Come and Get Me

Great to see some Australian talent getting their names out there! I'm a huge fan of the horror/slasher flicks but they are tending to become a little boring and much the same. Come and Get Me was different and original - graphic kills scenes that actually look pretty damn realistic! The lighting was a little dark in some places making it hard to see some scenes but practice makes perfect. The acting was good all round - a few of the smaller parts could do with just a little work - but unbelievable performances from a few key characters - I wouldn't want to meet 'Johnny' in a dark alley for sure... or on a deserted back road for that matter!! And Bretto... one word... disturbed! The story line was original and plausible with a good script - witty one liners executed perfectly prevented the film from being to heavy or dark. All in all I would recommend to anyone and everyone - except the faint hearted! Expect a lot of blood and tears with a little giggle in between. Great first cinema release and can't wait to see whats up next!

I love my Horror raw, brutal, rough and bloody! And 'Come and Get Me' didn't disappoint.

And not only that! My most favourite thing about this film is that it's Australian made.

True Independent unrelenting Aussie Gore!

A must see. You won't regret it.

So navigate on over to the official CAGM website and get 'ya mits on the DVD.

Keep your EYES peeled for the next Slaughter FX release too. I tell 'ya I can hardly wait. The anticipation is killing me!

Writer/director Chris Sun is a cool and amiable guy whom I met a couple of times when he came to personally introduce his films "Charlie's Farm" and "Boar" at the Brussels' International Fantastic Film Festival. Sun is a self-made man, with a vast knowledge of horror movie history and an even bigger love for the classics of the 70s and 80s. Are his films must-see genre classics? Nope, but they are a lot of fun and deliver plentiful in the gore, filth, and sleaze-departments.

His debut film "Come and Get Me", on the other hand, I'm not ravingly enthusiast about. I respect and admire how it's a zero-budgeted slasher with still a lot of focus on professional looking gory make-up effects, but it's such an incredibly unpleasant and nauseating trip! This thing is even more sickening than the misogynic slashers of the late 70s/early 80s ("Maniac", "Don't Go in the House", "Bloodrage", ...) and basically just exists of 90 minutes of deranged lunatics chasing after screaming girls in the woods; then killing them barbarically. Difficult to watch not only because of the vile content, but also because the shaky handheld camera makes you seasick. I also understood approximately one out of ten sentences that were spoken, due to the Aussie dialects (and no subtitles) and the poor sound quality.

I went to see this movie for 2 reasons - #1, I love horror movies, and #2, I think the actor who plays Johnny is really hot. The movie was a real let-down though.

I gave it 2 stars for the sexy Christian Radford. He was really the only good thing in it.

The acting in the movie was really uneven, and the dodgy lighting and camera work definitely makes the movie suffer. I didn't expect too much from the script - it is a horror movie after all, but the attempted funny parts in the movie don't really work. It's like the movie couldn't decide if it wanted to be scary or funny, and it didn't manage to do either.

My feeling after the movie ended is that if it were a student film at uni, it wouldn't get a passing grade. It looks like they blew their budget on the horror effects and didn't have any money left for anything else - like some lights or a decent sound guy. There's not much point having realistic horror effects if the audience can't actually see them.

A shame - I'd like to see the actors in something else because they seemed to try really hard to give a good performance (despite the fact that they had some really groan-worthy lines), but I think the directors and writers of this movie have a lot to learn about making movies.

Where the hell do I begin? I paid thirty bucks for a DVD which says "Directorzs cut" on the front of it. What sweatshop was this turd printed in??? It'd be funny if it weren't so pathetic.

Even by the standards of bad Australian cinema, COME AND GET ME is a real stinker. The humour is puerile, the level of ambition on display is close to zero. On top of that, it doesn't even look good; the images are drab and uninteresting.

I can only hope that this movie marks the lowest point in Australian cinema.

I mean, I think what depressed me about it was the, as I said, there was just no ambition there. It's just lowest common denominator stuff. I honestly can't even give this one star.

I've seen better videos on Youtube. For god's sake, don't waste your money.