Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

As Good As It Gets

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Creepy and chilling. Fans of gory violence will get their freak on. A dysfunctional American family is stranded in a remote countryside in Ireland searching for evidence of ancestral roots. The father(David Lambert)is trying to impress his fiancé(Lindsay Goranson), but has trouble keeping the travelers under control . A troubled daughter(Josslyn DeCosta)constantly bickers with her pain in the ass sister(Erica Rhodes)in tandem with her one track mind tag-along boyfriend(James Warke). Over the fields and through the woods a deformed and homicidal clan waits for company. A shocking and sinister brood with excellent skills with a meathook.

An arguing American family wander into an area populated by mutant kids with porridge on their faces. Unfortunately this movie has no atmosphere at all except for one scene with a creepy boggle eyed girl in the kitchen.Really I lost interest the moment I saw two small children wrap a piece of piano wire around the fathers head and literally cut his head in half. What the hell was that about? That doesn't even make sense.From there on there's just basically what you'd expect from a film of the inbred local genre but without any real flourishes of strangeness that it needed. Porridge on faces isn't a good substitute for deformity and social weirdness so the whole thing felt a bit flat. I liked the ending though, that at least was creepy and sinister.Really this is mediocre, if you want to watch a film about normal people wandering into the path of inbred weirdos there's about 300 better films to choose from.

A couple of nice young people, including a couple of sexy girls, are inadvertently stranded in rural Ireland. Two of them, a man and a young lady, explore what appears to be an abandoned house. A weirdo appears and demands that they come with him. The handsome young English fellow objects. El Freako raises a gun and shoots him bloodily through the neck.The handful of tourists is captured and brought to a family of mutants with strange faces. I woke up briefly for a while to watch one of the gargoyles beat a sobbing girl to death with a hub cap, deliberately and graphically slamming her face into hamburger before the coup de grace. She was covered with blood by then. There were multiple shots of her sister watching the murder through a veil of utter terror.If this sort of thing appeals to you, you should definitely watch it. To me it's a symptom of our decadence.The best interpretation I can lend this pernicious, malignant piece of poison is that the several elements of the production -- the cast and crew -- thought they might wangle a paid, tax-free vacation in Ireland out of it. They didn't really MEAN to debase our taste further.In a bit of sublime irony, the cuss words ("s***" and f*** and so on) are clipped out, while the most heinous violent acts are left intact. We don't mind our children being desensitized to homicide but, for the sake of God, let's not teach them that it's permissible to curse.

That movie was astoundingly good. Really, my intention of watching this movie was "ah I'd like to watch some trashy b-movie, but huh? what is this? it's good!"I think the acting was something in the middle. It was OK, not bad and nothing especially good. The music was really shocking and fitting it was good, real horror-music. The story was OK, it lacked a little of information and the ending was quite strange but it was really acceptable for a b-horror-movie. But what almost instantly got me was the movies atmosphere, it was really catching in it's way and gave me the creeps. Really nice I choose this movie ^^Though it's really hard and sadistic I can't recommend it to everybody, it was also a bit too much violence for me in it, but maybe this gave the movie it's atmosphere this kind of shocking violence.