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DEAD MOVIE!!!!!!

S. Deschamps | Australia | 03/28/2008

(1 out of 5 stars)

"I HAVE JUST PURCHASED THIS DVD ( WASTE OF MONEY . I JUST FINISHED WATCHING IT ( WASTE OF MY TIME). THIS IS ANOTHER HOME MADE HORROR. THE SOUND, PICTURE QUALITY WAS BAD I MEAN REALLY BAD. THE ACTING MADE YOU SQUIRM AS WITH THE DREADFUL DIALOGUE.
WHY CAN'T THESE PEOPLE JUST FIND EMPLOYMENT IN THE REAL WORLD AND STOP RIPPING PEOPLE OUT OF THERE HARD EARNED CASH TO BUY THIS TRASH. IT SEEMS THEY PUT AN AWFUL MOVIE IN A GREAT DESIGNER COVER AND SUCK US IN. OH, AND THE COVER HAS PRINTED ON IT UNRATED, NOW I KNOW WHY! MAYBE AMAZON SHOULD HAVE A PREVIEW OF MOST MOVIES SO WE SEE THE QUALITY BEFORE WE BUY THE TRASH. THIS IS SOOOOOOO BAD PLEASE SAVE YOUR MONEY OR BUY MY COPY. yuk!!!!"

It's from Brain Damage Films, you do the math...

Robert P. Beveridge | Cleveland, OH | 03/30/2009

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Deadhouse (Pablo Maysonet IV, 2005)

Deadhouse, according to IMDB, was Maysonet's debut; "[h]e had never previously shot a film, short or feature, in his life. He attributes DeadHouse's lack of overall quality...to his inexperience at the time." Which is as good a reason as any, I guess, though I do have to say that I've seen a lot of debut films that were a great deal more accomplished than this one, and so I'm not willing to give Maysonet too much leeway on this. Also, I wish I'd read this IMDB review snippet before seeing the movie: "If you like Slipknot or [Insane Clown Posse], you'll love this movie." Which, for all I know, is entirely true. I can't stand either of them, and had I read that, I might have steered clear of this. But I didn't, and so here I am to tell you about it.

The plot is about as old as the hills: four teens find themselves faced with a family of twisted, sadistic serial killers who like listening to really, really awful music. (Couldn't they at least develop a taste for Mushroomhead?) In other words, if you've seen the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, you've basically seen this one, though the masks and methods are a bit different, and Maysonet throws in a different twist on the old slaughterhouse routine by making one of the characters a butcher. You might find it worth wasting ninety minutes on if you've seen The Texas Chainsaw Massacre as many times as you can take and you want a slightly different take on the same movie, but otherwise, you can avoid it. About the only good thing I can say about it is that it's not the worst movie I've seen so far this year. In fact, it's not even in the top ten. It does have a sort of brainless watchability to it, and if you do decide to take the plunge, you'll at least be mildly entertained. I wish I could say that about some of the other cinematic classics I've subjected myself to this year (Forest of the Damned, anyone?) *

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