Horror Part 02

Tombs of the Blind Dead - A-

Amando de Ossorio intriguing tale about undead blind Templar Knights that haunted a ruined monastary. The story gets started when two old boarding school friends, two women with very Spanish names like Betty and Virginia. They met up with Virginia's friend, another truly Spanished name Roger. They decide to go camping in Portugal. Well here is where the plot takes a rather unique turn. Virginia is very unsettled by the trip, at first you are meant to believe it is over Betty and Roger's attraction to one another but it is revealed that Betty and Virginia had a rather close personal relationship in boarding school. Now this is a plot line that you would find in an American Horror film of recent years, but this was made in 1971. This isn't the first film either that has such relationship between women, many European films have had this and it took almost thirty years for them to trickle down to America. Well, Virginia can't stand the return of Betty and leaps off the train. She wanders into the ruins of the monastary to spend the night well her presense raises the dead Templars. She tries to flee, and does a better job of running than most first victims. Well she is found dead and Betty and Roger have to go and find out who did it. It leads them to a group of smugglers and then back to the monastary to encounter the dead Templars. For being low budget and from Spain the dead Templars look rather cool even better than the Deadites from Army of Darkness and look cool on their horses. Another cool part about the blind Templars is that they can hear your heartbeat. There is a great scene with Betty and the Templars where they are tracking her by her heart alone. Great low budget horror, it lacks in special effects it makes up for in plot, and cool monsters.

Return of the Blind Dead - C

Weak sequel to Tombs of the Blind Dead. Apparently the horror that happened in the last movie never happened, and the town is getting ready to celebrate torching the templars 500 years ago. They hire a guy to do the fireworks, but fireworks spark between him and the mayor's secretary, who both the mayor and the deputy mayor want to bang as well. Well the blind dead Templars come back and massacre the townspeople. The movie quickly boils down to the average Night of the Living Dead scenario, group of people trapped inside a building, in this case a church. Lacks the orginality of the first, the dead templars still look cool but the story really is just a rip-off of Night of the Living Dead. There are two more sequels in this series but neither have ever been released on video or DVD so I doubt very much I'll get to see them.

Rape of the Vampire - D

Jean Rollin is the undisputed king of European Vampire Movies. Rape of the Vampire is his earliest and it shows that he still had a lot of problems to work out before he got it right. This movie is barely a vampire movie and more like an exastentialist movie with vampires as a metaphor for something. The movie is also very lacking in the style and atmosphere that made his other movies like Fascination and Shiver of the Vampire work. This is part 1 of his vampire trilogy, they are followed by Shiver of the Vampire and then Requiem of the Vampire. This movie was briefly banned in France after its initial release in 1967, I don't know why and I really wonder why it was banned in the first place. If you are set on watching all three of the Vampire Trilogy then suffer through this one to get to the much better next two.

Shiver of the Vampire - B

Jean Rollin had worked out all the problems from Rape of the Vampire to make this the second of the Vampire Trilogy. It has atmosphere, a little sensuality, and lots of vampires. Newly weds come to this small French Village to visit their cousins and heard that they died very recently. The decide to go and visit their graves. They quickly discover that their cousins aren't dead. This I think is a real red light and is a good signal to flee in terror as fast as you can. But they don't and the bride falls under the spell of the vampire queen. It is up to her husband to save her with the help of the mortal servants of the castle. Atmosphere to spare, much better than the previous Rape of the Vampire.

Requiem for the Vampire - D+

What a let down, I really enjoyed Shiver and had hopes that this would be as good as it but sadly it doesn't measure up. It is a combination of the luscious scenery and sensuality of Shiver marred with the boring speeches of Rape of the Vampire. Our two main characters speak about ten lines in the entire movie, it appears that they are some kind of criminals on the run from the cops, albeit they never actually say what they are running from or why. Well they flee to the abandoned castle and encounter one of the vampires from Shiver. From here is just goes downhill with more boring exastenalism and philsophy about immortality. I fast forwarded through several parts of the movie because there was no dialogue, just running or walking, or standing with bizarre mid-70s art house music. Jean Rollin has lovely scenery but it can't help the lifeless story.

Hallow's End - D

Now I am a big fan of low budget horror but this wasn't trying at all. It has the total stink of a college film project all over it. We get to meet a bunch of college kids apparently that belong to some fraternity which they don't even bother to give greek letters to. Well they are setting up this haunted house in... a warehouse, in which apparently satanic rites were conducted sometime in the past. Yes this warehouse is our one and only set. Now it has an Asian girl in it, so you know she is dead, her white blonde haired boyfriend, he is dead too because he is dating outside his race, a complete jackass of a fraternity president who is such a dick to everyone it makes you wonder how in the fucking hell this brillo cream bastard ever became president. It does have one rather interesting but very WB plot twist, the girlfriend of the frat president and the ex-girlfriend of our hero Tom Sharpe, man of wood, is having a lesbian affair with the crazy art chick. Well they find the spell book of the satanist while decorating their warehouse into a house of horrors. Well the spell book turns them into their costumes they wear for the house of horrors and the good kids have to stay alive long enough to make it to morning. This is a total rip off of the 1988 cult favorite, Night of the Demons, where party kids go to a cursed house surrounded by a cursed river and the evil in the house turns them into their costumes and they run amok, including killing an Asian girl and her white blonde haired boyfriend. The acting hurt, the fact that their set was a warehouse out in City of Industry or West Convina, or the fact that all the makeup for the so-called 'monsters' is so bad that the skin tone don't get close to matching. Painful excursion into bad film making, if you are drunk, bored, or a masocist have a go at this one, if not just stay away.

Night of the Demons - A

This was one of the first films in the world of 80s horror that openly used the cliches of slasher flicks to make a point. The setup is simple but rather clever, a wide variety of high school kids gather for a party thrown by an early goth chick, Angela at the mysterious Hull House. Each is specificly chosen to set a stereotype, good blonde virgin, her horny preppy boyfriend, the sloppy punk rocker, the slut, the goth, the smart-ass, a scared superstious girl, a black guy, and an asian girl. We really have gathered the grab bag of society cliches. Well they are parting and decide to have a seance, we did this kind of stuff in the 80s, hell Parker Brothers the rather family friendly game maker, made Ouija boards. Well the seance awakens the evil within the house and starts to possess the 'morally' corrupt kids in the house and they begin to kill the other kids. Each that is possess takes the form of their costume, the sloppy punk rocker wears a pigs nose and becomes a half man half porcine (that is pig for those that don't know Latin). Of course the only one to survive in the end is the white virgin blonde girl because that is how it is supposed to happen. This is really a landmark movie because it openly admits the cliches and uses them to prove a point that evil seeks out those that society looks at as 'morally' corrupt. Known only to Horror fans and is extremely hard to find. If you can scare up a copy at your local small time video rental place (ie Movie Gallery) give it a shot, you'll be surprised by the clever twist this movie gives you.

The Hole - C+

The first movie that featured Keira Knighley in a prominent role. Four kids from a swanky British Private School go missing. After 18 days only one crawls out. Now the movie revolves around the police and psychologist, Embeth Davidtz, trying to uncover the truth from the only survivor, the very busty Thora Birch. The movie is a cool idea, but it never fully pans out. The story has several Americanized mistakes, the kids at school have a vacation, but in Britian they are called Holidays. When Thora Birch emerges from the Hole, she called 911, but in Britian it is 999. The hole itself is pretty cool, it is an old air raid shelter, which you can still find in Britian. But, like most things in the movie, it isn't used to its full extent. The movie has a couple of decent twists and turns but in the end you exactly where the movie is going. Another little flaw of the movie is using American Actors to play British Students, namely Thora Birch. When talking normally she has a passing accent, but when she has to have any emotion in her voice it goes straight back to American. Keira Knightley is pretty good in the movie. The movie is set to premerie in theatres in this country in 2004 but I wonder if a certain scene will be left in. In a two second flash, Keira flashes her firm little breasts to the camera. Problem is Keira was 16 when she did it, which is legal age in Britian, but it isn't here. I have an urge to watch the movie just to see if that scene will make it into the American release. It was a good idea that just never was a good as it could be.

Slumber Party Massacre - A

One of the best slasher movies ever made, it is simple but works. Trish is having a sleepover with her friends the same day Russ Thorn, a psychotic murderer escaped from the asylum. Thrown in Valerie, the pretty girl who lives across the street who doesn't want to go to the slumber party and two pranksters and you have the makings for a slasher movie. The movie was written by noted feminist Rita Mae Brown who originally intended it to be a parody of the slasher movie but instead it was rewritten into a straight forward slasher movie. The movie still retains some of the female touch, the girl's conversations sound very realistic and the killer's weapon is really, really phallic. Russ Thorn uses a coring drill, basically a drill with a three foot bit, while it isn't the most agile weapon, or even the most useful, it does seem really painful to die by drill. Russ Thorn too is one of the greatest slashers in movie history because he is so real, he doesn't have a hockey mask, or a barbequed face, he is just a guy with a psychotic voice. The movie is peppered with some good false alarm scares, the first really to use the false alarm to the full extent. This movie is great because it is a slasher movie, it doesn't try to be cute or totally reinvent the slasher movie, it just hones the attributes of the slasher to a fine razor sharp edge and makes the audience sit atop it. Easy to watch, easy to enjoy, this movie ranks high in my pantheon of slasher movies.

Slumber Party Massacre 2 - F

Oh lord this was bad, I mean bad. I went into this movie expecting a mindless slasher with a touch of T&A, but it didn't even deliver on that. The story has some promise, the two survivors of the first movie are trying to get on with their lives, the older sister is in a lunatic asylum and the other is plagued with crazy disjointed nightmares of some killer attacking people. Well from there is just being to sink into a completely unnavigatable mess of dreams, and some slasher who just appears with no motivation or even an introduction. He just pops up a few times and attacks with a ridiculous guitar with a drill on the end. The movie was just plain bloody bad and almost impossible to watch. I was all 75 minutes in under 20 because I fast forwarded through more than half of it. Don't bother with this one, it sucks.

Slumber Party Massacre 3 - C+

The series managed to bring itself around in number 3 by going back to basics of the slasher sub-genre. Killer stalks the teens as they have a sleep over. They start drinking and having sex and he starts killing. It was a solid slasher but the problem is they are stuck with the worse weapon for a killer, the coring drill. Michael Myers has the butcher knife, Jason the machete, Freddy is wicked crazy knife glove, but the killers of the Slumber Party Massacre series has to weild something that is hard to kill with on the run. But it is a mean weapon if not pratical. This movie has a few twists and a couple of red herrings to who the killer is which keeps it from joining the faceless mass. Rather watchable, especially in league with other slasher flicks.

Joy Ride - C-

A horror movie that harkens back to the road movies of the 70s. Our hero, the marble boy, Paul Walker pines for Leelee Sobieski, who are part at different colleges. Well Paul Walker wants her in the worst way and she reveals to him that she is now free of her old boyfriend. So he refunds his plane ticket and goes out and buys a 71 Chrystler Newport. Now since when can you actually refund a plane ticket? I always see on my the words NON REFUNDABLE. But as the saying goes never let the truth stand in the way of good film making. Well he is driving through scenic Utah, and heres that his brother Steve Zahn is in jail in Salt Lake for being drunk and disorderly. Which means he had probably two beers and they busted him. So he picks him up, and as a thank you he gets a CB radio installed in the car. Finally the fun can begin. They get stalked by Rusty Nail, whose creepy voice is provided by Ted Levine. The story is pretty good but it keeps stalling out along the way. Paul Walker is horrible and has to carry this movie on his little woman like shoulders. Steve Zahn does a fabulous job as the deadbeat brother. He really is the best thing in the entire movie, giving a certain humor to all the situations he gets into. I would have liked the movie more if it didn't have the end and if you never actually have to fight the mysterious Rusty Nail. But the movie had to have a concrete conculsion or it would confuse the rather dull witted movie go-er. Okay, could have been a lot better.

Sorority House Massacre - B-

Not as bad as one might expect from a movie with a title like this. Our heroine Beth comes to visit a sorority house but the moment she crosses the threshold things being to happen. She has nightmares of ghastly and brutal murders and many miles away a violent lunatic beings to have the same. Well Beth is the only survivor of a mass murder in that house 14 year before but she repressed all of it, and the lunatic, her brother, is the killer and her reentering the house has trigger him as well. This slasher actually put some time and effort into setting up the carnage to come, which is a rather nice change of pace from the simple just kills stereotype. This movie has a lot of simple mans psychology in it but it isn't all that unbelievable. Well the killer comes and does what he is supposed to do, try to kill everybody in the house. Also it is one of the few slasher movies where the heroine is having terrifying dreams of mass murder and the other characters in the movie actually take notice and are concerned. The major flaw in the movie is the fashion, this movie was made in 1986 and as we all know the fashion of the mid 80s was gruesome. These college girls have shoulder pads like a fucking linebacker and everything is pastel. That was the scariest thing of the entire movie was looking at the clothes. Also once the killing start the movie becomes like all other slasher movies, running, screaming, dying. Not that bad all things being equal.

Sorority House Massacre 2 - B+

This slasher really covered a lot of ground. It tied in the original Slumber Party Massacre or at least used the footage from it to reinact the original crime that happened in the house, tied in a character from the original Slumber Party Massacre as well. They are owned by the same company, Concorde/New Horizon which made several great slasher flicks in the 80s such as the Slumber Party Massacre series and of course the Sorority House Massacre set. A group of sorority girls buy a rundown old house to be their new sorority and learn that is the sight of a grisely murder 5 years ago. Well they go and explore the house, they find the basement full of weaponry, like a collection of meat hooks and a chainsaw as a bit of homage to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Well the girls also find a Ouija board, these things really made the rounds in the 80s, and decide to give a shot. Well they try and contact Hockstatter the original killer in the house and weird stuff begins to happen. The next twenty minutes devolves into the usual slasher setup of running, screaming, and dying. Again as in many Concorde movies we have girls holding knives sitting in a circle in front of fireplace. But it is the last fifteen minutes or so that really twist and turn. We have a red herring, and a possessed killer. The movie really pulls out some original surprises that usually you don't see in slasher movies. I was very surprised and rather impressed by this. It is still a slasher but it is a slasher with some creativity.

Haunting of Morella - D-

This is a story based on a Edgar Allen Poe story and all I have to say is that this defintely isn't Roger Corman's Poe by a long shot. The story involves at lot of B-Movie actors that we can recognize, firstly we have Nicole Eggert of Baywatch fame in the days before she actually did Baywatch, David McCallum, known to the world as the Man from U.N.C.L.E. and more recently from Navy NCIS, Lana Clarkston from the Barbarian Queen movies and Deathstalker both solid 80s sword and sorcerer flicks, and Maria Ford from Sorority House Massacre 2 and Slumber Party Massacre 3. The movie is more softcore porno than horror movie by any means, every female character introduced in the movie gets naked and usually has sex. Nicole Eggert doesn't get naked, they use a body double which is really poorly covered up. The movie stumbles and plods along trying to make some sort of movie between the sex scenes. The movie was done by Jim Wynorski who is the Concorde's goto guy if they have 20 bucks to make a movie, just like this one. Really bad, probably each time it is watched Poe spins one more time in his grave.

Cut - B-

While shooting the slasher movie Hot Blooded, an actor snaps and kills the director. After that the movie is shelved and forgotten about until a group of film students resurrects it determined to finish it. Well this being a horror movie they go off a isolated location and start to finish the film but the masked killer, the same one from the movie appears and the killing starts. This is a bit of novelty in the slasher world for being from Austrailia which isn't exactly bad they do a good job of keeping it indisinct so it could really be anywhere minus the accents. I do applaud the movie's rather large body count, they really set out to whack everybody by the end of the movie. Molly Ringwold does an excellent job playing the American actress who appeared in the original film who has returned to finish it. She plays at being a prima dona extremely well, it is almost funny to watch her strut around like she is the queen of the ball. The relationship between the character is better than your average slasher flick but here lies one of the weaknesses of the movie is that they have all these relationships among the characters but they never really flesh them out, most of the characters are dead before any development can occur. Also rather surprising for a slasher flick is the total lack of any nudity, they are a couple of shower scenes and a sex scene but yet no nudity. All in all the Aussies did a good job with this movie, a couple of minor flaws but it really gets a few good scares and the characters are very real and believable.

House of the Dead - D+

Just because it is a cool video game isn't exactly the best rational for making a movie, but it was enough for the guys who made House of the Dead. Firstly it should be called Shanty of the Dead, there is no real house. The plot is horribly simple, there is a rave on an island, of course the people setting up the rave totally missed the weird shack and the giant graveyard around the shack. Well this group of total self involved 20ish adults miss the boat and decided to hire Jurgen Prochnow boat. They go out to the party but find only blood and wreckage. They find zombies on the island too. Well thankfully Jurgen is a huge arms smuggler and he has tons of guns. Here is where the movies goes from fairly low budget to ridiculous. Thankfully these preppy young adults are all experts with guns or kung-fu. They run around the island killing zombies by the score and slowly thining their number out as any good horror movie works. Of course the minorities and other required horror cliche characters all die, but like everything in this movie there are no good deaths only zombies piling around somebody and a scream. The villian is a Spaniard that discovered how to become immortal and make an army of zombies, not really an interesting villian but making zombies comes from one of two ways, people denying god or mega-corp toxins. The movie has a few rather bad continuty errors, in the gun fights people are firing one kind of gun but when they cut to the rather bad slow-mo bullet time they are firing a totally different gun. While the movie is bad, I mean bad for a zombie horror movie, it isn't Gigli, it isn't Istar, it is just a bad zombie movie. The gun play is fairly decent, the zombie deaths are good splatter fest, it isn't Resident Evil, or Cannibal Holocaust, or Tombs of the Blind Dead, it covers the bases. It has the required nudity, but lacks snappy lines. I just have a hard time with the characters picking up guns and acting like they do this on a regular basis, when do one dimensional yuppies get training use a lot of guns? I also didn't like the video game footage bridging the scenes of the movie together, it was too out of character for a movie. It is bad, but still worth a once through just to check it off the list.

May - D

Now comparing this to the above House of the Dead, at least the House of the Dead was funny in its weaknesses. May is the story of a girl with a lazy eye who is an outcast and has no friends who works at a vet's office where the vet is this obese middle eastern guy that should be selling camels not fixing them. Well she gets her eye fixed, meets a cute guy, and a cute lesbian girl. They both end up not falling in love with her and she starts to lose it. She has this doll that has been her best friend her entire life and things hey I'll make a doll out of the people that I carve attention from so it can be my new friend. This movie is a bad Frankenstein knock off that is all about an outcast girl taking revenge. But what can you expect from a director with the name Lucky McKee? The only marginally good thing is Anna Faris, the girl from Scary Movie, who plays the lesbian co-worker of our psycho main character. She does a pretty good job in this rather crappy movie. Why this falls into horror with the exception of the Frankenstein plot line is beyond me, she just goes kills, and then the movie ends rather unsatisfyingly. This is an example of art house indie horror, it is all up in somebody's head and ends up sucking big time. I would recommend House of the Dead over this, that should tell you something.

The Bunker - B+

It is 1944, the Germans are losing the war. A group of them are fleeing from an ambush when they find refuge in an out of the way tank bunker. The bunker is defended by an old man and a boy. The soldiers soon begin to quarrel, the ardent Nazis vs the Germans that just want to survive. They soon come to believe that they are totally surrounded by the Americans and they are almost out of ammo. They find tunnels snaking underneath the bunker, they are told not to go down there the land was once a mass grave for victims of the Black Death. They start to hear sounds in the tunnels and fear the Americans are inside. They start to explore the tunnels and start dying off, is the ghosts or just the Americans? The movie was made in Great Britian but the amount of exact details in the movie is so exacting you would almost think it was documentary, if not for the fact that all the Germans speak with British Accents. But I would rather have that than the actors trying to fake German accents. All the guns, uniforms, and equipment all looks very real. The movie has two actors from Below, Jason Flemyng and Christopher Fairbanks. Everybody does a great job in this film, it has a few flaws but it is a good spooky movie but it doesn't have all the atmosphere as Below but is still pretty good. It is very hard to find because it was only out in Britian. I doubt this movie is big enough or popular enough to make it over here. It was fun and really different from most war and horror movies you see these days.

Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness - A

The Japanese know how to make satisfying movies, they might not be hundred million dollar Hollywood Flop-Busters but with their modest budgets they really know how to please. This one has Black Magic, Lesbians, and Sailor Suits, I really don't need any more from a movie. Misa comes to a new school that is in the geographic center of a series of brutal murders. She quickly makes friends with Mizuki, the class president. Mizuki gives her the low down on the school, the biology teacher is a total hentai and their other teacher Ms Shirai is physically involved with a student, the very attractive Kazumi. While she is telling her this, someone is using a voodoo doll to strangle her. Misa stops the mysterious attack and we learn she is a wizard as well when she uses the doll on the hentai biology teacher. The biology teacher gets a rather nasty case of the runs and while running back and forth between the bathroom he spies Ms Shirai and Kazumi getting friendly. The next day he winds up dead and everybody suspects Misa. While this is happening, 13 students, Misa, her love interest Shindou, Mizuki, and several other students, aka victims get trapped in the school. On the blackboard the number 13 appears but after the first girl dies, drowns in the bathroom, it turns to 12. Now the chase is on, can Misa save the other students before their numbers are called? This was a great movie, with one minor problem, they should have cut out the entire first cult scene or at least trimmed it to take out a couple of lines that within a few minutes gives the entire twist ending away. I really like the relationship between Ms Shirai and Kazumi, you know one of them is evil but you aren't exactly sure which, plus they have a couple of sex scenes, which is never bad. The gore factor is at a Japanese level, which means it is very bloody and gory, those with weak stomachs look away. You know exactly what to expect after the first scene we see a woman running terrified through a crowded Tokyo Street. She ends up running into a construction site and her high heel makes her stumble. she walls against a wall, and a massive steel girder falls. she turns to look up just in time to get the girder straight in the face. You get to see the blood and the brains as the girder speared her head to the ground. It is a great fun movie to watch, especially if you are a fan of Japanese Horror.

House On Sorority Row - C-

Before there was I Know What You Did Last Summer, there was another weak teen girls play prank, get somebody killed movie. The girls of a sorority of unknown name are graduating but want to have one last party but the crazy old house mother says no. She is essentially a mean old bitch so of course the girls play a prank on her and she ends up having a heart attack. So these educated girls toss her into the disgusting swimming pool and have their party. Killer comes out and starts killing. The girls die one by one and then there is just the good girl left, she wins, the killer dies, all is well that ends well. Not very interesting, very little nudity, some fun hallucinations, and the originality for 1981 got it a C if it wasn't for the tripping scene it would have scored lower.

Slaughter Studios - D+

Sometimes it is okay to spoof horror movies, case in point Scary Movie, then sometimes spoofing a horror movie turns into an complete fisaco, case in point this movie. The premise starts off rather promising for a horror movie, Slaughter Studios where thirty years ago made some rather low budget horror movies, well after a stunt gone wrong, ala-Brandon Lee, the studio is closed. Now fast forward thirty years to 2003 and they are planning to tear Slaughter Studios down, well enter a sleezy British(?) director and a mini-van load of bimbos including a couple of stars from the Bare Wench Project and they are going to break into the studio to make one last horror movie. The movie has T&A so it recieves the D+ at least they have some naked ladies to look at, but from there it is a total failure. The acting stinks, the killings are too mundane, the red herring is not believable, the comic tone to the movie fails to be funny after twenty minutes. This is another slasher movie from New Concorde, once Concorde Films that made the early Slumber Party/Sorority House Massacres, then New Horizon that made slashers in the mid-90s and now they are New Concorde making low grade softcore slasher porn movies. While some haven't been that bad, this one is just painfull. It could have made a perfectly good serious slasher movie, but their urge to make it a spoof doomed this turd.

Slashers - A-

Another great low budget Canada Horror Film. The concept is devilsh and extremely believable, the Japanese known for their love of extreme game shows, have reach the ultimate level of extreme game shows, it is called Slashers, where contestants have to outrun serial killers in a closed in enviroment. Now many of you will say, that is just Running Man, well possibly but it is Running Man with a twist, these people volunteer for the opportunity to be hacked to bloody bits for the chance at 16 million dollars and fame. Well the movie centers around the very first All-American Group to play the game, they are a varied group, Ex-Marine, Bouncer, Extreme Athelete, Wannabe Actress, and a Political Protestor. I liked her character the most because she goes on with the purpose of stating her message to the world that watching this game is leading to the decay of civilization much like Running Man but again we have a twist, nobody gives a shit and while she is giving her statement to the world, one of the killers rips her top off because it will give them more ratings. These killer are clever they torment their victims for the thrill of the audience. They prey upon the poor political activist until she starts playing the game. Another great part of the twists in this game are the comerical breaks, there is one part where one of the killers is going to off a vic when the announcer comes on and tells everybody to hold positions until the comercial break is over. The movie does an excellent job of making it feel like a real TV show, including a terribly catchy theme song. The only draw back of the entire movie is its rather small budget, if it made a few million more it could have been a lot better because the sets are a little cheap. The themes of sex, violence and audience enjoyment make this a very relatable horror movie because this is the next step in Reality TV we are going to watch life and death for our own perverse enjoyment.