Come and Get Me

Really enjoyed this film. Amazing effects in the gore scenes, a story that held the interest, we were left wanting to see more. A number of very good performances here from the cast. The character Johnny was definitely a favorite, played by Christian Radford in a performance that could yet see him collecting some awards. Fine effort. Shaun Trainer also played a strong role and these two really had us fearing for anyone they came across. This was well shot for such a low budget effort. Good angles, nice editing and pacing held together well. Very creative effects, which definitely worked. Overall a dam good effort. I can't wait to see the next film to come from this filmmaker. Certainly one to keep an eye on.

Writer/director Chris Sun is a cool and amiable guy whom I met a couple of times when he came to personally introduce his films "Charlie's Farm" and "Boar" at the Brussels' International Fantastic Film Festival. Sun is a self-made man, with a vast knowledge of horror movie history and an even bigger love for the classics of the 70s and 80s. Are his films must-see genre classics? Nope, but they are a lot of fun and deliver plentiful in the gore, filth, and sleaze-departments.

His debut film "Come and Get Me", on the other hand, I'm not ravingly enthusiast about. I respect and admire how it's a zero-budgeted slasher with still a lot of focus on professional looking gory make-up effects, but it's such an incredibly unpleasant and nauseating trip! This thing is even more sickening than the misogynic slashers of the late 70s/early 80s ("Maniac", "Don't Go in the House", "Bloodrage", ...) and basically just exists of 90 minutes of deranged lunatics chasing after screaming girls in the woods; then killing them barbarically. Difficult to watch not only because of the vile content, but also because the shaky handheld camera makes you seasick. I also understood approximately one out of ten sentences that were spoken, due to the Aussie dialects (and no subtitles) and the poor sound quality.

Where the hell do I begin? I paid thirty bucks for a DVD which says "Directorzs cut" on the front of it. What sweatshop was this turd printed in??? It'd be funny if it weren't so pathetic.

Even by the standards of bad Australian cinema, COME AND GET ME is a real stinker. The humour is puerile, the level of ambition on display is close to zero. On top of that, it doesn't even look good; the images are drab and uninteresting.

I can only hope that this movie marks the lowest point in Australian cinema.

I mean, I think what depressed me about it was the, as I said, there was just no ambition there. It's just lowest common denominator stuff. I honestly can't even give this one star.

I've seen better videos on Youtube. For god's sake, don't waste your money.

I went to see this movie for 2 reasons - #1, I love horror movies, and #2, I think the actor who plays Johnny is really hot. The movie was a real let-down though.

I gave it 2 stars for the sexy Christian Radford. He was really the only good thing in it.

The acting in the movie was really uneven, and the dodgy lighting and camera work definitely makes the movie suffer. I didn't expect too much from the script - it is a horror movie after all, but the attempted funny parts in the movie don't really work. It's like the movie couldn't decide if it wanted to be scary or funny, and it didn't manage to do either.

My feeling after the movie ended is that if it were a student film at uni, it wouldn't get a passing grade. It looks like they blew their budget on the horror effects and didn't have any money left for anything else - like some lights or a decent sound guy. There's not much point having realistic horror effects if the audience can't actually see them.

A shame - I'd like to see the actors in something else because they seemed to try really hard to give a good performance (despite the fact that they had some really groan-worthy lines), but I think the directors and writers of this movie have a lot to learn about making movies.

This moronic abomination is not a movie. This is arguably the worst, most insipid film that has ever been released. I have never seen a movie so badly made, that fails on so many levels. By the end of the movie, I actually felt like killing myself. It's not even hilariously bad (ala Waterworld, Showgirls or Gigli) - it's the cinematic equivalent of a drunk homeless man projectile vomiting into your face.

Where to begin? The movie is neither entertaining nor well-done. The script is an absolute turkey and the dialogue is just awful - veering from attempts at gallows humour (which fail miserably) to what appears to be vulgarity for vulgarity's sake.

The camera-work looks like it was shot by an epileptic crackhead. The background music is so loud that you can't hear what's being said. Some shots seem to have been close-cropped and zoomed in on so much that you're literally staring at a bunch of pixels on the screen. Overall, the effect is less chaotic and more "I don't understand what's actually happening". It's practically unwatchable in parts. Even the special effects are merely ordinary. There are no scary moments in the movie, nothing that even gives you a feeling of tension.

You could forgive the poor execution (no pun intended) if the script or any of the characters were even remotely engaging or sympathetic. Sadly, there's nothing interesting about it at all. To call the characters cardboard is to insult a useful packing material. Their motivations are flimsy, their reactions illogical - the script is essentially nothing more than a gimmick to set up each murder scene. If the people writing this don't care enough to put any effort in, how are we, as the audience, supposed to care either? In even the worst horror films, if you can't find the characters enjoyable, you at least find them irritating enough to enjoy their death scene - in this movie, you are robbed of any enjoyment because you simply do not care. The protagonists are equally bad - they convey no sense of menace and aren't even well-written enough to be unlikeable. Whatever this movie set out to be, it just ends up being a sad, contrived attempt at aping the success of classic films like Last House on the Left, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and I Spit On Your Grave.

This is just a flawed, bad movie, an insult to the viewer's intelligence and not scary at all. Really the only thing that scares me is that I actually paid to watch this mess.