Binge & Purge

Large swaths of this film are unwatchable. When I say that, I don't mean it's really bad and tough to sit through, I mean literally unwatchable. The lighting is non-existent so probably a quarter of this film is so dark that I have no idea who was talking and where they were. Add to that audio problems and hollow dialogue, and it was extremely difficult to have any idea what was going on at any point in the film as such little information was successfully conveyed. It was really a team effort to even figure out what was going on in it.

The acting was also, largely, very underwhelming and the editing was extremely poor, showing both strange delays in people talking (edits that had too much waiting between lines and was very unnatural) and that conversations appear to be going on with people in different places. There's a lot of quick flashes of shots that don't seem to make much sense, and the film jumps between things so much it's hard to track any continuity or arc. Finally, the kill shots are more like shooting mug shots with a white wall behind people such that it just feels ridiculous to keep seeing the exact same angle and effects for various deaths.

I will grant that the first 5 to 10 minutes of this film were fairly impressive, mostly as the film started off set in the Spanish Civil War, and it was a few minutes before we were even sure it was the right film, starting not in English and in black and white. It was a very good start to the film, and it went downhill from there. Characters come and go without much clarity, and the film never decides if this is a film about zombies or cannibals, or some weird spot in between, and so it also means that the feeling of continuity between what the status of characters are is totally non-existent.

The film has a surprisingly interesting start, and what could be an interesting premise, but then the film very quickly starts to fall apart into some sort of train wreck for most of the film, to then have a couple interesting scenes to end it on, beginning and ending on notes that suggest this film stood a chance of being decent at one point in the planning stages.

It's a fun and over the top gory trash flick with a lot of cannibalistic murders and shoot outs, yes the acting is atrocious but would you watch a movie like this for the acting. Nope you watch it for the GORE, the delicious gut munching vomiting gore. I did enjoy Brian Clement's Meat Market which was a fun tribute to the works of Romero, i hope this man will get a bigger budget to realize an even bigger gorefest hihi. Just enjoy Brians work for what it is, gory trash. And i meant that as a compliment.

I agree that Brian Clement is a genius and someone should give him a bunch of bucks to make a decent movie. However, this one isn't up to the high-water mark of Meat Market 1 or 2. Here is why: 1) The special effects...well, they're just not special. If you're going to do a lot of zombie shooting, at least make it look like the zombie has been shot. Don't just spray some blood on the wall behind it and make a loud bang. You expect to see a hole in the zombie, somewhere. This might sound like nitpicking but when you see the zillionth zombie get shot with no visible wound, it gets tiring.

2) Where is the skin, Brian? Meat Market had fully nude lesbian vampires making out. Binge and Purge had one sad shower scene. Oh, the horror.

3) Wake up the sound guy and get him on the job! Every gunshot sounded like a cap pistol fired by the annoying 8-year-old next door. I just couldn't groove to it.

4) Where is the bizarre, the absurd, the ridiculous? I'm down with high-fashion models bingeing on human flesh, but that's as far as it goes in this movie. No Mexican wrestlers in silly costumes, no evil scientists, no nymphomaniac cheerleaders. Man, I was bummed.

5) Enough of the bad acting already! I can live with, even enjoy some seriously bad acting if I have naked lesbian vampires and egomaniacal Mexican wrestlers to make up for it, but Binge and Purge doesn't have anything to take your attention away from the wooden faced b-movie acting. Give me some distraction! Brian Clement has his heart in the right place, but I think he wasn't hitting the bong enough during the filming of this movie. Kinda lost his way. Let's hope he gets his head right for the next film.......

This is what all micro-budget cinema should be like! Everything about this movie is really good. It does have loads of great gore, but the story and direction really carry it. Everything is so tight and professional looking. Buy the DVD from Sub Rosa because you won't regret it. Clement is a real talent and given a bigger budget, he could go places!

I came across this one for a stupid price. The sleeve is laughable but the label it was on gave me a warning, go buy it. Emporium, the label, doesn't exist anymore but horror buffs do search for that label on flea markets and second hand shops. Was I happy that I found it.

You just don't watch it for the acting which looked awful and so did the sound. But I watched it for the horror and it did deliver. Not on the scary part but on the gore.

The gore is in your face for such a low or let's even say no-budget. intestines are being eaten in front of the camera. Sometimes it do becomes cheesy like the bath scene were they cut of a penis. And there are other scene's that are cheesy. Thered stuff do flows and there's even some kind of puke scene on a face but it isn't puke, it's a kind of acid that melts flesh. Gore for everyone.

Surprisingly good for such kind of flicks. Watch it only for the gore, there's enough of it.

Gore 3,5/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Effects 3/5 Story 2/5 comedy 0/5