jtimmccormick-05352
This was an okay B-horror movie until the end. There was no END. There was a STOP. The action just stopped in the middle of the climactic scene! So, this movie is a huge piece of crap, and no one should invest ANY of their valuable time on it!!!
Nigel P
Sometimes, when there is a lack of budget, infusing a film with a sense of dark humour can compensate. It seems to me that director/writer Rene Perez embraces this and never lets his production take itself too seriously. This filters through to the actors too, who may not be truly convincing, but seem to be enjoying themselves, and that enjoyment is somewhat infectious.The storyline is also suitably odd. A group of four financially embarrassed wannabes are brought together to take part in a reality television show in an expansive shack in the middle of a deep forest with no internet, and no signal for cell phones. As the gravel-voiced hostess announces, it is best not to set fire to the house, as there will be no-one remotely near to put it out. What would health and safety say? And yet, there is someone watching, a chain-smoking, well-dressed millionaire type (played by Richard Tyson), who observes all from a variety of cameras dotted about the place.This is the sequel to 'Playing with Dolls (2015)', also spearheaded by Perez and starring Tyson alongside Natasha Blasick. A further instalment, 'Playing with Dolls: Havoc' was released in 2017.Back to this, and the two star-struck females Stina (Karin Brauns) and Nico (Elonda Seawood) are quite clearly hired for their physical (and surgically enhanced) looks, but then, if this really was a reality show, then that would be true to form. The girls are empty-headed but quite likeable. The killer, who appears not be an actor, but a real murderer - in which case, do the producers know this? - pops up from time to time and dispatches people and bizarrely, remains unseen by the rest.The further we get into this, the less I understand it. Here's a spoiler: Trina, the last survivor, is told she has won the prize of a million dollars. What does she think has happened to the others? Clearly she's not bothered! Sadly, no-one seems to have told the killer, who ties her up and begins to torture her in some pretty grisly scenes - after which, he gives her a hearty pat on the shoulder!Colin Bryant, who is hugely built, plays Magnus, the hero. In another spoiler, he hasn't perished after all and he and Stina elect to fight the masked killer. A couple of minutes into the scrap, watched by Tyson ... the end credits roll! Is this a cliff-hanger or did they just run out of money?Despite the head-melting incomprehensibility of it all, I really rather enjoyed this. The direction is good, the masked killer looks formidable and there are some very gory moments. The weirdness of it all convinced me to keep watching to see what would happen next. A project that relishes its own oddness.
alanlord73
just watched this movie expecting it to be like one of the classic 70s horror movies as advertised on the DVD sleeve and enjoyed it tongue in cheek up to the finale, yeh some of the characters seemed underdeveloped and the main protagonist history was unexplained but the main thing that pee-ed me off was in the final part the film seemed to run out of steam and was cut off in the final minutes leaving a very unsatisfying and abrupt end as if the creaters of this had run out of ideas HOW TO END THIS AND GAVE UP, watchable until the end, don't watch this unless you enjoy scratching your head and wondering why you spent £6 quid in Asda.
OccamsBarber
I do believe this is the first review I have ever made on IMDb. As I know next to nothing about what goes into making a film I usually stick to the comments and leave the reviewing to people how do know something of the art.But...I watch a lot of movies. And I watch a lot of bad movies. I like, and on occasion love, bad movies. So believe me this film has almost nothing to recommend it on any level.In it's favour I will say it didn't look overly cheap as far as the filming went. It looked better than you would expect given the rest of its shortcomings.Also in terms of bad movie positives it contains a scene with what is the worst delivered monologue I have ever seen. Monologue isn't quite the right word but it is the only lines this character has and to call the delivery wooden would be sparkling praise. ALMOST worth seeing for that.The two women might be considered attractive to some and one with generic brand implants is naked for a short scene and the other nude for half a second. That might be a plus for those without the internet.Beyond that it is not good enough or bad enough to be worth watching. Just bleh. And to top it all off they appear to have run out of money and just ended the movie at a random point.Admittedly this seems to be part of a series. Maybe, somehow, my opinion would be altered if I had seen it/them. With luck I will never be bored enough to find out.Reading a review like this I would probably be egged on to see for myself. Please just think that I was moved, for the first time, to say DON'T.
