This is How Movies Should Be Made

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

This movie could have been something, could have been different, but it was so lame and lazy throughout that I just can't force myself to even pretend to like it.I mean, I'm not going to lie-- I came here just for Basso, but man is is his acting insufferable in this movie. I knew from the moment the "horror" scenes arrived that I was completely disappointed in this movie. Not to mention that I actually laughed out loud, even as I tried to hold it in, when Basso's character professes his love for Prescott's character. It was so abysmal that I'm disappointed that the casting directors, directors, and writers even agreed to release this thing.I sound like I'm over exaggerating, and I am, but it was just a really bad movie experience. There were things that I truly liked: the plot, the message from the movie, but the delivery was way off. And the worst thing about this movie is that it has so much potential, even if it is set in just one room throughout-- it has so much potential! I just couldn't get around Basso's acting, the music, the editing, the writing, and just everything that had to do with delivery.Why, oh why did they release this thing?

It is actually about Communism. It is just that victims quantities, speed of the spread and resilience to the treatment are slightly diminished in the movie compared to the "red virus". The real life disease is much more complicated and horrible. But it is true that the only cure is death. And even though there are some people that after the encounter with communism understand that it must be stopped by any means, there are always some patriots that think they can contain it and control it. Exactly like in the movie. Yeah, yeah, collective mind and shet, how great can it be... worth watching!=] and in the end a great soundtrack. don't miss it.

I'm actually surprised that MTV had nothing to do with this film because it had MTV written all over it. Cast of beautiful people, poor dialogue, and a cheesy love story. Right from the get go this felt like the first episode to a really bad MTV series (not that any of them are good). I stuck with it because I hate to judge a movie without seeing it to the end, but I am kind of regretting that now.So the film is centered on a picture perfect teenage boy who wakes up in a blood soaked cabin and tries to recall what exactly happened. The story is told through poorly done flashbacks that try to move as fast as possible. That's one of my big problems with this, the pace of the film is actually too fast. They try to rush everything along in order to hold the audience's attention but really all it did for me is make me lose interest in what was going on. I didn't establish any kind of connection with the characters or the story because the fast pacing just made everything feel really cheesy and cheap.Maybe I'm not the perfect person to be reviewing this movie, I am not a teenager and I feel like the is that main demographic that this film was going after. The cheesy romance and the lame jokes just fell flat on me but those are things that the MTV audience will probably enjoy. For me though I thought this was a pretty terrible film, after an hour of it I was really eager for it to just end. Other than some decent gore I really don't have many good things to say, wouldn't recommend it unless you are a fan of MTV type stuff.3/10

I just watched The Hive as part of a one-night-only Fathom theater event. This movie had almost no marketing, which will have made it an incredible moment for those lucky enough to see it on the big screen. I am a big fan of the zombie genre, and The Hive pays homage to Romero's classic use of the genre to focus on human struggles and social constructs within the breakdown of society. There are running themes of individual experience vs. the collective consciousness and isolation vs. the soma-driven release of free will, that hold strong without coming off as preachy or pedantic. There is a bit of a slow burn here, which leave you wondering if the character-development will be worth it, but the plot is tight, and everything becomes relevant within well written climax.Considering the low budget, the gore/make-up effects are excellent, and never take you out of the moment. There are some lighting choices that come together as truly gritty and spectacular. For the horror fans out there, I would more classify this one as more of a gruesome psych-thriller, with more dark humor and creeping insanity than pop-outs and cheap scares. There are definite moments where the acting fell, and where the writing betrays an intelligent audience (a tight plot doesn't need so much spoken internal dialogue), but overall a must VOD, and worth finding the time if Fathom does a second release in theaters. Find it. See it. You won't be disappointed.