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This type of movies is getting old, I mean real old. Every movie is the same, they don't even add new things, it's just the same recipe over and over.

This one is no exception, the movie is bad, the plot is the same, the actors are bad, the image is bad. The only thing positive in this movie is that is violent, everything else is bad.

And is it my imagination or the kids in this movie are getting dumber (if that was possible)?

Have you seen Texas Chainsaw Massacre? House of 1000 Corpses? The Devil's Rejects? The Hills Have Eyes? etc etc? Then don't watch this one, it's the same.

If you haven't seen any of the above, pick one of them so you don't have to watch this one.

Decent gore hampered by an unoriginal, over-done, seen it all before, becoming quite redundant, for the love of God... Story.

This is a real shame, because I truly enjoyed everything else about "Carver". It's shot well, the acting is solid and for the most part it is a strong contender to be a stand out horror film. But, instead follows the same olé' boring formulas of a thousand other (better) movies. Director Franklin Guerrero has the eye to make a real name for himself in the business, but first he must trust his "Own" abilities and stop trying to remake other peoples work. And as far as the whole "Based on a true story" (Crap) is concerned, it's just that, and no-one is buying it anymore so you can leave it off the packaging. I look forward to seeing what Mr. Guerrero can do with a story that he writes himself, and not after watching "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" followed by "The Hills Have Eyes" as a double feature with "Hostel" and then going to his neighbor's house to watch "Vacancy" and "Wrong Turn"....

Originality is a key element in this genre... Try it, you might be surprised.

Apart from in horror movies, is there EVER a willingness for teens to go on camping trips, in the middle of nowhere, these days? Because if there is, I'm not hearing about it. Nor do I see the appeal. You're submitting yourself to perhaps the most miserable vacation ever, with no modern amenities nearby other than a pub run by a weirdo who has a retarded serial killer as his assistant. Madness.

On arriving, our intrepid group discover a room filled with what they think are fake, old snuff movies. Anyone watching these horrific films on a projector for a few minutes would be able to tell you they're the Real McCoy. But being slasher flick teens, they discount all warnings... And end up paying for it in dismembering and torture. Serves them right for choosing The Great Boring Outdoors, when Florida was calling...

Carver is by no means a great film... In fact, it's almost as far from that status as is possible. But you HAVE to admire a movie which goes as far with it's gore as it does here... To the point where you're almost willing to discount the complete lack of plot or common sense of any of the characters (One of the girls traipses around outside AT NIGHT in literally, just her underwear to find her boyfriend. Seriously.) to revel in all the carnage.

ALMOST. But not quite. Still, as the old 'backhanded compliment' goes: I've seen worse... 4/10

It's unfortunate, yet very fun that this is the first comment I have ever written on a Movie on IMDb. The earlier movies I wanted to comment already had everything said by others. But this film I have to praise for many things, yet hate it for others. You will probably know what I mean when you see it - but I can say so much without spoiling anything, that the only saver for this film (reason for not totally hating it) is that it is "based on a true story". Sure, it is probably as "based on a true story" as Texas chainsaw Massacre, but still. This is the most violent movie I have ever seen, and it is so well-made, that I got the worst chills down my spine I ever gotten watching a movie. And I'm a fan of ultra-violence movies, so far the films which I can compare to this is The Hills have Eyes and Hostel. Even though I found those two movies pretty violent, Carver just kicks those two down pretty far on the list of hardly-watchable violence.

I have to say that it is the best "special effects" I have ever seen, when it comes to violence. I base the following on absolutely solely the movie itself, but I think the CG in this movie is absolutely minimal. It all looks so real, it all has to be a masterpiece in latex/mask effects. And I might add, that I really despise 3D implements in horror movies. And I say that even though that myself is an 3D animator, which maybe explains a little better my opinion of the quality of this film.

I'm sorry for miss-spelling and such, I don't very often write in English. Enjoy the film!

Brutal. Scary. Filled with tension.

I rarely use those words to describe a movie, especially one that's Straight-to-Video, but they're fitting here. I rented the Unrated *grisly edition* from Netflix. Boy was I in for a surprise.

The premise is rather typical: A group of campers meets up with some nasty company in the woods. But it's the movie's delivery that's not so typical. This film was extremely gruesome. Some of the violence was so realistic and so graphic, that I had to turn my head away from the screen at times. I'm not really a huge fan of scenes of torture, but if they're well done, I can appreciate them. I think the level of brutality in Carver blows both Hostel films away by far.

The dialog was snappy and fresh. The acting was passable. I did however, think the cheap/grainy camera used to film the movie was a bit of a distraction. It looked really cheap. This movie could have been excellent on a bigger budget.

If you like movies like Wolf Creek, Hostel, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, or Wrong Turn -- and if you can appreciate independent horror made on a low budget -- you'll really love this.

Im not gonna leave a massive comment about this as im not sure how yet, this is my first ever comment on a title... this film, which i did enjoy for the most part, is an excercise in filming torture graphically, if you have a weak stomach i cant say i recommend it but if you like extreme violence and have a perverse liking for watching others in agony then this might just be your thing!!! the acting is a little weak, the story is as usual very loosely "based on a true story" the maniac is pretty good and believable and the violence is extreme,the scene in the outhouse still haunts me-is that a spoiler? if you liked hostel then you'll probably like this i guess

I had expected so much more from this movie, especially since the DVD cover brandished 'you will scream your head off' and because it is allegedly based on real events. Right, well there was no screaming, and there was no enjoyment for me in this movie at all. It was an incredibly slow paced movie with very little happening. And I ended up giving up on it out of sheer boredom. I managed to stick with it just short of an hour, then I felt carved into several pieces of boredom.

The story is about a group of young people who travel through a remote area where they find themselves at the mercy of a relentless slasher.

Right, a storyline which has been used and used again in so many movies of similar concept and idea. And while it does work out well enough most of the time, then director Franklin Guerrero Jr. just failed to establish any hold on the audience with this 2008 movie.

The acting in "Carver" was mediocre, to be bluntly honest. Although most of the acting was adequate, I have to point out that David G. Holland (playing Billy Hall Carver) as being the one who put on the most memorable performance. The cast were doing adequate jobs with the script and storyline, but they had restrictions imposed on them by the script and the direction.

There were some nice enough torture scenes which did have some brutality to them. And that was actually, morbidly enough, the best part of "Carver".

If you enjoy slasher movies, then you should not really waste your money, time or effort on "Carver", because there is nothing unique or memorable about it. And there are far better slasher movies available in abundance.

It feels like I've seen this movie a dozen times.....that's because it's another rip off of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. A bunch of kids go out in the middle of nowhere and get killed off. The only real positive feedback I can give is the death scenes are pretty good especially for it being low budget. It has decent level of gore, but nothing spectacular; movies like House of 1,000 Corpses has it beat. Not only has this been done to death, the acting in this movie is really really bad. The characters themselves are far from believable, they're morons. The plot is predictable from start to finish and not scary in the least. Unless you can't get enough of this particular sub-genre of horror, it's not worth it.

I consider myself some what of a horror fanatic. I've seen countless slasher films, and this is a low budget Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Just Before Dawn, Wrong Turn, Jeepers Creepers, House of 1000 Corpses, etc. etc...) rip-off if I've ever seen one. Except not as well done as any of those films. It's like a bug on the win-shield of the "Kids went down the wrong road", slasher genre. First let me say what I thought was positive about this movie: 1)I liked the camera work. Nice angles, wide shots, and camera movement. 2)The film had two pretty original death scenes. One involving pliers and poop and another involving nails and a hammer. Other than those 2 positives, I can't find another good thing about this film. Now for the bad. And there's a lot more bad than good. 1)The dialog felt like who ever wrote it was trying just a little too hard to make it real and snappy. So much so, that instead of being realistic it just seems really canned and scripted. 2)The characters suck. I hated them all so much that I found myself rooting for the slasher to kill them asap so I could get on with another film. 3)There was nothing "scary" about this movie. Lots of gore, but no tension and no jump out of your seat moments. 4)The cheap quality camera. While the camera WORK was good, the quality of what ever camera they used to film this thing looked about like my $300 Panasonic. It was not gritty, but just cheap looking. Yea, I know, I know, It was low budget, but just how low are we talking? 5)The first 45 minutes of the movie sucked. They show you who the killer is in the first 2 minutes, so that kind of wipes any kind of surprise element there might be later on. Also the entire first 45 minutes of the movie feel a lot more like filler than setup. You could easily edit the first 45 minutes down to about 5 minutes, and nothing from the story would be lost, in fact, the movie would be much better. 6)To much daylight. The first half of the movie is filmed in complete sunny daylight, which to me, is not scary at all. 7)There are two really crappy songs in the first half of the movie that sound like some generic Nirvana wanna-be crap that just doesn't fit in this movie at all. It's almost like someone in the cast or crew was friends with this crappy band and got to use their music for free in this movie. It may seem minor, but music does a lot to set atmosphere and these songs just did not fit at all.

If your looking for a good "Kids go down the wrong road" kind of slasher, don't bother with this. The Idea has been done 1000 times before, and this is one of the worst of the bunch. If your a horror nut and have to see every slasher movie made, save yourself some time and start watching from the 45 minute mark, as that is when anything resembling something "good" happens. I'm giving it a 3 out of 10, only because of the 2 fairly original death scenes. Without those It would have probably been a 1 or a 2 for me.

Horror movies are interesting when the suspense is kept until the end by not revealing details about what exactly happens. In the case of Carver, the contrary is true. The "whodunnit" element is clear from the start as there is no doubt about who are the bad guys. An additional thing that spoils the suspense is that the ugly details are shown extremely explicitly such that it simply becomes disgusting to watch them. Horror is not to get people disgusted, it is to create a sense of fear followed by relief of it and the buildup of a new cycle of fear and relief. This movie does nothing like that. Moreover, the acting is weak on all fronts as the acting is very amateurish. The storyline very thin and predictable as well. Granted, this is supposedly based on real facts, but that does not necessarily mean that staying true to them is 100% required and makes a good movie. All in all, this is a more than forgettable movie not worth spending your time on. Three points for the effort and for making me watch it until the end.

This is touted as a true story. I certainly hope that's only the marketing department saying that, coz make no mistake this is a gory gruesome tale.

It's your standard teen horror with a bunch of campers falling foul in hicksville. The film doesn't do much different to all the others out there apart from wallowing in the gore and torture. I've seen hundreds of films like this and either laugh at the kills or shout at the screen at the character's stupidity. There are very few I find unsettling and that make my hands damp and my heart beat faster but this was one of them, along with the original Texas Chainsaw. I can't quite account for why I felt this way and still do now 15 minutes after it's finished.

Maybe it's the oodles of blood and gore, maybe it's the possibility that this really happened, maybe the writer and director just did a better job than normal, or maybe it's this innocent song that keeps playing throughout the film whenever there is violence. Not since Carpenter's Halloween music has any been so effective in a slasher.

This film is certainly not perfect, but by god it's a league above the usual stuff.

Overall, slow start, but highly recommended and hard to criticise, my nerves are still jarred.

I am a fan of anything horror so I gave this DTV torture/slasher a try. Its not bad, the acting is up and down and across the map, as one would expect.

The movie had a good pace and decent direction, shockingly for a low budget. The film production however wasn't too bad.

The real highlight here however, and the reason to watch it to begin with is the gore. Where it builds slowly, when we get there this one is strong stuff. Not the most realistic gore by any means, but combined with some rather strong editing, a twisted mentality, it really hits all the right buttons.

Not sure if there is an Unrated version or not. I watched a screener. I will say this though, the screener I watched would never get the R. It was much harder a rating than the R rating would ever allow, which is all good. And there is one scene in particular, that will have you wince and groan. I am not gonna spoil it.

So if you're looking for a low budget, DTV horror film, you can do better than this, and certainly worse. I give it a 7 because it kept me entertained and the violence quotient alone put it past a 5 or 6 which is what I would have given it if it was watered down like most main stream horror films. Give it a try.

I cannot believe the plot of this movie, simply because there is no plot. The movie simply counts on gore, gore and more gore.And to add to the miseries, the murders just are disgusting rather than horrifying.

The music though was very good, which has kept the movie alive. Very poor characters, no chemistry between them whatsoever. And why isn't there any reason for the murders?? Its just another plot hole. And what to say about the climax, it is just another mess. And the villain doesn't even come close to leather face who was much more scary. And please don't compare this with hostel or saw.

If you love gore and don't care about the reasons, even the most basic reasons, then watch it