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So bad it's good. The story is actually great, and very creative, but the acting and everything else....yeesh.
The dialog is very good, great script. Lots of hilarious lines. And you can see the CN Tower in lots of outdoor scenes.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
02/27/23
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this is one of the most ridiculous horror movies i've ever seen. it was shot on home video and i got it in a pack of 50 movies that were subsequently all shot on home video as well. to tell you the truth, not all of those movies are bad. this is one of the good ones. it actually has some great comedy in it, especially with velner and aaron. the acting is a lot better than i expected too. another plus is the gore factor. for a no budget movie, this pulled off some good death sequences complete with steel poles through the head and one of the monsters impaling one of the guys through the stomach. also, the soundtrack is awesome with some nice metal songs blasting throughout the fight scenes. on the downside, there are really some really silly/stupid parts like when the people who died immediately turn into the monsters, there are cartoon monsters and cartoon blood thrown across the screen, which i guess could be artistic in some ways. another bad thing is the ludicrous monster costumes. their very original, but very dumb, with most of them having eyes that resemble a visor, a skull nose, and a couple spiked teeth. there are exceptions though, such as the main character's costume being bright blue, which makes no sense. also stupid was that the characters, after turning into the monsters still had their same original voices when they were human, with additional roaring and growling. all in all though, this is extremely fun to watch, and it doesn't take itself too seriously, such as a scene where one of the characters comments on how badly a gun's structure is. ("its held together with duct tape." "Well i'm sure its good duct tape.") recommended for bad movie fans.
Rated 4/5 Stars •
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
02/16/23
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"Kill Them and Eat Them" is a goofy, extremely low-budget horror-comedy that is currently available as part the "[URL=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ELJ7FY?ie=UTF8&tag=stevemillesdo-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000ELJ7FY]Depraved Degenerates[/URL]" movie six pack from Pendulum Pictures, but it has just been released as a stand-alone DVD by Brain Damage Films.
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[center]The cover for "Kill Them and Eat Them" from Brain Damage Films[/center]
[i]Kill Them and Eat Them[/i]
Starring: Sandy MacDonald, Richard Archer, Francoise Snobel, Lloyd Cameron, Hugh Gibson, and Wil van der Zyl
Director: Conall Pendergast
When a geneticist nicknamed "Dr. Gore" (MacDonald) goes renegade, two incompetent corporate security agents (Gibson and van der Zyl) track him down to stop his mad experiments. Unfortunately, Dr. Gore and his psychopathic assistant (Archer) have been turning homeless people into bizarre, flesh-eating mutants. Will our hapless heroes be able to save the day, or will they be the next test subjects for Dr. Gore?
"Kill Them and Eat Them" is a unique film that offers an interesting viewing experience. And when I say "unique" and "Interesting", I mean it in both good and bad ways.
On the one one hand, it is painfully amateurish, filmed with what must have been Camcorders and probably funded with whatever spare change the cast and crew could find between couch cushions in their homes. The acting is inconsistent by everyone who appears--each actor has a few decent scenes, but they are negated by ones where they are awful beyond description--and the story seems to unfold in a random and haphazard fashion. While some creativity went into designing the creatures, the extreme lack of funding for this film is also evident in them. When this movie is at its weakest, it is very, very bad. Strange, but bad.
On the other hand, there's a sort of wild, creative energy that runs through this whole production the likes of which I've rarely come across outside a few low-budget films from the 1930s and 1940s. When the actors are at their best, the lines they speak and their delivery of them reminds me of those old horror flicks as well. There's also a intentional sense of the absurd about the whole movie, and, to top it off, the climax is a monster slapfest the likes of which hasn't been seen since the Spanish horror flicks of the 1970s. During its high points, the film comes across like a homage to the old fashioned mad scientist movies.
Intentional of not, the slightly classical low-budget horror flick air about "Kill Them and Eat Them", plus the fact it's pretty funny (intentionally so) at times, went a long way to helping me forgive its many of its flaws.
(Flaws I can't forgive are the scenes with bad sound, and those that seem to be in the film for no reason other than to pad the run-time. I really wish low-budget filmmakers would stop thinking the microphone on the Camcorder is good enough when it comes to making a movie... and for crap's sake, filmmakers, if you think your movie is running short, WRITE SOME MORE SCENES. Don't padit with shots of actors wandering through the woods, or repetitive and/or unnessecary establishing shots.)
While I would hardly describe this as a [i]good[/i] movie, I don't regret spending time watching it. I think that Conall Pendergast shows a talent for screen-writing that many of this contemporaries do not. I think that if some more time and effort had gone into polishing the script, and if Pendergast had been a little more realistic in the sort of film he could make with the resources at his disposal (the monsters really did require a bit more money to look good... and the same can be said for the lab of the mad scientists, although Pendergast had a funny in-movie reference that took care of that, even if it came a bit too late) I think he might be able to turn out a funny movie. If he sticks with the script-writing, he might be pretty good some day.
"Kill Them and Eat Them" has just been released by Brain Damage Films, but it's already on the market as part of Pendulum Pictures' "Depraved Degenerates" set, and if the film sounds interesting to you, I recommend you get it that way rather by itself. You're more likely to feel like you got value for your money. (You get "Kill Them..." and five other low-budget films for US$10. You can get the set even cheaper if you [URL=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ELJ7FY?ie=UTF8&tag=stevemillesdo-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000ELJ7FY]order it from Amazon.com[/URL].)
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
01/18/23
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