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A male colleague once told me about his many relationships with hooker and strippers by saying that they "appealed to his rich and varied fantasy life." He treated them like girlfriends, bought them expensive gifts and trips, and took care of their housing. In return, he got sex, arm candy and one way relationships where he had all the control. He wasn't really a cad. He was a sad and empty man who bought fantasy.

James L. Edwards wrote, acted and directed this movie about a man whose entire life is a dead end job and an empty house. When the man can no longer bear being alone, he takes the advice of a friend and buys a few nights with a hooker. The hooker is an intelligent young woman with a dark secret. As two broken people try to help each other, the man finds he cannot let go.

What happens in this movie has actually happened in real life, and Edwards is kind and compassionate about how he lets us into the world of his characterss. However, it is a horror movie, and not for weak stomachs.

I liked the movie a lot, in spite of the "EW!"

Can love really hold on forever? Or will it rot eventually (no pun intended)? That is something that you have to figure out yourself. And if you like the slow pace this movie hands you. Because it takes quite a bit of time to get where it is heading. And that is quite the killer ending - if you excuse the pun (if one can even call it that).

It is or at least seems so sweet and innocent most of the time. But since we get clips of the future (or present, depending on how you view the timeline), we know something is off. And it is way off.

This is low budge mayhem, but it knows to shock. If you are open for that kind of stomach turning, wild and disgusting conclusion. For some that may be putting it mildly, for some it may be putting things over the top. Again it all depends on how much you can take and how easily you are offended ... and how squeamish you are. Can't answer that for you ... just remember, this is not normal.

The breakdown of my score for Her Name Was Christa, watched . I saw these glowing "reviews", which made me excited to see this. Unfortunately, I was left confused and disappointed.

Story - 2.5: While the general idea grabbed my attention, it had no other supportive qualities to hold it up. Neither villain nor hero and a weak twist that left me disappointed. I kept wishing it had gone in an entirely different direction, which would have raised my score for the storyline.

Acting - 1.5: This is one of the 3 biggest things that hurt this movie. The only character I sort of believed was "Nick" and that actor was working with very little. He may be better in a movie with believable dialogue and direction? The lead, Steven (also the director and writer), was in EVERY scene, unnecessarily. His acting was ridiculously over the top and needed to be brought down quite a bit. It seemed a very ego-driven project to me.

Writing - 1: As I said before, this movie is extremely dialogue based, with poor acting and unrealistic writing. It seemed very lazy. When a story is told with that much dialogue and little to watch on the screen, it better be backed up with insanely good acting and something of interest to hold my attention. It did none of the above.

Cinematography - 2: Again, going back to the lazy aspect of this movie, it was apparent to me that very little went into the thought behind the "look". It was as straight forward as a 7th grade film project. Very little creativity was found in any scene.

Makeup and FX - 2.5: At least they tried. From the makeup on the lead character, down to the fading and eventual corpse of Christa, it was not sufficient. I don't want to get into spoilers, but nothing at all looked natural about the FX, with one exception (pen to the arm).

This movie was trying (and failed) to be a story which has charaters we care about, a lead actor that we are supposed to feel bad for and we are apparently, expected to be consumed by the dialogue? I had none of these feelings. It was honestly, boring, self-serving and over acted to the point that it felt comedic. Although, maybe I missed the point and it was supposed to be funny? If so, about 95% of the dialogue should be edited out. Pass on this one, too slow to be funny, too bad to be good and too disappointing to be shocking.

Her Name Was Christa is a movie full of stereotypes, self adoration, unessessarily drawn out discourse and complete lack of creative awareness. I do not typically post reviews, but, had the itch to respond to the absurdity which is praise for this movie. The only thing I found interesting about HNWC was it's failure to deliver any artistic value, talent, timing and consciousness of an authentic conversation. For those unsuspecting casulties...be warned, deception ensues.

This was tough to get through without hitting fast forward or my head against a wall. Who wants to watch 2 bad actors talk about their favorite color for 40 minutes? Good luck finishing this debacle!

This is what happens when a director also stars in and writes his own movie, two and half hours of "watch how great think I am". The interesting question this movie does evoke is, why would you not just hire a competent actor for the lead of Steven Booth? He was the worst actor in the movie with Christa being a close 2nd. Obviously, the ending, which I really struggled to get to, was suppose to shock and awe, but the FX were so bad, it didn't do anything except make me laugh. The FX on Christa's body in general were head scratching. The movie was very messy, amateur at best and embarrassingly written and acted. Please, all filmmakers, for the love of god, do not star in your movie, it is a really bad look. Let this movie be a lesson to everyone, just because you can memorize lines and say them in front of a camera, it doesn't mean you're an actor. Folks, don't spend the money. There are lots of indie horror movies out there that deliver, this just isn't one.

The movie looked like it was made on a shoe string budget, with a wushy washy story, but Both of the main charecters showed great chemistry and together had their characters develop as the movie progressed. Shianne Daye did a fantastic job with the charecter and script, James L. Edwards also did a fantastic job at portraying a 40 year lonely man.

So, I am FB "friends" with the lead/director of this movie and saw his endless posts to watch his first movie. I am a true supporter of not only low budget movies, but horror, particularly. I wanted to support this guy's efforts and good for him for creating a project from beginning to end. It is not easy. Unfortunately, this is where the compliments end. I had no intention of leaving a review but, he has repeatedly begged and pleaded his friends to leave an IMDB review as well as for the YT trailer. I don't find this to be a particularly desirable or fair request. But, since you pushed me, here it is! I gave it 2 out of 10 because it isn't the worst movie I have ever seen, but it was right next in line. The acting was so unnatural I felt like the bad script was jumping off the screen, which is the 1st thing to take me out of the moment. That was followed by the extremely long and totally unnecessary dialog scenes that were bad to begin with. Why the director and writer would feel the need to put himself on the screen for basically the entire movie is beyond me. However, I think that coupled with the consistent bombardment of begging and pleading on FB you can draw you to your own conclusion. This movie didn't feel like much of anything to me, which is worse than even even hating it IMO. At least even Tommy Wiseau's movie was funny to watch with friends. Good luck to him in the future. Maybe next time he will consider hiring someone who can act to be on screen for 2 hours straight. I have never seen his other acting rolls, but judging by the "Bad Movie Police" series, I will skip those too.

Out of these reviews why has no one pointed out that this is NOT A HORROR MOVIE?! ***This is a romantic drama!*** WTF? Not only that but, the worst romantic drama I have ever seen lol! If you want an Ed Wood level romantic drama you've found your jam in Her Name Was Christa, except really, really, really long and boredom like you've never experienced. I mean BORING!! This guy should be in horror movie jail.

I am giving this movie 10/10 because of the last act and the look on my wife's face. They have got some serious brass to make a movie with those scenes, oh man!

I'm watching this and it's just boring as hell with awful acting. I sped up a little had a bowl of some sweet indica. Then out of nowhere.

This show made a left fricken turn. And became sick as hell. Man whoever the writer is, is one sick mother. Man but I like that. That was hilarious man. This borefest became excellent and funny. Plus her Rhodesian Ridgeback were much nicer than I thought. That was a nice treat. I was already gonna give this movie a 1 but I realized the acting was golden. So I rocked this up to a 6. Just couldn't get past the beginning part. Any way this is must see. Funny as hell. Well maybe. I'm on some good weed.

Sadly this was doomed once Ariauna Albright dropped out. The role of Christa was written for her and it seemed at least that the big draw to this film would be Albright and Edwards reuniting in an attempt to re-capture the chemistry they had in 1997's Bloodletting.

Shianne Daye takes over the role as Christa and she makes an admirable effort. Unfortunately, inserting someone with little to no experience into a role with tons of dialogue written for another person isn't going to work and it doesn't here.

A ton of respect is due to Edwards and everyone involved. It seemed like they ran into an endless amount of setbacks and struggles but they were still able to power through. As much as I tried to keep that in mind while watching the movie, in the end it's just not good.

Horrifying acting.... no way can anyone seriously think this is good.

This movie is as good as a the smell of decay. This movie is a fat, cowardly, weak, old man's fantasy girlfriend come to life. There's no such thing as a Christa. I've seen romantic comedies that are more realistic than this romance shart!

This was suggested for me on Prime, so I took the plunge. I normally love weird little B movies, but this was so bad. I immediately picked up on the fact the writer/director did not have any real knowledge of the call girl/gfe experience thing. I actually went online and checked to see if this was ten years old and recently released because it looks so outdated.

Things that made me think it was from the year 2000 include: the dating site the character uses, the lack of the internet for seeking a sex worker (I won't use the word hooker like he does over and over and over), the outfits on the "hookers", the over-plucked eyebrows on the "hookers", and the grainy quality of the film.

If the plot had to involve a sex worker, why not take the time to do rudimentary research on the subject? They get clients on the internet, not on street corners, unless they are really low on the totem pole. The whorearchy, if you will.

The acting was poor, and it distracted me. That has been covered in a lot of other reviews tho. I would skip this one if I were you.

This is going to have a cult following soon enough. So absurd. So bizarre. I had to finish it...old school ...so terrible that it was okay. The actors pulled it off...and held straight faces doing so...I can't unsee a few things...but it was entertaining enough.

Id rather sit through the entire vomit gore trilogy again before watching this movie. It is so incredibly BORING. With bad acting, bland scripts, and long shots that add absolutely nothing to the plot taking up the majority of the run time this movie has absolutely NO redeeming qualities. Also, with all the marketing about this being a horror movie, this couldn't be further from the truth. They don't even give us the honor of cheesy effects or bad CGI. Its not that its not scary, it doesn't even try to be. Honestly go watch The 40 Year Old Virgin. Similar descriptions but at least with that movie you get some laughs out of it.

I love horrors of all kinds, especially ones dripping with blood and gore. So when I found this movie, I decided to give it a watch, not expecting much.

The film starts off fairly slow, and the actors perform not-so-well, but it's fast enough that I continued through it. I am SO glad I did. The ending (roughly an hour and a half in) is so worth the wait. I will say that it is not for the feint of heart, and the graphics as well as what is going on will make you squirm in your seat. After all of the horror and shock films I've seen, it's hard to turn my stomach, and this one did.

Being very familiar with low budget films & loving to support them (especially the locals), I was very surprised by this movie. It's not like the usual bodies of work that's put out there.

Obviously from the get go, you know that there's something tragic that happens at some point. There's no need for a spoiler warning there.

This isn't a straight out of the gate low budget horror movie usually produced. In fact, most of the film takes place building the main character & his situation/feelings in a love story.

But when things go sideways, I hope you've got a strong stomach. Lol This was a nice change of pace in a market of low budget films flooded with the same plots/scenarios over & over.

I also have to give props for the music/soundtrack as most of the low budget films I've seen really lack in that department.

Why, would anyone want to see a movie like this? Ya'll didn't have any better ideas to come up with!? Really!? Or was it that you had zero imagination to begin with! I gave this movie a chance, even though you could tell it was below an already low budget movie. Story kept me hanging until it got strange and then it got gross! Please avoid this movie at all cost. I mean unless someone dares you to watch a truly disgusting movie. I do not know what they were thinking when they made this, but it was an epic failure of great proportion. That much I do know.