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"Healing Towers" has an interesting poster. That's about the only interesting thing about it. The synopsis is understandably vague, because I'm not quite sure how to describe it either, but as best I could follow, a supposedly brilliant psychiatrist kidnaps psychologically damaged people whose history he knows to experiment on them with a weird-and unlikely to be approved by the American Psychiatric Association-gameplay where the patients think they're acting out revenge on people in their past in a dream, but are instead causing real harm. It's possible that I'm not exactly getting that right, because gosh was this a convoluted mess. It sounds more interesting than it it's presentation.

It is low budget, but I think they tried their best with what they had so that gets a star. However, the plot makes no sense, acting is subpar at best, the lighting was amazingly amateur and it was extremely difficult to stay engaged because I didn't care about any of the characters and was too conscious of my brain cells losing their sharpness to concentrate too deeply. I wanted it to be over. Even the twist at the end really...isn't. I didn't even want to take the time to write this, but there was only one other review and I just wanted to reiterate what they had to say.

I suppose if you just want some background noise and to get some use of your Prime Video subscription you could do worse, but 3/10 is the best I can do.

I cannot believe I'm admitting this, but I actually kind of enjoyed this dumb thing.

"Hideous!" from director Charles Band and Full Moon, is still a bad movie. But we ARE talking about Charles Band and Full Moon, so for me to find anything positive is unlikely. But at least there was the attempt at humor, which I did chuckle at a few times. And the acting-incredibly-wasn't that bad...for a Full Moon pic. The gloppy, cheap creatures were more funny than freaky. But there seemed to actually be some...oh I don't know...EFFORT involved in this one. Maybe I felt nostalgic for Stuart Gordon, hearing the familiar synthesizer tones of Charles's brother Richard Band throughout. Regardless, it's not near as bad as expected, and that's really saying something.

Okay, one extra star for the luscious breasts. Yes, that is misogynistic, but since that's what they were going for, might as well give them credit. Otherwise, "Hatchetman" is pretty awful.

A bunch of strippers who all live in the same apartment building which on the outside looks like a cheap motel in Orlando but inside each room seems to have a different motif are being killed off by a guy in a Halloween mask and hooded cape (never seen THAT before). The characters include clueless and dumb cops and an annoying manager who is SHOCKED to discover that putting recording devices in tenants rooms to spy on them is against the law-but doesn't stop doing it.

The script was possibly written by a high school drama student. Or a porn writer. AI perhaps? I'd like to say that the acting is uh-MAY-zing...but it's positively dire. So bad it is actually funny. The direction is certainly inspired by Ed Wood. One scene made me laugh out loud when a girl walks in, sees a murdered person, pushes past two guys wondering what's wrong, and THEN when she gets OUTSIDE, she screams. Great direction! Such drama!

Honestly, Full Moon and SyFy Channel cranks out better stuff than this. There's nothing scary, the effects are juvenile and it's just so poorly executed that there's just no chance at taking it seriously. My best advice at attempting to enjoy this crap fest is to invite some friends over, get lit, call for pizza and riff it to pieces. Only then can there be any actual entertainment value gained by watching it.