The Shed

I love horror movies, especially tense ones and I enjoyed this one a lot. It has some very tense moments, I was on the edge of my seat several times.

It also has a good story line. Definitely has an 80s vibe to it which I loved.

It makes me sad to give this a 4* because we don't get enough original content today...however there was just nothing special about this... you'd think a monster in a shed that can't come out would be a lot of fun, but it feels like the filmmaker didn't know what to do with this good idea....so it ends up being EXACTLY what you'd assume... all the jerks and baddies get sent to the shed one way or another...and...that's it really. It felt like it so badly wanted to be a horror comedy, but there goes there, it is played very straight.

Didn't hate it, but I did find myself skipping around, it went with a few of the "scary dream" scenes and I just find those so annoying.

Too heavy on the bullying and teen angst-probably two or three scenes of desultory pity partying could have been cut out, which might have quickened the pace and brought the movie to a better conclusion. I have to wonder at those who compared this to "Fright Night" or "The Lost Boys"-the only thing in common this flick had with them is that it (eventually) has vampires in it. Very, very badly done vampires, and very cheesy makeup effects. Still, though it isn't scary in the least-it isn't terrible. I've unfortunately seen worse. Just not a repeater-once was enough.

It had plenty of scenes that simply didn't make sense and pretty obvious what type of things were about to happen all throughout the movie. However there was a bit of a plot twist in the end.

The two things that seemed unbearably nonsensical to me, is, (one) if you have a vampire living in your wooden shed on a farm, far away from people, why in heavens would you not set it ablaze during one of the many sunny days available?

Secondly, even though the vampire wronged the main character, the vampire seems to have a personal vendetta out for him for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

There's no backstory, so you really don't know what's the deal with the vampire population. Is it just the one at the beginning, what are the rules, etc

This one screened at some cool film festivals and had some cool people involved so my expectations were a little high but I was not entirely disapointed with the film. Some of it felt amateuish but other parts were quite interesting. I liked the kinda fresh take on vampire movies but felt that the bullying themes were a little on the nose and annoying.