Aunt Rose

For those of you like me, who feel even R rated horror is to commercial, then Aunt rose is the film for you. Every single cast member delivers an excellent on the money performance, which is rare for a low budget movie featuring several newcomers. The thugs who invade the house and torture the poor family are made up of the leader Johnny Nelson who was very intimidating and believable, the crazy but sexy Velocity Chyaldd, and the misguided, but slightly more level headed Kevin T. Collins. What this movie does that so few ever touch upon, is giving a history of these villains, to show there troubled, abusive pasts, and how they came to be the sick sadistic monsters you see before you. The mother and father were also very realistic, they portray the family as loving, but also estranged somewhat with there teenage daughters life choices. When the family is taken hostage, you feel there desperation every step of the way, and root for them to come through it intact. The film is not quite as gory as I thought it would be, but the kills are very nasty, and cruel, and have a surprising impact on the audience. I must also mention Raine Brown who played the daughter's lesbian lover, in an excellent, and oddly non exploitive way. Keep an eye out for her, I predict she'll become a new genre staple alongside my personal favorite scream queens Debbie Rochon, and Tiffany Shepis. My only beefs with the film are as follows, for one I found in a few instances that some of the family members foolishly taunted, or provoked the murderers for no direct reason. I guess you don't know how a person would react to an invasion like that, but I just found myself questioning what the heck they were thinking. It kept me on the edge of my seat though, and made me think about what I would do, so maybe thats not such a bad thing. And finally, I felt the ending wasn't totally satisfying. Without spoiling anything, I just felt it lacked the impact it needed. A couple very minor instances aside, I highly recommend Aunt Rose to the hardcore horror crowd. It's one of the better acted low budget horrors I've seen in some time.

I don't know what that other reviewer was smoking, but this movie is not just bad, it's dreadful. I have watched possibly every low-rent, low-budget horror movie that has ever been produced, and this ranks among the worst. It was only out of a sort of train wreck curiosity that I continued watching this movie after the first five minutes. The acting is awful, just completely rank in the most amateurish fashion... not to mention being subject to seeing a very unattractive woman expose herself to the camera. Look, I realize that overseas markets really go for breasts, but let's be honest here -- do we really want to see that? The entire film is just a disaster, from start to finish. It's amusing enough for the completely D grade cheesiness of it, but if you're looking for a good horror movie, this just doesn't measure up in any way, shape, or form.

My thoughts are captured extremely well by a previous post... I agree with this 100%:

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Mediocre at best....wait, does that make any sense???,

25 May 2007

Author: Fartbag from United States

My wife has a knack for renting these type of extremely low budget horror movies. So I have seen a fair share. At first I though "here we go again, at least I will get to bed at a decent hour." Well the start of the movie was, well... bad. I was ready to give up on it when it took a sick twist. Which sparked my interest for another few minutes. Although poorly acted by a majority of the cast two or three sorta put the rest on their shoulders and waded through some really, really bad dialog.

Here is where I give the movie credit. Somewhere down the line I actually wanted to watch the thing to the end. And felt the need to see what happened. So, to me they accomplished something. Like a said most of the time I will give up on these things after 15-20 minutes.

Granted there are times watching this movie where you will just shake your head, but gosh darn it, its worth a watch, if your extremely board with nowhere to go, and about an hour and a half to kill.

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A family dinner is interrupted by three murderous criminals on the run. Said felons barge in, take the family hostage, and spend the evening terrifying and tormenting them. Eventually, innocent people are killed.

What these crazy crooks don't know is that the titular character upstairs isn't exactly what she appears to be.

AUNT ROSE is an extremely low-budget film. The family characters are believable, the home-invading thugs are suitably reprehensible, and the story is simple, but effective. While not a "classic", it's certainly watchable enough.

Special mention goes to singer / performance artiste Velocity Chyaldd, who plays the wicked Robin with obvious glee. Rayne Brown gives one of her better victimized performances, and Joshua Nelson is especially despicable in his role.

So, if you're up for a night of cheap cinematic thrills and chills, AUNT ROSE should do you true...

Saw a screener of "Aunt Rose" (under the original title "No One Gets Out". The story will be very familiar to fans of "Last House on the Left", "Funny Games", or "House on the Edge of the Park". A group of real nasty criminals holds a family hostage and that ultimately turns out to be their biggest mistake (with a very cool supernatural twist, however.) While it treads familiar ground, "Aunt Rose" is definitely one of the better "70's revival" films I've seen in recent years. Writer/actor Joshua Nelson has written an excellent script, the dialog is never clunky, and he keeps the story moving nicely. The performances are miles ahead of what you usually find in low-budget horror. You feel honest to god sympathy for the tormented family. Newcomer Velocity Chylld is a standout, turning in a completely cold, brutal performance.

Solid brutal horror from start to finish.