just watch it!
Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.
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View MoreThis movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
View MoreBad acting , bad story line and even worst ending.
A group of these young friends, while on a road trip stumble into a biker gang. On their way to find one of their friends, after she's gone missing, they find themselves lured into a trap, now turning their nightmare into something more sinister as they come face, to face with the supposed "Eaters" One plain sentence can pretty much sum this entire movie up. What a load of crap. This movie was just.. terrible. To start off, the acting. The acting in this movie was absolutely atrocious, and words can't describe how painfully obvious it was that these "actors" had the slightest clue on how to act. Their line delivery was terrible, their reaction acting, as well was dreadful, and their all around delivery of their characters was God awful, and just painful to sit through. On Top of that, the characters they acted as were flat out, to the core, completely clichéd. You have your typical bunch of clichéd characters, at this point, you could literally care less about. This film just delivers the same copied group thrown into the same, boring situation, just another time. The entire plot of this film was mixed together with clichés, and to top that off, it was presented in the most atrocious of ways. You have the same, agonizingly old situation where a bunch of characters are stuck in the middle of nowhere, more specifically, the desert. And you have the same old situation where they're being hunter by killers. The only thing that this movie differs with, is an execution of the same exact cliché, only in a more agonizingly boring, and convolutely ugly way. The pacing in this movie just threw any interest out the window completely, as we have an unwanted mixed bag of which sends the storyline, overall to be a horribly slow, slow movie. We barely see these "Eaters" until the 30 minute mark of the film, even then, we barely really get to see them at all. The film makes itself even more pointless as we get barely ANY story whatsoever. We literally watch these strangers of characters be thrown with these strangers of killers. What makes matters even more worse is the budget. With such horrible elements of the film, we get the horrid elements with an even more horrid budget. The cinematography was atrocious, most of the shots couldn't even focus, making things look blurry. And for the most part, we get ugly shades of yellow throughout this entire film, making even the smallest of things look ugly, and simply unsettling, and not in the good way. And finally, the audio.. Half of this film, the audience struggles to hear what their trying to say as it pans in, and out constantly, making it not only frustrating, but angering, and annoying.In conclusion.. what an atrocity. I can honestly say this is one of the worst, in not the worst horror films of 2015. Terrible, God awful acting, horrible elements, lazy writing, ugly technical work, and all around a jumbled mess of a supposed "film" I honestly can't recommend this under any circumstances, you're better off watching a high school film of a horror film, in all honesty, as this proves to just be another one of Lionsgate's dump films.
View MoreIf your guilty pleasure is a dark night with a horror movie; you may be tempted to pick up "Eaters" by Johnny Tabor. There are not many people who have even heard this title by name. The image depicted on the cover of the movie "Eaters" tantalizes a horror junkie with a creepy scarecrow-like figure. This figure has human-like features covered by a tattered potato sack with large "X"s sewn into the eyes. Sounds interesting enough, Right? This review will look at the facts as I examine this low-budget horror film. This film is an amazing example of a poorly attempted horror flick. The plot was quite unclear. To any low-budget horror fans; you may want to watch the movie before you continue, in order to avoid the spoilers. The beginning of the movie leads you to feel like you are in a House of Wax-esque segment. This feeling lingers throughout the film and leads to a pile-up of questions that go unanswered. You find yourself in the cab of a car with five young adults on a road trip through New Mexico. Barren wasteland is the apparent setting. Driving on a never-ending stretch of two-lane road, they come to an eerie abandoned rest stop. They come face to face with a motorcycle gang. When one of the girls in the group goes missing, her arrogant hot-headed boyfriend is quick to point the finger at the gang of ruffians that were at the rest stop with them. After a brush with death in confronting the bikers, they continue driving and find themselves in need of gas. They all see an old wooden sign with chipped paint indicating down the road is food and gas. They head down the dirt road and decide to follow it to a town that they discovered was deserted. They find themselves without their hot- headed friend as he wanders off into a barn. The other three friends then realize they had been followed by two men from the biker gang, so they hide in fear. The bikers see a child with the same type of eerie sack over it's face. They begin to bully the child as the three friends watch (what we would assume to be the child's father) a large man with a giant wooden mallet defend the child. He knocks out one of the gang members and smashes the other's head like a watermelon with the over-sized mallet. This is where the killing starts. One of the friends died of blood loss from having his tongue cut out by the mysterious man in a sack who had killed the gang member. Another dies at the hands of the leader of the biker gang after traveling by foot along the road to get away from the death- filled-farm-town. The two survivors meet back up and continue traveling down the road until they come to another town. This town is filled with more of the people in sacks that killed their friends. The murderous leader from the last town has followed them and traps one of them as he stays behind to let the last friend survive. She travels as far as she can and passes out. The last scene of the movie shows her being picked up by a stranger that, thankfully, does not have a sack over his head with those haunting black stitches. They ride off into the distance in his truck and the credits populate. The movie itself was heavily flawed. Many unanswered questions that only lead to more questions. So many loose ends and missing information throughout the movie. Most movies, especially horror, are slow to begin. The ending was atrocious. The antagonists were never brought to justice, and yet there was no such cliff-hanger to imply a sequel to gain the necessary information to answer the many questions left before us. I doubt a sequel would be worth the time to see. This was an extreme let-down. When the movie is at its very best it's somewhat entertaining. So much time was wasted to get the story to an entertaining pace. Then there were the small bursts of interesting information that would lead right back into a slow time- wasting segment. I wouldn't suggest this movie. Overall the story was much more appealing in description, but if you like low-budget horrors you just might like it.
View MoreAs said many times before, this is not coming from anybody who takes pleasure in hating a movie. In fact, quite the opposite, this is coming from somebody who tries to see good in anything that's bad regardless of how strong any negative feelings are. Eaters is one of few movies in some time where there is nothing to say redeeming about it.It is hard to say where Eaters failed most heavily, but the acting is a definite contender here. Atrocious isn't describing it enough, with the yellow T-shirt guy and the biker leader agreed tied for the worst performances, the former looking like he both didn't want to be there and didn't have a clue as to what he was doing and the latter is more irritating than menacing. Everybody looks disengaged and stumble constantly through their lines, giving the already crass and awkwardly written dialogue- that is enough to make even a toddler feel dumb- even less fluidity than it already suffered from. The cardboard, stereotypical characters were not worth giving a toss about, they're all annoying and the bikers have no sense of presence and instead behave like idiots. The missing girl isn't on screen anywhere near long enough to make one care properly about the situation the characters are on or the basic story.The story is another massive failing, there is nothing scary, suspenseful or tense about it, structurally it's choppy, a lot of scenes are so mind-numbingly stupid and pointless it was insulting and it just drags on and on with scenes stretched to interminability. There is nothing competent about the direction, which is literally all at sea, nor about the filming. The opening is alright, but everything else visually is unfocused to a dizzying degree, was starting to wonder whether the cameraman was drunk or something. Scenery is basic and drably lit, and the sound is so flat that hearing what was being said was difficult and sometimes like somebody trying unsuccessfully to tune a radio.Overall, horrendously bad with nothing good to say in its favour. As someone who tries to be fair when viewing films/movies/shows Eaters really has to be one of the worst movies seen in quite a long time. 0/10 Bethany Cox
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