Brilliant and touching

A different way of telling a story

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

how someone can pull such a bunch of crap and believe there was "writing" involved. Take all the clichés avoided by even the most amateurish wannabe, cram them into a night-shot film with one of the most dreadful lighting for night I've ever witnessed, throw in some sloppy characters without soul or possible empathy-connections, spend a large sum of money in film, lighting and post, and you have -mileage may vary- this "film". I feel sorry for the poor actors that may have thought this was a opportunity to do a nice job. If you teach whatever you teach, you can use this thing to show your students haw not to do things in life.

Just got this from Blockbuster Online(free trial). Thank God for free because this movie wouldn't be worth the money used to make it. Subpar acting, horrific lighting/sound, insanely disappointing with the gore, unable to deliver, plot holes, etc. I could continue on, but I'd run out of words. This movie would have been remotely decent had it been done by someone with real talent. The idea behind the film was intriguing, but this poor excuse at horror ruined any opportunity to make it worthwhile. The characters are so one dimensional and annoyingly stupid that you can't wait for them to die. The ending might have even been good if they'd shown the actual gore instead of a few fake blood spatters. I was highly disappointed with this and would not recommend it to even the biggest low budget horror fan.

The premise had promise (human capture and slavery in middle America) unfortunately the execution was off. Stilted characters that reeked of horror movie clichés and an overly long tedious opening that almost made me turn the movie off in boredom did not help the film (and continuity issues with blood covered ripped up shirts don't help either).Buckets of blood do not make a good movie, no matter how many teenagers tell you it does. Perhaps given better actors, editors, writer and director, this would have been a decent film, but in this case, it was poorly executed by the cast and crew that were in over their heads from the very start. And the goofy twists in the last fifteen minutes are simply that…goofy.And as a note to the writer: if you are going to make a point of the main protagonist saying that he can break a human in a mere three days...please follow through with it. Nothing happened to even remotely break anyone.

Live Animals is a fun gritty horror film reminiscent of the 70s style of dirty real life horror films as opposed to the unstoppable monster horror films of the 80s. The film looks really good and the production team did a great job of making the movie look gritty and grimy without making it difficult to see what's going on. Definitely worth a look. As for the review above. I'd love to know how he saw the film considering it hasn't been released yet in the US much less in the UK. I saw it at the sold out Washington DC Area Premiere and it looked great on the big screen. The only possible way you could have seen it would be from a low quality illegal download. So not only do you have the temerity to STEAL the movie, you give the film a low rating based off the low quality file that you stole. Classy.