Crappy film

An Exercise In Nonsense

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

(6%) It's films such as this that twist the knife more so than overly generic zombie pictures because this has some ambition, but the absence of any clear ability to implement the ambition into a good watch is so evident. The plot is pretty simple stuff, but it's so poorly told that this pushes tolerance levels and by the time characters start to get dropped off one by one their demise cannot come quickly enough. I'm not one to moan about limited visual effects for as long as the the rest of the film is to a decent standard, which this isn't, so for starters the green screen effects are at times dire, and the CG bees or whatever they are look as though I rendered them, which overall is odd because certain parts of the film look fine. So overall a film with an ounce of talent stretched over a barren gulf of sheer lousyness.

Is it possible that so many people could be involved in making a film like this and yet nobody actually bothered to watch the edited film before its release, just to see if it made any sense? It seemed as if they just shot various unrelated scenes, out of order, and just left it that way. There was something about addictions taking on a form that could be removed from their host, weird children who go for the neck but don't actually draw any blood and swarms of flying insects that didn't seem to have much to do with anything. It was like a badly constructed home movie made by a few friends who thought it would be easy to make a horror film. Awful. Budget = $8,000,000, Wasted = $8,000,000.

I went into this movie expecting it to be similar to the grudge based on the cover of the movie. I could not be more wrong. The movie is about some weird bug/flies that carry some sort of toxin that can cure or cause an addiction... what that means, I have no idea. Basically, a group of adults go into an abandoned insane asylum/hospital and wander around for what seems an eternity. People start dying and you find out that these "kids" are killing them.I am pretty sure this is the worst movie I have ever seen and would wish this on no one. If you are bored, or looking for something to watch, please pass on this one.

Saw Hidden 3D last night and before watching had no idea what it was about other than it had some kind of child / monster / ghost in it. Afte watching the film (and its not very long, about 1h15 before the credits roll) I still don't have much idea what it was about nor why there were insects buzzing around randomly in the movie. As far as I could figure out after watching 45mins of it, some young folk attend a mansion that used to be used for cruel experiments on people and out of those experiments a new life form is born. Why the people go there is beyond me, they don't seem to have any reason to be there, and after a while they get killed off. And then the movie ends with the twist that isn't really a twist because we've seen it in every other horror film ever made pretty much. But did I regret watching? No. It was OK, and I agree that some of the reviews are very harsh but then again the movie could have been better and in a word was just lazy. Movies are not easy to finance, make and release and so its disappointing when something is released that just seems a lazy entry into the genre but I sat through it and if you like horror movies, creepy kids, mansions, insects or maybe just random people wandering around tunnels, this could well be for you. Don't expect an amazing movie experience, just 1h15 of head scratching, maybe a slight feeling that its 85mins that may have been stolen from you but i doubt you'll be angry for sitting through it.