Just so...so bad

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

"Bela Kiss: Prologue" is a German movie that is also mostly in the German language. It is the only full feature film work by writer and director Lucien Förstner so far and as this one is a 2013 movie, it will have its 5th anniversary next year. It runs for slightly over 100 minutes and combines the genres crime, thriller and horror in one movie. Bela Kiss was a serial killer early in the 20th century whose victims were predominantly women. This film here works with the premise that many many decades later Kiss may still be alive and that may be due to vampirism keeping him relatively young and fresh. So yes, it is a fictionalized film for sure and honestly, the entire Kiss reference works not at all in the film's favor. He sure is an interesting character that deserves his own movie, but this is not it. Maybe a documentary would even be more accurate as, eventually, we know very little about him, not even his exact time of death. As a consequence, this is a pretty generic thriller movie that turns more and more into horror the longer it goes. The Kiss reference in the title was probably just an attempt by the filmmaker to make this film sound more relevant and important than all the other horror films that disappear as quickly into oblivion as they appear on the radar. He was maybe even successful with this approach, but I cannot support it. The most known cast members may be Rudolf Martin ("NCIS") and Collien Fernandes, but the latter really only has a brief cameo. So all in all, this one is just for the very biggest vampire horror film fans. Everybody else will be mostly disappointed and underwhelmed. Here and there, we get a decent scene like the murder witnessed by the woman and hos she wants to check the hotel room despite the resistance of the owner, but it's just not enough for 100 minutes. Not even close. I would say the IMDb rating here is pretty accurate for a change. it just wasn't a good watch and I give it a thumbs-down. The acting is sometimes pretty embarrassing as well and I am not surprised at all that Förstner's career has not skyrocketed since then. I hope he has stepped up his game when he returns to making movies, even if his direction certainly wasn't the main problem in here, more like the mix of script and performances. The title also doesn't make much sense as this takes place way way later than Kiss' most prolific killing phase, so epilogue would be more accurate, and I hope it's not meant that there will be more films like this.

I often find that even the lamest of horror movies have one or maybe even two redeeming features that make them just about bearable, whether that be a gratuitous shower scene, hot bimbo sex, a dwarf with a machine gun, mutant flesh-eating rodents, or simply some cheesy OTT gore, like someone's eyeballs randomly popping out of their sockets.Natural Born Killer opts for both a sex scene and a shower scene, yet neither of these elements make this film any more entertaining, both somehow failing to provide any nudity. The remainder of the film is as equally dull and disappointing, as five bank robbers check in at a remote hotel to wait for the heat to die down, only to find that the staff are a bunch of weirdos in league with notorious serial killer Bela Kiss, who has apparently found a way to prolong his life.Veering wildly in style from standard teen horror fare to torture porn to art-house horror, Natural Born Killer (AKA The Kiss of a Killer, AKA Bela Kiss: Prologue) is a complete and utter mess: boring from start to finish (very tame gore and absolutely no little guys brandishing extreme firepower), it is one of the few films that I have had to rewind at least five times at various stages because I kept falling asleep.

There is a really well made sort of new mash-up of a movie hidden in here. The cast are all into the story all the way, but there are huge gaps in the way they are trying to feel like an American movie, and the way that it just so isn't, if only they had picked a side. Everything on it's own almost works. Otherwise you are left with a waste of time, however every so often you are paid off with a really unique effect, or story twist, and there are just enough of those that make this work. I would say that if you like to watch campy vampire movies from the 60's, or you are a fan of those wrong Turn "freakshows"(someone out there must be) even if you just really liked the darkest moments of Hostle : Then you will Enjoy some part of this movie. Even if you are just someone looking for something different, that is sort of in there too.Jesse of Jesse.ca

For some reason five really, really clever bank robbers who look like models decide to hide away from the police in a hotel.First price for the dumbest bank robbers (or the dumbest movie script) goes to...Perhaps they should have rather stuck to modelling - robbing banks and hiding from the police surely is too much of a mental effort for them.Well I could go on that there is a serial killer in this hotel who has lived there for 30 years or so and all those acting school rejects get killed...But hey you say, haven't I seen that a gzillion times before? Yes you have - but mostly even these were movies made by people with a gzillion times more talent than anyone involved in this epic fail.With the decreased cost of digitally producing a movie every zero-talent wanna-bee puts out a stupid horror movie these days.And no, the reason these movies suck isn't lack of money - it's the total lack of any kind of imagination, story telling skills or the even the slightest amount of talent.