Grim

This movie was so bad that I wasn't able to get through the whole thing, however I was able to get through enough of it to come up with a pretty good idea that this movie sucks big time. Look at the star rating it currently has for crying out loud!!! (Note: the star rating is currently at 1.8) The story to this film makes no sense at all, and the whole idea of this movie being scary is a joke. The effects are awful and the acting is even worse. I've seen some bad movies, but at least they were ever so slightly tolerable. I should have known that this film sucked when the credits started rolling and I was unable to recognize (or even pronounce) the cast list. It's my own fault for not seeing that this was a bad movie. Look at the box cover! The creature looks like a Sesame Street puppet, only, not as scary.

I watched this crap about 2 years ago on cable. I wasted 90 mins. of my life, I could've done anything else.

There was no plot, acting, direction, or reason to make this movie! The monster is extremely cheesy and cheap. There is no gore or even a false scare. The underground setting promised a little, but it got pretty old after 15 mins. There was no tension or creepy atmosphere. One of the worst slasher movies I've seen, and believe me, I've seen TERRIBLE slasher movies. This is beyond mediocrity, please avoid it.

0/10. Bury it!

Just a couple of times in your lifetime, you will come across a movie so bad, so horrendously, appallingly bad, that your eyes will light up and your mouth will start to salivate in the delight of it all.

Grim is one of these movies.

Right from the opening credits you know it, and by about half way through, you are beyond amusement - your lower lip will hang, slackly separated from your upper one, and your eyes will be vacantly gazing at the screen. Your brain will hate you for watching this movie.

The opening credits look like a cheap screensaver, and go on for minutes. No action, typical orchestral horror music, a black screen and some words. Finally, it finishes, and an inexplicable four second shot of some kind of underground stone casket is shown. It looks like polystyrene. The first real scene is the old ouija board trick with a bunch of teenagers in a bedroom. Well, actually, it's two guys in their mid-thirties and some 21-year-old girls, in what looks like a very cold and dark basement. There is no reason for them to be together, to be there, and to not have grown out of using ouija boards.

The acting is woeful, the editing looks deliberately shoddy (a few shots run on for about 3 seconds too long, after the action has finished, leaving you awkwardly staring), and the visual effects...well, I don't know whose brainchild the Grim actually was, but I'm guessing he's made of rubber and had a terrible childhood.

I won't recap the plot to Grim in much detail - mainly because it doesn't really have much of one. And that's a shame, as underneath the long, ponderous shots, terrible dialogue and shaky script there's a reasonable enough movie trying to get out. Unfortunately, it never does, though, leaving Grim a plodding, un-involving mess.

As a first draft or a plot synopsis, Grim's script would be acceptable in the "simple plot, let's just get on with the scares" school of horror. However, it's supposed to be a finished movie. Even the heavy-handed addition of a "Basil Exposition" character, to actually explain that the creature is a troll and explain troll-ish behaviour to the rest of the cast/viewer (i.e. they live underground, eat people, don't like light) would have been a move in the right direction.

And speaking of direction, in Grim, it's pretty woeful. There isn't a single moment in this movie that makes you jump. Not one. And, with the lackluster editing and terribly repetitive soundtrack, Grim can't be recommended.

THAT SAID, I do at least give credit to the cast and crew for trying something different. And, given the choice, I'd still take Grim over any of the Hugh Grant/Richard Curtis Rom-Coms about stuttery, up-tight Englishmen and their will they/won't they romantic complications...

For a super low-bugdet horror flick such as this you just aren't going to have oscar winning material. The plot leaves several things unanswered and that's it's major flaw. The acting in my opinion is better than most for a "B" horror film. The props and set design in the cave/dungeon was fairly interesting. The CGI effects in the film were better than average for a 1995 film. While this isn't the greatest film, it's still good for a late night viewing just for it's pure cheese appeal. I'd still prefer this over any of those trendy teen horror films at the box office recently!