Aunt Rose

Saw a screener of "Aunt Rose" (under the original title "No One Gets Out". The story will be very familiar to fans of "Last House on the Left", "Funny Games", or "House on the Edge of the Park". A group of real nasty criminals holds a family hostage and that ultimately turns out to be their biggest mistake (with a very cool supernatural twist, however.) While it treads familiar ground, "Aunt Rose" is definitely one of the better "70's revival" films I've seen in recent years. Writer/actor Joshua Nelson has written an excellent script, the dialog is never clunky, and he keeps the story moving nicely. The performances are miles ahead of what you usually find in low-budget horror. You feel honest to god sympathy for the tormented family. Newcomer Velocity Chylld is a standout, turning in a completely cold, brutal performance.

Solid brutal horror from start to finish.

but some people have no bleeding idea how to do it.

Bad acting, bad story line, extremely bad special effects. Yes it has breasts and blood but even the breasts aren't worth watching this for. I'm guessing this was previously reviewed by the cast and crew, that or someone reviewed the wrong movie. Or perhaps the guy down the local fancy dress store thought it would be good advertising for his contact lens range.

At least the sound guy saw sense and occasionally tried to drown out the actors.

Just don't waste your time, you'll only hate yourself later.

My thoughts are captured extremely well by a previous post... I agree with this 100%:

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Mediocre at best....wait, does that make any sense???,

25 May 2007

Author: Fartbag from United States

My wife has a knack for renting these type of extremely low budget horror movies. So I have seen a fair share. At first I though "here we go again, at least I will get to bed at a decent hour." Well the start of the movie was, well... bad. I was ready to give up on it when it took a sick twist. Which sparked my interest for another few minutes. Although poorly acted by a majority of the cast two or three sorta put the rest on their shoulders and waded through some really, really bad dialog.

Here is where I give the movie credit. Somewhere down the line I actually wanted to watch the thing to the end. And felt the need to see what happened. So, to me they accomplished something. Like a said most of the time I will give up on these things after 15-20 minutes.

Granted there are times watching this movie where you will just shake your head, but gosh darn it, its worth a watch, if your extremely board with nowhere to go, and about an hour and a half to kill.

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A family dinner is interrupted by three murderous criminals on the run. Said felons barge in, take the family hostage, and spend the evening terrifying and tormenting them. Eventually, innocent people are killed.

What these crazy crooks don't know is that the titular character upstairs isn't exactly what she appears to be.

AUNT ROSE is an extremely low-budget film. The family characters are believable, the home-invading thugs are suitably reprehensible, and the story is simple, but effective. While not a "classic", it's certainly watchable enough.

Special mention goes to singer / performance artiste Velocity Chyaldd, who plays the wicked Robin with obvious glee. Rayne Brown gives one of her better victimized performances, and Joshua Nelson is especially despicable in his role.

So, if you're up for a night of cheap cinematic thrills and chills, AUNT ROSE should do you true...

One of James Tucker's better films. Quirky acting, funny, odd, disturbing at times, he also edits his own projects and that's probably one of the stronger elements here, the pace moves quickly.

The story is a combination of several types of films which keeps it fresh. The early going is a bit rough, some of the most poorly done scenes are right up front which makes one wonder why Anchor Bay bought the film since distributors supposedly only watch the first ten minutes and those are not good minutes in this movie. This opening sets up the groups of people who will end up at the mercy of "Auntie's" powers during the last 2/3rds of the story.

The acting is uneven but most of the actors have their good moments. Dad is probably the best overall. Yes I guess it needs to be said this is a very low budget shot on video "film" the lighting is flat but at least there is none of the greenish or grainy lack of all quality that can happen with video.

Worth renting for the well acted comedy scene where a topless would be actress character talks on and on about her "career." Brilliant.

It's the story and unexpected, sometimes funny, sometimes gross turns the film takes that keeps it together along with the quirky actors who seem to make the most of the best moments in the movie, if not always making the most of the lesser moments. Tucker, as director could pick better angles to stage his scenes in, but certainly deserves credit for holding it all together.