acidburn-10 I remember viewing this little gem many years ago during the late 90's early 00's wave of slasher movies. And during that time a lot of junk came and went and very few stuck in my head, but this was the one that stayed in my mind and I was so glad that I got to view this again.I'd to say that "Kolobus" is very stylish and effective movie that tells the story of 5 people people enter a reality based TV series house where they hope to gain fame and fortune, including one of the characters is already an actress, a fallen actress with a hope to regain her time in the spotlight. But as soon as they arrive they are locked in with a sadistic killer who has set up an array of gruesome traps.The movie has a eerie nightmarish quality to it and the sudden darkness with just flashing red lights adds a great creepy Gothic tone to the proceedings, and especially when the characters sets off the one of the traps which are very nasty and effective and adds a brilliant amount of tension and fear, especially when the first victim gets sliced apart in the first trap as it totally comes out of the blue and the gore is really unsettling and brilliant. The others include eye impalement, disembowelment and an acid shower each done brilliantly.Amy Weber is a definite standout in the cast as the final girl and gives a good chase at the end and shows layers to her character throughout the movie. Illa Volok as Faceless the killer was very menacing in his little screen time which made his character all the more scary too much of him would have lessened his creepiness. All in all "Kolobus" is very tense and unsettling, although it doesn't keep it up all the way through and the last 40 minutes does try to pack too much in, but the twist ending is very well done though that was a real head scratcher.

loridas3 Yesterday, I saw "Kolobos" and I really enjoyed that film. It's a nice horror movie with a lot of blood and terror. One scene that really scares me is the scene where the killer murdered Erica (Nichole Pelerine). Also, I think that Kyra (Amy Weber) is really beautiful and good actress. However, I don't understand the end. What happened exactly with Kyra? And disappoints me so much, because is a good movie and I believe has a good and more understandable end... Anyway, "Kolobos" Iis really good (except the end) and I suggest to all people see it when they will find the chance! My vote is 9 out of 10. And I will see it again!

guse23 The premise is simple. A group of very different people gather gather for an experiment which entitles them to be filmed by cameras set all around the house. Everything's normal at first until the first victim is struck. The house then goes into automatic lock down leaving the group stuck inside with traps set all around as well as a killer loose inside. This movie has been compared to Halloween Resurrection but the difference between the two films (besides the fact that Kolobos came out first) is the fact that you start of with these sort of stereotypical characters but they develop as the story progresses. The music in this movie creates this nice mood as does the setting and artwork. The entire movie does a good job of keeping you engaged and keeping you guessing on who the killer is and whether the lead is crazy or not. The conclusion however is what throws you off. If you understand it it's completely genius but if you don't it ruins the movie. It's not you simple slasher flick, far from it. Hence why it's a must see.

Paul Andrews Kolobos starts on a dark night as two people (Jeremy Kendall & Laura Holman) driving along run into an injured woman, she is taken to a local hospital where Dr. Waldman (Simms Thomas), an outpatient counsellor, tries to figure out who she is & how this woman had obtained some horrendous injuries... Five people, Kyra (Amy Weber), Tina (Promise LaMarco), Erica (Nichole Pelerine), Tom (Donny Terranova) & Gary (John Fairlie) have all answered an advert in a local newspaper advertising for people to spend some time in a house together with four strangers & have their every movement filmed, they are the chosen five. They all arrive & discover a large nicely furnished cabin which will be their home for the next few days. The director Carl (Jonathan Rone) explains to everyone what he is looking for & tells them all to relax, be natural & have fun. That night Tina heads into the kitchen to get some drinks when she is killed by spinning razor discs. Metal shutters suddenly descend over all the doors & window's trapping the four remaining inhabitants inside. As the night draws on it quickly becomes apparent that there is a killer in the house...This German production was co-written & directed by the duo of David Todd Ocvirk & Daniel Liatowitsch &, in my humble opinion, is pretty crap, incidentally the word Kolobos apparently comes from the Greek word to self-mutilate so now you know. The script by Ocvirk, Liatowitsch & co-producer Nne Ebong is really slow to get going, the first murder doesn't happen until past the 40 minute mark & all I can say is do you want to sit through 40 odd minutes of highly annoying, boring & clichéd character development? I didn't think so. They are all here, the troubled yet strong female, the annoying wisecracking coward etc. etc. Kolobos is an absolute mess of a film with narrative that is all over the place & one of the worst endings ever, I was expecting some hip, cool twist that would hopefully lift the film a bit but it never came & what I got instead was a limp, lame & throughly lazy climax that holds no surprise apart from the fact that the filmmakers decided to go with it. Was it a dream, reality, a set up, what? To me everything that happened seemed to contradict itself during the climax, very frustrating & ultimately unsatisfying. To obviously keep the budget as low as possible only four character's are given any real screen time which is not good as they are all extremely unlikable. On a positive note at least it's a bit different, there are one or two decent scenes & strikes a certain cord with all the popular reality based shows currently playing on TV.Directors Ocvirk & Liatowitsch (who had not made a film prior to Kolobos & thankfully not one since either) do absolutely nothing to liven the dull proceedings up, they aren't sure if they want a realistic hand held feel or not & in the end Kolobos has no style about it at all. They fail to create any tension or atmosphere as they think making the lights flash different colours is scary, guys it's not OK? The gore was disappointing after hearing good things about it, there a few splashes of blood, someone's stomach sliced open with a razor bladed Frisbee, a crappy looking melted face, a sliced ankle & a few other cheap looking effects like someone obviously sticking their head through a hole in a table to simulate a decapitated head & one terrible looking shot where someone's eye is impaled which is achieved by forced perspective.Technically Kolobos is bland, uninteresting & dull with very little to talk about, so I won't. It was obviously shot on video rather than film which also adds to it's cheapness. The acting is pretty bad by everyone involved, they became very irritating & I ended up hating them all.Kolobos had potential but it fails miserably in just about everything it sets out to do. The film is generally quite competent but that is about the best thing I can say about it. Definitely not worth 80 odd minutes of your life, there are better ways to spend it!