American Gothic

This movie is legit too overrated to even be called amateur work. The lack luster effort put into this movie will shine through at the start of the movie, and only get worse as it goes. The camera work horrid, the acting below average even for a grade school play, the sad waste of such a good title as well. Only thing american would have been the farmhouse, def not the wife... and nothing about this was gothic or even dark for that matter. You can tell that the only good ratings on this movie were from paid reviewers or those who had some kinda role in the movie.. You can easily tell just by the way they wrote their reviews,that they are indeed fake reviews... Which that in its self blows my mind. This director and actors need to find new jobs, because not a one of them have a place in this industry. If this is their first movie, I suggest it be their last. So for all of the negative reviews count them being the truthful ones. Because they will save you money and time, or at least direct you to a better choice.

OK. Let us begin: the camera work will be the first thing you'll notice. It's weak and amateurish.Then the actors and their supposed job: by indie standards, both hit the floor. Plot: started obvious, has a better change to it towards the finale, a little of this and a little of that.

Is it recommendable? Far from it. Does it have any horror to provide? Again, no! Just a lot of nonsense overall. Sorry to say so but you won't find anything entertaining here. Plot holes, bad acting, bad kill shot and horrible fake deaths.

American Gothic translates into American NoNo. Try instead: Intruders (2015), Hush (2016) or even Don't Breathe (2016).

Cheers!

Okay so the movie starts off with a prison transport van car accident which kills the driver and 6 of the 8 convicts. The accident really didn't' look bad enough to kill anyone, but okay.

-1 Star for the neck stabbing / cauterizing crap....that's really not something one walks away from....

Ahh they made the opening accident make a bit more sense later on.

-1 Star Because I hate False Accusers....False Accusers should be ripped apart slowly and be kept alive as long as possible while their parts are slowly separated from their bodies....but I digress.....

Okay this movie was pretty bad. But I have definitely seen worse....

3/10

Don't waste your time at this spell it is a complete stinker. The acting was very poor and the Cinematography was fair at best. I am going to compare it to the film of 1989. Actually the complete cast was just very amateurish and hard to get into the character role . Sometimes there are films that need to be left alone and not duplicated on Jun over. This was definitely one of those films. Every once in a while I run across the film that it's lousy and this was the one. I'm not sure why I'm BD wants 600 characters to give a review of a film the average viewer attention is bad it's not that long.

I'll be brief, because no one wants to lose more time than needed here, right?

American Gothic has it all. It starts with a coma-inducing opening sequence. Seriously, you better be well rested while watching it or you'll fall asleep in no time. It's long, confusing, tedious and very boring. OMG! I've just realized it's like the perfect prelude to this movie. Because that basically sums up the whole thing.

Nick & Guy are 2 inmates that just had a break: the van transporting them back to the prison just had an accident and now they're on the run. A short time after they found themselves at the door of a secluded farm house run by an ordinary looking couple. Things quickly go to hell and suddenly they get more than they bargained for.

Everything in this movie is bad. And I mean EVERYTHING. The script is an insult to the viewer's IQ. Editing is a joke. The acting is awful. Seriously, it's very very very bad. I've never seen a movie before where no one can act even if their lives depended on it. Believe me, I can handle bad acting but this movie is something else. It has main actors giving some of the most lifeless performances I have ever seen. It's sad! Photography? Bad. FX? Bad. Music? Bad. And the camera? Jesus! Amateurish doesn't even begin to describe it.

The worst part is that the movie tries to "be smart" by introducing a lot of plot twists here & there...but it miserably fails in that too as a result of how many plot holes it manages to create while doing so.

And one final (pathetic) note: since they have zero reasons to attract an audience by its own merits, the makers of this atrocity decided to lure in unsuspecting victims by saying that it's "based on true events". Well I did my research. Surprise, surprise: it is not. Best case scenario, there's no evidence to back their claims. Worst case, they're outright cheating & lying.

So take my humble advice and stay away from this. It's not even worth a watch for free.