Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
I love me some fuckin Fulci (I know he directed less than half before leaving production due to illness, but even according to the successive director, it's still a Fulci movie)
Certain parts feel somewhat eerily timely post pandemic and watching climate change happen tbh.
Predating Bad Taste and Dead Alive by 3 and 8 years respectively, this is New Zealand's first splatter horror movie, and it has nothing close to Peter Jackson's directorial ability. It's a mess of confusing action sequences and confounding decisions by characters who we're given no glimpses into. Still, it's not without moments that give it a cult horror feel, it's just not a very good movie.
I love trippy movies, I love movies with cults, I love gory practical effects, and I really want to score this higher, but there are moments that are dragged down by the acting, which is occasionally done no favors by the script. The sound editing at times is lacking and downright atrocious in the bear trap scene. Still, there's a lot to love here, and what is good is right up my alley, and I'm definitely going to watch this again and keep an eye open for what this director can do on the future.
The movie itself barely deserves a half star...but Mike and the Bots made the pain bearable.