Stagknight

I sat through this movie yesterday night at the Holehead festival in San Francisco, and it's been a long 90 minutes. Dumb 'jokes', a totally brain-dead plot and characters that you couldn't care less about make for a really disastrous movie. The scripts takes cookbook pieces for a horror film, mixes them in a totally uninspired way and adds jokes that are not really funny. Oh, and most of the gory scenes happen in the off anyways ... probably due to budget constraints ... but that of course doesn't help the movie either. If your brain has it's day off today, you might want to consider watching this movie, otherwise ... stay away.

Hmmm .. I do not even know where to begin writing, because I can simply sum it up by saying, "The film sucks big time." There weren't a single scene worth mentioning in this film. The horror was far between, and even that it weren't a bit scary.

The jokes were crude, unfunny and lame.

And the thick British accent, annoyed me to death. It is completely okay if the accent is original, but in this film, they tried very hard to speak the accent, is was quite painful to hear it for an hour and a half.

I strongly recommend others to watch other film instead. Heck, even Hilton's 'Bottoms Up' film fared better than this.

What is it with British films, why do they always go on about body funtions, im sorry but when was it ever funny, Horror comedy i think not, seriously this film was just not funny at all, British humour in a horror film does not work on nearly every level, the film never took off, it was a mass of silly farting burping innuendos that is so boring and tiresome, oh lets watch a man with diarrhea on the toilet HA ha ha, give me a break, i suppose it being on the zone horror channel should have beed warning enough, and how many badly done accents were in this movie, who was who, why was it constantly dark, why was everyone wandering around the forest on there own doing nothing but waiting to be killed, all these questions totally unexplained. there's nothing worse than a film so far up its own assse, that it actually thinks its a comedy.

No pun intended - I reckon it will boil down to (no there is no pun here), to what you think of the jokes that the movie uses. The humor it partakes - I reckon this is how you'd describe it. And I have to describe stuff - especially with new guidelines concerning reviews and their length.

So don't blame me, if this is longer that it needed to be. Can't say the same about the movie, unless you get annoyed by it. Again, personal preferences and all that will play into that. The acting overall works fine to say the least. There is enough blood and all that - some nudity too. Maybe not from who you'd like, but there is some, don't be greedy.

All that said, maybe it makes sense to watch the trailer, at least parts of it, to be certain that this is your kind of thing ...

It's fast-paced, slick, lively, deliberately silly/comical, and certainly a lot less dumb than myriad recent horror spoofs like "Transylmania." Some aspects are broad, but others are slyly unexpected, like the villainess' seduction scene with yuppie jerk Charles, and her mute giant brother's feelings toward the camp yet resilient gay guy. It's a deliberately crass movie, yet it's got some wit, energy and invention, certainly more so than most recent low-budget U.S. slashers (or spoofs thereof). As a semi-guilty pleasure, I've watched it several times and quite enjoyed it every time. My favorite performer was Martin Bayfield, absolutely. He does a sympathetic Igor/Frankenstein "monster" act with considerable charm.