Jack the Reaper Returns

Starring an unknown cast which seem likely to remain that way, this "film" is yet another cheap slasher flick which amazes me how this was released. I have no problem with horrors and slasher flicks in particular, in fact they are my favourites. But when they are done THIS BAD, it really does take the monkey and its no wonder the genre has such a hard time. The story is as clichéd and without imagination as possible with a bunch of people in a cabin out in the woods being slashed and hacked up by this zombie/ghost guy. Its not the story that sucks the most, its the atrocious acting and dialouge, home made directing quality and an awful soundtrack. Not to mention laughable effects and some incredibly lazy film making - these morons are outside in clear daylight yet we are meant to believe it's night?? What the hell was the director thinking with this move? What, he had only one day to film all this in? He was scared of the dark? ( Is hilarious seeing a cop walking around in pure daylight with a torch acting as if its pitch black, though)

I guess the positive side for the actors is they look like people who work in the local supermarket so at least they could possibly escape from this film without ever being noticed. Im sure one of the "teens" plays bingo down the local pub - but she's 40-45.

Anyway, good for a laugh but just another waste of film and time.

When I picked up the DVD case for this movie and read the plot, I found it to be interesting. When I watched it though I was severely disappointed. The scenes were to poorly done. The actors and actresses looked more like they were in their freshman year of film school. The camera angles were poorly decided and shot with a somewhat clueless demeanor.The theme of the movie,though strong, was weakly projected to the public. The gore scenes were more that of a G rated atmosphere. When people watch horror movies,they want to be scared out of their pants. This movie more delivers on laughing people out of their pants than anything else.

LEGEND OF BLOODY JACK (theasylum.cc) Written & Directed by Todd Portugal Featuring Matt Nelson as the Lumberjack. The director of photography was very kind to the making of this film,Awesome camera work. The Gist: These couples are at a cross roads, Then have a reality check with death. Rules: Don't go out of the house, AND if you do stay out the the woods. The character of Forest Ranger was interesting and had a uncanny resemblance to Dick Miller(favorite character actor of Joe Dante and Roger Corman). There were some genuinely suspenseful scenes and whole piece seems very fresh with a new horror icon to beware. The stunt co-ordinator, I found out in extras, Was also the lumberjack, Great planning for stunt success. Okay to sum up,The Ending was great, Then became Not great just before end credits-Ouch.

This is not even a movie: in fact it is not even Cinema! It is just a badly filmed, poorly staged, even more poorly produced, and "acted" ugly piece of pure, shabby boredom, at it's finest and saddest representation! No, I don't want to be mean! But enough is enough! And I must warn others! I go to Film Festivals, and, see plenty of films better, way more deserving (under any single perspective) than this hard to digest, atrocity, but, believe it or not, some of those never come out! You'd be surprised, not even the real promising, ground breaking ones, at times! However, quite punctually, crappy, amateur, demented stuff, obviously made without any caring, nor the even thinnest consideration for an audience, such as this shameful advertisement against B Genre movies (that is probably its only regrettable "achievement": keeping people away from the Genre, that is!!) does get a decent DVD run! I can only tell you that I am famous to watch pretty much everything, even the unwatchable, and, that I always find ways to enjoy cult films ! But, this marooning experience into a shameful lack of any entertaining elements, was way too dreadful and insulting, even for me! I honestly just couldn't finish it!! I gave it 33 of the most painful, miserable minutes ever spent, then I got angered, realizing I was just forcing myself to watch... or better, to witness, perhaps, some of the lowest grade attempts into badly trying, without ever succeeding, to pass an assemblage of utmost uninteresting, muddled material, that felt as if it were the lamest possible result, coming out by writing a couple of lurid vignettes, while, staging them afterward, as if you had to punk some nasty old uncle, and, all together vaguely resembling some of the worst acted nightmare of a play, performed at the Auburn, Alabama's public High School, but in one of those really jinxed years, when the students were so inept to result almost like a frantic bunch of idiots, trying to get the hell away of their misery! When I finally turned it off, I had to chill, a few moments, and then spent the night, just trying hard to forget the whole damn experience! Brutalizing! And, again.. not the plot ( and what plot, anyway?), brutalizing I would call the feeling I have got once more when watching such stupidity , a feeling someone is most likely to get inevitably, when clearly understanding, that he's been just finely ripped off of his money! Then, of course, I saw that the Asylum was involved: hey! Mea Culpa! Should have known better...

If there were any emotions gotten out of The Legend of Bloody Jack it was of jaw-dropping shock and frustration, and I still have the bruise on my forehead from taking it out on my bedroom wall. The Legend of Bloody Jack is one of those movies that is total ineptitude in every single way possible, and the bad news is that it is not even funny, everything is just too amateurish and not-even-trying like that getting through it was a struggle. If there was a list for the worst-looking movies of the last 15 years, The Legend of Bloody Jack would be on there and quite high up, the whole movie looks very frenzied with dim lighting, simplistic settings and lousy doesn't describe the badness of the special effects enough. The soundtrack is repetitive, awkwardly mixed and quite stock, there is no atmosphere at all to it and sometimes it sounds like it was composed with another movie in mind. The script is childish, cheesy and stilted and not just slightly but to alarming degrees, one of the worst in recent memory, and it seems as though the actors were really struggling to get any value out of it. Because the acting is just as bad, perhaps even worse, no believability, no commitment, no spark, much of it is annoying attempts of smart-ass talk, mumbled line delivery and the looks of "I want to go home". The characters are just moronic in what they say, act and do and not in an endearing way at all, they are just stereotypical and irritating. The killer exudes little menace and the movie makes an even bigger mistake of not telling us anything about him. The slasher elements are gory but in a very cheap way and have no tension to them, instead there is a sense of been-there-done-that and real indifference. The story is completely lifeless and predictable, and the horror, suspense, thriller and fun elements are literally non-existent here as a result complete with an all-too-easy ending. All in all, hopelessly inept and in a way that is more frustrating than it is funny. 0/10 Bethany Cox