Emeryville

There are three types of horror movies. There are the good ones, then there are the bad ones where you could at least see what they were going for, and then finally there are the ones where they are so atrociously bad that all you can do is sit back and laugh at what you are seeing. 'The Emeryville Experiments' is unfortunately the latter. Holy moly this is a terrible film in every way. I can't help but wonder whether at some point they realised just how bad the product they were working with was, and so decided to cheese it up as much as they possibly could in the hope of it becoming a cult classic one day. I'll give them credit (more than they deserve) and assume that happened at least to some degree.

There is nothing positive to say about this film so let's just get into the negatives. The acting is horrendous by the entire cast. There were some roles that would have been very hard to get wrong, ones where over-acting was basically a must, and yet the actors still managed to screw it up. To be fair to the cast though they were dealing with some diabolical dialogue. The writing in this film is some of the worst you'll ever see. Character's decisions are utterly bizarre and make zero sense from start to finish. Then, as if that wasn't bad enough, the things they say while making these incredibly stupid decisions are even more stupid in themselves.

It's very rare I give a film a '2' on IMDb but I've talked myself into it while writing this review. There are an unbelievable amount of bad horror movies out there, so to say that this is near the top of that pile is truly something. I'm sorry I had to sit through this film and I strongly suggest you take on board my warning and steer well clear of it yourself.

My quick rating - 0,7/10. The idea was alright, at best. But this is one of the worst movies I have seen in a long time. As a rule for IMDb I typically give no weight to a movies score until over 500 people have voted. That tends to give all the cast and crew members time to get their 10/10 nonsense scores in. But this movie has taken abusing this system to a whole new level. Currently as of writing this, 2,319 votes and a 6.0/10. There is no possible way a movie with the worst acting documented, ever along with dialogue that was scripted by a complete moron just to insult the actors/actresses even further. No wonder the acting was so bad, they probably read the lines for a scene in disbelief. The camera work may have been done by a partially blind person since I tend to occasionally like to see the person speaking the lines as opposed to random shots of who knows what. The sound editing is just bizarre leading to normal ambient sounds being louder than a bass drum for no apparent reason and then a spot with some tension? Naw, don't amplify that whatsoever. All of this, and I haven't even started nitpicking this horrid display of film making (or boredom with a budget as I am calling this). I would suggest other movies that use a similar idea to the "forgotten village/town" type of flick, but I don't want to insult any other film by comparing this. If you make it to the end, don't expect a nice wrap up since even with the idea presented, they couldn't get an ending right as well. Enjoy the outtakes during the credits since you get to see the actors look just as stiff as they are in the movie, so maybe the crew somehow found the most personality lacking people in town and cast each and every one of them. This hour and 22 minutes is seriously lost and I feel I am now a lesser film critic (not paid, but still) just for it.

I love movies of all genre and sorts. This is the one of the most if not the most awful one I have seen. We've been here before. It's like a combo of Wrong Turn and Hills Have Eyes. Bad script, bad directing and just bad everything.

Yes, it is a village trapped in time, an experiment.... it's not probable. And then you have the token ethnic actor, this time it's not a African American but an Indian American. It is so stereotypical at first, I thought it was a spoof film, making fun of the Wrong Turn series or Hills Have Eyes, and the title mimics that of the Amityville Horror. I don't understand it at all. It's just a mishmash especially with flashback scenes which aim to introduce the back story. However, it only makes the movie confusing. A lot of the scenes do not flow. If you have someone going crazy at the dinner table, and he's a stranger to you, wouldn't you all just leave or at least react?! Not just sit there quietly as if everything is OK. That was why I thought, it must be a spoof. But I think it's not.

Kudos to Mr Chheda who made the film. However, I would strongly suggest perhaps he should return to civil engineering. If he has too much money to waste, give it to charity. This movie is such a waste that it's bordering on being sinful!

This movie was so bad that it inspired me to write my first ever review to warn others not to waste their time or money on it.

PROS: 1) Premise. 2) Nothing else

CONS: 1) Acting. This is robotic and forced. 2) Writing. I feel bad for the actors because many of the lines they were forced to say were cringe-worthy. 3) Many inconsistencies 4) Poor execution of the only good thing it had going (premise). Any "twists" were obvious right from the get-go and the reveal is about as exciting as a wet noodle. 5) Poor camera work. I don't blame camera quality, but come on, you need to keep the focus on who's talking at the moment. It actually felt like something a high school student would make for a class project in two weeks. 6) Transitions - the transitions between scenes are often unnatural and choppy. May as well have edited the movie in Windows Movie Maker.

Any good review you see is definitely from somebody who either: A) Worked on the movie B) Was PAID to write a positive review (that's just sad) C) Is a friend of somebody who worked on the movie and was asked to write a positive review (also sad) D) Accidentally went to the wrong page on IMDb when they meant to go write a glowing review for something much better.

Don't get me wrong - I really like indie films, so I didn't expect something of a huge studio-production quality. But even indie films have a certain level of professionalism to them that makes up for the lack of budget.

So go grab some heavy duty garbage bags and put this film on the curb for garbage day. I bet even the garbage men won't take it.

I wish I had looked at the user reviews before the high rating for this excuse for a movie, plot bad acting worse, continuity abysmal.

I cannot begin to understand how it got such a high rating on IMDb, avoid at all costs.

i had a look at the main actresses background and she seems to have done some decent stuff in her back catalogue, but you would think the rest of the motley crew had been dragged in off the street.

I just cannot believe I spent a good hour and a half watching this turkey, it seemed to get it's ideas from a mish-mash of horror movies but didn't know where to go with them, and ultimately failing in every respect. I would thoroughly recommend you watch anything but this movie, as this low budget horror, (and I use the term horror very loosely) takes the biscuit when it comes to watch-ability.