Post by devilndisguise on Nov 13, 2006 13:49:57 GMT -5
On Nov. 7th a new independant horror movie was released. I read about it in Fangoria and then researched it a bit on the web (ie IMDB)...it seems to have gotten nothing but great reviews...it was compared to Shaun of the Dead (which I LOVE)...and on occasion it was stated it did what Shaun of the Dead did, but better...It won numerous small film festival awards.
Thus how I was introduced to Freak out.
The premise....A escaped patient from the local aslymn attempts to seek revenge on those who wronged him when he was younger....he ends up in the hands of two early 20's boys who LOVE horror films and they seek to make him into the ultimate killing machine. They provide him with a costume (orange jumpsuit, potato sack over the head and a hockey mask)...he learns his lesson too well and now only these two guys can stop his killing rampage in their little town.
Okay...so the killer is a vegetarian, he uses a spactula!...so I was sure I'd love it...
NOPE..Nope and more nope...
It felt like it was HOURS long...like will this movie ever end...or I could just turn it off, becuase frankly I could care less what happens to these charcters. Honestly, the gore was dumb...the dialoge was dumb, the acting was horrible...I'm not going to say there wasn't a laugh or two, there was (after a huge party in which everyone was murdered, the main characters have to clean up, bagging all the body parts up and labelign the garbage bags "heads", "arms", "naughty bits")... Some of the lines were funny, Some of the lines went for the cheap dirty laugh, and were so bad we just grimaced (a whole scene in which they are talkign about a talking doll, but from the camera angle, we are to presume they could be talking about a "naughty bit")....I gotta say, don't bother to hunt it down (Blockbuster didnt' have it, but Hollywood Video did), don't spend your $5.
Because of this movie my boyfriend suspended my rights to pick the videos we watch...(and this from a guy who made me sit through some BAD B-rated horror Flick)...
BUT...if you do get sucked in, I would love to hear what the rest of you think, apparently everyone else on the planet liked this movie...
Thus how I was introduced to Freak out.
The premise....A escaped patient from the local aslymn attempts to seek revenge on those who wronged him when he was younger....he ends up in the hands of two early 20's boys who LOVE horror films and they seek to make him into the ultimate killing machine. They provide him with a costume (orange jumpsuit, potato sack over the head and a hockey mask)...he learns his lesson too well and now only these two guys can stop his killing rampage in their little town.
Okay...so the killer is a vegetarian, he uses a spactula!...so I was sure I'd love it...
NOPE..Nope and more nope...
It felt like it was HOURS long...like will this movie ever end...or I could just turn it off, becuase frankly I could care less what happens to these charcters. Honestly, the gore was dumb...the dialoge was dumb, the acting was horrible...I'm not going to say there wasn't a laugh or two, there was (after a huge party in which everyone was murdered, the main characters have to clean up, bagging all the body parts up and labelign the garbage bags "heads", "arms", "naughty bits")... Some of the lines were funny, Some of the lines went for the cheap dirty laugh, and were so bad we just grimaced (a whole scene in which they are talkign about a talking doll, but from the camera angle, we are to presume they could be talking about a "naughty bit")....I gotta say, don't bother to hunt it down (Blockbuster didnt' have it, but Hollywood Video did), don't spend your $5.
Because of this movie my boyfriend suspended my rights to pick the videos we watch...(and this from a guy who made me sit through some BAD B-rated horror Flick)...
BUT...if you do get sucked in, I would love to hear what the rest of you think, apparently everyone else on the planet liked this movie...