One Must Fall

One Must Fall suffers from fairly bad writing, directing and acting that isn't exclusive to small budget movies but nonetheless brings down the movie.

Although set in the 80's, the time period itself does not factor into anything, other than perhaps to eliminate mobile phones from the equation, which could have been taken care of in other ways.

Barry Piacente stands out, playing his role quite well, and being surrounded by the other mediocre to outright bad actors makes him stand out even more. The practical effects were good and very well done for a small budget movie. There is some tension, but the movie is ultimately brought down by the aforementioned bad writing and directing, even going so far as to use lines from other movies.

All in all not a movie I would recommend, but director Antonio Pantoja definitely has potential once he gets some more experience under his belt and realises that not many people can pull of writing and directing simultaneously, especially first timers.

First off never in my life have I seen a film where people give it 10 stars on IMDb not even classics such as The Godfather or Taxi Driver...so obviously these are family friends of the actors or filmmakers and I even noticed some reviewers ARE the actors and filmmakers. C'mon seriously?

Secondly the movie doesn't deserve even half of ten stars because it was just indie horror schlock. Boring dialogue, boring characters, boring gore. Completely forgettable. Thank GOD it was free to watch.

As horror it's subpar, as comedy it's poorly written. The acting is below average except for the main girl, she's okay. Concept is pretty good...just the script wasn't very good. The comedy is VERY generic, and due to the writing lacking, that means the comedy is weak as well.

The only thing that could've saved this was to be full horror or full comedy.

As I find myself saying so often lately, this would've been a great concept for a TV show.

Was a good first attempt. But not impressed. Was reading the other reviews and I find it hard to believe that all these people believe this film is a "10". They obviously know nothing about film and true horror. It did look nice, but even that wasn't that great.

Maybe it was the lack of my coffee intake for the day, or maybe it was the fact that you have such poorly written characters that you quite literally put your audience to sleep. I'm a stickler for finding hidden indie film gems, in fact I mostly seek out horror films. I found this on IMDb tv and thought why not, could be a hidden gem. I typically never read reviews...well with this romp, I probably should have. The characters are so boring and paper-thin, you honestly wish they were dead. Yes please die. I snoozed for a good 15 minutes as I was trying so hard to keep my eyes open. However I did run back the film and watch the bit I missed. My nap was more entertaining. Side note: don't end your film with some world building almost marvel type end credits scene when it's a low budget indie film. Just don't. It makes you look pretentious, and as a great author once said: "An ounce of pretension is worth a pound of manure."