Silverhide

To be honest with you, in terms of acting and writing, this movie isn't any worse than your average horror movie. But in terms of technical quality: sound, lighting, camera work, directing, editing, etc. even the average found footage movie is better. I am not lying or exaggerating.

I am not bashing the director for filming outdoor scenes indoors. I am bashing him for filming them so amateurishly. It was waaaaay to dark sometimes. You have to watch this movie completely in the dark. Otherwise, you'll constantly be saying, "What am I looking at?" I am sure the director excessively darkened the outdoor scenes to mask the fact that they were shot indoors. But it doesn't help if people can't seem much of the time. It also doesn't help when the dialogue makes it painfully clear the outdoor scenes were done indoors. The sound quality for this movie was bad. You could have the loudest speakers on Earth, the sound turned up full blast, your ear pressed against the speakers, and you'll still be unable to hear some of the dialogue. Halfway through the movie, I gave up trying to hear what some characters were saying. Even when they were speaking at normal levels I couldn't make out what was being said.

The sound and crappy lighting make this amateurish movie even more amateurish than it needed to be. Some of the writing was real dumb that would have writers for SyFy channel movies shaking their head, "This top secret government agency *gasp* is secretly running this place." When I heard that line of dialogue I almost immediately stopped watching the movie. The character who delivered that line is speaking after he had gotten his arm ripped off at his shoulder less than 2 minutes ago. This guy has his arm ripped off, they put a towel over his huge wound, and yet he's coherent enough to deliver a long dialogue that lasts more than 5 minutes? WTF? And the movie has seemed to have forgotten about the guy who got shot twice from an AK47 less than 20 minutes and is sitting less than 6 feet away. One character gets shot twice with an AK47 while another gets his arm ripped off up to his shoulder, the main female character only puts a towel over their wounds, and both injured men act as if they fell off their bicycle and landed on their shoulder? It makes no sense. Why isn't the main character screaming for help?

There are a few other technical problems wrong with the movie (like the terrible editing), but I won't go into detail. Nor will I go into the other ridiculous aspects of the writing that would have SyFy channel writers stunned speechless. I'll just go into the two most important parts of a horror movie: the kills and the creature design.

The kills are horrible. The kills are either off-screen or its CGI blood. The filmmaker couldn't even bother to give us fake blood. He had to give us crappy CGI blood.

The monster costume? It's just a puppet head! The movie doesn't show the monster from the neck down at all. Not once. You only get to see the head. And even when they show the head it's for less than 5 seconds at a time. But if your eyes are quick enough you can clearly see the monster is just a puppet head. When I saw the puppet head, my jaw dropped open. I was stunned for 5 minutes. Then I thought, "Maybe it's just a fake-out or something. Maybe that's not the real monster." But then at the end of the movie I saw the puppet head again and my jaw dropped open again. And my jaw stayed open for the remainder of the movie, right through the end credits. And I physically had to close my jaw until after the credits ended. No CGI monster. Not even a dude in a costume. Just a puppet head of something that looks like rabid possum. Wow.

To anyone who is reading this review: if you want to make a horror movie right now. Do it. You'd have to try extremely hard to make a movie worse than Silverhide.

This film is a fun B-Movie, let me repeat B-MOVIE!!! If you are expecting Underworld or Godzilla or some $100 million movie look elsewhere. It's wasn't made for mainstream morons like Davanna Carter (see her review) who has probably never made a film much lest ever got one released –Gee, these armchair filmmakers… It's easy to criticise when you've never done anything yourself isn't it? Anyway, the normal mainstream people should stay away, they won't get it. They WILL never get it. (Do they ever?). This is a low budget film made for cult fans and schlocky horror aficionados. Don't be confused by the packaging (like I was – This film is being a bit mis-sold it looks like a Hollywood production from the DVD case, whereas it should be being packaged as a GRINDHOUSE movie – for B Movie fans, there it sits right at home, Mainstream no. (If it's case reflected its cheap and schlocky look it might be attracting the right type of people who would actually understand it) Anyway, it's old skool, its rubber monsters, 80's style, if you grew up in the 80's (like I did) and saw all the low budget monster films this would be right up your alley. It's a midnight movie, John Waters style, trashy, gory, sleazy etc so don't be surprised if it's not what you're expecting. This was rough, fun, interesting, atmospheric, schlocky, and nostalgic, Its pure 70's/80's Grindhouse, so put your old black Cramps T – Shirt on, get some friends over at Midnight, crack open some beers and get some popcorn and Party! – (and keep the mainstream straights out)

OMG, that was boring. It can cure insomnia. The creature looked so silly, which is most likely the reason they only had the face in it for two frames at a time.

For a low budget indie, the acting was about what I expected. The storyline was boring, boring, boring. Seriously, I think I'm going to sleep when I finish this review. There was nothing thrilling about this.

And what is it with movie makers and the moon? Hello to all of you out there, the moon does NOT act like the sun. It doesn't have moon rays. If you walk outside during the night, the moon can be seen, but it does not illuminate the ground. However, in this movie, it did. It was so annoying.

I don't know what they spent 100,000 on. Maybe it was the insane amount of moonlight :/

I gave this a 3-star rating. Maybe that's too generous. It was boring and a waste of time. Skip it. I do not recommend.

How could it get a 10 as if it was a great representation of being a quality B-genre movie? I am a fan of drive-in theater movies and this is along that line, but too many scenes/shots are just too long and dark that I lose both visual and plot interest. The acting is right there with the best of the bad movies, and what is a cheap horror movie without screams and shouting galore!

I don't know, I had to watch it in fast forward. But if you liked the 60's-70's Dr. Who monsters, those were fun, (funny) but of course low-to-no budget like this one!

Go in with low level expectations, and use fast forward accordingly!

I think this movie had a decent premise. The dialogue (the parts that could be heard) and acting were on par for low-budget werewolf horror. Unfortunately the positive qualities are undone by incompetence in the technical aspects of filmmaking: directing, editing, lighting and sound mixing. A lot of the movie is too dark to discern what's happening; the dialogue is also sometimes indecipherable. There's also a lack of spatial coherence; and the action and practical effects are often randomly-framed and jumpily-edited. The pace on the first half was too slow to sustain much interest, while conversely the final act felt rushed and underdeveloped.