghosts of his victims come to haunt him, but it doesn’t stop him from killing. The demon is pleased on him and then according to the demon’s instruction, Jonah wakes up from the coma to kill his last victim, just when Sam and Sara reach the same hospital.

Ian Bohen in 5 Souls

My review about the movie 5 Souls:

5 Souls seemed as a very strange movie, which has a good production value, but is very poorly written.

The plot of 5 Souls seemed very weird. Each of the two plots could make good movies alone, with the same cast. But none of them felt complete and their mixture also didn’t seem good. Though the whole movie, everyone can guess that the two plots will collide at the end, but the way they collided was not enjoyable. The character development also seemed very poor in 5 Souls.

But other than the bad scriptwriting and bad direction, almost everything else in 5 Souls was good. The actors and actresses did a good job. Almost all of the leading artists in 5 Souls have done a good number of TV series ago and their acting here seemed natural. The lighting and set design was also good and the special effects of the demon looked beautiful and scary. The sound effects were good too.

There is a small nudity in 5 Souls. For that and for the killing scenes, I think this movie is not good for children.

So, finally, 5 Souls is an example of how a poor plot can harm the beauty of an otherwise-good movie. I think, this one had a good potential to be a nice movie, but failed completely. I believe I’ve wasted my time by watching it. I will not recommend 5 Souls to anyone.

Have you watched this one? To you, what are the other flaws of 5 Souls? Share with others in comments.

To know more:

Wikipedia link: No Wikipedia link was found for 5 Souls.

IMDB Link:  5 Souls IMDB

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No Tell Motel Movie Review

No Tell Motel

                                                 

No Tell Motel is a horror thriller movie released in 2012. This movie is written by T.J. Cimfel and directed by Brett Donowho. The different characters of this film are played by Rileigh Chalmers, Johnny Hawkes, Chalie Howes, Andrew MacFarlane, Angel McCord and Chelsey Reist.

No Tell Motel is about a group of friends who have an accident in the highway and the goes to a nearby abandoned motel to stay at the night. But the terrifying history of that hotel haunts them and they start to get killed one by one.

A Scene from the movie No Tell Motel

Plot:

At the beginning of No Tell Motel  we see a small clip, where a little girl gets killed on the highway by a speeding vehicle. Her parents rush to her, who were just a few feet away from her, in front of a motel.

Five friends (two couples and another girl, where the two boys are brothers) are heading to a cottage in their RV to spend a vacation. They stop at a store to buy supplies, where one of the girls secretly buys pregnancy test kit. A boy is seen severely addicted to some special drugs. They again start from the store. The boy who was driving the RV is speeding ignoring all other’s warnings and finally has an accident.

Now, in the highway at the middle of the night, they are at a loss. But soon they find an abandoned motel nearby (the same motel which we saw in the clip at the beginning of the movie) and they all goes there to spend the night. The addicted boy gets busy with his tablets, a couple starts to make out and another girl, with her pregnancy test, finds out that she is pregnant. She shares it with another girl of the group and also says that she doesn’t understand how this has happened, because she always uses protection with her boyfriend. The other girl also shares some of her secrets with her.

A girl from that group sees a little girl (who died at the beginning of the movie) and while following her, she gets killed by a speeding truck. The others finds her dead body holding a little girl’s shoe and a scar on her face, which she saw on the little girl. They also find the injured and unconscious driver of the truck which caused that accident and carries him to the motel.

While a girl from the group was roaming around the motel, the wooden floor breaks and she falls in a room in the basement. She finds someone else’s presence in the room and a wooden horse moves itself towards her, so she hides in the next room. The addicted boy finds her from the ground floor, and while looking for something to save her, he finds some more drugs. By taking those drugs, he loses his mind. Meanwhile, the girl in the basement has some sort of vision from the past where she sees a lady in the bathtub, cutting her own wrists.

In another room, the dead girl’s boyfriend start to hit on the addicted guy’s boyfriend, but the addicted guy comes there and the two boys head for the basement to save the girl. But meanwhile, she has seen the little girl again and while trying to escape from there, she dies. The two boys go to the basement where one of them gets mysteriously locked in a room. There the again see some vision where a lady is tied to a table.

In the meantime, the driver of the truck that killed the first girl wakes up and then he tells the last girl about this motel. He says, after their little girl got killed on the accident, her parents got insane and the mother tried to commit suicide. The father saved her and kept her inside the basement tied to a table, where he used to feed her.

In the basement, the door of the room opens on its own and the man there sees another vision of the father of the dead little girl raping his wife. He then comes upstairs and taking the girl, goes to basement again and find another girl’s dead body. In the meantime, the addicted boy has come upstairs and traps himself inside a bathroom and keeps on taking drugs. He sees the little girl sitting in the bathtub, staring at him. When the two from the basement comes upstairs, they find his dead body. Then the man tells the girl that one time he drugged and then raped her. Hearing this, she leaves the room and starts to make contact with the ghost of the little girl to know her intentions.  

Following the little girl, she finds the horrific facts which happened in this motel long ago. She also learns the true identity of the truck driver and then she, along with her friend, fights to come out of this motel alive.

My review about No Tell Motel:

First of all, I didn’t like No Tell Motel at all.

The plot of this movie is not bad, but its too common to interest anyone. We have seen a lot of horror movies like No Tell Motel. The ending is also predictable.

The regular things in No Tell Motel didn’t seem realistic at all. For example, a group of friends were on a trip, but when the accidents happened, none of them seem to have any deep emotion for the death of their friends. One of them even started to hit on his brother’s girlfriend just minutes after his girlfriend died in No Tell Motel. In an abandoned hotel in the middle of nowhere, no one had someone to watch his/her back.

The acting of all the characters in No Tell Motel are a little below average, nothing impressive. Same goes for the dialogues.

The direction and the screenplay were really poor. None of the characters looked realistic. The character development also in No Tell Motel seemed very poor. None of the characters seemed to look at the real problem throughout the whole movie, even after their friend’s death. The scenes from the past didn’t look scary or pleasant at all. The whole movie No Tell Motel has failed to give a scare to me in any way.

The use of special effects in No Tell Motel was very limited. But they seemed okay.

There were no nude scenes or gore scenes in this movie, so you can watch it with kids.

So, finally, I didn’t find No Tell Motel worth watching. After watching it, I felt I’ve wasted a good amount of time. If you are looking for horror movies, there are a lot other better alternatives and you can view the other posts of my blog to get some names. I will not recommend No Tell Motel to anyone.

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Wikipedia link: I didn’t find any Wiki entry for No Tell Motel. 

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The Pact Movie Review

The Pact
                                           

The Pact is an American horror mystery thriller movie released in 2012. This movie is written and directed by Nicholas McCarthy. The Pact has a very small set of characters, which is played by Caity Lotz, Casper van Dien, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Haley Hudson, Sam Ball, Mark Steger, Agnes Bruckner (whom we saw also in Breaking The Girls) and Dakota Bright. 

The movie The Pact is about a lady who tries to investigate when her sister goes missing, but finds that the whole story is much more bigger than it appears.

A scene from the movie The Pact

Plot:
At the beginning of The Pact, we see a lady named Nicole, who is living alone, talks with her sister about coming to their mother’s funeral. Her sister, Annie, refuses to come to her abusive mother’s house and they have a little argument over it. Nicole then talks with her little girl who is living with one of Nicole’s cousin. Although Nicole is alone in the house, over the video chat, her daughter asks her about the man who is standing behind her. She looks back and finds no one there. Then she hears some noise in the closet. To check it, she enters there and disappears. 

Her sister Annie comes to that house when Nicole is not found by anyone. Annie finds Nicole’s laptop and some other scattered things around the house. She also finds Nicole’s cell phone in the closet. On the next day, she attends her mother’s funeral where her cousin brings Nicole’s daughter. After the funeral, three of them comes back to the house and plans to stay the night there. Late at night Annie wakes up by some noise and finds some food lying on the floor of the kitchen. Her cousin seems missing. She tries to escape from the house taking Nicole’s daughter but some invisible force tries to keep her inside the house. She finally manages to escape with the little girl.

She goes to the police but nobody believes her. They indirectly suspect her for the missing case of Nicole and her cousin. But one officer offers her his help with investigating this case. She stays the night at a hotel, where she finds a massage about a place that has come to her phone last night. She checks the map with her phone and finds a woman’s photo there. That night, she has a nightmare about the decapitated body of that lady and some force which is keeping her inside the room.

On the next morning, with the help of the police officer, she discovers a hidden room in her late mother’s house. The room has holes on the walls to see all around the house. The officer can’t find much in there. So she then visits one of her high school friend, who is a strange blind girl with some sort of paranormal power. Annie then takes the girl and her caretaker to the house. The girl finds someone’s presence in the room and at one point starts screaming the name ‘Judas’. Referring Annie’s mother, she also says that she didn’t want anyone to know. Then she becomes sick and her caretaker takes her back from there. They all also see the ghost of a lady.

Annie does some research online and finds out that Judas is a serial killer who is responsible for some killings, including a teacher in the nearby area. She finally finds that, the victim of Judas is the lady who’s ghost she has seen in the house. She has also seen some photos of that lady with her mother. She then finds that her mother had a brother about whom they don’t know. In the meantime, the police officer finds some strange sign in one of the photos taken in that house. He goes there to investigate, but gets killed by someone.

Annie calls her friend again about the mystery. Taking her suggestions, Anny goes to that hidden room again to find the concealed truth about the house, her mother and about Judas.

A scene from the movie The Pact

My review about The Pact:
First of all, I liked this movie The Pact. The whole movie seemed well written and well directed.

The plot of The Pact is actually good and attractive. At first, it started as a ghost story, then moved the momentum to some kind of a detective one and ends in mixing these two types. And the blend of these two seemed really good. But I must say, the director has cleverly avoided making everything clear in The Pact. Some of the mysteries are kept open to the viewers’ imagination. In the whole movie, not much of the characters’ background is shown and the focus is always fixed to the current events. The screenplay of The Pact is also brilliant.

Other than the ghost parts, some other parts are there on The Pact also which didn’t seem much realistic, like, how a man can stay hidden for so many years, what has happened to Nicole and her cousin and so on. But these things will not harm your viewing experience of The Pact at all. 

The acting of all the characters in The Pact were pretty good. The dialogues were okay as well. The special effects, specially when Annie was being pulled in the air was brilliant. The make ups were also good, specially of Judas’s. The leading character, Annie was an eye candy.

The horror elements in The Pact were good enough to scare anyone. As this movie concentrates on the detective story also, so it was not full of horror scenes. But whatever is there, will give you a good thrill. The Pact keeps the tension high from the beginning to the end. Some scenes were scary enough to give you a chill down your spine.

The lighting, camera works and the sound effects were nothing more or less than the perfect. 

There is no nudity in The Pact. So, other than some graphic scenes, the whole movie is okay for children.

So, overall, The Pact is a good horror thriller. We usually don’t get to see such a worthy horror movie everyday. I’d recommend watching The Pact to all movie fans.

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IMDB link: The Pact movie IMDB
Wikipedia Link: The Pact movie Wiki
Additional resource:  This page has a director’s interview about The Pact. Don’t see this if you haven’t already watched this movie, because it contains spoiler.  But after watching the movie, this interview should help you to find some answers. The link is : http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3202946/director-nicholas-mccarthy-ties-up-loose-ends-on-the-pact/

Ending Explanation of The Pact :
This part contains spoiler, so I’ve written the below in white font. Don’t read this if you haven’t watched The Pact. To make it visible, select the below paragraph with your mouse:

The same color of Judas and Annie’s eye suggest that, Judas is Annie’s father. We get this hint when her cousin talks about Annie’s eyes color and says that her mother didn’t have them, so they must’ve came from her father.  Judas actually dies at the end, what Annie saw after that was her dream. And the name “The Pact” refers to the pact between Annie’s mother and Judas. 

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Crowsnest Movie Review

Crowsnest
                                            

Crowsnest is a found-footage or caught-on-camera style horror thriller movie released in 2012. This film is written by John Sheppard and directed by Brenton Spencer. The leading characters of the movie Crowsnest are played by Mittita Barber, Aslam Husain, Victor Zinck Jr., Chelsey Reist and Christie Burke.

The movie Crowsnest tells the story of a group of teenagers who are heading to a cabin in the jungle to spend their holidays. But on the way, they start experiencing paranormal events and then fall victim to some psychopaths.

A scene from the movie Crowsnest

Plot: 
Crowsnest starts with a boy named Justin recording the neighborhood from his window with a camera, which he has just got as a gift on his birthday from his girlfriend Brooke. Then his girlfriend’s friend Amanda and Amanda’s boyfriend Kirk come to his apartment to wish him. Justin keeps recording his everyday life with the camera, which irritates Brooke.

On the next day, these two couples and Amanda’s sister together start for a trip to a cabin in the jungle which is owned by Kirk’s parents. All of them are having fun just like normal young people except Amanda’s sister, who is a serious person and doesn’t take part in their jokes. After leaving the town, at one point, Kirk (who is driving the car) gets confused about the direction and finally they lose their way in the hills.

They stop at a nearby place to buy cheap beers. There Brooke sees a strange girl, who disappears in a few seconds. The boys also meet a horrifying old man who warns them to go back, otherwise all of them will die. They ignore the warning and heads further. At one place, they find the skinned dead body of a wild animal (maybe a deer). This scene makes Amanda's sister sick and she wants to throw up. So they stop by the road. Then a RV rushes by them nearly killing Amanda. 

The boys get furious and rush after the RV,. But at one point, the RV manages to chase them and keeps hitting their car from behind. After some time, they outrun the RV and again stop to check the condition of their car. The RV comes there again and this time, hits Amanda's sister. Then the RV runs away and the terrified group starts to look for help. None of them finds any signal in their phone so they go uphill to get network coverage. Their car stops suddenly on the way and they find something is broken. In the meantime, they find that Amanda's sister has died. When they can't move their car, the boys and Brook start to go uphill though the jungle by foot, leaving Amanda in the car with her sister. Soon after they leave, they hear Amanda's scream and rush back to the car, but find that neither the car nor anyone is there.

Justin blames all of these to Kirk and over this issue they start to fight. Finally Justin runs away from Brook and Krik and goes with the camera. After some time he finds the RV. Two people from the RV come out and then Justin enters there, finding Amanda injured and chained. He also finds a strange girl who is trying to eat a part of Amanda's sister. He kills the girl and then runs away from the RV, unable to take Amanda with him. But the two men from the RV comes back, find him and then kill him.

Brook and Kirk find the camera. They are then chased by the two men from the RV. Brook and Kirk try to hide from them, find their car and get away from the place to safety.

My review about Crowsnest:
I didn't expect much from the movie Crowsnest , but I was amazed to find it pretty good.

Now a days, a lot of horror movies are made in this accidentally-caught-on-camera style and most of them are not impressive at all. This style is getting overused and boring, but Crowsnest is a rare impressive one of them. Here, the director has shown how to successfully take the advantages of making a movie in this style.

The plot of Crowsnest  is very thin and straightforward. The ending is predictable. If you have watched a few horror movies of this style, you will be able to predict its ending successfully. There is almost no twist.

But other than the plot, everything else about Crowsnest is pretty good. The director has succeed to keep the tension high in this one. Once the thrill starts, it will be good enough to keep you at the tip of your chair till the end of the movie. We must give him credit for this movie, which seems so interesting with such a weak plot. Crownest gives you enough time to get to know the characters before jumping in to the fun parts.

The acting of all the characters in Crowsnest are good. The dialogue are not that high class, but still good. The screenplay is also not weak. The artists are good looking and fit to their characters.

The makeups are also good to but Crowsnest is a little weak on special effects. Some effects with blood didn't look natural. Another thing is, after Amanda's sister got hit by the RV, we did not see much of injury signs on her.

Here in Crowsnest, the director has successfully taken all the advantages of the style of this film. Not every details is shown here but it does not harm the viewing experience. I could not find any overuse of special effects.

For some nudity at the beginning of the film, some graphic scenes and for the language, Crowsnest is not suitable for kids.

So, finally, as I've said, I liked Crowsnest very much. Don't let a poor IMDB rating (3.4, while I am writing this review) stop you from watching Crowsnest. This movie is not popular or not much talked about, but it surely is worth a shot. I'd definitely recommend watching this good horror thriller to all movie lovers.

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Wikipedia link: no wikipedia entry about Crowsnest is found. 

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Backslasher Movie Review

Backslasher

                                                

Backslasher is a horror thriller movie released in 2012. This movie is written and directed by Tim Cowles. The main characters of Backslasher are played by Eleanor James, Emily Eaves, Michael Gamarano, Lucie Howard and Mike Prince.

The movie Backslasher is about a young model, whose friends are getting killed one by one by a serial killer, where the serial killer uses social networking sites to find the victims.

A scene from the movie Backslasher

Plot:

Becca is a young model who lives with her friends. She is passionate about lingerie and adult toys. She is trying to gain fame by vlogging (video blogging) in a social network. She and her other friends never worry about putting their personal information in social networks, open to thousands of accepted friends whom they don’t know at all. One day, she and a friend of hers blog about another friend and soon she receives a mysterious video comment from another girl.

Becca’s boyfriend visits her one day and tells her that he is moving to Germany. He does not change his decision after Becca requests him several times. At the same time, one of her friends was making out with her boyfriend in the car, when they hear a suspicious sound. Soon, a stranger kills both of them.

Becca’s boyfriend comes back to her and they have sex. Then the boyfriend leaves without changing his previous decision. Becca goes to take a shower and then she hears some noise in her room. Coming back, she finds the necklace of her friend who was killed, on her bed. She doesn’t know about the incident till then and can’t find anyone responsible to keep the necklace there.

She wants to change her place and visits some agent, but that man wants to take advantage of her. She barely escapes from there.

She soon gets a lot of spam messages from that friend. Her other friends get a friend request from a mysterious person who named him/herself as ‘/’. Becca calls and then visits her web server manager to know the whereabouts of her friend who is killed, but the manager can’t give her anything.

Then, the girl who posted a video comment on Becca’s blog gets kidnapped by someone. Then Becca receives a video message, where she sees that the girl is kept captive and is beaten by the kidnapper, who later kills the girl.

Soon, the killer goes after each of Becca’s friend one by one and kills them. He/she continues this till he/she reaches Becca.

My reviews about Backslasher:

First of all, I didn’t like the movie Backslasher at all, and I guess nobody else will. There is nothing at all in this movie to like. I felt like I’ve wasted the whole time watching it. Surely, Backslasher can secure its place in your worst-movies-of-all times list.

The plot is very weak and the screenplay is worse. Actually, at the ending I couldn’t find the point of this movie at all. I felt no sense of suspense in the whole movie Backslasher.

The acting were horrible and the dialogues were poor in Backslasher. The make ups were also poor as well. The bloods and the effects of killing were awful. The lighting and the camera works are one of the worsts I’ve ever seen.

The only not-so-bad thing about Backslasher is its music and some sound effects.

There are a few nude scenes in this movie which makes it not suitable for kids.

So, overall, watching Backslasher was a total waste of time. In a rude way, this movie is not worth watching for even 10 minutes. Will I recommend watching Backslasher to anyone? That will be a big NO.

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IMDB link : Backslasher Movie IMDB

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The Ruins Movie Reviews

The Ruins

                                                   

The Ruins is a horror thriller movie released in 2008. This movie is written by (screenplay) Scott B. Smith and directed by Carter Smith. The plot of this film is adopted from the novel of the same name by Scott B. Smith. The leading characters of The Ruins are played by Jordan Patrick Smith, Jonathan Tucker, Shawn Ashmore, Jena Malone, Laura Ramsey and Joe Anderson.

In The Ruins, we see a group of friends visiting a Mayan ruin, where they fall victim to the strange nature there and start getting killed one by one.

A scene from the movie The Ruins

Plot:

The Ruins starts with two couples, enjoying their vacation in a resort in Mexico. They meet a German tourist in their resort, who offeres them to take part on a trip he was going, which will take them to an archaeological dig at a remote Mayan ruin. He said, his brother has gone there but has not returned yet, so he is going to look for him. He already has another companion for his trip, a Greek tourist from the same resort. The couples accept his offer.

They start at the fixed day and reach to place from where they take a ride in a truck to a dense jungle. None of their phones can’t find any signal except the German’s. Then they find a hidden path, which takes them to that ruin. A girl from the couples feels suspicious about why the path is hidden, but finally goes there for peer pressure. 

The archaeological site looks something like a pyramid where most of it is covered with some vines. As soon as they reach there, some local people come and threat them with guns and arrows. They start screaming at them, but none of the groups understand the other’s language. When the German gives his phone to the leader of the local group to show his brother’s photo and enquire about him, a misunderstanding gets created and the local people kill the Greek. Being scared, the couples and the German run to the top of the ruin. Surprisingly, the local people don’t follow them there, instead they keep waiting for them by keeping a distance from the ruin. They also set a camp there and bring more people.

At the top of the ruin, the tourist group decide to stay there till help comes. They assume, when neither them nor the Greek goes back to the hotel on the next day, the Greek’s friends will come to look for them following the map they left at the hotel. They are also hopeful that, from the hotel, there absence will be informed to the police and they will come to look for them. At the top, they find two tents and other camping instruments abandoned by any previous team. The German then finds the dead body of his brother. They also hear a ringtone coming from the bottom of the pyramid. Using a shaft set up by any previous team, the German starts to go inside the pyramid to get that phone and call for help. But he falls. Then one of the girls goes down and finds him paralyzed by breaking his bones. She also cuts her knees while climbing down. She then, with the help of the other girl who comes down and the boys who run the crane, brings the German out on the top.

They find that the German’s physical condition is not good, so they make a comfortable place for him. Meanwhile, a couple goes down to the ground to reason with the locals, but fail. Becoming frustrated, she throws some vine to a little boy and later on, the villagers kill that boy. The couples understand that there is something wrong with it and the villagers are scared of the vines.    

The next morning, after waking up, they find that the vines have grown on the wound of the German and one of the girls. They remove some part of those. The cell phone from the bottom of the shaft keeps ringing, so the two girls again go down the shaft. At the bottom of the mine, they find a dead body and a broken phone, and also find the fact that, the flowers of the vine are making the sound of the ringtone. The vines attack the girls and they finally manage to escape and come on top. The group then realizes that the vines are killing the people here and that’s why the local people don’t want them to come down from the ruin. The flowers also have the ability to mimic any sound they hear. They also realize that they have no other option than to wait for help to arrive.

The German’s condition gets worse and finally, one from the group decides to cut off his legs so save his life. After some arguing, all of them agree to it and then they do it together. The legs are then taken by the veins. Staying in a situation like this, they start to lose control over themselves. One girl, who was infected by the vines, hears something and starts fighting with her boyfriend. Later, when she finds out that she has several plants inside her body, starts to cut herself to get rid of it. She then stabs her boyfriend who tries to save her. Finally, there is only a couple left alive and one of them gets ready to make a sacrifice to save the other.

My reviews about The Ruins:

First of all, The Ruins is a rare horror movie which I liked.

The plot of The Ruins is good and interesting. The ending is not like something which we are used to see regularly in horror films. It was not easy to predict the ending and the ending leaves the probation for the continuation of this movie. But not only the ending, the director has succeed to keep the suspense up throughout the movie. For more than half of the time in The Ruins  it will keep you wondering about what is actually happening here. What the local people want, who is responsible for the dead bodies, the mystery about the ringtone are something which will keep you wondering until the answers are shown.

The acting of most of the characters in The Ruins are good. I only felt Jonathan Tucker’s acting lacked some facial expressions. Everyone else has done a good job. The dialogues and the make ups also seemed completely fine. Screenplay is also good without any doubt.

The special effects of The Ruins are praiseworthy. The director has successfully kept the use of special effects to a minimum level which matched perfectly with the movie. None of the movements of the vines, or nothing else looked funny or overdo of special effects. This has specially increased the quality of this film.

The only thing I didn’t like in The Ruins is the scene where they cut the legs off the German. The scene was unnecessary graphic, which didn’t match with the whole movie. This level of graphic scene was not needed at all in this movie to make a sense. To me, this single thing has taken the grade of The Ruins a few steps down.

For a small nude scene at the beginning of The Ruins and for some graphic scenes, this one is not suitable for kids.

If you have read the novel, then can’t predict the ending of this movie from that. Although the main plot and name of the characters are same in The Ruins as the novel, but the characters’ actions are different. The ending is also completely different from that of the novel. And about ending, according to Wikipedia, The Ruins is released with three different endings and I’ve watched the one which ends with the car.

So overall, I didn’t expect The Ruins to be any good but it surprised me. With a plot this peculiar, it is hard to make a horror thriller movie, but the director has succeeded in that tough job. I’ll recommend The Ruins to all horror movie fans.

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The Thompsons Movie Review

The Thompsons

                                                           

The Thompsons is an independent horror thriller movie about vampires,  released in 2012. This film is the sequel of the horror movie The Hamiltons. This sequel is written by Mitchell Altieri and Cory Knauf and directed by the Butcher Brothers (Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores). The roles of the siblings in The Thompsons are mostly played by the stars of The Hamiltons, who are Mackenzie Firgens, Cory Knauf, Ryan Hartwig, Samuel Child and Joseph McKelheer. The other characters of The Thompsons are played by Elizabeth Henstridge, Sean Browne, Tom Holloway and Daniel O'Meara. 

The Thompsons tells the story of five vampire siblings, who are looking for a shelter after committing a massacre. But soon after they find a shelter, they also find that they have fallen in a dangerous trap. 

A scene from the movie The Thompsons

Plot:

At the beginning of The Thompsons we see a boy (named Francis) is trapped inside a box and he starts saying how he has got here. He starts from a hotel and travels countryside looking for more people “like them”. His car breaks down on the way and he reaches a nearby village. He keeps telling us that they are fugitives. He enters a bar and looks for someone by name over the counter but the owners say that they don’t know anyone by that name. Then a local police comes to the bar, who thinks he knows Francis from somewhere, so being threatened, Francis kills him and takes everyone from the bar as hostages. In the meantime, we see a couple, who are trying to make love in a jungle, get chased and then caught by some very strange men.

From the bar, Francis calls his twin brother and sister, who are seducing (and later, kill) a lady in Paris. The brother gives Francis some information. Then two boys come to the bar who seem to be the cousin of the daughter of that bar’s owner. Francis holds them at gunpoint and asks the daughter of the bar’s owner to tie them, but they get free and attack Francis, who then becomes unconscious.

Then we see the whole story of the vampire siblings and Francis introduces them to us. The eldest brother is the one who looks after the family. The next two are twins, who do everything together. Then come Francis and his younger brother. They were travelling somewhere and on the way, they stopped at fuel pump. At the same time, a group of robber attacked there and accidentally, the youngest brother of vampire siblings got shot. The others became furious and killed everyone, including other innocent people. Their faces were caught on camera and thus they have become fugitives. They are now hiding at different places and Francis has set out to look for some other vampires who can help them.

When Francis regains his consciousness, he finds that the owner of the bar and his whole family are also vampires like him, excluding the daughter of the owner. Francis grows a special friendly relation with her, although he never gets along with her brothers. The bar owner then offers Francis his help and calls his other siblings to come and stay with them. Taking his offer willingly, the other siblings come there. But when they reach there, they find out that it is not what it seemed like. They realize, they have fallen in the trap of the bar owner. The hunter siblings are the ones who are being haunted now. They need to find a way to survive.

My review about The Thompsons:

First of all, I didn’t like the movie The Thompsons at all.

The plot is not that bad and neither is the screenplay. But The Thompsons is specially weak at the sides of acting and dialogues. The acting was very poor although most of the characters were good looking. The twist of the plot near the end of The Thompsons felt good. But overall, the plot seemed impractical even for a fantasy horror or a vampire movie.

I have a mixed feeling about the make ups in The Thompsons. Most of the characters looked good with their fangs, bloods and vampire faces, but the wounded peoples' makeups were nowhere near realistic.

This film clearly lacked some special effects. A very small amount of special effects were used in this movie. The Thompsons could be more enjoyable with some more and good quality special effects. Lighting and camera works looked pretty good at some places and also pretty poor at some others.

Mackenzie Firgens looked stunning in The Thompsons, even in very small screen time. I just wish she was given more screen time throughout the movie.

Due to some nude scenes every now and then and for the violent nature of it, The Thompsons is not suitable for kids.

So, finally, I didn’t like The Thompsons at all. At different reviews, I’ve read that this one is better than its prequel, The Hamiltons, but I can’t comment about that because I haven’t watched the prequel yet. This movie seemed to me like just a below average vampire movie. I will not recommend watching The Thompsons to anyone.

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