The title alone for this 2022 horror movie was more than sufficient to make me stop and pick up the movie. And with it being a horror movie that I had not heard about, nor watched obviously, then of course I opted to sit down and watch what writer and director Dick Dale had to offer with this movie.
The narrative in the movie was hard to find. You have to look long and hard to find a red thread throughout the course of the movie. This felt most of all just like random stuff that Dick Dale had filmed and put together for a movie. Many of the scenes were insanely random and served zero purpose in order to further the narrative that was nearly non-existing.
Needless to say that I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list in this low budget horror movie. And believe it not, but that is actually something I enjoy when watching movies; seeing new and unfamiliar talents and faces on the screen, and thus not accidentally associating them with previously portrayed characters from other movies. And the acting performances in the movie were sort of adequate; some were okay, some not so good. But with a movie such as this, what would you expect?
Every scene was filmed with either a blue filter or a purple filter, which I didn't understand. Why not show the movie in its proper original colors?
The special effects in the movie were exactly that; special. The blood spray effects in the movie are pretty atrocious to look at. Amazing how someone actually could green-light those fake CGI blood sprays and go "yeah, they look alright to me, not fake at all".
This movie was an atrociously difficult movie to sit through and enjoy. And I have to say that I turned off the movie 14 minutes into the ordeal. I just found nothing worthwhile in those prolonged 14 minutes wasted of my life, and there was no entertainment value to "Ribspreader" at all. And believe you me, I am never returning to give this movie a second chance.
My rating of the dumpster fire that is "Ribspreader" lands on a one out of ten stars.
