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Don't expect a masterpiece. Please. The Other Side is entertaining, semi-original, and for the most part, well acted. Some of the scenes could have been removed, some of the actors could have been replaced, but honestly, with such a low budget, the crew/cast did a great job. The main character especially was well done. His relationship with his girlfriend was portrayed well in some parts but came off a little cheesy in others. Most other low budget horror movies are based around sex scenes/nudity and gore which detracts from the plot a great deal. The Other Side does not indulge in this cliché and is, in this reviewers opinion, a breath of fresh air in a stale genre.

Well I see another film has made it to the over rated list, however this film is to unknown to be over rated. Other than fill 90 minutes before bed, it offered poor, very dry humor with a whole cast of overacting, underacting with a cherry on top.

Maybe I'm being to hash given that this is a low budget film, however a lot of corny dialog and the worst ending I've seen with no thought put into it, I was surprised I finished watching it.

It seems to me they director tried to make this movie something like The Matrix, with agents from hell chasing, shooting, slicing, dicing their victims with perfect precision but whenever the main character was shot at they just seemed to....miss (maybe divine intervention I don't know). This seems to be typical step for any action movie these days.

Well as I stated in my title, I am very confused how this movie got over a 7, it has been my understanding that this is a pretty high score for IMDb. Maybe I under appreciate this movie or miss understood its greatness but I know what I like and I didn't like this.

I am writing this from the viewpoint that this movie was made for $15,000 not from the perspective that it was made for a Hollywood Blockbuster budget. For that budget, this is probably the best movie I have ever seen. Normally, I would have expected this would have cost about $200,000 to make.

As for the movie, it begins as a manic mess. The cuts are mostly just a blur. Some of them are on screen long enough to actually see. Some aren't. I am not a fan of cuts of less than 2 seconds. The brain cannot comprehend and remember anything shorter so it is a waste of film. A lot of film time was wasted with too-short cuts.

The story comes together after all the short cuts, slowly. After about 30 minutes, you finally have some idea of what the film is about. I prefer having some backstory up front. Yeah, it is old-school-routine but it was routine for a reason, and that reason has not gone away: To involve the viewer. Without it, some people will just hit stop and walk away wondering what they wasted the time and blacklist the writer/producer/director. Not a good thing.

To the good side, the cinematography was good. Lighting and sound were good. This is Hollywood quality production for cheap. Good job. Just the story is a little wonky but we can live through that. Somewhat like Chain Reaction, it is a big chase movie with a small mystery plot to hold the scenes together. And they tip the ending way too early.

The most interesting and original idea is that there is a back door to hell and people can get out. Interesting, if there were such a place.

The worst part of this movie and many others is that the dialog is too soft and the music is too loud. In the theaters, it is probably illegally loud. At home, it means constantly jacking the sound up and down. Really annoying. -1 star for extreme dynamic range.

Summary: Worth a watch. Exceptional for the budget!!

i just watched this film, and although it's received some rave reviews on here which piqued my curiosity initially, i was thoroughly disappointed by this horrible, horrible movie.

ignoring the poor production value, The Other Side still totally blew. the acting, special effects, dialog, and plot were all cheesy and sub par. so i really can't understand why there are people giving this film such high ratings or raving on about it with blatant over exaggerations about the performance by the cast and the directing.

this film is not the least bit original, the plot is unimaginative, and the film makers show no signs of talent and little creativity. Hollywood already has an overabundance of derivative action movies if that is what you're looking for (nothing wrong with that, i love many of them too). there is just absolutely nothing exceptional about this cinematic failure.

good films can indeed be made on a low budget. Population 436 for instance is a good example of how good writing, acting talent, and good directing can make a great movie without a huge budget or even exceptional production value. however, The Other Side does not deserve the same kind if praise and will no doubt be relegated to the $.99 bin at a discount video store.

save yourself the time and money and skip this film. this movie gives indie films a bad name. don't be deceived by the mouth-frothing astroturfers giving rave reviews that are full of stock quotes paying lip service to the film and comparing the director to the likes of Robert Rodriguez--pfft... yea right. it's these types of film industry sycophants that turn film criticism into simply adverts or marketing mouthpieces for the movie studios.

it seems that no matter how bad a film is, studios can always find some hack to give them positive reviews to quote on the DVD. this is unsurprising, but the way this trend has infected IMDb lately is somewhat disturbing.

i predict the IMDb rating to drop from 7.7 as of right now to well below 5 as more people seeing the film and give their honest ratings.

After his graduation in Business from Columbia, Samuel North (Nathan Mobley) returns to his hometown in Athens County to meet his beloved fiancée Hanna Thompson (Jaimie Alexander). Sam calls Hanna, who work as waitress at the Montana's and he schedules the encounter "in their place" nearby a waterfall. Hanna never arrives and Sam is killed by the driver of a van and sent to Hell. However, there is a breach and many lost souls escape from the Pit including Sam back to the world of the living. While they are chased by the hunters from the hell called Reapers, who can switch bodies when they are killed and are called Switchers and leaded by the powerful Changeling, Sam finds that Hanna is missing and he is the prime suspect. Sam is helped by the former thief Oz (Poncho Hodges) and the former adulterer Mally (Cory Rouse) from the other side that believe they can find redemption helping Sam, and by his friend and policeman Peter (Stephen Caudill) and discovers the identity and the motives of the assassin.

"The Other Side" is a great supernatural story disclosed in a fast-pace and lots of humor. This low-budget movie has a great development of the plot and characters, using the principles of faith, redemption, sin, heaven and hell and excellent performances of the unknown cast. If it is true that Gregg Bishop made this movie with only US$ 15,000.00, I would like to give additional congratulations for this lesson to Hollywood with one of the best indie movies ever. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Anjos da Morte" ("Angels of the Death")

This movie can be summed up in one simple word - 'garbage'! The acting was some of the worst I have ever seen. I could have sworn I was watching a high school rendition of some poorly written script. Aside from the 'Coronation Street' style of acting (actually it was worse than that) the plot was disjointed and the only other thing it catered to was to introduce the viewer to an attempt to pull you in and keep you captive 'action movie' style via a full on gun fest and a massive body count!

Guns, guns and more guns. The only thing missing was an RPG. Oh wait.... there *was* a grenade - just not rocket propelled. I don't mind a good action flick with some gun work but not at the expense of the story line.

If poor storyline, poor acting and 'loads' of bullets flying around is your scene then this is the movie for you. Failing that - give this one a wide berth.

Sometimes death is the end. But sometimes, it is the beginning. In the tradition of "Ghost" and "The Crow" (though very original), "The Other Side" is the story of a man who runs from death in order to solve his own murder and help find his kidnapped girlfriend. But with the police and the reapers after him, does he stand a ghost of a chance?

According to the Internet Movie Database, USC film school graduate Gregg Bishop (who wrote, directed and did pretty much everything for this film) financed "The Other Side" himself with $15,000 (the profits from his film "Voodoo"). One has to comment that this film looks amazing for the budget. Some special effects used far surpass what other, bigger studios have tried to pawn off on their viewers, and the overall acting and story are quite impressive.

I have to say that hell ("the pit") looks cool. Bishop skipped the fire and brimstone and torture route and went straight into the dark, lonely isolation sort of underworld. Not only does this probably correlate better with the Bible, but I think it personally makes for a more terrifying punishment. Confined, alone in darkness for eternity. That's pain.

This film has lots of blood. We're talking "Kill Bill" levels of blood, "Izo" levels of blood. Every gunshot makes a good splatter. And I couldn't be happier about this. While much of the film was more action than horror (the only real "horror" aspects are the fact we have corpses coming back to life), the horror fans will likely appreciate the blood and excessive flesh wounds.

Jaimie Alexander appears in this film, although not as prominently as the cover of the film might imply. Her appearance in this film not only probably helped her career (this predates "Rest Stop" and "Hallowed Ground", as well as her leading roles in "Kyle XY" and that other show), but it helped sell this film. After it was filmed, but before going to DVD is when Jaimie broke through into the mainstream, giving this film an added star it probably hadn't counted on. And with looks that are a cross between Katie Holmes and somebody actually attractive, her presence is a big plus for everyone.

The humor in this was subtle but appreciated. I loved the character of Mally the Adulterer. His womanizing antics were amusing, his one-liners were funny, and I thought the scene where he smokes multiple cigarettes was classic (he's dead -- why not?). There was also a great visual gag involving a neighborhood watch sign that might have been the best thing in the entire movie. I' ma sucker for intelligent and clever humor.

I could make some complaints (aside from the obvious budget constraints). Like, was I really supposed to believe the reapers were 30-50 years old (as reported by the news anchor)? These ages seem a little funny, as I would have put them more in the 25-30 range. In fact, everyone in the film seemed a little young. But this in no way took away from their acting or ability to relate to the audience.

I recommend you check this out to see how to make a film with a limited budget, because I dare you to find anything else on this level. There may be some minor drawbacks, and I thought the twist was a bit hard to accept, but the themes were great and the plot was smooth. Gregg Bishop is a man who knows how to tell a good story and make it look how it should. I eagerly await his next feature film.

The problem with the movie is it *looks* too much like a film school project. And so the only people who like it are the crew, friends, relatives, and suckers who want to "support the industry" by being positive... not unlike the support you give a 3 year old child who vomits in your lap.

The positive reviews you see here on IMDb are obviously fake, from said crew and people involved. It's not hard to get your mum to write nice things about the terrible movie you worked on. That's exactly where the positive reviews come from.

This movie is simply awful.

The hell visions in the beginning... overdone. The uninteresting scenarios such as the creep giving those girls at the café a hard time. Come on! It's not that hard to create better, more dynamic and curious scenes than this.

And just when I thought the bar was as low as it could go, Cory Rouse stepped on the set and opened his mouth. His material wasn't great to begin with, but his delivery was worse.

Not bad for $15,000, but then again... it's quite bad.

It seems the next generation of good filmmakers are not exactly bursting out of the film schools are they.

OK now I liked this movie unlike a lot of the straight to DVD movies that I have watched, it had some great action along with some good fights as well. I really liked the whole escape from Lucifer's bounty hunters idea, this movie had a little bit of something for everyone, it had action, humor, thrills, and even sadness towards the ending. I liked the movie although I thought the ending could have been a lot better if it was given a little more thought. Altogether I give this movie a 7 out of 10 because I enjoyed it, I have seen theatrical films that could learn a thing or two from this film even though I wasn't a big fan of the ending. I would recommend this to action fans and those who like thrillers because this movie is certainly not disappointing.

A friend got me into the sneak preview of this movie recently and first thing I want to say is: it's fun as Hell (excuse the pun). I can't remember the last time I had so much fun in a movie. While it isn't a straight horror film (I'd call it more action-adventure/horror), The Other Side has it's share of thrills nonetheless.

Here's the 411: The hero is killed and goes to Hell. He escapes from Hell with a couple of souls to solve the mystery of who murdered him. But Reapers are sent to kill the fugitives and bring them back to the Netherworld. And here's the deal with the reapers: these are vicious demons. Agents of death. They don't mess around and will snap your neck without thinking twice about it. Also, a word about he action in the movie: it's intense! The Reapers are reminiscent of The Terminator where you have a villain that just keeps coming at you and can't be stopped. The girl that was sitting next to me was balled up in her seat covering her eyes throughout the whole movie.

The acting overall was surprising good considering I've never heard of any of the cast. The guy who really stood out to me was the actor that played Mally, Cory Rouse. This dude cracks me up. He should have his own show. Other notable performances come from the lead actor Nathan Mobley and the girl who played Hanna, Jaimie Alexander.

My friend and I were talking after the movie about how you could tell that this director knew what he was doing. He knew where to put the camera, he knew how to move the camera, he knew how to pace the story. He made an extremely entertaining movie that, at the end of the day, is simply "a great story well told".

I give it a 9 out of 10.

"The other side" succeeds in creating a suspenseful action movie! Personally I would like to have seen more of the "Hell" dimension where the main character escaped from. I think they didn't show it because of the low budget. For the most part it isn't noticeable that this is a low budget production. The acting is even decent. The unknown cast are fairly convincing in their roles. I think they did what they could. I do think it is a shame that we don't learn much more about "the reapers" and "hell". That would have shifted the focus more and would be more interesting. In stead it is used as a sub plot. The mystery is all about the main character girlfriend's who is missing. This story line is certainly thrilling. Although sometimes the action scenes are more distracting and pointless and get in the way of the mystery. But to be fair the action scenes are nicely done. And there is enough eyecandy to keep the male audience happy. The female reapers (in black leather) sure are hot and dangerous. Because of the main character and the mystery about his girlfriend you get sucked in to the story. The fast pace really helps and is one of the reasons that make this into an entertaining movie. Worth watching!

Competently produced but uninspired indie that has inexplicably garnered some fantastic write-ups. This is basically a SciFi channel picture original except it doesn't want to make you kick anybody in the face but so what? The filmmakers basically made a Jesus-flick type movie so if you watch this thinking it's going to be "Hell's Escapees vs Demon Bounty Hunters" and non-stop action with sh*t blowing up, you're gonna be hella disappointed; they basically shove that into the back ground after the first half hour and the movie turns into a Lifetime Network "women's mystery" that will try your patience something awful. This up there with Joe Caranhan's BLOOD, GUTS, BULLETS & OCTANE as one of the inexplicable Park City hits that makes you worry about all the thin air up there that's turning everybody into mush-headed idiots. If you end up renting this, just prepare to be underwhelmed. SKIP IT.

I bumped my rating to a 3 after seeing the budget for this movie was 15k. They did make a bad but not horrible movie for that kind of dough. I mean at least it's not Heaven's Gate. The acting was sub par, the action sequences were particularly bad and the writing was yawn inducing. You have to suspend disbelief when watching this type of movie but in this case you have to suspend intelligence also. If I had the hour and a half back I'd take my dog down to the park and videotape him pooing on the grass. Don't believe the rave reviews you've been reading here as this movie is like an after school special from the 80's blended with a direct to video action flick starring Don Swayze and Frank Stallone.

I had had this in my queue on Hulu, and it disappeared. I figured I'd put it on one night when I'd drunk too many beers and fell asleep before the end or something, so I decided to re-watch it. All the way through the movie, I kept remembering the scenes. Got to the end and went "Oh... I've seen all of it." I just didn't remember any of it.

Production values were good and the writing was well enough done. The acting was very good, and the story was alright, if a bit weak. It tries to be original, but in all truth, it isn't terribly. Boy escapes from hell to find who murdered him and why... finds out his fiancée was murdered too, and in the end there's a totally predictable plot twist.

It was just forgettable.

I made it through a little over an hour, at which point I didn't care to even know how it came out. Another factor was that the print I streamed was a bit fuzzy. The start seems like an entire mess. Sam loves Hanna, comes home early from college and sets up in a special spot to meet her and she doesn't show, but another person does, and Sam is killed and goes to 'the pit'. But at the same time there is a breakout, and quite a few people escape from 'the pit.' They are pursued by reapers, whose job is to kill all those who escaped and return them. The reapers are difficult to kill, and are heavily armed. They can be deadly shots, except in some key scenes when they are trying to kill Sam, since then they miss a lot. Sam seems to make a lot of poor decisions which doesn't match his background. After awhile, with his bad decisions and the two escapees he hangs with, it becomes tedious and boring.

A young guy is killed on the day that his fiancee disappears. After escaping from hell, he attempts to find out what happened to her.

If this movie was truly made for $15K, it's quite an impressive feat. It's very raw, and some of the acting is distractingly bad, but I quite enjoyed it once I got used to ultra-low budget. The leads were all fun and likeable, which made this a lot more tolerable than most backyard productions. I also enjoyed the worldbuilding.

Although the premise is not exactly the most unique thing I've ever seen in a movie, it's certainly not overdone, either. I enjoy movies about people who escape from hell because it automatically gives us an anti-hero to root for and some badass demons to chase him or her down. Here, you get more of a straight-up hero, but his friends are a couple of funny anti-heroes who are looking for redemption before they get dragged back to hell.

At one point, I forgot this was even a no-budget movie. The car chases weren't exactly pulse-pounding, and the camera had a strong tendency to look away when there would usually be an SFX shot, but the production values were actually pretty good in most places. The opening scenes were the only ones that actively annoyed me, and that was mostly because they were intentionally trying to disorient the audience.

If you're not too demanding, and you don't mind low budget movies that get a little cheesy in spots, definitely check it out. I'm surprised I never got around to watching this before now.

No pun intended - Gregg Bishop: he did one of the funniest zombie comedies I have seen: Dance of the Dead. He did not write the script for that one and Jaime Alexander was not part of that either (the latter being a bit sad - at least for me). She seems to be a bit of a go to woman for him, has appeared in a few things he did - one of them being this one right here.

That said, the movie is a bit ... well there may be a bit too much cutting, a bit too much story. It is tough to follow and there are too many characters for its own good. I assume it was well intended, but it is quite confusing at times. Where (or when) are we? And what is the movie trying to tell us? Not to mention the weird (almost non reaction) to people doing stuff that normal humans are not able to do ... if this is supposed to tell us that what we see is not real ... well the movie does not the best job in being clear about it.

Still there is something interesting here - and if you forgive the flaws and all the insanity that is going on .. you can be entertained ... maybe even understand what the movie is trying to tell us/you.

I wasn't expecting it to be perfect in all honesty. Part of me was hoping it would work, but part of me was worried that it would be another movie that had great potential but fell short. On the most part it works. There are flaws I found with it, the reapers didn't seem that much of a threat and I would've liked to have learned more about them, and Nathan Mobley is a rather bland lead. The script is mostly snappy and certainly entertained me with its subtle humour but it also could have been more even in tone, sometimes it jumps around various genres and part of you wishes that they just stuck with just one or two. On the plus side, and there is a lot here that's good, for low-budget($15,000 apparently) The Other Side looks very impressive. I did like the focused photography and the atmospheric scenery. The score could've been generic, but was actually wonderfully brooding in places, while the story is mostly compelling and goes at a cracking pace. It also has well-choreographed and never tedious action sequences and poignant drama that doesn't threaten to slow the film down. The characters are on the clichéd side but they are also quite likable. The directing and acting are above average as well, Jaimie Alexander is appealing but the best was Cory Rouse who seems to be enjoying himself immensely as Mally. All in all, I was impressed with The Other Side, it could've been better but you could do with far worse. 7/10 Bethany Cox

I love scary films, I was lucky enough to see a pre release showing of this one. I loved almost everything about it, the special effects look amazing and very high budget, the gore is absolutely amazing and the plot is gripping and clever.

The only down side for me was that there was too much of a focus on religion. Not everyone is a Christian, and I don't think that you can appeal to a mass audience with such an emphasis on it. Other than that it was perfect. The acting is great, especially from the leading man, and the cop is really hot.

I'm delighted that this will be shown at Sundance, I think we can probably expect to see amazing things from this Director.

First off, this movie on a DVD from 2007 is shown... in a letterbox?!! I'd expect a non-anamorphic DVD release from, maybe, 1999? This is unforgivable on Allumination Filmworks' part. Does not do this movie justice, and it is a competently made one.

Sam is mysteriously murdered, sent to Hell, then is broken out by other residers in a Hell prison break. Three reapers with bad aim are sent to bring them back. Oh and there's a love story! The action, stunts, and fight choreography are great, although I must admit the last 20 minutes of this flick is on the ludicrous side. There is a late plot twist that undoes dialogue and events prior (one scene is featured in the trailer!), leaving us with a bunch of red herrings.

This film is in need for someone else to release it, so it can be viewed properly.

When people say a low-budget movie is crap, others argue back, "well, they only had so much money." Well, I disliked this movie, and it had nothing to do with production value. It doesn't cost money to write a good screenplay, only time. If a special effect looks bad or a shot looks off, THAT is a result of money, and I forgive that. When the acting is bad, the dialog deplorable, and the plot convoluted, that is NOT due to budget. I read a review of this film that went into detail about the plot of the film. It did a better job of describing the movie than the movie did in executing it. One major quibble I had with the plot is that it ignores what could have been an interesting subplot: The "heroes" in this film are souls that have escaped from hell. This implies that all the escapees have been damned, but we are supposed to root for them. We don't meet ONE escaped soul that is portrayed as someone who deserved to be in hell. Instead, it infers that all in hell are really nice folks who just did one little thing wrong. Should we be rooting for people who did something worthy of being sent to hell? This movie ignores this little point, which I don't think is so little. This film wants to be THE TERMINATOR, and rips off many elements, right down to the score that accompanies every action sequence. The person that I saw it with, however, enjoyed it, but clearly from a so-bad-it's-good perspective. But my feeling is, this filmmaker was trying to make a great underground film, and didn't. If he set out to make a low-budget spoof, maybe I would have enjoyed it more. But I don't think he did, so I didn't.

This movie had its good, it had its bad and it had its ugly.

The good: surprisingly good performance from the lead actor. He actually stood out big time. I hope to see more of him in some bigger productions. This movie made so much out of so little. I was downright impressed with the resourcefulness of the director. He was quite ingenious at times. It had some very cool gags, stunts and FX.

The Bad: It felt like a rip off of several movies. The camera-work and lack of competent lighting got annoying and distracting at times. Some of the acting was downright bad. The "twist" at the end was very "Scooby Doo".

The ugly: Okay, nothing really ugly. I just threw that in. Enjoy!