Emeryville
- 2016
- 1h 23min
Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaWhen their car crashes, 4 college kids seek help in Emeryville - a dilapidated village. New comers discover that place was once a ground for clinical experiments gone awry and plot an escape... Leggi tuttoWhen their car crashes, 4 college kids seek help in Emeryville - a dilapidated village. New comers discover that place was once a ground for clinical experiments gone awry and plot an escape. They find themselves hunted by crazies.When their car crashes, 4 college kids seek help in Emeryville - a dilapidated village. New comers discover that place was once a ground for clinical experiments gone awry and plot an escape. They find themselves hunted by crazies.
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PROS: 1) Premise. 2) Nothing else
CONS: 1) Acting. This is robotic and forced. 2) Writing. I feel bad for the actors because many of the lines they were forced to say were cringe-worthy. 3) Many inconsistencies 4) Poor execution of the only good thing it had going (premise). Any "twists" were obvious right from the get-go and the reveal is about as exciting as a wet noodle. 5) Poor camera work. I don't blame camera quality, but come on, you need to keep the focus on who's talking at the moment. It actually felt like something a high school student would make for a class project in two weeks. 6) Transitions - the transitions between scenes are often unnatural and choppy. May as well have edited the movie in Windows Movie Maker.
Any good review you see is definitely from somebody who either: A) Worked on the movie B) Was PAID to write a positive review (that's just sad) C) Is a friend of somebody who worked on the movie and was asked to write a positive review (also sad) D) Accidentally went to the wrong page on IMDb when they meant to go write a glowing review for something much better.
Don't get me wrong - I really like indie films, so I didn't expect something of a huge studio-production quality. But even indie films have a certain level of professionalism to them that makes up for the lack of budget.
So go grab some heavy duty garbage bags and put this film on the curb for garbage day. I bet even the garbage men won't take it.
There is nothing positive to say about this film so let's just get into the negatives. The acting is horrendous by the entire cast. There were some roles that would have been very hard to get wrong, ones where over-acting was basically a must, and yet the actors still managed to screw it up. To be fair to the cast though they were dealing with some diabolical dialogue. The writing in this film is some of the worst you'll ever see. Character's decisions are utterly bizarre and make zero sense from start to finish. Then, as if that wasn't bad enough, the things they say while making these incredibly stupid decisions are even more stupid in themselves.
It's very rare I give a film a '2' on IMDb but I've talked myself into it while writing this review. There are an unbelievable amount of bad horror movies out there, so to say that this is near the top of that pile is truly something. I'm sorry I had to sit through this film and I strongly suggest you take on board my warning and steer well clear of it yourself.
Yes, it is a village trapped in time, an experiment.... it's not probable. And then you have the token ethnic actor, this time it's not a African American but an Indian American. It is so stereotypical at first, I thought it was a spoof film, making fun of the Wrong Turn series or Hills Have Eyes, and the title mimics that of the Amityville Horror. I don't understand it at all. It's just a mishmash especially with flashback scenes which aim to introduce the back story. However, it only makes the movie confusing. A lot of the scenes do not flow. If you have someone going crazy at the dinner table, and he's a stranger to you, wouldn't you all just leave or at least react?! Not just sit there quietly as if everything is OK. That was why I thought, it must be a spoof. But I think it's not.
Kudos to Mr Chheda who made the film. However, I would strongly suggest perhaps he should return to civil engineering. If he has too much money to waste, give it to charity. This movie is such a waste that it's bordering on being sinful!
To say this film is bad, is an insult to bad; absolutely everything about this 'production' sucks to the nth degree. The story is a mish-mash of utter nonsense. The acting is actually worse than anything that's come from the Asylum guys, and that's some mean feat. And then there's the camera work - it looks like it was filmed by a blind one armed man on a poor quality JVC camera from the 80's. No concept of framing, and on more than one occasion, foreground scenery completely obscures the actor that's talking.
I think the continuity guy must have been hungover during the night scene in the cabin, as the curtains appeared to be letting in daylight. Foley work is just as bad, with outright strange noises used for everyday things. Like, WTF???
About half way in, I thought this might be so bad that it's good, but that feeling passed. Very quickly. The annoying this is, the premise is really good, but unfortunately the execution is dire.
Please, please for the sake of all that is good and holy, keep away from this. It literally is cinematic diarrhoea.
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Cole: You and Christie. You guys serious?
Justin: Yep. She's the one.
Cole: That's great! You love her, she loves you back.
Justin: Yeah. Sometime, a little too much. It gets to me.
Cole: Do you know how it feels when you're in love with someone and you feel nothing back? Umm? You don't wanna know... Cos every time you gaze into their eyes, a part of you dies. And... I've been dying for three years now.
Cole: There's no such thing as too much love.
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