River of Blood

Bad bad acting. I saw the trailer & thought wow, I have got to see this which I did...just now & I need all those minutes of my life back please 🙏

The only thing good about this movie was the ending lol. It ended differently to how I predicted it to end after the first 30 minutes of hurting my brain watching it & usually my ending predictions are pretty spot on so that's the only thing it had going for it lol.

I kept looking on all of my available streaming platforms to try to find it as I was prepared to pay to watch it after seeing the trailer but a friend got a copy of it. Gee thanks friend lol.

When I watch this kind of movies I do not expect anything great. I mean, do not expect an Oscar winning interpretation, a twisted script or anything great. I love this kind of horror B-movies because mostly are as silly as entertaining. Let me explain.

First, River of Blood has unlikeable characters so from beginning you expect the worse for all of them lol.

Second, the more the script is unbelievable, the better the movie it gets. This movie is a great example of it.

Last but not least, the ending is a ruin. And not in a good way. It is not Chichen Itza.

So, overall if you enjoyed movies like Green Inferno this one is for you.

There's a lot that is good. Bringing back the old trashy cannibal flick is a great idea and the way it sets itself up works pretty well.

The acting's good enough, it looks good, the kills aren't bad and the music's a positive so why does it miss?

There's 4 tourists and 2 of them are the most insufferable, the, you want to watch them bleed for a long time type of people, and it takes the time to show you that. Jasmine and especially AJ.

And then It makes them main characters.......and they stay insufferable. It does not make up for their continued presence with fantastic kills, laughs or clever plot developments. It annoys you constantly while the action is going on and it didn't have to.

There is a lot of enjoyment here but and if you can overlook that you'll like it. But annoying was not the word I wanted to describe this with and it is.

So disappointing.

I rented this movie in hopes of a dark and grim action horror about people being chased bij a lost tribe through the jungle, this is what i got!

The cast was not bad at all, i even dare to say good.

The camera work was good.

The location was good.

The depiction of the kannibal tribe was horrible.

The gore was horrible, if you cook a head in water for a couple of minutes its not going to be a recognisable face.

The kannibal tribe had no bow and arrow?

The main kannibal was a musculer man with a metal ring in his nose.

The action was weak. It just didn't have that feeling of fear and dread.

I hoped it would, Like apocalypto or even the video game the forrest.

It was just a dissapointment i gues.

I like jungle movies in general, but I wasn't expecting much when I watched "River of Blood" as sort of a throw-away one afternoon. However, I actually enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Liked the direction, camera work, editing, etc. The acting was particularly fine, and the director nice builds the sense of terror throughout. Violent enough that it's not for the queasy. There were just a few "what?" or "how?" details (like, "What are you wearing to kayak, girl?" and "How did your clothes get so dry so fast?"), but these are easily forgivable in a fun, scary jungle thriller. IMDB says I need more characters, so here they are.