Live Animals

By success I mean it succeeds at showing prospective future film producers and directors how not to make a movie.

It showcases some great ways to save $$$ on movies too:

1) Make a low budget movie by showing the same scenes over and over with different dialog played over them each time. This will serve to nauseate your viewers while also giving you what appears to be an hour and a half of movie.

2) Hire small time, unknown actors for the roles then film then for just 20 minutes each so you have the footage to replay multiple times.

3) Don't pay to see this movie, that's the best money-saving tip of them all!

This is a low budget horror if you aren't into this then this isn't for you. For most fans of horror it's the low budget movies that are the best because they're usually pretty fun and creative. We know this isn't going to be a Hollywood blockbuster film but that's why we enjoy it. The same reason you see people watch highschool football games. They're not nfl or even college games but they're fun and full of spirit. That's what three cheap horror flicks are like.

The worst past of this movie was the beginning for me as it was hard to tell what was going on and why. Soon as we get to the barn where everything takes places the movie gets 1,000 better. I actually almost turned this one off at first because it seemed like it was just going to be a time waster but it picked up.

The barn is where we get to the root of horror in this movie about human trafficking. Most of the gory stuff takes place here and it's actually pretty well done.

What I found most annoying though is that all the female characters look a like. They all have black hair and dark circles around their eyes and similar facial features. I really couldn't tell who was who or if the same actor was playing multiple parts there how bad it was.

The special effects is good in areas where it needs to be but the makeup wow. It's really bad. Everyone has dark raccoon circles around their eyes and it makes them all look like hobos or something. It's really weird.

The good parts are the story is decent. I liked the torture segments they were better than some other films where it becomes cheesy. In this film they sort of cut away and then come back to it which is good if you don't have the fx budget to fully film the actually torture scene.

Acting I mean it's horror acting. It's not required to be amazing. It's the screams and terror that sell the movie and this movie had some great screamers and terror faces. Without that a horror movie just doesn't sell well to the audience.

This movie also has a twist ending I guess you either like or won't. I didn't for some reason. Didn't seem like it was really needed for a movie like this.

Overall the movie kept my interest. It had some good scenes but the early part of the movie was just unwatchable. It seems like the movie would be great with more characters and time to establish who they were. The movie also strangely seems to show characters and then forget them.

I swear there was a red headed woman locked up and a guy they punished by throwing in a punishment room that the movie forgot to never address or show again.

Either way this was an ok b stock movie.

How someone can pull such a bunch of crap and believe there was "writing" involved. Take all the clichés avoided by even the most amateurish wannabe, cram them into a night-shot film with one of the most dreadful lighting for night I've ever witnessed, throw in some sloppy characters without soul or possible empathy-connections, spend a large sum of money in film, lighting and post, and you have -mileage may vary- this "film". I feel sorry for the poor actors that might thought this was an opportunity to do a nice job.

If you teach whatever you teach, you can use this thing to show your students how not to do things in life.

A group of college kids must decide what price they will pay to gain their freedom after being kidnapped by a ruthless White Slave trader.

This film is described on the DVD case as "gutsy", but that's just about the last word I would use to describe it. The film quality is low, seemingly on purpose to give it a gritty look, and this only adds to the frustration of trying to watch it. Aside from the film quality itself, the movie is just plain bad.

If you like watching people being tortured, there are a few scenes you may enjoy. I, for one, have grown bored with it. I wasn't a big fan in the first place, and if you want to cover up a weak plot with torture, that's just a poor idea and you shouldn't have made the film in the first place. "Saw" and "Hostel" said it all.

There's a plot twist here or there that is kind of interesting, but hardly worth getting excited about. Personally, I think it would be in your best interest to just keep walking and forget this film was ever made. I know I will soon forget.

Live Animals is in the same category as Saw and Hostel; independent, torture films, which portray the lowest level of humanity; this feature is not for children or those easily offended. College students make the mistake of having a little party in the woods. They are abducted by a group of slave traders and held captive, chained, and in cages, as the title implies.

The holding place almost looks like a prison, with adjacent cells holding the human cattle, and they are tortured mercilessly by their overseers. I guess the point here is our nasty treatment of animals for our food supply. The acting is nothing special, and the story watchable for the short, eighty six minute running time. If you need to kill an hour and a half on a rainy afternoon, Live Animals is an entertaining diversion.