Perkins' 14

First off... along with Autopsy this is one of the of the 8 films to die for which I could sit through without falling asleep. Perkins'14 starts off very calm revolving around a cop who had his son abducted along with 13 other kids 10 years ago and can't let go. There is a lot of strange flashbacks inter-cut with the actual events where suddenly someone arrives at the police station who he considers to be the Abductor of the children ...from here it turns into mind-games between him and that guy named Perkins and by the title you can already guess that Mr. Cop is right about him. When a colleague searches Perkins house he finds a cellar with cages and his sudden death by one of the raging kids who were turned into blood lusting maniacs by 10 years of PCP-therapy. Now they are out in the streets on a rampage and we are up to a happy family re-union between the cop and his son ... or are we not??

What starts out slow and confusing (later you learn that its not confusing but pretty random) turns into a zombie-like movie with some pretty decent gore elements. The violence is depicted pretty raw and bloody and those kids are more a mix of instinct driven animals and zombies than anything else. They attack like the "28 days later" zombies, jump and run around, crawl air ducts, snap necks and disembowel with their bare hands. Thats nice, the visuals also carry it with some decent atmosphere. Problem is that the whole plot makes pretty little sense as of why Mr. Perkins engineers blood lusting zombie-kids on PCP and how they track down their kin and I really wonder how such obviously instinct driven creatures suddenly know how to use keys, shoot rifles etc. The whole ending is pretty idiotic and the movie should have rather focused on a logic plot and characters not acting like idiots (like a cop entering zombie infested crime scenes without a gun or his wife jingling key-chains like a crazy kid) instead of the massive bloodshed and bleak finale. Perkins'14 has really a lot going for it but smashes my hopes with a plot full of holes and dozens of ridiculous horror clichés.

In the resort town of Stone Cove, thirteen children are missing for more than ten years. One of them is Kyle, the beloved son of Sheriff Dwayne Hopper (Patrick O'Kane) that is obsessed to know what happened to him. When the pharmacist Ronald Perkins (Richard Brake) is arrested, Dwayne suspects that he might have abducted his son, and he asks his pal Hal (Dean Sansone) that is at home to go to Perkins' house to investigate. Hal goes to the basement and finds many cells, and accidentally he releases the creatures that are imprisoned. Hal is murdered and the creatures escape. Dwayne goes to the place with Perkins and discovers the fate of the missing children that are released on the streets of Stone Cove in a hellish night.

The gore "Perkins'14" is a sort of combination of the disturbing and sick Travis Betz's "Joshua (2006)" with any zombie movie. The result is disappointing since the attitudes of the lead characters are stupid in many times. The funniest part is when Janine asks her husband if he is all right. The guy has just found that he is a cuckold; his teenage daughter is a slut; and his beloved son has been abused for ten years and has become a monster. Further he has just seen many dreadful deaths and they are trapped in a basement under siege of powerful zombie-like creatures. Couldn't the writer have a more appropriate line for that moment? The conclusion is so imbecile that ruins the promising parts if this flick. My vote is five.

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Start off with this, is a grade "D" horror-movie not a Merchant Ivory production of "WINDSWEPT MANOR". So you leave this film be ya-hear it ain't hurting nobody. Start off with the movie jumps around a bit and when it lands you have the dysfunctional Sheriff still grieving the loss of his son and hitting on his daughters friends. His boyz arrest a creepy guy who tries to talk his way out of jail. A further investigation leads him to believe this guy is responsible for the disappearance of his son and other kids. A deputy is sent to do an illegal search of the suspects residence. he releases the now grown son who starts infecting everyone with the crazies. The father kills the creep before he can tell them whats going on. the father won't let anyone kill his son which would've nipped this in the bud. It all culminates in a deadly stand off inside the local cop-shop.

While watching this B grade dreck, with puts the B in B grade, P14, felt like so many other over gore-tesque, horrors I've seen in the last 15 years. It's like I've seen it, all before, as in it's painful predictability, sick schlock, mediocre acting, stereotypical teen traits of it's boy/girl characters, atmospheres. Ignoring forewarnings from Daddy, what not. And if I can say this, nasty predictable endings. The story intrigued me, but I expected much more smarts, craftiness from it, instead of a flat mediocre utilization. Think Disturbing Behavior, Island Of Dr Moreau as "learn from", bettering examples of how it could of been done. Two much better players, separated from the average performers, go to O'Kane, and especially Brake-our screwed up Perkins, who has quite a sick hobby, but he is unforgettably creepy, and it's a great standout performance.. O'Kane's cop character is rather interesting, a kind of tough nut to figure. The movie is very engrossing, and picked up in the last 20 minutes, in terms of quality. All in all, it's prety slap dash. B quality, shining right through from the start. Pity, as P14 could of been so much more.

After searching years for his abducted son, a small-town cop by a psychotic local and is now part of a team of similarly-minded people raised to seek revenge on the town for years of neglect and must protect his family and the town from their sinister agenda.

This here wasn't that bad of an effort. Most of what works here are the films' use of the small-town atmosphere which is evident throughout the first half. The way the central mystery unfolds, from the central backstory of the child kidnappings that are plaguing the town and how the case affects him, set this off rather nicely with a creepy air and rattles on through the main half of the film which works nicely alongside the scenes with the daughter out partying with friends. Once it moves beyond that into a fantastic extended action/stalking sequence through the town where the deranged killers are showing to ravage the town in numerous high-energy affairs, from the attack on their friends at the remote hideout to the rescue at the motel as well as the small side-encounters along the way. This leads into the rather frantic and stellar sequence of the group trapped in the police station where the ferocity and cunning of the killers are put to great use for these scenes, the frantic barricade procedures to keep them out on the escape attempts that are failed spectacularly while all taking place inside the dimly-lit, claustrophobic location and a cramped, confined setting. Alongside the fine splattery gore, these here are what helps this one out over it's few minor problematic areas. Frankly, the biggest issue here is that the first hour of this is pure, unadulterated boredom merely through the continued insistence and focus on material not in the slightest bit interesting. Although this features a fine backstory about the history of the town and the killers, the rest of the film isn't exciting at all by the utterly inane side-plots which do nothing for this one. The troubled and fractured family life that takes up the majority of this one is insanely dull, as going through it all isn't that interesting with all sorts of cliched tactics to display this, from the alcoholic father, the unfaithful wife and rebellious daughter which has all been done so often there's nothing special about these characters and that leaves this one with an incredible mountain to overcome that is given an admittedly decent attempt to right it through the action later on. Likewise, that leads into the utterly idiotic idea later on where his judgment gets clouded unnecessarily into believing something that puts him in danger against his survival instincts. Had the beginning featured material we cared for, this one would've been really good.

Rated R: Extreme Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Brief Nudity, a mild sex scene, violence-against-children and heavy underage drinking.