Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Bearded MovieGuy This incredibly low budget horror movie has no clue what it wants to be. It is a home invasion movie, then a kidnap movie, then a serial killer movie, then a killer hillbilly movie, and the worst part is that it does all of these equally bad. The acting is terrible across the board, the story is laughable, the direction is all over the place, like it was filmed by a 10 year old that was using all the new features on his camera phone, which it was probably shot on. I understand that this was a bad movie and it knows it, but that does not change the fact the it is awful on every level, well, except maybe for the poster, which was interesting enough to catch my eye and got me to watch this waste of time movie. 1.5 Beards Out Of 5

TdSmth5 Someone kidnaps two girls leaving a bar and hangs them from the wrists in a barn.Two guys and a girl plan some type of crime. One guy is the mastermind and he seems pretty nasty. The other guy is reluctant and seems nice. The girl is the nice guy's girlfriend but she seems to be up to something. Part of the plan is the nice guy's brother. Then they carry out their crime. The two guys enter a mansion, kidnap a little girl, kill the mother and tell the father to come up with money for the life of the girl. They also take the babysitter who saw the nasty guy's face in a scuffle.Back to the barn where the crazy guy washes a girl, asks her if she's pure, puts a cow paper mache head on her and drags her away. The other girl frees herself, finds her friend, but when she removes the mask finds no head. There is also some creature in the barns cellar that escapes. The crazy guy gives this creature offerings of blood. When the creature goes after the girl she starts running.Meanwhile the criminals meet at some abandoned school building. But there's a surprise. The rich guy is no dummy and surprised the brother with a weapon and now he too arrives at the meeting place. But there's yet another surprise. Plus at this point when people start shooting at each other, the escaped barn girl with the creature in tow ends up...at the school building as well. So the shootout between the robbers and the rich guy gets interrupted by the creature that's killing everyone with some sort of knife.Rites of Spring is interesting in that it offers these two seemingly unconnected stories. Both of them are interesting in their own right. And it manages to connect them fairly well. The story of the crazy farmer is intriguing. It's not entirely clear what he's offering the girls to. We don't get to learn much about the creature either. Overall, a strong and different horror movie that also has a neat ending.

Matt Kracht The plot: Kidnappers run into trouble when their story collides with another story straight from a direct-to-video 1980s slasher.Rites of Spring was assembled from scenes of several mediocre films and combined into one terrible whole. I don't understand why anyone thought it would be a good idea to plagiarize a bunch of mediocre slashers and then throw in an out-of-place, unresolved kidnapping subplot straight out of Ransom. The result was even worse than it sounds.If you're sick and tired of retreads, clichés, and "homage", then I suggest you avoid this film. There is absolutely nothing original in it at all. Even the kills are boring. Like most cheap slasher villains, this one has a shtick: he carries a scythe and likes to behead people. He has something to do with a demonic pact made by the inhabitants of a Midwestern town, but that's the extent of his back story. Overall, I found him to be without charisma or presence. Some of the scenes have a tense atmosphere, but the formulaic and predictable writing ruins everything. When you know who's going to survive, how and when each of them is going to die, and when each jump scare is coming, there isn't much point to watching.I like AJ Bowen and Anessa Ramsey, and it was exciting to see them together again, but this is not the film to watch if you're a fan of The Signal. Instead, I would recommend it to undiscerning fans of old-school slashers. If all you need are a few recognizable B actors, an unstoppable monster who's inexplicably stopped after 90 minutes of screaming and running, and a bit of violence toward women, then this is probably going to be watchable. However, I'd suggest you skip it and watch something better, like Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon. Hell, you'd even be better off watching one of the Children of the Corn sequels, which at least have some degree of campy appeal.

dmeister72 "Rites of Spring" is a competent low-budget horror movie with a fairly interesting storyline that follows two seemingly unrelated situations as the paths of the two protagonists ultimately prove to converge and as the circumstances surrounding their connection to each other become clear. The result is part film noir, part slasher fare. But, for me at least, the plot kept me intrigued for the length of the movie.While not necessarily ambitious, the special makeup effects were at least effective. Direction, cinematography, sound, and other "film stuffs" were all solid, at least to this casual viewer. Nothing stood as amateurish, which is obviously a potential concern for low-budget films.The weakest aspect of this film, in my opinion, was its rather abrupt and somewhat anticlimactic ending. I was left with the feeling that the filmmakers had simply exhausted their budget, and were forced to wrap things up as quickly as possible.The entire cast delivered believable performances, especially for such an obviously low-budget film. Anessa Ramsey, in particular, really stood out. I love low-budget, low-key horror films that are well done, because they feel more "personal" to me. So, for me at least, "Rites of Passage" was money well spent.I've heard others suggest that too many elements of this film were borrowed from earlier films. Of course, the "earlier" films referred to by these individuals had, in turn, already borrowed much from even earlier films, so I'm not sure if there is really any point to arguing the absence of originality. At least it's not another remake!