politehere When I first read the reviews on IMDb, I expected to see a great film and I must say it lived up to my expectations. The plot is much more believable than that of SAW where there are many plot holes (how are the victims kidnapped?). In this movie, there are no plot holes like that. It's just a series of logical causes and effects and even the guy who freaks out and loses his control doesn't break the cause and effect chain.The characters act very well and their reactions are quite believable. Anyway, for horror/thriller fans this is a must-sea. You're not going to find any movies as good as this that easily.

redeemerE First time director Chris Moore and first time screenplay writer Kelly C. Palmer surely aimed best at their first times and they have managed to do so. In their horror thriller Kill Theory, they have proved to have talent and vision. Kill Theory is a film skinned out of clichés and predictable plot twists and it gives a lot of joy to the admirers of smart plot twists. The film begins with a conversation of a psychiatrist and a mental patient (Kevin Gage) who was the only survivor of an accident of questionable circumstances. Nobody knows if he killed all those people or if it was an accident and he was actually the survivor. After this. we learn that he was released from the mental hospital due to his good behavior. Following this background information, a group of eight is introduced. They are best friends from college and they are planning to have a nice party to celebrate their upcoming graduation. They find a nice, secluded house and start their night. Expecting to have fun, they face the psychopath's trap. He pulls them in an involuntary and deadly game and says that they have to kill each other to survive, because there will only be one of them surviving and they should try to be this one. This sounds a little like SAW, but a distinction is that in this movie, they have to kill their best friends, girl friends, boyfriends and character development along with the plot is so good that you do not know what will happen next and who the sole survivor will be. This horror thriller is like a missing gem, precious and solid. Horror thriller fans would love this and be disappointed for not being able to see this one on a wide screen theater.

Scarecrow-88 A criminal is released on parole after serving time for an incident while mountain climbing when he cut the rope that sent three of his friends falling to their doom. This culminates in a night where the man released sets up a game with a group of affluent, yuppie soon-to-be college graduates staying at the home of their host's father's posh summer place. During the evening, the kids, who seemed to be in high spirits and anxious for the prominent future, will be given a choice, one will be able to survive while the others must perish, cut off as the killer's friends were, his testing a "kill theory" where he sees how much one values his/her life, willing to sacrifice their own in order to make it out alive. So we watch as they pick apart each other, loyalties divided, betrayal and backstabbing, seeing first hand the true nature of many when facing extinction. We see a gun juggled around as it controls the possibility of who lives and dies. We see attempts at manipulation, while the mastermind behind this whole orchestrated scenario offers others a chance to gain an advantage, also denying anyone an escape from the premises. Six o'clock is the deadline and as the clock ticks, violence and desperation escalates until nearly everyone is dead in one way or another. A shovel is used to bash a face in until it's a bloody pulp. A fireplace poker is plunged into an eyeball and through the skull. A bear trap goes through one victim trying for an ax stuck in a tree stump. A knife is used to stab into the stomach and leg, one particular moment revealing a dark truth about how love can fall by the wayside when time is almost up. What does happen is we do see how true love reigns at the end when one does give his life for another after being double-crossed by who he perceived to be his one-and-only. Like the Saw movies and the genre as a whole where we see humankind's true nature when facing death first-hand, "Kill Theory" follows a select group of individuals and how they react to a crisis. Eventually, among them is one who is willing to pursue whatever lengths necessary to save his/her hide, while another character shows their true colors in a startling, abrupt manner, catching a victim off-guard because the one attacked has no reason to expect his assailant. Mind games are employed as a means to secure a weapon or motivate the more vulnerable to improve their situation. I think movies like "Kill Theory" and "Saw" series will always appeal to a certain crowd who enjoy seeing characters turn on each other, tearing each other apart through actions and words, while hoping to escape the killer's trap(s), falling prey to their own frailties and weaknesses, attempting to resolve a very difficult dilemma which has them in a stranglehold. As is often the case, the killer is always one step ahead of his playthings, the obstacles removing any ability to flee from their captor. Really attractive cast has familiar faces like Agnes Bruckner, Daniel Franzese, and Taryn Manning. Kevin Gage(Chaos)is yet again a serial killer whose face is barely shown, his voice both cold-blooded and to-the-point. As expected, there are a lot of spats and melodramatic relationship problems which play out as the story unfolds and body count rises.

mdnobles19 I thought this was decent and better than expected bloody thriller with solid acting but this horror theme is very tiresome and recycled now and is no longer thrilling or scary. I thought it was well paced and had ordinary but very brutal kills but what really stands out in this movie and what makes it interesting is the psychological mind games the characters play on each other and the hard decisions they make in order to survive this twisted cat and mouse game. This is pretty much survival of the fittest for the slasher crowd with a mix of Saw, Scream and Battle Royale but less inventive because in the end nothing really stands out in this and is a forgettable throw away. I does have better production values than previous slashers from after dark horrorfest but like most movies from that fest you won't even remember the name of it in a few years. Overall it had an intriguing tagline, decent but as expected leads, ruthless violence and a harsh psychological, cat and mouse game the characters are forced to play and the final twist which is both the highlight of this otherwise forgettable thriller. Worth at least a rental but not a must see.