Appetites

This is such a mess. Dont waste your time. The nudity isnt even that good. The sound track is obnoxious. The killing makes no sense because the script is lame. The actors may be good if they had a good script, but they were so over the top obnoxious I had to turn it off. This is a no.

This is one of those films that requires you to believe that the lead male and lead female characters are sexy and charismatic enough to get away with anything. Both Bret and Lauren pull that off in spades. They both look gorgeous in every scene they are in. Bret sounds and looks great as the guitar strumming singer. Somehow, whatever either of them do, you never stop rooting for them. You want them to win, to find true love, to succeed, just because they are so compellingly sexy. Very few films allow their most attractive actors to play their most depraved characters, but this one does. I think it is overall a great and unique ride. And, James Duvall playing a very thicc rando victim in the desert is a great bonus. Highly recommended.

What does wet your appetite? How would you choose the right mate for you? And is someone less evil than someone else, when both are insanely evil? Would that make them the perfect match? And will they even realize it? So many questions you can have ... so many things you may feel offended by too, nudity and blood being amongst them.

The first two names mentioned in the top cast are not really the playing the main characters here. At least Jame Duvall maybe a name you have heard before (Donnie Darko). But don't expect something subtle like that - this is more in your face sinister and crazy. If you can dig that, the movie can be quite the treasure. It doesn't make too much sense, but it stays true to its anarchy set of "rules" it sets for itself. Stick through the credits for some funny outtakes.

This movie was a thoroughly enjoyable one for me. What I liked most about it was that it broke away from the stereotypical psychopath slashing and hacking at horny teenagers in the middle of the woods, not that I don't enjoy that sort of thing. This story actually focuses on the point of view of the psychopaths themselves and why they do what they do, which I thought was a nice change of pace.

Overall I feel like this movie deserves some proper recognition. It doesn't carry the dark atmosphere of most horror movies but is still a fun well thought through movie if you are a fan of psycho themed horror films.

How come this so-called horror hasn't got a review so far? Mostly that isn't good news ans after seeing it I can understand why. The script isn't that bad at all and does remind you of those other flicks concerning serial killers working together like for example Natural Born Killers (1994) due the boy and girl stuff or Henry (1986). But Appetites will never be in the category of Classic.

One serial killer called John Doe (anybody?) has it for tattooed girls, after having sex or while doing it he kills them. The other killer, Daisy, has decapitated her father together with her brother after being sexual abused as a kid. Naturally they come across each other.

The problem with Appetites is the fact that they tried to add some comedy towards some disturbing scene's but sadly that didn't work. John Doe singing while killing, could work but it becomes pathetic. After 45 minutes I was thinking to push the stop button but still when Daisy and John do become closely I thought, well, maybe the horror will come in now.

But before those 45 minutes the only thing that did appetite me where the sex scenes. The tattooed girls really did their stuff well and it's easily explained why because all those girls do actually work in the real porn industry. So yes, there's a bit of full frontal here and there.

You also can spot how cheap it was made, day for night shoots, really? A lot of blah blah and after 60 minutes nothing seems to work anymore. John Doe singing again, the severed head of the dad kept by Daisy's brother even becomes laughable. No this is plain boring, after 45 minutes everything is gone...no suspense, no tattooed girls, no nothing.

Gore 0/5 Nudity 1,5/5 Script 1/5 Effects 1/5 Comedy 0/5