Big Top Evil

This movie was better than I expected for a low budget horror movie. Bill Moseley was amazing in every scene he was in. What a great performance by a horror icon. Too bad he wasn't in more scenes though.

Amateur, wannabe-Devil's Rejects with bad acting, terrible direction, and even worse editing. They try to make up for that with cheap gore and gross out FX, which may please SOME horrorhounds. About the only thing slightly good in this is Bill Moseley, but he's barely used and its not enough to save this s***fest! In fact, he doesn't even belong in this cheesefest. Come on Bill! You can do better!

Look, it's not as if I'm expecting some classic when I intentionally choose a Grade Z horror movie on Prime, but nothing happens in it for a full 42 minutes and 51 seconds. I don't ask for much, but is it really that difficult to give me something to chew on along the way?

Before that, there's one too many closeups of people eating, some weirdo in a gas stations gets shot, and two frat bros write the worst frat bro song I've ever heard that goes, "la da da da." There are aimless characters that show up out of the blue who appear to serve no purpose, but I'm guessing they're friends of the director who wanted a part. The most annoying character in horror movie history gets to live about 42 minutes longer than he should, and no joke, the dialogue doesn't sound like it was written by someone who speaks English. It sounds like it was written by someone who is LEARNING English. Like something my dad would have written using the 12 English words he knew 4 days after emigrating from Russia to the United States.

And it took TWO people to direct this mess.

No. Just no.

This movie really feels like it should have been released in the late 2000's. The characters behavior, all party hardy bro stuff, the rock soundtrack, the grimy faux grindhouse style, and the harsh violence all make this feel like it should have been released sometime shortly after movies like The Devil's Rejects and Hostel. Heck, it even features Bill Moseley in a sort of extended cameo as the murderous leader of a carnival.

In this movie, gypsy carny crooks rove around looking for people to swindle or enslave and force to take part in their act. Enter a group of generic dumb young people that go off the beaten trail looking for whatever and find the killers. Bloodshed ensues.

Unsurprisingly, this isn't a very professional outing. It's cheap looking and not well put together. Acting is, eh, okay, and the Bill Moseley stuff is fun.There's also a gorgeous female carny dancer played by Austin Judd. Okay, so it's obvious she's a rip off of Sheri Moon's Baby Firefly but I still really liked her and hope to see her in more stuff.

The big issues here are pacing and payoff. The gore is mostly crammed into the second half of the movie and by the time it kicked in, I was already half checked out. There are some okay kills though. And a note to the filmmakers, don't tease nudity if you're not going to deliver. That happens multiple times and it's better if you just don't bother instead of going to the trouble of setting up a sex scene or a shower scene and then shooting around the girl's modesty. Just stupid and pointless.

This movie bored me more than anything and it's overall pretty skippable. There are worse movies but I still wouldn't fool with it.

Another low budget community college film school dropout schlock movie written and filmed by incompetent people who thought making a movie was easier than they thought.

No color grading, no mastering of the sound, a script that was written in a drunken Tuesday night. And one take scenes.

Avoid.