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• When Inspiration is Greater Than Execution posted on 31 Aug 2009

  Have you ever been very aware you were watching a movie?
  Like the acting, & and unspecial effects were so bad you felt like you were just watching people make pretend?
  Have you ever cursed yourself for an hour and a half about twenty bucks you'll never get back?
  If you still care by this point:
  
  It's a low-budget flick about a film crew making a horror movie in an abandoned haunted mental institution.
  The same wacko-basket where 30 years earlier a doctor killed his patients for his own personal snuff films.
  Guess what super-nova of a idea Mr. Director gets,
  
  when they stumble upon said snuff flicks in a sealed off room containing a chair, a projector, and a giant popcorn machine?
  Is he overcome with inspiration? Or overtaken by possession??
  The movie itself reflects this whole inspiration theme by dropping more names than a public school attendance list.
  Though it doesn't seem to play up the possession angle as much.
  Just hints at it.
  It's not a terrible idea for a horror flick mind you... I mean the film within the film.... the actual film isn't bad either.
  
  Though the addition of spirits to the plot was unnecessary, and could have easily been removed, the overall idea was interesting enough.
  With a bigger budget, and better actors this might have actually been a pretty decent flick.
  The special effects were amateurish, which is essential in the kind of flick where gore is the star.
  But they weren't bad enough to kill the flick, just tame it.
  The acting is what ultimately seals this flicks tomb.
  
  Most of the time it felt god-awful, though sometimes it felt like it might have been improving.
  In the end it was bad enough to keep you from getting into the story.
  The actor playing Bruce for whatever reason, played a doctor better than an actor. Go figure that one out.
  
  If you have an extra hour and a half it's watchable, but it's also regrettable.
  2 Stars for Sub-par.
  
  MORAL OF THE STORY:
  Inspiration is just as strong as possession.
  
  ALSO RECOMMENDED:
  The Devils Chair, Saw 1 -5, Hostel 1&2, Gag, Captivity, Live Feed, Frontier(s), The 8th Plague, Session 9, August Underground 1-3, Snuff 102,
  
  Flower of Flesh & Blood, Men Behind the Sun, Henry, Wizard of Gore (remake), Windchill, Rose Red, Mirrors, 1408, The Shining.

• No Sequel Indeed... posted on 31 Aug 2009

  I've been reading some of the reviews for this movie; and I gotta say that it's not as bad as people make it appear to me. The idea of this flim isn't actually bad. I mean having a movie crew making a movie based off some snuff flims in an asylum; and having the director of the project going all deranged and sadistic... it's kinda orginal if you ask me. Granted the acting is C Rated, with a C+ on the violence, it's really not a bad film to buy for the price Amazon is asking for {$14.99}. I personally think the idea of this movie is decent and could have been done a lot better. I think my favorite part of watching this movie was seeing the director watch the snuff flims and get "inspired" for his movie; oh and the ending actually made me go "Wow... how unexpected, nice". Overall it's not that terrible and not bad for your horror collection. However get it for a low-price; you'll feel more content I believe. Lucky there is NO SEQUEL, because I think it'd be actually horrible.

• Please, please, please do not waste your money! posted on 31 Aug 2009

  I enjoy small budget horror movies in addition to the blockbusters. I came across this movie at Best Buy, so I thought I would give it a chance. It's a cross between Saw and Hostel. The first 15 minutes start out great. I was very interested. Then the viewer learns that a "remake" of some snuff films is being made (then switch to the real movie). I always hate those movies in which movies are being made inside the movie--especially in horror films. Well, the "skeleton crew" finds the real snuff films made by a madman in the run-down mental hospital. The director becomes obsessed with them and begins killing the crew while filming it. After the first 15 minutes of the movie, it goes downhill fast. The characters are not likeable, and I really did not care if they got killed or not. It just becomes so ridiculous. Characters are walking around aimlessly in the building looking around corners. I really do not think this movie would even make it to the Sci Fi network 10 years from now. I watched about 3/4 of the movie then got up out my bed to write this review. The movie is so bad that I want my money back.

• the tag-line fills me with hope that something like this will never again be foisted upon an unsuspecting public posted on 30 Aug 2009

  An insipid director, hoping to make the next great 'torture-porn' film winds up going insane from finding some 8-MM snuff films in the abandoned mental asylums that the crews' shooting in, in this lame B-grade horror movie-within a movie-within a movie. The movie apes Saw, Hostel, & Scream among others, but lacks the charm, wit, or even watchabilty of any of those aforementioned films. Leaving us with nothing to do other than twiddle our thumbs and periodically check our watches while the mostly unbearable 90 minutes or so drones on and onEye Candy: Riikka Niemi & Rita Suomalainen both bare their respective asses (it's a shame though as the movie could've easily had much more nudity)My Grade: D-DVD Extras: just a trailer for this film & trailers for "Devil's Ground" and "Columbus Day" is all you get

• About as much dramatic flair as a video game intro posted on 30 Aug 2009

  The story is about a group of film makers who are shooting in the actual location where the murders they are pretending to portray actually happened. The director is then over come by the power of the evil doctor who still haunts the facility. House on Haunted Hill anyone? The acting is campy which is exactly what I was looking forward to. I wanted a B-movie. They really needed to pack it in a bit sooner.The story is a total rip off! The scenery from saw plus the demented doctor from House on Haunted Hill. Add in a bit of predictability and you've passed two kidney stones and an hour plus thirty.

• Nothing good about it posted on 28 Aug 2009

  I am not a movie critic just a normal person that likes good movies. This movie is really really bad, the acting is bad the plot is bad and also the story line. They tried to get people attention showing some nude scenes but even those scenes are bad. This movie it's about a Crew that is making a movie, about a crazy Doctor that torture and murder patients on a mental institution. The movie they shooting sucks apparently in real life; then the director goes nuts after finding some real films that were made by the actual doctor that kills all that people, then the movie director becomes a killer just like the dead crazy doctor and his crew becomes part of a new movie. It has some gore and bloody scenes but they are not really well done. Just don't waste your time watching this movie.

• A demented doctor gets into film making! posted on 22 Aug 2009

  The tag line for this offering from the bowel of Satan is 'There's no sequel for you'; and trust me…if you have the balls to stick with this pile of steaming poop through to the bitter end, you'll thank all that you hold to be holy that there won't be.I don't know where to start really. The plot is the most contrived that you'll ever wish to see in and grade F movie…I won't even dignify this with the honorific of a 'B' movie…that would be an insult.Basically a film crew turns up at a derelict Asylum somewhere on the border of Russia…it never really explains the location…where 30 years previously a demented doctor decided to go into the film making business by turning out his own snuff movies by using the inmates as his cast. The erstwhile medic then disappeared taking the majority of his footage with him. The modern day crew turn up to re-create the events in a schlock horror movie.The plot then, of course, is totally predictable as the new director assumes the mantle of his real-life predecessor and starts joyfully killing off the cast and crew in various horrific ways.Let me talk for just a moment about the actor who portrays this new and improved homicidal maniac; I feel he has to have special mention, although there is plenty of guilt to go around. His name is Steve Porter. Don't bother getting too attached to his performance, which is the most wooden one I've seen since Pinocchio, as I can almost guarantee after this movie we won't be seeing him again…unless it's on his mug shot as he is led away by the police after being arrested for crimes against the viewing public. I mean, he can't help looking like a refugee Amish extra from 'Witness'…I won't hold that against him. But why the hell does he have to deliver every line like he's an alumni from the William Shatner school of acting? He was awful. The stick up his ass looked like it had a stick up its ass. His manic eye-rolling teeth-baring performance as an insane killer was silly to the point of being ludicrous. I cringed as I watched it, but for all the wrong reasons. It wasn't fear it was embarrassment.Finnish director Tommi Lepola who also made that unforgettable 2003 classic Kohatalon Kirja (aka 'The book of fate'…remember that one? Of course you don't!) puts the action together in a totally lackluster way…you can almost feel his desperation in every scene as he quickly comes to the inescapable conclusion that he is working with the absolute WORST bunch of actors, writers and continuity people since the immortal Ed Wood graced the silver screen and tries to salvage something from this rapidly sinking tugboat of a movie.But despite all their combined efforts…or perhaps because of them…the end product had the inevitability of a low speed car crash.Lepola also seems to have a predilection with actresses with large butts. It was almost like you couldn't act in his movie unless your ass reached a certain weight; it was quite Bizarre. All I have to say on that particular subject, is some people should definitely wear clothes. Or at least underwear that actually fits. It really did add insult to injury.Suffice to say, that the cast ran the gamut of emotions from A to…well… to A really.Skeleton Crew was bad. Not just bad in the conventional sense as in badly written, acted, or directed…but unwholesome like biting into a rotten apple or taking a mouthful of sour milk. It was violence and gore, for the sake of it…gratuitous lesbian sex that had NO real relationship to the plot, other than trying to appeal to people's baser instincts. All in all it left a nasty taste in my mouth.I now live in mortal dread that any of these people involved would ever option one of my own stories for the movie rights.Avoid this awful rubbish like a dose of terminal hemorrhoids, unless you really are, like me, in pursuit of the worst horror movie ever made!

• Cliché film survives thanks to a good visual style posted on 31 Jul 2009

  film crew making a film about a snuff film maker and serial killer from 30 years before finds that someone is killing them off and filming the gory happenings. The often stunning visual sense of the film is what keeps this film afloat even as the plot drops into cliché. The problem with the film is that the plot really doesn't do anything you haven't seen before. After a too long opening sequence of past events, something that turns out to the film being made, the film more or less becomes the tried and true story of the film crew being hunted by someone either in the building or among them. Its not badly done, but its not a story that has any new twists and turns. The real problem with the film is that there are numerous WTF moments as the film kind of does completely illogical things (I mean beyond not packing up and leaving). At one point some of the crew finds footage, actually an earlier sequence in the movie, that is suppose to be something the killer shot. How it was possible is not explained and it really strains credibility. Good enough to recommend with reservations, its the sort of thing that will entertain its intended audience, but not likely to win many converts outside of it.