Axed Movie Review

Axed
                         

Axed is a horror drama thriller movie released in 2012. This movie is written and directed by Ryan Lee Driscoll. The very limited casting of the movie Axed includes Jonathan Hansler, Andrea Gordon, Nicola Posener, Christopher Rithin, Henry Douthwaite and Brandon Francis.

Axed is about a man who loses his mind after losing his job and then plans to kill his own wife and children.

A scene from the movie Axed

Plot:

Axed starts by showing a man named Kurt losing his job. Then he has a mental breakdown.

In his home next morning, he treats his wife and children (two teens, a son and a daughter) very badly. As their regular routine, he is supposed to drop his children at their school and his wife at her office. He passes the school of his children without stopping. When asked, he replies them that they don’t have to go to school that day.

He also doesn’t let his wife attend her office and keeps on driving with them to a far place. Although he tries to give an impression that they are heading towards an unknown destination and they will stop at any place they want, but he takes them to a cabin which is arrange by him earlier. Throughout the journey, he seems to be in a very good mood and he says, he is doing this to have some family times together.

At the cabin, flowers and notes were ready there for his wife. He takes the cell phone from his wife and daughter, saying, this is the time for family and no one should contact outside. Then we see he secretly visits and then beats a man, whom he has kept tied to bed at a room in that cabin.

Then all of them go for a walk outside, where his misbehaviours come back. When they returns at the cabin, Kurt gives the others gifts, where each of them are very very inappropriate. The he accuses his wife for cheating on him with his ex boss. He also accuses her about it in front of his children. Then he gives an axe to his son and sends his children out to get some woods.

His daughter has another cell phone with her and she calls her boyfriend from the outside. In the cabin, the tied man upstairs makes noises that are heard by Kurt’s wife. Kurt and his wife go upstairs and the wife finds that it is Kurt’s ex boss.

The children come back and find their phones destroyed by Kurt. Kurt comes downstairs and then scolds the children about the use of the axe. Kurt then beats the children unconscious.

They wake up at the upstairs with that room. Then Kurt makes his wife perform an inappropriate act with that man. At one point, the wife and the son runs away. Before Kurt brings them back at the cabin, the daughter tries to free the man, but fails.

While the four of then are having their launch, Kurt discovers the other cell phone and destroys that one also. He then gets annoyed by the noise of the tied man and finally kills him. Together they bury the body.

His wife then tries to run away with her children with the car, but fails. Kurt then kills her in from of the children. Later that night, the siblings try to run away in the nearby jungle. The daughter’s boyfriend comes there, but Kurt kills him. Then the children are chased by their father.

At one point, they manage to tie Kurt in the cabin, but Kurt gets out of it. The psychopath father again chases his children, where the children must run for their lives.

My review about the movie Axed:

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

The plot of Axed was very straightforward. Although the ending is a little different from the very typical horror movies, but still, it didn’t give any excitement. The direction and screenplay didn’t look good at all.

The acting of the son and the daughter of Kurt were very bad in Axed where the acting of Kurt and his wife was a little better. The dialogues were not that bad, sometimes they were good and sometimes very average.

The biggest problem with the movie Axed was the characters. Kurt was okay as a psychopath, but no other characters looked realistic at all. Each character had its problem in Axed, but they didn’t do anything a real person would do in a situation like that. For example, after the first killing, none of them tried to run away from the cabin. They helped Kurt to hide the body. They all faced Kurt’s abusive behavior without almost any protest. When they went outside, they couldn’t manage to ask anyone for help. And part where the daughter trying to seduce her father and the father falling for that, seemed ridiculous.

The make ups were not good also, and the blood effects seemed totally artificial. The use of effects in Axed was kept to a very minimum scale, which was a good idea. The lighting and the camera works were very average.

Although there was no nudity or gore scene, for the abusive nature of this film, Axed is not appropriate for children.

So, finally, as I’ve written earlier, I didn’t enjoy Axed at all. Only a better and more realistic portrayal of the characters could make this movie a lot better. Although it was supposed to be a thriller, but the thrill was never high at any time throughout the movie. Overall, I will not recommend watching Axed to anyone.

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Stitches Movie Review

Stitches
                               

Stitches in a British comedy horror movie released in 2012. This film is written by Conor McMahon and David O'Brien and directed by Conor McMahon. The main characters of the movie Stitches are played by Ross Noble, Tommy Knight, Shane Murray-Corcoran, Gemma-Leah Devereux, Thommas Kane Byrnes and Eoghan McQuinn. This movie has the use of the dark humor, like what we saw in the movie The Cabin In The Woods. 

Stitches is about a clown who dies accidentally by the prank of some kids and a few years later, comes back to take his revenge.

A scene from the movie Stitches

Plot:

The movie Stitches starts with a clown named ‘Stitches’ having sex with a lady in his cabin. Suddenly an alarm reminds him of a party which he is supposed to attend. So he dashes to the party.

That party was the birthday party of a small boy named Tom. Tom and his friends are having a good time in Tom’s house before Stitches arrives. Stitches reaches there and takes his fees from Tom’s mother in advance, before he even enters the house.

Now, Stitches starts his performance to the children. He is the worst clown ever, considering his performance and behavior. On the other hand, the kids keep interrupting and humiliating him at each of his attempts to entertain the children. Suddenly, a boy, a friend of Tom tries to pull a prank on Stitches by tying his shoelaces together. But this goes horribly wrong, and the accident causes Stitches’ death.

Naturally, the children become scared and sad, specially Tom. From his tree-house, he sees the funeral of Stitches with a telescope. Later on that night, he visits Stitches’ grave to pay his respects. But following some sounds, Tom goes to a nearby house where a group of clowns are performing some special rituals for Stitches. The group catches him, but then leaves him unharmed.

Six years have passed. Tom and his friends are now teens and go to the same school. Tom has grown as a shy boy, who is often bullied by his classmates. His birthday is coming soon, and suddenly he starts hallucinating about Stitches, both in his home and in his school.

Tom’s parents are going to be away at the time of his birthday, so he plans to have a very small birthday party that will include only his very close friends. But one of his friends spreads the words out, so his birthday party becomes a big party containing a good number of teens and all of them, who were there at the time of Stitches’ death.

A copy of the invitation letter of Tom’s party flies to Stitches’ grave. At the eve of Tom’s birthday, Stitches rises from his grave and heads to Tom’s party to seek his revenge.

He manages to hide at the house and starts killing Tom’s friends in a way that is related to how each of them humiliated Stitches before his death. He manages to kill a few of them before anyone notices. But then Tom sees him and wants to alarm everyone about his presence.

At first, his friends don’t believe him. But when they do, its already late and Stitches has taken the lives of a few teens. Only Tom, His childhood crush and another friend of his is alive from that party of six years ago. They must run for their lives while Stitches is chasing them.

They also realize, to stay alive, they must find a way to kill Stitches.

My review about the movie Stitches:

First of all, I didn’t like Stitches at all. It felt like I’ve totally wasted my time by watching it.

The plot of Stitches is peculiar and pointless. The screenplay and direction felt awful. IMDB lists this movie as a comedy/horror. But I haven’t found any comedy element in Stitches. I’m not sure if the director has made this movie in this way on purpose, may be it was supposed to be funny. Blame my sense of humor as much as you want, I totally failed to find the ‘fun’ part anywhere.

The acting of all the main characters of Stitches were good, and its surprising, comparing with all the other elements of this movie. The dialogues are ridiculous, specially the dialogues of Stitches. The lighting, camera works and the set designs were also not that bad.

The worst parts of the movie Stitches are its gore scenes. Those scenes look unnecessary and disgusting, with very bad special effect and make ups. Again, may be whose scenes were supposed to be funny, but not for me.

Considering the sexual content, bad language and gore scenes, Stitches is surely not a movie that you can consider watching with children.

So, finally, as I’ve written ago, this movie seemed a total waste of time for me. But surprisingly, Stitches has a little better than average IMDB rating of 5.7 (while I’m writing this review), so may be its me who is missing something here. But its not such a movie, which I want to watch second time to find the missing, pieces. My recommendation:  stay away from Stitches if you don’t want to waste your time.

Have you watched Stitches? How did you like it? If you have liked it, would you please care to share here what am I missing? There must be something wrong.

If you are interested,

Official movie website: http://www.stitchesmovie.com

IMDB link: Stitches IMDB

Wikipedia Link: Stitches Wiki
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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.

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