Death Academy

I happen to be from the same town as the director and this was shot in my school (featuring several of my teachers and friends) but don't think that i will spare it just because of that. This is a nefariously bad movie. The acting is so stiff that it seems like the actors realized what they were doing halfway through and wanted out but they couldn't. Of course i realize that this isn't bona fide actors but still. I wouldn't knock this totally though. The effects are great (particullary the bit with the fire extinguisher) and the quality is crisp but in the end i just couldn't picture this as anything more than a goof.

By the way the actor that played the janitor (Jan Lundmark) died last year and was a good friend of mine. Rest in peace Jan!

This movie has nothing to offer.I bought it from a web shop in Sweden. I regret it so bad, I've thrown it out with the garbage because that's where it belongs. Don't watch it if you like slasher movies!!! This flick has nothing to offer. At all. You will be regretful. No extras, no menu, only movie-DVD and the movie does not approve to be a good movie at all. Bad acting and bad script. Horrible! I do not know why this movie was done, but if they want to do movies, they need to work a lot better next time. I like their homepage, but skip releasing this crap. I would if I could, give it 0 out of 10 but that is not possible. I don't recommend it! BAD! 1 out of 10.

Surely this is no masterpiece. If you'll enjoy this movie really depends on whether you're trying to take it serious or not. I believe I wouldn't have enjoyed it if I watched it alone but it was tons of fun watching it with friends and pointing out plot-holes, people's tendency to drop their weapons or the director's inclination to stick the camera onto different weapons.

While this does not speak for the actual "quality" of the film, I can say it is definitely possible to enjoy this movie. Although to be honest it tends to drag at points and becomes a bit repetitive (they see one of the murderers, knock him unconscious, run away and hide, one person gets killed - repeat) but i guess the characters are meant to act stupid since otherwise the movie would be over after 10 minutes (that's actually the case for most slasher movies). I do not believe this was meant to be such a serious movie and thus it should probably not be judged as such: It's a gory and silly flick. Still, even in that category there's better movies. As I said, it can get boring at times, there's a few unnecessary twists (especially the last scene) and some bad editing.

Note: I watched the badly dubbed German version so i can't really say much about the acting.

The acting is terrible, it's laughable. The music seems very unfitting at several places, and is cut weirdly. The movie has been color corrected in a way that makes the color seem strange in the scenes in the dark school hallways. Sometime the editing and sound effects are awesome. At other times they are just bad.

But this film is a lot of fun. Several of the characters are so over-the-top that they come out as hilarious. I love the "final girl's" boyfriend. He's a bad-ass. And the fat Shaggy-esque guy is a riot. There are some really cool deaths, like the buzz-saw murder or the with the fire extinguisher-kill. They are great.

And the ending was actually unexpected. Good job there.

Despite all the flaws it's worth a watch. And you know what? I had much better time watching this low budget slasher than Mikael Håfström's big budget Strandvaskaren/Drowning Ghost. This is way better.

I finally saw this new try to make a Swedish slasher and I was extremely disappointed. The story was confusing and the actors was so wooden that even me seems like a "Laurence Olivier" in comparison. The worst thing was, of course, that the murder scenes was so amateurish filmed that there wasn't any sense of danger, violence or pain. There was just someone that pointed the camera against the make up-effect and thought that it looked cool. The editing was beyond bad and the unintentional comedy wasn't even funny.

And pink blood? Strange! It's a hard thing to produce an indie-movie without money, but some people just shouldn't come near a camera. I think their next movie, The Griefing, will be better. I hope so anyway.