High on the Hog

Great to see Sid in anything, I think people forget about Spider Baby and THX1138 when it comes to his career. Sid looks good in this one, much better than 3 From Hell when his illness had fully taken over. Also great to see Robert Z'Dar and Joe Estevez.

The film is a typical "homage" to grindhouse style film with the use of effects to give it a "drive-in movie" feel - jumping frames and grainy film scenes. Plenty of what we expect from B horror with all the trimmings.

I struggled to get through this one though. I watched for obligatory reasons, fan of the man Sid, fan of horror and its subgenres.

If you are in the mood for an award winning film, this ain't it. If you're in the mood for something different, silly and frivolous or in a 420 type of mood this may do it for you. Very artsy believe it or not, sometimes it plays like a music video but reels it back in and becomes a movie again. Just entertaining and watchable, mostly humorous but tries to get a little serious in parts like most comedies do for some reason. Light it up.

This movies story and plot is right up the alley of what a grudge movies is about. The way it was filmed and done is what makes this movie amazing. Kevin Lockhart did an outstanding job on this film.

The way it was filmed and put together was epic. To also see a lot of great actors come together in one film was also a big factor in it. The producers, directors and writers nailed it! This is the true meaning of a well put together grind house/indie film.

This film is trying so so so hard to be stylistic and "grind core" that any story or plot is entirely obfuscated by the hodgepodge of visuals.

This is OVER directed, OVER stylized, and ruined by that.

I generally like films that break away from the norm and try new things, but they still need to be watchable films. This wasn't even watchable for me. It made me feel as though I was having a stroke, brain seizure, or epileptic fit... and I'm not epileptic.

It's horrific in direction.. no clue what the story actual was.. I made it 20 minutes in before my brain was just screaming at me to stop the torture.