Reality Check

But that's the most I can say: "Not horribly done." Standard premise, pick them off one by one slasher within a reality show of annoying young adults. Very little blood. Mediocre acting but that may also be a product of the low budget and lack of script. Not a total wreck, but not very good either.

Obviously you can pretty much tell from the start that this will be awful. The biggest problem I had with the execution of the idea was the way in which the story was presented. The idea seemed OK in theory, but the overall end result missed that idea.

I think this would have worked better if they had incorporated less of the Reality TV Style scenes and shots, and instead either gone with a documentary or straight up fly on the wall type treatment. With the TV shots added, it came off like a spoof or at the very least confused about how much comedy to incorporate.

The acting, at times was laughably terrible from this group of relatively unknowns at the time due to character writing that seemed disjointed and awkward. The pacing seemed to actually be the one big bright spot of the bunch, though the "kills" left a lot to be desired by today's standards. A lot of the time it felt like there was a lack of a payoff, or anticlimactic ending to the buildups that the director was working for.

Overall I wouldn't recommend this. I got it for a dollar and I still feel like I got ripped off but that's more because of the time I invested watching Reality Kills. Skip this one unless you're into movies that are of the "So Bad they're Good" variety and even then you'll still probably end up disappointed.

i saw this flick at a festival in santa monica. i don't know if it was just me, but i loved this film... i laughed my ass off. i'd love to get this on dvd... can anyone tell me if it's even out yet? many great lines in this movie. every character had me laughing... if you like scary movie or enjoy goofy teen flicks you'll appreciated this film.

In Reality Kills, a diverse bunch of teens are invited to country house/mansion to spend some time together while it's all filmed for a reality show. For once, this diverse cast is for the most part quite entertaining. You have a pretty half Asian bisexual girl, a pretty half Latino hippy girl, a very politically incorrect redneck radio host, the gorgeous Natalia Cigliuti playing an ambitious wanna be starlet, an innocent virgin, and some less interesting characters- least of all, the director behind the program, one "Sticky Fingers" trying to do his best at pretending to act.

The radio host gets the best and funniest lines as he provokes everyone with his lack of politically correct sensibilities. Another fun aspect is the sexual tension between the bisexual girl and the virgin. Meanwhile, Natalia tries to sleep her way to the top. But as the kids try get along and not to get along, a killer is on the loose zapping his victims and then killing them. That forces them all to act like stupid victims doing stupid things. The killer wears a mask and has a tiny camera on the forehead so all the deaths are recorded.

The identity of the killer comes as somewhat of a surprise, although a likely surprise. But it's the interaction of the kids that keeps the movie interesting at first, before they become victims and have no more time for fun. There's a bit of gore, a bit of nudity, little violence but a very attractive cast.

This one is based around a reality show where six young people have been placed in a remote farmhouse in order to not get on very well. The winner is the last one standing, except that that may be a literal fact in this case, as before long, members of the crew and contestants begin showing up dead, the victims of a crazed maniac.

Reality Check is a very cheap film. It's a slasher movie but it doesn't even make the grade in this most formulaic and basic of horror sub-genres. The killings are staged with a modicum of suspense but the victims are dispatched in highly tediously ungraphic ways. It's a stun gun and hypodermic needle, as opposed to excessive gory mayhem. So what you are left with is the melodrama surrounding the group of reality chumps. To be fair to the actors, they give it a good shot but there is only so much they can achieve working from a script this lacking and this, coupled with the half-hearted horror, results in a film that is decidedly underwhelming.