Mihaela_Lacramioara
Okay I think everyone understands that any low budget movie is likely to have some funny quirks or things you might have done differently if you were the director. For the most part though I think Romero did a good job.The actors did really very good. The group of kids did a good job seeming really afraid. I thought Kathy Lamkin was great like usual. She seems to play that role a lot and it fits her great... she rocks.The special effects could have been given a little more attention. When one of the cast gets his leg shot off it just looks like it came detached from underneath the pant leg with no blood... not really convincing. But everything else was okay for what they had to work with.I think if you're bored watch it. It will keep you entertained.
qormi
As far as horror gore fests go, this one delivers. The dismemberment and killings are sudden and gross. The plot has a twist - it seems a mad doctor pays for body parts provided by the deranged family. The characters are all very well cast and are effective. It does, however, take the dumb victim syndrome to a new level. When faced with death, they don't seem to have enough sense to run and hide. None of these freaky homicidal psycho people can run fast, and the victims all seem able-bodied and athletic. Just run. One stupid victim ran in the middle of a dirt road while being chased by a chugging semi truck cab. Just dart off the road, up a grassy hill, around a tree, past the bushes...and you're free. But no...One guy gets his leg shot off below the knee...next, we see him tied to a table. Who carried him there? Why didn't he bleed to death? Why is he fully conscious? The gore was scary - the skinning, dismembering....very realistic. Throwing a body to the hogs was all to real looking. Taken for what it is - a gross out horror flick, it was scary enough.
catfish-er
As you have already read, this movie progresses at a snails pace. The first 48 minutes, nothing happens. Hitchhikers going to a rally. They get a ride. They stop for the night. They wake up. Eat breakfast.. yawn...Sure, the family is creepy; but, isn't that the biggest movie cliché there is? The filmmakers managed to pull out every trick that had already been done in other movies (most notably Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise) without adding in any elements of suspense, horror, or empathy.What little story there is is revealed in flash-backs that are so disjointed from the actual action that you just tent to zone out and ignore them. One, I thought was actually a commercial break; but, there weren't any commercials during this viewing.Yes, that's how bad this is. And, I've seen movies like THE PINK ANGELS. Don't waste your time, no one knows how to make a horror movie anymore, unless it's slathered with special effects gore.
John Friedman
As a true horror fan, coming across a movie that was made of no one less than Romero Jr., it was obvious that one had to see if directing can be inherited from father to son. And with no surprise, Romero Jr. decided to follow his father's path by using gut-wrenching gore as a major ingredient to make his mark on the horror scene. Then he had to come up with a story that meets most of the elementary requirements of the genre. Unlike his father, he decides to pick the raisins out of the cookie instead of exploring a new field that made daddy George world famous
. once upon a time! The entire plot of the story is taken from one single classic cult movie: Texas Chainsaw Massacre! Nothing wrong with that, however, when a director decides to make his/her own interpretation of a classic cult, it heightens the expectations! Despite high ambitions from the director, the move fails to deliver that particular suspense that is the very meaning of watching a horror in first place. My conclusive review of this movie is that in this day and age, and with the plethora of horror movies that are released on a daily basis, a lot more is needed in order to provide something that is worthwhile watching.
AD
