The 8th Plague

Surprised at the low ratings, obviously a lot of non-horror fans unable to deal with a little bit of fake blood. This is a tense, bloody, gritty low-budget splatter flick, nothing more or less. No plot to speak of, shot and directed in such a way as to maintain tension throughout. LOTS of fake blood, gore effects cheap but convincing. The acting is decent too, considering the genre. The infected/possessed/whatever look like they are wearing black-metal makeup for some unknown reason, which is kind of weird. An utterly predictable twist at the end. Unlike most American horror films these days you can empathize with the main character. With most US horror these days I really want to characters to die and get it over with as they are so annoying and obnoxious, but in this case I found myself rooting for the lead to survive the onslaught. If you like zombie films or survival horror you will probably really enjoy this movie, so long as you are not expecting to take away anything deep and meaningful from it.

I saw this movie last night with three others. After about 30 minutes we were hoping that the movie would get much better, because it surely wasn't scary neither was it nice to look at. There were some funny moments in the movie, too bad that the was intention to be scary, but we all changed the perspective of the movie a bit to be at least a little bit entertained.

At the end of the movie a girl who was watching the movie too said "Come on, someone kill her!" about the main character in the movie, because then the movie would end.

I see this movie as a waste of my time and I was not entertained at all. The three others I was watching the movie with thought about it in the same way. The 4.1 rating the movie has at this moment is very realistic in my opinion. Maybe it should have even lower.

First off I have to say this film does have its' flaws.The acting could be a bit better however, the rest of the movie makes up for where the acting dropped off.....These days it seems that a lot of the better films are foreign or have ethnic directors as is the case here in the 8th plague......Franklin Geurarro really does this flick some justice,had this film had a lofty budget i don't think it would have been as good as it was.If you like blood and guts like myself then you will enjoy the 8th plague....heck even my girlfriend said "Did you see that?" "Rewind that you have to see that again...!!!" It normally takes a lot to whoa her believe me....anyways I gotta say that this flick is definitely worth while and that says a lot because i think most of what's out there today is just a bunch of crap...so if you wanna see a good movie pick this up next time you are at the video shop...this truly is what a good B film is made of........

Only if you think that some brunette chick with nice body, holding huge axe and waving it few times during the entire movie is something you're into, then you go for it!

If you look anything other in the movie you let me be clear:

1) There is no directing 2) There is no acting 3) There are no characters 4) There are no effects 5) Gore is more funny, or at best cases just disgusting, but not scary 6) The Plot is EXTREMELY predictable

Hereby saying all that I understand that it is just "B" movie and expectations must not be high, but this movie fails even at that level as I have seen lots of "B" movies, and if they weren't cinema masterpieces, at least many of them just didn't suck and were fun to watch...

this movie fails at all levels...

Awful just doesn't seem to do it here. This is supposed to be a scary thriller but all I could do was laugh. The casting and acting were so second rate that it is hard to take them seriously. To think that they actually got funding for this movie just blows my mind. The directors approach seems to remind me an awful lot of Ed Wood, with absolutely no attention to detail. The characters reactions to certain "scary moments", are so unbelievable that even a computer nerd like myself starts to think, "maybe even I could have done better". To top it off I downloaded this movie for free and I still feel ripped off. But if your up for a wannabe B movie and a good laugh then this is your movie.