This movie sucks
Added 11/5/2009
I could not stay awake during this dim poor excuse of a horror film. The new face of horror?? What a load. This film was very boring, dull, stupid and pointless. I love horror film and this movie for me was a insult to all the great film I know and love.
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If you want to kill some time.
Added 10/6/2009
This could have been a classic given a few extra minutes of film and a few better writers. It's a way to kill some time if your bored but will tick you off because of the lack of dialog and general story / background. It was left with a room for a sequal but hopefully no room for the original writers.
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A Decent Little Slasher Film!!!
Added 9/17/2009
I heard about this film about a year ago, and I happened to see it a few hours ago at Walmart, so I decided to buy it! It has a really cool looking killer, and a perfect slasher film! A random group of people come to see a midnight screening of a classic horror film. While they watch the movie, they see their friends dying and come to understand that the killer in the film can break into reality whenever he chooses to. All the doors and windows are locked, and the group try to escape from the old theater if they wanna make it out alive. I highly recommend MIDNIGHT MOVIE!!!
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Surprised By Predictability
Added 9/16/2009
Surprise surprise! Midnight Movie actually offered up a visually impressive killer and a high, and bloody, body count! I wouldn't say the acting was impressive, because it wasn't; there were many occasions in which I felt the film suffered from poorly delivered dialogue, the trick is just not to over think things. Rarely do slasher films deliver on all fronts, you can't have it all so I take what I get and I allow myself to have fun. Thankfully, leading lady Rebekah Brandes is easy on the eyes and plays well against the limping, skull-faced antagonist and his supernatural shenanigans despite her uninteresting performance.
It may sound like I don't like this flick and the acting stunk but neither are really true, I've seen worse films and acting, actually I enjoyed this; I laughed, cringed and even blurted out some obscenities. I think the only real issue I had with Midnight Movie was the lack of attention put into the creation of the fictitious film "The Dark Beneath." I would have liked to of seen a 16mm flick with all of the scratches, weathering, stains and missing frames added by hand instead of something shot on video and run through a "film look" program on a Macintosh. I know...that's being picky but it really would have kicked this film up a notch for me.
All in all, Midnight Movie is a great first attempt at genre filmmaking by Jack Messitt and I look forward to seeing more of his work in the future. Let's hope he delivers a few more entertaining films like this before moving on to flop hard in the big-budget remake racket.
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Corkscrews are no longer just for wine bottles
Added 8/25/2009
Around 12:30 am last night after the Late Night Show Sid cruised the channels in hopes of some fine b. Luckily one of the movie channels just started their showing of Midnight Movie. Previously we had read reviews in favor of the film and decided this would be the feature film of the evening. It offered up a nice concept for horror making it a somewhat original b. Sure it's nothing you must see, but for an avid low budget horror fan it's certainly worth the watch.
The film is centered around a group of people gathered at a dive movie theater to view a cult film called The Dark Beneath. Once the film starts rolling in becomes evident that the crowd of ten is in danger as the killer emerges from the screen taking people out one by one. To sum up the killer, he's a far less scary version of Leatherface who dons a corkscrew as his weapon of choice. The way he kills you is by smelling your fear, much like a bee, causing him to stalk you in a very slow foot dragging motion (hence the Leatherface comparison).
All in all the flick was pretty cool with a nice concept. We loved the idea of a killer popping out of the screen, killing his prey, then dragging them back into the movie for storage. However for it to be well received you should be pretty open to weak acting and lack of scares because it's far from frightening. It's more of that good low budget horror that provides more laughs then anything else, which is always a Sid favorite. This one probably would have been enjoyed years ago, but the lack of nudity may have scared a young elf off.
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This movie reminded me of something that I watched when I was a kid in the 80s on late night HBO. I would not recommend this movie to anyone above the age of 18 who is a horror movie enthusiast. I was expecting much more from this movie after reading the reviews on the standard DVD, but was completely let down. The one good thing I can say about the blu-ray version of this film is the sound and picture quality are extremely crisp, but unfortunately the concept, acting, and storyline were not. I realize it is a low budget film, but does that mean the dialogue and concepts have to be "low budget" as well? EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED and DEFINITELY NOT SCARY!!!!!!! Gave 2 stars for picture and sound quality on blu-ray version, but the movie is t-r-a-s-h.
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thank you for being good!
Added 9/11/2009
really dug this movie.alot better than i thought it would be.i picked up the blu ray way before the so called oct. 13 release date at my local wal-mart!great movie to watch with a bunch of drunken friends!
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