Bornless Ones

This movie took idea after idea from the Evil Dead! I watched it with a group of people and we all kept yelling out "another Evil Dead rip off"! It wasn't even close to as good though. It's a time killer if you're bored but wouldn't seek it out. I'd also wait til it's free. Not really worth the rental fee. The makers of Evil Dead should get a cut of the profits for this one!

It was without any prior knowledge about the movie when I sat down to watch this 2016 horror movie that was written and directed by Alexander Babaev. It was solely my love for the horror genre that made me pick up this movie and give it a go.

I will say that the movie wasn't the best of horror movies that I have seen, nor was it among the worst. This was, in my opinion, a very generic horror movie, in terms of scares, storyline and such. So you shouldn't get your hopes up for something out of the ordinary here.

The storyline was rather predictable, as the writer/director was obviously following the blueprint of how to make a horror movie step by step. No surprises, and you essentially know what will happen well before it happens and even before the storyline leads up to that thing that lurks around the corner.

There weren't really any scares or anything to make you jump out of the chair and make your heart race. As such, it was just a bland and very mediocre horror experience. Especially so since the story also was awfully predictable.

As for the acting, then I must say that the performances in the movie were wooden and rigid, and there just wasn't a natural flow to the performances put on by the majority of those in the movie. And as such, the movie was suffering.

Some of the concept ideas were adequate, and it was actually a nice thing that the writer had come up with for the one suffering from cerebral palsy. But the overall picture just wasn't that outstanding. And the special effects in "Bornless Ones" wasn't overly flashy or impressive, to be honest. So don't expect to be bedazzled by a myriad of special effects.

"Bornless Ones" turned out to be a less than mediocre horror movie. I have seen far worse horror movies, trust me. I will actually say that the movie is still watchable, if you have nothing better on the to-view-list. I am rating it 4 out of 10 stars.

Yes. It's an Evil dead rip off. But far worse films to rip off right?. Acting is tolerable for most part. The blonde being the weakest imo and the other girl is incredibly hot! Wow. The thing that really annoyed me is the demon voice effect. It was terrible. A bad pitch shift and sounded more comical than scary or demonic. The way they treated the brother with CP also was annoying. Talking about him as if he wasn't there. Patronising. They'd make terrible carers. Ok fx, limited gore. Cliched script. But watchable.

Considering Evil Dead was made on a far less budget it screams originality and experimentation. This director does nothing to make this his own. It plods along ripping off parts of better films but with no real sense of dread or suspense. Not bad though for a young director I guess and have to start somewhere. But if want to see a real homage to Evil Dead then check out the film. WITHER aka Cabin of the Dead. It is fantastic.

Saw 'Bornless Ones' being fond of horror/thriller regardless of budget (even if not my favourite genre), and the cover was cool. Was less taken by the concept though, which sounded ridiculous. Being behind on my film watching and reviewing, with a long to watch and review list that keeps getting longer, it took me a while to get round to watching and reviewing.

Unfortunately, do have to agree with the low rating and the poor reviews. 'Bornless Ones' is one of those films that mostly didn't take off, starting off interestingly, but went downhill far too early, never recovered and progressively got worse, particularly in the near-unwatchable later stages. Never judge a film without seeing the whole thing and wanted to not make 'Bornless Ones' an exception, so gave it a fair chance.

The location is also suitably spooky.

However, so much brings 'Bornless Ones' down. All the acting is either over-histrionic or disinterested, both in a few cases, and the direction is so phoned in and pedestrian, one gets the sense that the director showed no interest in the film at all. Too much of the soundtrack is intrusive and annoying, made worse by the excessive and obvious sound effects that just cheapens the mood. The film looks drab generally and like it was made in haste, the photography especially betrays that with its amateurishness. The effects are far from special, the complete opposite in fact.

Where 'Bornless Ones' most underwhelms is the writing and story. The writing is incredibly lazy, it's awkward in dialogue, is gratuitously crude, confused because of not tying things up or going into full detail and doesn't feel complete. The story suffers from a very erratic pace, apparent early on and gets muddled and ridiculous in the second half. It further suffers from feeling too much like a short film stretched out with a lot of useless padding. The stereotypical characters are as unlikeable as they come, the inconsistent and illogical motivations bring them down further.

For a film billed as a horror, there is very little interesting and nothing remotely scary which makes a waste of such a spooky-looking location. The scares and thrills are too few, barely any even, and are far too predictable, anaemic and weakly timed to make impact, with the chaotic pacing and obvious sound editing cheapening them significantly. 'Bornless Ones' doesn't engage let alone thrill, the more it progressed the more chaotic but everything just feels chaotic and hasty), predictable and more nonsensical it became for a premise that was already far too derivative with far too many easily foreseeable moments. The ending leaves very little impact, very contrived and not much of one at all.

Overall, very poor. 2/10 Bethany Cox

This can be looked at as a direct rip off of The Evil Dead or an homage to it. The voices of the demons most notable, the symbols/sigils, reanimated dead bodies, the cabin in the woods etc. However, it was still enjoyable while not on the same level. The gore was not over CGI and appeared more use of practical special effects for that portion. The story line was OK. They attempted to inject some new ideas, or a new idea (using demons to heal sick loved ones-not a spoiler starts right off that way), into the formula but it really was not a make or break concept even though the film wanted to use that as a reason the demons are conjured up. The acting by some was better than others but nobody was awful yet nobody I am really expecting to see in any quality films. I have been surprised before at people's acting resumes though. Jennifer Aniston from Leprechaun to Friends to Horrible Bosses. She did quite well and who'd thought after any Leprechaun movie any actor would have a chance. Then it just kind of ends. Nothing special. It gets a 5 for decent quality and being better than most Evil Dead or NOTLD rip offs.