Evil's City

After watching this movie, I have often wondered what happens after you die if you haven't taken care of business. That fellow who played the Grim Reaper, obviously knew about Courtney's dark anger. That young guy with her, didn't see the Reaper until they came upon the mist of Achron. I am not religious but I believe in spirituality and in that movie, I am thankful that I have taken care of most of my sins through the 12 steps of AA recovery. I feel I was more moved by this movie as I seem to have a more deeper understanding of movies of this nature. Thanks to the producers who made this film as I was moved in a spiritual way. Ever ask yourself, if you did die in your sins, THERE IS NO TURNING BACK. Of all the people I have seen go in and out of AA, the one's who died in the return to active addiction. I wonder what is happening to them now. I won't know but I can only imagine that had I continued in my alcohol addiction and killed some innocent about 7 years ago(But for the grace of God I didn't). I could have done what Kevin did and killed myself by hanging in a prison cell. I know the dead still walk. While I was in prison in Saskatchewan, Canada, I felt an eerie presence and I noticed a ghost walk past my cell. So don't think that Evil's City is another religious movie. It rings some truth to it and obviously the writer or director had some personal experience that drove them to make such a movie which is why I rate it a 9.

Some college kid reporters go off in search of a hidden ghost town called Acheron. Naturally they find a bit more than they bargained for. After a good start the movie gets pretty bogged down. During the first half it's kind of hard to figure out much about what's really going on, it just plain jumps around too much. There are flashbacks that don't really help since they just sort of pop up out of nowhere. The last half hour or so picks up nicely as people are getting knocked off left and right in very violent fashion. You're gonna have to watch this sucker twice to actually enjoy this flick. That way you'll have some idea where the plot is going. Watchable if you like blood and guts. I give it a four out of ten for gore.

This film had some OK potential, but unfortunately it's just a mess. It's your typical "kids wander into ghost town & discover zombies" plot. There are some fine makeup effects on the zombies and their attack scenes show some decent effort... but even these are undercut by goofy and confusing editing.

Sadly the film isn't all goofy. The first half is a real drag, with annoying characters who squabble on & on and never shut up. The girls especially are as annoying, spiteful and selfish as possible. At least it makes the audience happy when things go badly for these losers.

A lot of that is the director's fault, but honestly the actresses are just plain bad. One of them, "Misty," does that horrible lisping voice that you never hear in real life, but for some reason bad actresses love. Think of a swishing gay stereotype voice, except it's a woman doing it. Bad, bad casting.

For a movie that wastes so much time with nothing happening, it sure crams in a bunch of concepts that go nowhere. There's some drifter with an English accent who knows stuff about the town; a picture in a church suggests he was the local cult leader, but the guy just disappears from the movie. There are some military goons apparently chasing a Mexican killer into this town; wouldve been fun if the killer showed up, but nope. There's a preacher who sounds like Sam the Eagle and randomly shows up out of nowhere at the end. Misty and Ruben (2 of the loser protags) just kinda die off-camera, I guess. The movie tries to be a morality tale where the main characters are coping with their own guilt, but the characters are just too stupid to sell that idea.

Still, you'll get some chuckles from this movie. The character of Kevin is a mumbly, schlubby guy who gets the most dramatic lines. He's very miscast, but the way he says super-dramatic stuff in the most casual, wimpy way is pretty funny. And the bad editing has a few laugh-out-loud moments, especially Kevin's appearance in front of a cheap green-screen at the end.

It's not a total disaster, but this movie isn't laughable enough to reach "so bad it's good" territory, and it spends too much time being just plain boring. I don't think more time in the oven would've saved it... This one was just badly conceived, badly cast, and badly planned from the get-go.

There is nothing worse than a movie everybody in it knows will suck. No one acts, no one writes anything decent in the script, the sounds are bad, the editing is bad, the camera work is bad. This film is just bad. Forget about horror. There is nothing horrorful about it, only the horrible production that one can hardly name a movie.

Let me emphasize this: this is so bad, you can't even laugh at it. There are no ridiculous scenes, because they are too bad to actually laugh at them. This will never be a cult movie, nor will it be something taken seriously by anyone. The budget is so low, that film students wouldn't touch it, so i guess a "film company" tried to sell this piece of crap as a video rental money maker.

Horrible! Awful! And average in its awfulness.

Evil's City (2005) is a real bad DTV flick about a creepy old town that a nosy reporter and her crew decides to visit. Nobody seems to know how to get there making the trek a bit difficult. A stranger with a hodge-podge English accent who's a drifter "in these parts" also gives the reporter a cryptic warning about darkness and evil. This doesn't deter the reporter who continues on her mission to find this mysterious town and learn about it's dark past. But will she and her friends like what they finds? Who is this mysterious stranger and why are people in the vicinity so quiet and mum about "Evil's City"?

A bad movie that might appeal to survival horror fans and those who enjoy DTV movies. I was just disappointed in the overall execution and script. I wouldn't recommend it but some people might enjoy it.