Load of rubbish!!

It is a performances centric movie

Better Late Then Never

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

After an overly broad opening that tries too hard to be cute/clever, Cadaverella settles down into a very nice little movie. It's uneven in spots but worth sticking it out. I'm shocked that Megan Goddard hasn't done anything else since she anchored this movie magnificently. It's not to much to say that her character and the great writing kept me watching. I'm glad I did. From Leonard Cohen to chicken feet, the lines pop out of left field making me bark with laughter. For a micro-budget, I loved the soundtrack. It didn't have the "my buddy's cousin has a BITCHIN' band, dude" quality of screeching guitars, bad synthesizers and pretentious lyrics. Keiran Hunter, playing split roles, delineated the two characters well enough that I didn't catch until almost the end of the movie. Ryan Seymour, also playing split roles, was dull in both. There's a real humanity in the script and genuine feeling in Goddard's performance. I'm on a micro-budget kick right now and this ranks in the top 5 of what I've watched. Don't get thrown off by the opening. Just enjoy it.

Okay so whoever decided to think of writing the plot for this movie needs to go take some writing lessons and learn how a plot is developed. Also, they need to learn how to produce some decent effects in B-horror films such as these. If you're giving a movie the green light, please make sure it's at least decent. Most of the time I thought it was shot using a hand-held camera and a green screen! The actors were absolutely horrible and not likable at all, the characters were undeveloped which made the movie awkward and the plot just seemed to fall apart. I mean an idea like this had potential but I guess the writers, effects artists, actors and director just wanted to hurry and get this film over with. Cinder is a hateful girl, a real snob. I don't know why her friend would be in love with her. She's just a total witch. Why is Cash so obsessed with Cinder? Why does it take her forever to realize her friend is in love with her? Why is she a kleptomaniac? This films lack of a decent plot raises too many questions. I definitely hated the movie and would never watch it again, nor recommend it to anyone. I guess that's what you get for watching a movie on YouTube.

There's a certain whimsical element to the first half hour. Credit is due for the setting and the conceptual basis for the story, and the narration in the opening is reminiscent of Dead Like Me.However the movie quickly fades into a drama class level of acting that keeps it from being entertaining. Frequent changes in the quality of the filming almost suggest that it was done with several different types/styles of cameras, but to achieve a stylistic effect. Rather it distracts from the scenes, which are not strong enough to survive on their own, let alone with distractions.If you are a die hard fan of any kind of independent films, you might want to give it a whirl, but I otherwise do yourself the favor of steering clear.

Cadaverella starts as Cash (Ryan Seymour) is digging a grave for Cinder (Megan Goddard) who he has just murdered on behalf of her stepmother Donna (Jennifer Friend), what follows is the story of how Cinder ended up dead & more importantly what she is going to do about it...Editd, co-written & directed by Timothy Friend I'll try to keep this comment sort as I don't even want to think about Cadaverella anymore let alone waste time typing this review any longer than is necessary. The script by Timothy & Jennifer Friend is apparently supposed to be based on the fairy tale Cinderella, well to be frank I didn't see it but as an adult my memories of Cinderella are vague. Weren't there meant to be three ugly sisters? Didn't a pumpkin turn into a coach or something? Anyway none of what happens has any connection to Cinderella & if it does it's is purely accidental. At only just over 70 minutes long Cadaverella still bored me stiff & it took me two attempts to get through to the end, the character's are rubbish, the dialogue sucks, it has no pace, it's dull & it take an hour before Cinder gets killed so the films big selling point is condensed into barely 10 minutes at the end & I can pretty much promise you now the hour that leads up to it is a snooze-fest of the highest order where virtually nothing of interest happens.Working on a low budget director Friend does nothing special here, it looks every bit the cheaply shot piece of crap that it is. There is one part of this film which puzzle me, at the start Cinder is a young girl when her stepmother & her two twins move in, jump forward so Cinder is now a young lady but the two twins remain exactly the same age? Can someone explain that? No, I didn't think so. There area couple of gore scenes at the end, someone head is crushed, someones jaw is ripped of, someone gets a fist through there head & that's about that.Technically the film is basic & I'm being kind, there's no visual style or flair & this is pretty dull stuff to sit through. The acting wasn't exactly great but then again you probably expected that.Cadaverella is total crap from start to finish & I hated every moment of it, I don't think any filmmaker deliberately goes out to make a bad film but when I have to pay good money & spend time watching it it's difficult for me to cut worthless glorified home made films like this any slack.