Death Factory

Poorly-made, with the appearance of a cheap TV movie - very shabby special effects, banal script, illogical plotting, extraordinary expansions and contractions of time, but most of all the most blatant collection of stereotypes: the jock, lecturing on fitness the whole time; the soldier with the murky (presumably deniable) recent history he tells to the first person who asks; the preacher, well over six feet and with a southern accent, proselytising.to the point of irritation; the saucy, feisty women of colour; the doe-teed youths, desperate to fall in love with each other.

The bad guys should all be so familiar, but Jack the Ripper turns out to be a woman in a mask and with a Dick van Dyke chimney-sweep Bert accent (no spoiler, she is in the cast list), Ed Gein, John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahmer are so keen to emphasise their one identifiable aspect that they forget to be bad. The pamphlet for a serial killer museum hints at a 'mystery killer', but we get two and it is never clear why.

Gore, such as there is, is strictly 1970s Giallo-standard; likewise gratuitous sexuality. If I was looking for a comparison, I would suggest a less memorable episode of Supernatural - it even ends as if setting up for the next episode but, on the evidence of this, a sequel is unlikely.

One of the worst movies I have seen this year, and I have seen plenty.

The acting? Abysmal.

The premise? Sophomoric.

The special effects? Laughable and poorly implemented.

This movie was seriously worse than a SyFy original movie, and we all know just how bad those atrocities can be. The only redeeming quality about this movie is that I was able to turn it off 40 minutes in. It was simply a horribly made film, written and directed by people who lack the vision and talent to ever do anything other than third-rate C-movies. Avoid this like you owe it money. An abomination in every conceivable way.

I came in skeptical, expecting a boring D movie tier film, but it made B movie tier instead! The beginning I was like "Oh no the camera quality is a bad sign" but it was only for the beginning sequence for effect, after that it's more movie standard quality.

The blood and gore is relatively tame, and at times not very realistic..but neither are serial killers coming back from the dead. The movie doesn't take itself seriously and just wants to give you a good laugh at these over the top characters run around.

The obligatory sex and nudity may be a turn off for some, or a hard on for others, nothing extreme. The ending was pretty cheesy, but again, B tier.

I'd give it a chance for people who like horror comedy.

THE FACTORY is one of those horror films that sounds good in concept but turns out to be a real load of nonsense. The problem with it is that it's another low budget indie production which means bad script, bad direction and bad acting. A busload of cliched characters head off to a serial killer museum but find themselves stalked when the killers come back to life and look for new victims. The blood and gore is in short supply here but one of the characters is a martial artist so we do get a handful of fight scenes randomly shoehorned into the mix. What's most irritating is the level of excess on display in the acting.

Because it has to be a comedy, right? It stretches the imagination that anyone would think of this as anything else, it's so packed with outrageous stereotypes, epicly bad acting, gratuitous sex just shoved into the story like the director had to fill a quota, and perhaps the worst dialogue in all of cinema history. Listen: It's even worse than "Is it raining? I hadn't noticed." [Four Weddings and a Funeral-but who doesn't know that?)

Accordingly, I loved it. It now ranks at #1 in my list of "Movies So Bad I Can't Stop Watching Them," displacing Point Break for the first time in 20 years. I love how hard the actors are working (you can see them working their drama class training); I love how seriously the film portrays itself. So earnest. So committed. So sad.