Live Animals

By success I mean it succeeds at showing prospective future film producers and directors how not to make a movie.

It showcases some great ways to save $$$ on movies too:

1) Make a low budget movie by showing the same scenes over and over with different dialog played over them each time. This will serve to nauseate your viewers while also giving you what appears to be an hour and a half of movie.

2) Hire small time, unknown actors for the roles then film then for just 20 minutes each so you have the footage to replay multiple times.

3) Don't pay to see this movie, that's the best money-saving tip of them all!

This is a low budget horror if you aren't into this then this isn't for you. For most fans of horror it's the low budget movies that are the best because they're usually pretty fun and creative. We know this isn't going to be a Hollywood blockbuster film but that's why we enjoy it. The same reason you see people watch highschool football games. They're not nfl or even college games but they're fun and full of spirit. That's what three cheap horror flicks are like.

The worst past of this movie was the beginning for me as it was hard to tell what was going on and why. Soon as we get to the barn where everything takes places the movie gets 1,000 better. I actually almost turned this one off at first because it seemed like it was just going to be a time waster but it picked up.

The barn is where we get to the root of horror in this movie about human trafficking. Most of the gory stuff takes place here and it's actually pretty well done.

What I found most annoying though is that all the female characters look a like. They all have black hair and dark circles around their eyes and similar facial features. I really couldn't tell who was who or if the same actor was playing multiple parts there how bad it was.

The special effects is good in areas where it needs to be but the makeup wow. It's really bad. Everyone has dark raccoon circles around their eyes and it makes them all look like hobos or something. It's really weird.

The good parts are the story is decent. I liked the torture segments they were better than some other films where it becomes cheesy. In this film they sort of cut away and then come back to it which is good if you don't have the fx budget to fully film the actually torture scene.

Acting I mean it's horror acting. It's not required to be amazing. It's the screams and terror that sell the movie and this movie had some great screamers and terror faces. Without that a horror movie just doesn't sell well to the audience.

This movie also has a twist ending I guess you either like or won't. I didn't for some reason. Didn't seem like it was really needed for a movie like this.

Overall the movie kept my interest. It had some good scenes but the early part of the movie was just unwatchable. It seems like the movie would be great with more characters and time to establish who they were. The movie also strangely seems to show characters and then forget them.

I swear there was a red headed woman locked up and a guy they punished by throwing in a punishment room that the movie forgot to never address or show again.

Either way this was an ok b stock movie.

This was by far one of the worst attempts at psychological horror i have seen that actually tried to be serious. The sound and dialog was extremely sub-par, even for a lower budget film. No character development leave you not caring for any of the major characters, and the numerous plot holes leaves you guessing half the movie. Avoid at all costs. As for anyone that says to see it for the fun factor or anything like that, I would definitely look elsewhere, as the visual effects and gore are horrible and sometimes non-existent. The obvious seems to escape the characters at many times and make them seem extremely one dimensional and forced.

A group of men and women are kidnapped by modern day slave traders. Some are immediately sold off, the rest imprisoned in a barn for "training". Nobody is searching for them, their captors are ruthless and things look very bleak.

I knew this is never going to be Citizen Kane but the subject matter seemed original and interesting and had the potential to make a statement, though it also had the potential to be a very cheap horror movie.

Turns out, it's very much the latter. Cheap and very much a Z-grade shlock-horror film: poor production values, basic plot, weak performances. Nothing positive about this at all.

how someone can pull such a bunch of crap and believe there was "writing" involved. Take all the clichés avoided by even the most amateurish wannabe, cram them into a night-shot film with one of the most dreadful lighting for night I've ever witnessed, throw in some sloppy characters without soul or possible empathy-connections, spend a large sum of money in film, lighting and post, and you have -mileage may vary- this "film". I feel sorry for the poor actors that may have thought this was a opportunity to do a nice job.

If you teach whatever you teach, you can use this thing to show your students haw not to do things in life.