Dark Feed

Film set in an old asylum where a low budget horror movie is being filmed. People get killed in gruesome fashion, this movie is pretty gory, but that's it. You could write the plot on the back of a postage stamp. Acting is reasonable, effects are not too bad. I bought this from my local Poundland store so can't really grumble, but I won't be watching it again

I am increasingly amazed that projects like "Dark Fall" and the people responsible for them somehow manage to get investors, and ultimately a distro house like Lionsgate to put it out.

This HAS to be a tax-write off scam, a "Spring Time For Hitler" scenario where the joke's on us, the viewers, and the IRS. No one viewing the rushes, or reading the script could not have missed the fact that this was SciFy Channel quality, low-rent drivel. Ergo, it had to be planned that way so investors could declare a loss on their income for 2012, thus taking the IRS bite and rendering it insignificant.

Everybody gets a REFUND!......a bunch of 20-somethings get a summer project, get stoned, drunk, have sex, all on the investors' dime, which will inevitably come right back to the investors' pockets. Also, how many times has that run-down hospital been used in films lately?

Dark Feed is one of those films that looks cool, so you keep watching because something amazing is going to happen, you can feel it… So you keep watching and waiting… and waiting… Until the movie is over and you're like, "Damn, where did the past hour and a half go?" Dark feed had all the cool lighting, sweet sounds, awesome camera angles and shots of a horror movie, but with no movie. I really wanted to like it, but it really had no story and really weak dialog. It almost felt like a reality show a times, where you're just watching people on a film set work and talk about everyday life. The last 20 minutes of the film started to get interesting but I also felt like it didn't really matter because 70 minutes before that made my brain shutdown. A very bleak horror film overall, but it had major potential to be something amazing… Unfortunately it fell flat instead. I gave it a 4 instead of a 3 because the last 20 was pretty decent.

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A film crew shooting a horror flick in an old abandoned hospital, realise that all is not what it seems as one by one, they all seem to fall under the influence of an evil presence...

The problem I had with this film is that it's nothing that any self respecting horror fan hasn't seen before. It takes a while to get going and utilizes done before clichés such as ominous music combined with slow tracking shots, in an attempt at atmosphere. As a result it emerges as a pretty lacklustre by the numbers effort that despite having one or two nice ideas, is simply a ho-hum affair that has no real suspense or tension and the characters are pretty uninteresting. The performances aren't great either and overall the film simply comes across as boring. It was also far too restrained for my liking, considering its premise could have allowed for at least some potentially entertaining set piece kills, but it's all to tame and cutaway.

4/10, just a dreary, dull horror for me.

So low rated here on the bible of flicks so I wasn't sure to pick this up or leave it for what it was. And still it's a rare one to review because some will find it scary others will turn it off.

For the usual viewer and not found of horror this might have some scary moments but for horror buffs this isn't going to be your thing because to be honest, it takes a while before things go wrong.

We follow a film crew that is going to shoot a low budget horror in an abandoned asylum. Of course by now you do know that this isn't a good sign. And it isn't, slowly the building becomes darker and darker. It's never explained throughout the flick what the dark feed is. We do see pictures of patients been given the dark feed or fluid but for what reason is unclear. But it do takes over more than halfway this flick before the crew goes crazy. Some are out to kill and goes berserk, others harm their own body. Sadly all killings and bloodshed is done off-camera. There's even the girl with the big boobies which you know will show them only she has her shower scene but it's all filmed from behind so even there things go wrong.

If you aren't into horror this will have it's scary moments like the elevator and the shower scene but as me, a heavy horror geek it looked like okay, you want to make a cruel horror but you also want teens to see it. So let's cut down on the gore and nudity and gives it a dark atmosphere. The dark didn't feed my hunger.

Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2,5/5 Story 2,5/5 Comedy 0/5