Paramedics

Two twisted brothers, who had both had an incesteous relationship with their late sister, pose as paramedics. They listen in on and respond to 911 calls but instead of giving medical assistant they remove victims' organs to sell on the black market. I read no reviews of Paramedics before watching it and it got off to a promising start, with gore, nudity and amusingly bad acting. Then the brothers respond to a second call,a young female hiker (played by Jenice Marshall, who sheds her clothes numerous times throughout) with a twisted ankle. And this is where the film just plummets. They kidnap her and hold her captive in their crude operating theatre, subjecting her to physical and sexual abuse. This had potential but sadly it's her ridiculously unbelievable relationship with her captors and the sheer boredom that kills this movie. Most of the running time is in this one room and the film is mainly about the triangle between the brothers and their victim, just so incredibly boring. I think the makers attempt some black humour but there is too much bad taste here (girl, "Is it rapey time again?). The end thankfully does perk up but it's too little, too late. Just FFWD to the gore and nudity senes!

Honestly when a film is bad I usually have to consider its rating carefully but not here boring premise boring movie nothing more to be said and if you waste time on it you will only be left saying "why did I bother"

The premise is ridiculous in all honest and I love a good horror or gore movie or a film with a good twist but this has none of those.

Well, this is terrific. A film that, should you go in blind as I did, doesn't give you any clue as to what course it is going to take. In fact, the underwhelming first scenes seem to indicate this is going to be a comedy. It isn't a comedy.

Two brothers, one retarded, pose as a paramedics. They kidnap young people and sell their organs to the black market. The latest victim refuses to be intimidated by them, showing manipulative skills and a beaming intelligence - in short, she runs rings around them. But there's more going on, which I won't reveals without straying into spoilers - and that would be a shame.

Writer/producer/director/'Delivery Driver' Rodney Wilson extols the virtues of a low-budget, providing a fascinating character-piece, whilst allowing us a few very effective moments of gore. The three main characters are very well played, and the minimalist production values really add to the sense of austerity and isolation.

There would never be a mainstream, Hollywood-style film like this; and that's fine, because if there was, we wouldn't get independent gems like this. Long scenes, allowing performances to scale the heights of madness and dive into the depths of despair - without a cut in sight - command the attention and toy with it.

The finale is, in retrospect, somewhat inevitable and satisfying, but such are the developments throughout the film, anything could happen. My score is 8 out of 10.

A lot of folks are rating this movie poorly, which confuses me. I thought the story was good, the acting was great and the gory effects were very believable. Sure there is some twisted sex scenes that might make you uncomfortable, but that was the directors idea, to get you out of your comfort zone. I really liked this movie.

If this was a high school film project it would only get a C. Yes, it's that bad.