The Legend of Jack and Jill

Don't bother going up the hill. This one is quite forgettable. An amateurish hillbilly fest. No scare factor and just the main actors walking Around with creepy looks on their faces.

Acting is beyond a joke.

Made it through 30 min and most of that was looking for gore. Didn't find it.

Save yourself time.

I have seen worse films. The cinematography wasn't the worst. I'm not really a fan of taking a trope and creating something that has absolutely no alignment with it other than its location or namesake. I suspended a fair amount of disbelief when watching films but this film made that exceptionally difficult. There was no explanation for anything and shooting it art house style seems like an excuse to cover bad writing with visual metaphor. I just kept watching it for no other reason than sunk cost and an abundance of free time. I enjoy many low budget thrillers and as is said this isn't the worst I've consumed but it's bad enough for me to write this review.

Was scrolling through prime last night and this cover caught the eye. I've been very fortunate with the horror section in prime lately and came across some absolute low budget gems like "The Halloween Party", "The Selling" "super Hot" and "Making Monsters". Each of these films work within their means and did their best to deliver a good compelling story with a limited budget. This did not, unfortunately. Its was just cliche after cliche after cliche so I gave it 10 mins and just couldn't watch anymore.

Abby Casson Thompson is beautiful, just for her, this movie is worth a 3 for me.

The film is bad, the script could be acceptable if the performances had been convincing, I understand the low budget, but something better could have been done.

But again, Abby and her legs were the main focus I gave to the film, even a bad performance, her beauty makes up for it. The movie lacks emotions, Jack And Jill's makeup is very bad, it is not explained if they use a mask with human skin or if it is a deformity that happened to them over time.

Anyway, it's good to watch movies like this, to pass the time or just to have fun.

Okay, I confess... I've left it almost twelve hours before getting round to reviewing 'The Legend of Jack and Jill' which basically means I've almost completely forgotten everything about it.

I think I was consciously invested for at least the opening two minutes, where I saw a woman forced to abandon her children (Jack and Jill, would you believe?) in the British wilderness. Skip forward to when the kids have now grown up and they're mutated killers and there's a bunch of young adults about to take a hiking trip effectively through Jack and Jill's back garden, so to speak.

You can probably guess what happens next. One by one our 'heroes' are picked off, blah, blah, blah... The problem is that I'm guessing I'm not the only one who has practically forgotten everything about what they just watched in a matter of hours. This movie is totally forgettable. It's problems are that you won't care about the people being killed. Nothing wrong with that in itself. It wouldn't be the first slasher film where the people you're watching are little more than 'meat sacks' waiting to be slaughtered. The trouble is that there's nothing that interesting about the killers either. Add to it that if you're hoping that there might at least be some inventive kills and gore, there isn't. The kills aren't that grisly. The acting isn't that sharp. The make-up you could probably do yourself if you're going out for Halloween and the overall premise of the killers being (horrific) incarnations of a popular nursery rhyme really isn't explored. Seriously, if you called this film 'Woodland Mutant Killers' no one would ever say, 'Wow, this is like a slasher version of that old nursery rhyme.'

I can't believe anyone who sits down to possibly watch this hasn't seen a slasher film before. You're probably at least slightly into the genre. Therefore, you've seen better. You probably have better DVDs in your collection. Just put one of those on.