I can't hate this kind of film. It's not in any way painfully stupid or offensive to the senses. The problem with it is that it's just bad. It's like a group of people trying to paint a mural when none of them have any experience painting.
No one here was ready to do what they had to do here. The acting was not even on a level of being "bad" so much as it is plainly obvious that these kids involved have never done it before. The camerawork gets a pass as it's supposed to look like school project done on a single handheld camera. Lots of the effects such as people swinging a bat or an axe are not properly shot or cut, and you end up with a scene such as someone swinging at axe, and very clearly aiming away to avoid hitting the actor just before the camera turns away.
Everyone here seems to be trying their best, but they just can't. Nothing comes across as genuine or authentic. The way they deliver lines gives me flashbacks of Drama I classes with students delivering their first live performance. The only actor who came across as truly awful and not just inexperienced was the man playing Reginald, who seemed to be wrestling with a mouthful of lines written by someone who's never seen or heard a southerner outside of a 1930s cartoon.
It would be admirable as a friends project or a drama school assignment, but this is not a finished film fit for public consumption.
