Emeryville

The acting and script are so BAD I literally lasted 10-15 minutes before shutting it off.

It's literally unwatchable.

I've seriously seen better work from High School video projects, probably even Middle School.

I only tried to watch this because of the super high review score, especially for the horror genre, that rarely scores over a 4-5 here.

Someone involved in this joke of a movie must have made hundreds of fake accounts to pump up the score. Every real review on this page now agrees with me.

I mean, when I say the script is bad, you have no idea. It doesn't even make sense. Who talks like that? Who says things like that? I mean, it's utterly AWFUL. The reactions to situations that the "actors" make are so ridiculous, they're not even funny. They're so dumb, you can't even laugh at it. It's THAT bad.

Let me start by saying *please* do not watch this poor excuse for a movie. As clichéd as it sounds, you genuinely will want that hour and a half of your life back. I actually had to write a review for the first time just to warn others.

To say this film is bad, is an insult to bad; absolutely everything about this 'production' sucks to the nth degree. The story is a mish-mash of utter nonsense. The acting is actually worse than anything that's come from the Asylum guys, and that's some mean feat. And then there's the camera work - it looks like it was filmed by a blind one armed man on a poor quality JVC camera from the 80's. No concept of framing, and on more than one occasion, foreground scenery completely obscures the actor that's talking.

I think the continuity guy must have been hungover during the night scene in the cabin, as the curtains appeared to be letting in daylight. Foley work is just as bad, with outright strange noises used for everyday things. Like, WTF???

About half way in, I thought this might be so bad that it's good, but that feeling passed. Very quickly. The annoying this is, the premise is really good, but unfortunately the execution is dire.

Please, please for the sake of all that is good and holy, keep away from this. It literally is cinematic diarrhoea.

There are three types of horror movies. There are the good ones, then there are the bad ones where you could at least see what they were going for, and then finally there are the ones where they are so atrociously bad that all you can do is sit back and laugh at what you are seeing. 'The Emeryville Experiments' is unfortunately the latter. Holy moly this is a terrible film in every way. I can't help but wonder whether at some point they realised just how bad the product they were working with was, and so decided to cheese it up as much as they possibly could in the hope of it becoming a cult classic one day. I'll give them credit (more than they deserve) and assume that happened at least to some degree.

There is nothing positive to say about this film so let's just get into the negatives. The acting is horrendous by the entire cast. There were some roles that would have been very hard to get wrong, ones where over-acting was basically a must, and yet the actors still managed to screw it up. To be fair to the cast though they were dealing with some diabolical dialogue. The writing in this film is some of the worst you'll ever see. Character's decisions are utterly bizarre and make zero sense from start to finish. Then, as if that wasn't bad enough, the things they say while making these incredibly stupid decisions are even more stupid in themselves.

It's very rare I give a film a '2' on IMDb but I've talked myself into it while writing this review. There are an unbelievable amount of bad horror movies out there, so to say that this is near the top of that pile is truly something. I'm sorry I had to sit through this film and I strongly suggest you take on board my warning and steer well clear of it yourself.

I wish I had looked at the user reviews before the high rating for this excuse for a movie, plot bad acting worse, continuity abysmal.

I cannot begin to understand how it got such a high rating on IMDb, avoid at all costs.

i had a look at the main actresses background and she seems to have done some decent stuff in her back catalogue, but you would think the rest of the motley crew had been dragged in off the street.

I just cannot believe I spent a good hour and a half watching this turkey, it seemed to get it's ideas from a mish-mash of horror movies but didn't know where to go with them, and ultimately failing in every respect. I would thoroughly recommend you watch anything but this movie, as this low budget horror, (and I use the term horror very loosely) takes the biscuit when it comes to watch-ability.

My quick rating - 0,7/10. The idea was alright, at best. But this is one of the worst movies I have seen in a long time. As a rule for IMDb I typically give no weight to a movies score until over 500 people have voted. That tends to give all the cast and crew members time to get their 10/10 nonsense scores in. But this movie has taken abusing this system to a whole new level. Currently as of writing this, 2,319 votes and a 6.0/10. There is no possible way a movie with the worst acting documented, ever along with dialogue that was scripted by a complete moron just to insult the actors/actresses even further. No wonder the acting was so bad, they probably read the lines for a scene in disbelief. The camera work may have been done by a partially blind person since I tend to occasionally like to see the person speaking the lines as opposed to random shots of who knows what. The sound editing is just bizarre leading to normal ambient sounds being louder than a bass drum for no apparent reason and then a spot with some tension? Naw, don't amplify that whatsoever. All of this, and I haven't even started nitpicking this horrid display of film making (or boredom with a budget as I am calling this). I would suggest other movies that use a similar idea to the "forgotten village/town" type of flick, but I don't want to insult any other film by comparing this. If you make it to the end, don't expect a nice wrap up since even with the idea presented, they couldn't get an ending right as well. Enjoy the outtakes during the credits since you get to see the actors look just as stiff as they are in the movie, so maybe the crew somehow found the most personality lacking people in town and cast each and every one of them. This hour and 22 minutes is seriously lost and I feel I am now a lesser film critic (not paid, but still) just for it.