The Waking

I was able to see the movie "The Waking" at a cinema draft house in West Melbourne Florida about 8 months ago and I must say that it was very well done and I think that this film has the potential to become a cult classic. I cant wait to see it out in the box office.

Other than R.G Armstrong(who played "Franks" one of the Druids in Warlock: Armageddon - a cult fantasy movie from 93) you won't recognise a single person in this movie. Don't get me wrong i'm all for new talent but there's just no original appeal to this at all and it had the unfortunate added touch of reminding me of a Jim Wynorski flick, without the "is it or isn't it a porno" confusion of a first time rental victim.

This isn't even a B-Movie its just a collection of Bad actors talking to each other in that annoying "i know there's a camera in the room" way and running around in the woods for no apparent reason. I don't believe i'm going to actually say this but the Director Tim Card could have actually made this movie better if he'd have shaken the camera a few times and done a close up of some girls nose in a tent...Blair witch was better than this and it was crap...Don't rent it, don't even look at it and yes....i'm a harsh critic, but only because so much crap gets released onto DVD/video these days.

Watched this twice, to make sure it was as bad as I thought. It was. I believe I could do as well with about 5 fog machines, a working vehicle, a 400 dollar camera, and about 8 neighbors. (drunk or sober) It is just to bad to even leave a review on how horrible it was. They couldn't even kill noise that the fog machines made, to make the house look creepy. CHEEEEZE CAPITOL!

I am capable of enjoying most movies; especially when it comes to horror movies. Most movies have either a cute cheesiness, some hot chick, or they might have good (or decent!) and gory make-up. (Come on! That's why you watch these movies!) This movie has nothing. OK, a half-naked girl in the opening sequence, but that's about it. The music is awful, to call the acting crappy is to be kind, and the plot is not even interesting. The special effects are almost absent. There is one action sequence, but we don't get to see much. Even the sound and picture quality reminds one of home-made movies with a handy-cam... made when you were 15! The main characters (played by a pretty chick and the director, a ... er ... not-so-good looking fat bastard) are supposed to be a couple, although it looked rather incestuous: The guy might have been the girl's father, with his big belly, mustache and age. I was cringing in my sofa when I saw them kiss.

I am not going to spend more time dissing this movie. Bad movies can be interesting, but this one isn't at all.

Just forget it.

This is, by far, one of the worst films I have ever seen in my life. It wasn't even worth the cost of DVD rental. There was absolutely NO plot as far as I could see and the entire thing looked like it was filmed by some kid with a camcorder. The inconsistencies in the film were so obvious, that it ceased being fun to look for them about 20 minutes into the film. The acting was terrible (and that's putting it kindly.) The special effects were obvious and very poorly done. The scare factor? The only scary thing about this film is that it was NOT actually something a kid with a camcorder did with a group of friends in his or her city as a means of passing the time on a boring day.

Don't waste time on this.. there are so many other films out there to see..