drama59 The premise is very interesting. Children being experimented on and then most are never seen again. This movie follows some of those children who are now grown up. The problem with the movie is that the death scenes are too short and not enough screen time for the viewer of a true horror movie to appreciate. Flash backs would have been a HUGE plus so you could see what the children had to go through. Once again I do like the plot. The actors were fine. The directing was the problem. I think this deserves a remake where you go more in depth with characters and their ultimate demise. If you want a movie where someone lives at the end - no luck Chuck! The ending was zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz and did not play enough on the horror that these children went through. I say SKIP IT!

aesgaard41 Every once in a while a horror movie comes along with an interesting new spin or a brand new premise. The idea is to create something new rather than a rehash of any of the top ten to twelve horror movie archetypes out there. "Crazy Eights" has a good idea, but it doesn't really go anywhere with it. Part of the problem is the glaring holes in the plot and the confusing script. The movie starts out like "Without A Paddle" as six friends meet at the funeral of a classmate and are drawn into a scavenger hunt they takes them into a remake of "House On Haunted Hill." After a variety of strange encounters in their lives, the six are drawn to a barn where they left a time capsule as kids and find a skeleton in the trunk, which may or may not be linked to their pasts. They struggle too briefly with doing the right thing and way too quickly try to shrug it off if but to get very quickly lost on the local dirt roads and end up at an old deserted hospital in the ghost town of Entonsburg within an unidentified Southern state. This is where things start getting confusing. Instead of making efforts to get on their way, they explore the hospital and start getting picked off by an unseen killer in a dress. Thankfully, the gore is done off-camera with the disturbing images revealed only in brief flickering images. It's difficult to feel sympathetic to the characters unless you're a fan of the actors. The cast includes George Newbern, Traci Lords, Gabrielle Anwar and a number of actors with whom I'm unfamiliar. The movie never at any moment makes an effort to clear up or resolve any questions, instead pushing forward and killing off its cast like, as Jeff Goldblum once put it, the "Pirates of the Caribbean" ride coming to life and killing the tourists. In fact, the movie can't choose if it's a haunted house movie or a slasher/gore movie. Somewhere in this detritus of scenes and images, the movie establishes the six friends once lived in the old hospital with their deceased friend and one other girl ("The Crazy Eight") where they were victims of psychological experiments, but they escaped after hiding the young girl and promising to return. (Remind you of "I Know What You Did Last Summer?") This suggests their dead friend is the one getting revenge for forgetting about her in the trunk all those years ago, but at no point does anyone realize, "Hey, this the old hospital where we were abandoned by our parents to be terrorized by those evil doctors?" How could they possibly block something like that out, and why does the girl's ghost look adult and zombified? Why do they stay in the building when all they were doing was trying to get directions? Why does the ghost kill them at all when she could just scare the crap out of them over and over and over? Like I said, the movie can't decide what it is. It's a promising premise that gets convoluted and confusing without being scary or even making sense, and in my world, that's just a crying waste of what could have been a decent haunted house movie.

Ralphus2 Why do they keep making this cr*p?!Some reasonable actors a bit of atmosphere...but that's it! And that's not enough!I seem to have watched too many of these completely unoriginal B-grade turds of movies that they keep churning out recently. They're all the same! Loathsome characters, idiotic dialog, plots that you can pencil down before the film even starts and then check off as the film unfolds, complete absence of either gore or genuine scares (instead you get clichéd soundtracks and some jump edits)...and to make things worse, utter tedium. "Crazy Eights" had a little something extra: a premise that is so full of holes you spend half of the film asking "Now, hang on, how could they...?". The gaping chasm of this flick even extends to the title which, as others have pointed out, makes no sense once you give it a bare moment's thought. Are there 8 or 9 of them? Surely the girl in the box is the 9th! But, no, only 8. How can that be? It BE because the writers didn't rub enough brain cells together to get a spark and figure out what should have been glaringly obvious. And, what's more, the film takes itself seriously! Ugh!!!There are too many of these sloppy, lazy, cookie-cutter horrors. Bring back the 70s and 80s! I know there's PLENTY of crap there too, but at least we got Tom Savini head explosions, Lucio Fulci outrageousness, John Carpenter suspense, Dario Argento cinematography and over-the-top set pieces, Jason Vorhees axes scythes spears and Terminator-esque unstoppableness...SOMETHING! Instead, we get "Crazy Eights"! Look, After Dark people, just stop. Or at least get rid of the 8 films requirement. There aren't 8 films good enough. Just release one kick-a** film whenever a good director/story/writer comes along. No more "Crazy Eights"!

sebanks-1 This movie is the most stupid movie I have ever seen. Why would 6 white collar workers break into an abandoned house looking for a girl that ran past their car? Then add that they break into the basement looking for this girl? Then the door to the basement slams shut and they are stuck. Why did they throw the chest out the barn window? They intentionally smashed the chest why? Nothing makes sense in this movie.I am warning you that this movie is a waste of time. Why do they feel guilt? I think they feel guilt for making this movie and they now feel compassion for the people that paid money to rent it or worse those who bought this movie.