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Skeleton Crew

  • Video
  • 2009
  • R
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
3.5/10
1.2K
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Skeleton Crew (2009)
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The production of a horror movie based on the true story of a doctor's sadistic snuff films takes a terrifying turn when the director gets carried away with his subject.The production of a horror movie based on the true story of a doctor's sadistic snuff films takes a terrifying turn when the director gets carried away with his subject.The production of a horror movie based on the true story of a doctor's sadistic snuff films takes a terrifying turn when the director gets carried away with his subject.

  • Directors
    • Tommi Lepola
    • Tero Molin
  • Writers
    • Tero Molin
    • Teemu Molin
  • Stars
    • Rita Suomalainen
    • Steve Porter
    • Anna Alkiomaa
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  • IMDb RATING
    3.5/10
    1.2K
    YOUR RATING
    • Directors
      • Tommi Lepola
      • Tero Molin
    • Writers
      • Tero Molin
      • Teemu Molin
    • Stars
      • Rita Suomalainen
      • Steve Porter
      • Anna Alkiomaa
    • 19User reviews
    • 17Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Rita Suomalainen
    • Lisa
    Steve Porter
    • Steven…
    Anna Alkiomaa
    • Anna
    Jonathan Rankle
    • Darius
    Jani Lahtinen
    • Klasu
    Ville Arasalo
    • Erno
    David Yoken
    • Bruce…
    Riikka Niemi
    • Mari
    John J. Lenick
    • Mike
    • (as John Lenick)
    Ramo Kalupala
    • Pete
    Eija Koskimaa
    • Nurse 1
    Jukka Toivonen
    • Nurse 2
    Wiley Cousins
    • Jerry
    Markku Peltola
    Markku Peltola
    • The Auteur in Snuff Films
    Karoliina Blackburn
    • Nurse in Snuff Films
    Elina Järn
    • Snuff Victim 1
    Jarmo Ylinikka
    • Snuff Victim 2
    Markus Nieminen
    • Snuff Victim 3
    • Directors
      • Tommi Lepola
      • Tero Molin
    • Writers
      • Tero Molin
      • Teemu Molin
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    User reviews19

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    3momster64

    Bad Bad Bad

    I fell prey to a decent trailer and intriguing plot line. Unfortunately, that's all it really had.

    Bad acting, plot full of holes, and one of my biggest pet peeves: too many characters who look so much alike that it's hard to tell who's who, and not one of them is sympathetic enough to merit caring about.

    The only thing it had going for it in my opinion, the gore effects and blood weren't half bad, which was surprising to me considering how bad the rest of the movie was.

    Throw in gratuitous backside nudity that brought nothing to the plot, and a plot device that attempted to jump on the "Cabin in the Woods" bandwagon, and you've got a true mess of a movie.
    carias2115

    Nothing good about it

    I am not a movie critic just a normal person that likes good movies. This movie is really really bad, the acting is bad the plot is bad and also the story line. They tried to get people attention showing some nude scenes but even those scenes are bad. This movie it's about a Crew that is making a movie, about a crazy Doctor that torture and murder patients on a mental institution. The movie they shooting sucks apparently in real life; then the director goes nuts after finding some real films that were made by the actual doctor that kills all that people, then the movie director becomes a killer just like the dead crazy doctor and his crew becomes part of a new movie. It has some gore and bloody scenes but they are not really well done. Just don't waste your time watching this movie.
    1ernesti

    Tongue-in-cheek movie without a plot. Easily avoidable.

    I wondered why i had never heard of this film and its directors and after watching the film for the first thirty minutes i understood why that is the case. This film is absolutely ridiculous with horrible delivery of the lines, amateur actors and on top of that it has very little plot. The film started of pretty good and it was quite promising but the grin-worthy English accent ruined it. It's so painful and i just couldn't resist a feeling of mutual shame.

    I think it should have been made in Finnish completely or with broken English and then dubbed over with professional sounding voice actors.

    It's also noticeable that the film falls apart just after 15 minutes. All the ideas got wasted and probably there was a lack of imagination involved or they didn't have a script at all.

    It doesn't look as if the movie had 1 million budget. It could have been made for about 50 000 euro at most. I've seen many professional looking low budget films and if 1 million budget was correct i'd have to say that it was wasted completely.

    For its merits i could say that it may be the one of the first really trashy, gory and "tongue-in-cheek" films made in Finland. That's just about it all. There's nothing original about it and many film directors have done it better. In fact this is even worse than some Uwe Boll films.

    In overall this film is trash and completely avoidable.
    4mistoppi

    Bad but entertaining

    Skeleton Crew is definitely a weird movie. And I guess it's because I kept telling myself (and my friend) that this is going to be so bad, that I'm almost positively surprised. It was bad, but like with so many movies like this, it's kind of the point. If a movie like this would be made completely seriously and well, it wouldn't have any kind of charm, would just make you wonder if the writers are okay. When it's done with a tongue-in-cheek attitude, it's usually more entertaining.

    Skeleton Crew plays with horror movie tropes in a fun, fourth wall breaking way, while being brutally violent and just... f###ed up. It's been hours since I saw the movie, and I'm still confused about... well, everything.

    It's a bad movie, but I definitely had fun when watching it. So if you do watch it, make sure you watch it friends, because this is one of those movies where it's just sad when you watch it alone and can't really laugh about it at the same time.
    3Michael-d-duncan

    About as much dramatic flair as a video game intro

    The story is about a group of film makers who are shooting in the actual location where the murders they are pretending to portray actually happened. The director is then over come by the power of the evil doctor who still haunts the facility. House on Haunted Hill anyone?

    The acting is campy which is exactly what I was looking forward to. I wanted a B-movie. They really needed to pack it in a bit sooner.

    The story is a total rip off! The scenery from saw plus the demented doctor from House on Haunted Hill. Add in a bit of predictability and you've passed two kidney stones and an hour plus thirty.

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    • Trivia
      The film was shot in the actual operating mental institution.
    • Connections
      References Halloween (1978)
    • Soundtracks
      Killing Time
      Performed by Doom Unit

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    • Release date
      • July 21, 2009 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Finland
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Команда скелетов
    • Filming locations
      • Finland
    • Production companies
      • Dramatic Sound
      • Kiten Kostyymi
      • Mirada
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      • $1,000,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 30m(90 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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