One of those horror movies where everyone makes stupid decisions all the way through
927909
I didn't disliked this movie (though I would be hard pressed to make a 2nd viewing) but I rated it a 3 because it's pretty average fare for someone looking to pass the time. It has all the standard Asian horror elements so if you don't mind repetitiveness and enjoy a bit of long dark hair with your horror then you'll enjoy this. If you absolutely have to watch this then do yourself a favor and don't watch it on Prime because you might be disappointed by the end (Buy the DVD or check until Netflix has it available). I'm still surprised how poor Amazon prime is when it comes on international films. The subtitles in this movie disappeared about 15 mins towards the end of the film. I've had intermittent problems with subtitles blinking out for mins at a time on movies or just plain being wrong but no matter how many times I report it, Amazon just doesn't care enough to fix it.
77589
It's written like a dumb monster movie where its being persecuted out of shallow misunderstandings. A profoundly frustrating film.

The movie addresses some of the interesting aspects of a self sufficient AI, which I give it credit for, but then skips almost any meaningful exploration of the idea. If the machine was truly more intelligent than any person, it would have dealt with every possible decision any character in the film would have made. The motivations of the cyber terrorists are unclear and poorly thought out. Nobody ever tries to actually talk to the machine to figure out what it wants to do. Everyone assumes the worst of it for no reason.
1445009
They had a great idea with this film (despite clearly borrowing the concept from "Hostel")...a group of stranded tourists in Brazil are drugged and robbed and left with no alternative but to follow a "friend" into the jungle, ostensibly to have their organs sold on the black market, unbeknownst to them.

What failed was just about everything from the horrible acting, to the gratuitous bikini-clad "Hostel" wanna-bees, to the implausibility of their situation and the fact that a horror film should actually be scary.  Unfortunately, what could have been an interesting and scary film was just plain dumb!

I would NOT recommend renting this movie (or even watching it for free once it comes to Cable), let alone paying money for it. If you like the idea behind the film, "Hostel" is a much better take on the could-it-really-happen-to-me-as-a-traveler-in-a-foreign-country horror film.
3144053
I like the Horror of Party Peach.  It's poorly made, bad script, all the features you'd expect in a "bad" movie.  It's fun and stupid.  The 2nd feature is a complete snooze fest.  I didn't find anything in it that would cause me to watch it again.
2082778
Part of Syfy's Maneater series, Roadkill (2011) is a monster movie with less than impressive special effects and is also severely lacking in the story department.  For whatever reasons, the screenplay tries very hard to have the characters do and say completely stupid things, that make them as unrealistic and unsympathetic as possible.

A group of old friends meet in Ireland, and head out to tour the countryside in a rented bus.  Stopping at the Wayside Garage, the group enters a small establishment selling souvenirs.  A man named Luca (Ned Dennehy), who resembles a vulture, apparently runs the place.  One of the group becomes interested in buying a pendant that Luca is wearing.  After Luca swindles them, Chuck (Diarmund Noyes) jerks the pendant from his neck, and the group runs and boards the bus for a fast getaway.  Unfortunately with Chuck behind the wheel, the bus hits an old woman, who before dying puts a curse on them.

It doesn't take long for the curse to take effect, as while the bus is stopped, one of the group goes outside, and is pulled into the sky by a Roc, a giant mythical bird.  When the bus develops a flat, in a display of solidarity, the chicken-hearted group sends one person out to change the tire alone.  Predictably, the Roc strikes again, carrying away its second victim into the sky.  Besides facing the threat of the pursing bird, Luca wants his pendant back, and along with his gypsy buddies, is eager to turn the tourists into snacks for the hungry Roc.  Things just get worse, as the clueless tourists bungle their way across the countryside, and their bickering and idiotic conversations get more frequent.

Costs probably limits the creature's screen time to a minimum, and what is seen isn't very impressive, as the CG Roc lacks definition, and appears almost translucent at times.  Kate (Kacey Barnfield) is the only one of the group that has the guts to fight back, as the males in the group are rather short on both balls and brains.  As the one responsible for the curse, Chuck is completely obnoxious, and his limited vocabulary gets tired really fast.  Given an appalling script that has them behave like morons, it's difficult for any of the actors to look good.

Like many Sy Fy Channel productions, Roadkill is rubbish.  Dedicated fans of the Maneater series, might want to catch it on Sy Fy before spending any coin on this disaster.
208690
This film is an unoriginal variation upon Invasion of the Body Snatchers.  As in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, people are being systematically replaced by unemotional drones and the lead character attempts to uncover the truth.  Only in this case, instead of aliens targeting the population of earth, a men's club in a small town is replacing its members' wives with robots.  This could be the perfect setup for both a good horror movie and for a social satire on the battle of the sexes.  However, unlike the brilliant Body Snatchers, this film is neither good horror or good social commentary.
Basically, as soon as any family moves to the sleepy town of Stepford, even the most loving of husbands turns into such a male chauvanist pig that he becomes willing to kill his wife and replace her with what must be a multi-million (maybe even billion) dollar robot.  What is it that makes the men in that town so upset with their wives?  Why, they do things like play tennis in their spare time and get together to drink iced tea when they aren't cooking and cleaning!  Apparently, the men want wives who do nothing more than clean the house and take care of their kids (it appears the husbands don't even want sex!).  Of course, it would be a lot simpler for the men to get divorced and hire maids instead of resorting to multi-million dollar technology and murder, but every single character in this movie is so one-dimensional and stupid that such behaviour is actually consistent with their characters.
There is no real suspense since you know what is happening almost from the beginning and the lead female is the only even slightly sympathetic character.  Personally, I could not tell the difference between most of the original females and their replacement robots (except for the fact that the robots occassionally break down).  And suggesting that this movie is social commentary is like suggesting that a discussion on who's stronger, the Hulk or Superman, is a valid and worthwhile discussion about national defence capabilities. The characters and town in this movie have absolutely no connection to reality whatsoever.
There is the occasional unintentional humour which makes watching this movie bearable, ...
212412
Halloween: H20 was the perfect way to end the Halloween series. Too bad this stupid sequel had to ruin it. I'm suppose to believe that Michael Myers beat some guy up, took his clothes and put his mask and jumpsuit on him? Yeah right, that was just dumb. When H20 made money at the box office, they just thought of that dumb idea. Then, they killed Laurie Strode {Curtis}, that was dumb too.

Now, this is where it gets really dumb...the film's plot. A group of dumb teenagers decide to do this internet thing of going in the Myers house. while their in the house, they don't know that Michael Myers {Loree} is in there, and nothing does Freddie {Rhymes} who dresses up as Michael Myers to scare the dumb teenagers.

This film is the worst Halloween film in the entire series. I looked at my watch many times, saying how much loner does this film have left. The fight between Myers and Freddie was retarded, seeing Busta Rhymes acting like Bruce Lee.

Halloween: Resurrection is a piece of junk. They should've just ened the series with H20, because this film did a bad job resurrecting Michael Myers.
1890453
While the first film was an outstanding horror flick that quickly ended as the "suits" got a hold of the franchise and started cranking out sequels.  There will be some minor spoilers ahead, so you've been warned.

The first film excelled at building up tension and hitting you with something unexpected.  This time, we have the absurd idea of the Kinect Cam watching the living room at all times.  This is the premise for "seeing" the activity, motion in the IR dots.  We do get some webcam footage from a laptop, because of course everyone walks around all the time carrying their laptop with the webcam on.

If this wasn't absurd enough, the plot revolves around the child kidnapped in PA2 who shows up next door with her "mother" who then goes missing, so of course the police decided "we'll just let the neighbors watch the kid".  Even with a movie about the paranormal, this simple bypass of Child Protective Services is a glaring plot sore which is even more unbelievable than the supernatural in the film.  The rest of the movie goes as expected, no twists to throw the audience off.  The ending is a horror cliche as our heroine does something that no one in their right mind would do given the same circumstances.

While the 2nd film essentially set up how the events of the first film happened and the 3rd was a prequel (with plot holes), this 4th installment adds nothing to the franchise as a whole.  I will say our young blonde protagonist does her acting well, considering the thin plot she has to work with.  If it comes in a Paranormal Activity collection pack then watch it once then forget about it, but don't pay for this individually.
3977990
While this may be a cult classic or favorite, you really have to put up with a pretty terrible story line, awful acting, some pretty awful overdubbing, and ridiculous scenarios.  They are so far fetched that they prevent one from effectively "suspending disbelief" and just enjoying the film.  I mean, it's one thing to know that you have to turn off your brain and enjoy something, but turning it off this far is pretty difficult.  And the overdubbing - the dialogue is completely overdubbed, as far as I can tell.  Very distracting.  Makes you wonder why it was that way - was the original audio so bad that they couldn't use it?  Anyway, the film was not interesting enough for me to spend the time researching why they overdubbed.  I got this one for a "horror film fest" at Halloween, based on the endorsement of Eli Roth (Hostel), and while I'm glad I saw it once, I'm quite certain I'll never watch it again and it was a huge disappointment relative to the endorsement.  Perhaps it has historical significance and should be respected and appreciated for that, but in an of itself it's not good.  Beware.
4409485
Where do I even begin with this movie? First of course with the trailers we were made to think this would be a seriously scary horror film with a touch of paranormal....and it was but the ending makes this movie horrible and why I rated it with two stars.  So the action kind of starts immediately and continues thruout...storyline was ok but then we start seeing changes in how it goes from paranormal to downright dumb.  2 sisters born of the same mother who is killed in the beginning but are watched over by this paranormal mother ( who is not infant their biological mother).... She's starts trying to take the girls with her over a cliff she jumped from years. Earlier with her own baby....well the uncles girlfriend brings the paranormal moms baby and she flings the bones all over the damn place....(way to treat your own kid...lady) then tries to continuously to kill the two little girls that she watched over....succeeding to get one to follow but as they fall to their weird and paranormal deaths....these idiots turn into moths or butterflies....HORRIBLE HORRIBLE ENDING......Now I didn't know how this works when one sister stays and the other dies with a mom who wasn't even their own but god lord this movie sucks....the ending ruined my opinion of how good it could have been.
967340
A good horror movie HAS to have a protagonist, or at least people you genuinely are interesting or that you "care" about.

This one has none of those. This collection is some of the worst. The Texas punk/goth thing is ridiculous, as are all the costumes and stupid lines.

The effects were at least well done, and the monsters were somewhat interesting, but that's about the only redeeming qualities of this whole film. I kept PRAYING for it to end, and it is bad from the beginning. It's very hard to get through.
1108099
One of the dumbest movies I've seen in recent years.  The gore factor was ridiculous.  It was surprising with a pretty decent cast, but the movie itself was idiotic and brutal.
2498906
This movie attempts to be a parody of slasher/snuff movies but in the end winds up being nothing more than a silly self-parody.  Is it comedy? Is it horror? Is it drama? Is it scary? The answer is: YES and NO! And that's a large part of the problem. The filmmakers couldn't decide what they were making and wound up giving us a movie that has a kind of "Jekyll and Hyde" effect. You almost expect the slasher(s) to look at the camera and wink. Juliet Landau and Sean Kanan chew up the scenery at every turn and the latter's behavior is so offputting that you wouldn't be surprised to find that nobody actually got killed although that isn't the case.

The editing is especially sloppy and the whole looks as though it was made up and assembled as they went along. The idea of referring to many other horror movies and then recreating them may have been a worthy concept. But the execution falls flat. And even the twists and turns are predictable for those well versed in the horror genre. Who survives is also predictable, though the appearance of a final survivor and the reason for surviving is so ludicrous that it isn't even funny (unless you compare it to a FAST & FURIOUS movie).

Some movies are so bad that they are actually good. This is definitely not one of them.
139098
The h was over the top angry to the point of stupidity. Did she honestly think she could take on a murderer with  no gun training, no fighting skills and nothing but a temper.  And take on the head of a drug cartel single handed?  And you know how in every horror movie there is always the idiot who thinks let me just sneak thru this wide open unguarded door. she was so bull headed stupid I had s hard time finishing the story.
3436897
In this film we have disjointed nonsense hung upon the framework of adventure, something like a drunken housewife hanging laundry all akimbo upon a clothesline. Rarely, expect in B-movies, have I seen so many improbabilities and inconsistencies.

Hugh Glass, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, is a scout for a fur trading expedition that ostensibly is organized like a military unit, expect that whenever there is a crisis, anywhere in this film, good military discipline does not prevail. This coincides with left-wing belief systems about the uselessness and ineptitude of anything military, so this worldview is presented to the audience and is nonsense.

Here is an example - central to the plot is the conflict between Glass and his antagonist John Fitzgerald (played by Tom Hardy) in which Hardy essentially blames Glass with being a dangerously (even treasonously) incompetent scout. Of course, this charge has to be false to maintain the hero status of the protagonist. In fact Glass's job IS security (and scouting) for the fur trading expedition. While he is away (within hearing distance of a rifle shot) hunting meat for the expedition, the expedition is attacked, and the majority of the party is killed. Straight-forward enough except that in the attack it is clear that the Indians have infiltrated into the treetops the night before, so Glass really is culpable of incompetence (or at least negligence). Later, as Glass leads the survivors of the massacre on an escape route, one morning he again goes out to scout, this time alone, and is almost mortally wounded by a bear. Anybody with any knowledge at all of basic military procedure (or common sense) would understand that for the key leader of the party to be out scouting alone in hostile territory when they know they are being pursued be enemies is ridiculous or utter incompetency. Oh yes, men do get mauled by bears but it becomes a bit more difficult for the bear when there are two or three armed men in the group than one. So really, Glass is an incompetent scout, but in this film he is the hero, and Fitzgerald is the deranged, despicable cad.

Then there is the whole business in this film about white race relations with Indians. In this film, everything the white man does to the Indian is bad,, but everything the Indian does to the white man, no matter how barbaric, is neutral at worst, since the white man allegedly deserves what he gets. For this reason, it is "understandable" when blacks kill white cops in our society today, because at the end of the day the cops allegedly deserve it.

In short this film serves up a confused mish-mash of politically correct vignettes in the framework of backwoods adventure.

And by the way, apparently in the 1820's nobody lived beyond 40 because everyone in this film is 40 years old or younger, much younger, even the senior commanders of the fur trading expedition. This film was targeted at the millennial generation who actually believes the nonsense this film serves up.

I gave the film two stars instead of one because the scene where  Leonardo DiCaprio gets mauled by a bear is fairly realistic (well done).
1766470
So stupid....  And I normally love movies like this...
4024175
THIS REVIEW HAS A COUPLE OF 'MINOR SPOILERS'. BEGINNING WITH THE FACT THAT THIS MOVIE HAS A WHOLE LOT OF MAJOR SPOILERS.

After having read about five good reviews and five bad reviews on this film, I decided to give it a shot, based on one reviewers summation that "It is what it is: an alien invasion film with a thin plot, bad acting, but decent visuals; just like most modern alien invasion films."

That's fair. And I could have lived with that. But "Skyline" has one of the most poorly scripted story-lines, with some of the ABSOLUTE WORST ACTING that I have ever seen.

I knew that I had wasted my money, when the beautiful party people who were the focus of the film, awoke to aliens invading, and weren't even shocked or surprised that aliens from outer space were invading earth and vacuuming people up into their space craft.
They looked out at the situation and calmly exclaimed, "Oh my God. All those people."
Huh? What? No shock? No horror? No frantic scrambling around and screaming as they realized that earth had been invaded by aliens, while trying to figure out how they were going to escape and survive?

And actually, the general incongruity between the film's title and its subject matter, should have told me that the writers hadn't put any effort at all into creating and formulating even a semblance of an intelligent plot.

As a writer and a creative person myself, I hate to trash anyone else's creative endeavors. But this was bad. The story was just dumb. Plain and simple. I actually got to the point where I began to count the stupid comments and the mindless actions of the actors as a way to entertain myself. And the fact that they kept speaking of getting to a boat in a harbor which had a dozen monstrous spaceships hovering over it, and using that boat to escape the city, while the aliens were vacuuming up everything in that vicinity, just really made no sense at all.

Considering that this movie was out and out stupid, and the aliens liked to eat brains, the writers should have named this movie "BRAINLESS".

But! It does have some really cool monsters and some decent special effects: which account for about ten minutes worth of the 90 minutes that the film runs.