The Culling

I'm going to try and avoid repeating what most other reviewers have said since I agree with the majority of the negative comments. That being said, this movie should NOT have sucked as badly as it did. The production values were decent. The cinematography was decent. The general dialog between the five main characters was reasonable and believable. The actresses were attractive, well-spoken and not terrible actors. The male actors were mostly not terrible.

So why did this thing suck so badly? The editing was problematic as was obvious by the shortened film length. I suspect a fair amount was cut as what did appear was choppy and not very cohesive. However, while I think the directing was weak the worst thing about the movie was the script. It's unusual to find even a bad B-movie with as unbelievable and contrived story line as what ran through this dog. Even stoned/intoxicated people don't do as many stupid things as these nitwits did.

In fact, I have to admit to being rather shocked that within the first 10 minutes or so the main actors were doing things that a 10 year old wouldn't do in the same circumstances. Despite being grossly disappointed I soldiered on hoping that each unbelievable screw-up would be the last. Now I'm embarrassed to admit that I finished it.

Nonetheless, this could have been a decent, scary flick if it even had the slightest lick of a story. But it didn't. There is no story here and nothing to see except a couple of pretty young actresses scarring their film resume by having their name on this garbage. Don't waste your time folks. You will be left feeling like an idiot because you watched the entire thing. This dog won't hunt...EVER!

UPDATE: 14/02/17 Update: I HATE SHILLS!!! Since I wrote this review several more, ahem, "Sparkling" reviews have appeared. This film is still VERY BAD!!! Please don't say no one warned you!!! Good Luck!

-The Culling (2015) movie review -The Culling is yet another indie-horror flick that follows a group of students who get trapped at a creepy house and creepy stuff happens. As usual.

-In a word? Generic.

-The story is generic, cliché, and nothing was new or even presented in an original fashion.

-The film took forever to take off and never got that good.

-The acting is nothing special.

-The characters literally are just the horror clichés minus a black guy who dies first.

-The music was generic creepy music.

-The effects were B-grade effects and there was nothing in the effects, film quality, or anything else what was impressive. The Culling is a generic movie with a generic plot, generic characters, and generic genericness. It offers nothing new to the genera in any way, and nothing works because of it. The Culling is not worth seeing. ever.

-Easiest review ever.

I must say I didn't like this film. Allow me to summarise the ludicrous plot for you.

Some kids find a lost girl at a roadside diner and decide to drive her home. Once there the parents of the lost child come home and invite the kids to stay. Everyone gets drunk and high. The Mom of the little girl cuts her leg with an axe then the parents of the year drive off to the hospital leaving their child in the care of a bunch of drunk young strangers. Then a load of stuff happens that is very tiresome, nonsensical and boring.

The acting is good by the two main leads it's just that the story is never really engaging. Also it's one of those movies where the plot is fairly vague with reasons for what's happening and I didn't really care enough about it afterwards to try and reason anything out. There was a pretty weak twist in the end that added nothing to the enjoyment factor. The effects aren't great either a bit of blood some poor CG overall a bit lazy.

Certainly not one I'd recommend.

This movie is a waste of time and money its not even worth the disc its on ,My little kids could have made a better movie than this one for real .....It made no sense at all and I Hope these actors don't make a career of acting cause there worse than milli-vanili......I highly recommend not wasting your time with this movie and hopefully you read this way before you purchase it unlike I did lol ,,,,I am upset that I could have used the last couple hours playing a boring game of checkers or marbles or anything else other than watching this horribly wrote and acted movie ........this movie is nothing more than a paper weight and is a $15.00 one at that ................Watch (NO GOOD DEED) that movie is good or JOE with Nicholas cage not this my wife pointed something out about this movie if you purchased this movie look at the back you will see this pretty brown headed girl with a pink bra on with one of the actors in it right next to her ,,,,this part never even happened ...its very generic ......

The friends Tyler (Jeremy Sumpter), Emily (Elizabeth Di Prinzio), Sean (Brett Davern), Hank (Chris Coy) and Amanda (Linsey Godfrey) are traveling to a music festival. They arrive late at a dinner that is closed and find the girl Lucy (Harley Graham) in the parking area. Lucy claims that she is lost and the group decides to driver her farmhouse. They meet her parents Val (Virginia Williams) and Wayne (Johnathon Schaech) that invite the group to have dinner with them. Val cuts her leg with an ax and Wayne takes her to the hospital while the group of friends stay in the house taking care of Lucy. Soon they discover that the place is evil and try to flee. Will they succeed?

"The Culling" is a terrible horror movie full of clichés and senseless situations. Amanda is sensitive and feels evil in the house but stay there, even when the table moves by itself. Emily's attention to Lucy is unbelievable considering that she is traveling with friends and behind their schedule. The conclusion is a total mess. My vote is two.

Title (Brazil): "A Casa Maligna" ("The Evil House")