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  Review by Mario 🟠🟢🔵 ★ 4

  Man, this guy has to be the worst director since Uwe Boll and Pitof.
  Edward Drake Ranked

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  Review by WraithApe ★ 3

  Nonsensical bollocks about The Sinclairs, a family of vampires - or something - and the things they do. Features crappy vfx and an incredibly overbearing soundtrack that renders the dialogue inaudible 50% of the time. When it is audible, it's just a long exhalation of unfiltered bullshit, so maybe that's for the best. Muddled mythology, characters that are never properly established and tonally all at sea: sometimes felt like a PG-13, an episode of Buffy where the writers were replaced by an automated script generator, at others a half-baked rip-off of Ready Or Not. What a mess. As Sinclair legacies go, it's more C5 than ZX Spectrum.

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  Review by haley ★★½

  well it looks nice and the acting is fine, but everything else is one big disaster. they dragged out the plot so much and then never answered any questions. it's as if they had a lot more but decided to cut out a lot of it so the film wouldn't be so damn long, and they ended up fucking it up in the process. maybe that's why there were so many weird montages. the potential was there and they completely wasted it.

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  Review by Troy L. ★★★ 2

  "I don't see the world, I watch it."

  - Never underestimate The Chef

  I almost--almost shut this off about 35mins in, as it wasn't doing anything to keep me invested long term. But thank goodness I have a ton of patience, and decided to stick it out through the remainder of the film.
  Shit gets weird; and I mean, WEIRD.
  Once the family make it to the dinner table, I found myself locked in tight like vise-grips. That's where things really start to escalate and get more in-depth with what's going on in this fucked-up family.

  This won't be for everyone, but I say take the gamble. It just may turn out 'somewhat' interesting to you.
  But then again – who would want to listen to a guy, that thinks "Ghosts of Mars," is an incredible movie? 🤷🏾‍♂️

  (Yes, that movie is incredible.)

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  Review by Rick D ★★★½

  A nice little horror flick surprise that I took a chance (pun intended) on.

  Jonathan Lipnicki is a chef who is hired to cook a one-night dinner for a rich family.

  Avery Konrad is the always in trouble daughter who is banished to her grandfathers house to clean up her act.

  How are they intertwined?

  Solid acting lead by Timothy V. Murphy as the grandfather and patriarch of the family. Annette Reilly, Jenna Berman, Phoebe Miu, Alyson Bath, and Kyra Zagorsky are all easy on the eyes.

  Some time-hopping and confusing moments dropped this one a notch but I enjoyed myself.

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  Review by coles84 ★★ 3

  A well produced READY OR NOT/THE PURGE crossover involving vampires & demons should be a lot better than this bore led dinner table snooze but sadly it just festers over a couple of clever ideas that are never pushed over the finish line. The performances and score deserve praise as both are superb but there is not enough meat on the delicate bones of this film to give it much to talk about.

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  Review by CJ ½ 2

  Argh, what the fuck even was this?

  It felt like someone wrote a series of self-published Young Adult novels, wanted to adapt them into a TV series, wrote, like, 22 episodes and then found they didn't have the money to do it. No one would fund it. Possibly because it was overwrought nonsense about angels, demons and vampires and all the usual YA fare without any discernible hook. But it didn't matter. Broil was going to happen one way or another so why not just take those 22 episodes of script and chop them down randomly into a single 90 minute feature, which you can shoot in one location with a small cast? Great idea! How exactly should they edit…

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  Review by Joanne ★★

  Only two stars but it still gets a like because even though this was a bit of a mess, there were some good characters and ideas in here. Not at all what I expected, but it helps if you read some blurb first, which I didn’t 😂 I just chose because of the poster. What I thought was going to be a home invasion, tables turned movie, ended up being something out of a teen vampire novel. Infact I became convinced it was based on one, because it had that feeling of being rushed, and big important chunks being left out. What was left was entertaining enough, and I really enjoyed some of the male characters. Ruthless Grandpa August, happy…

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  Review by ErnestoYushiro ★★½ 2

  Que cosa tan extraña, en trama es una mezcolanza tipo The Menu y Ready or Not, y en tono presenta actuaciones sólidas, y momentos serios e inquietantes, junto a otros demasiado burdos, eso me trajo recuerdos de la primera Sharknado. Es algo bastante peculiar, me gusta su guion, la dirección es por lo mínimo extraña, pero creo que logra cuajar, o al menos va mejorando rumbo a su final con sus giros argumentales.

  Ah, el George Little dio un muy buen estirón, bastante galán está hoy en día, aunque salga en películas que apenas y su manager conoce.

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  Review by Travis Lytle ★★★

  Surprisingly enjoyable, Edward Drake's "Broil" features a jigsaw puzzle plot about a girl, her family, and a chef. No further story details will be revealed here, but the narrative is unexpected, dark, and oddly emotional. Drake strings the story together with an appealing cast, functional atmosphere, and a quick energy that supports the off-kilter and unhinged side of the work as well as its calmer moments. Not everything here will feel fresh, but this is a fun and solidly appealing piece of horror.

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  Review by ZaraGwen ★½

  It was kinda cool to see what happened to the kid from Jerry Maguire

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  Review by Mark Costello ★★★★

  A hugely odd genre jam that brings to mind shades of classic Lovecraftian 'weird' together with an almost classic vampire story about a family dynasty and a centuries long power struggle that comes to a head over a dinner party, there's just something.........delicious about this little Canadian film.

  Starting out as little more than traditional family drama - a young girl is in trouble at school and parents ship her off to live with her grandfather - some very odd elements start to creep in: she's told she has a condition that has to keep her out of direct sunlight and requires daily blood transfusions; the family have ties to a local cafe, who's young chef (played almost unrecognisably by…