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| Personally I loved this film | | Perhaps its my bad taste for low rate horrors? But I love the realistic filming style, its a lot of character build up and not so much action BUT when the action begins its good. This film REALLY scared me and terrified me, and the ending is fantastic. | Written on 19 May 2009 |   |
| Not horrible | This is nothing other than a Cannibal Holocaust ripoff (which I would recommend over this movie any day).
On it's own merits, the movie just about works, without ever coming close to shining. In the aforementioned Cannibal Holocaust (CH), you get something of a social commentary, which this one never delivers - moreover, CH had decidedly evil/perverse 'protagonists'; this movie's main characters varies from the very annoying (i.e. the stupid couple) to the slightly annoying (the vanilla couple). As such, it's difficult to sympathize with the characters, or at least find them interesting as one might watching CH.
There's the obligatory gore, the not-so-surprising ending, and just enough suspense to bother finish the popcorn. Quite run-of-the-mill slash. | Written on 20 November 2008 | |
| Congratulations: this is officially the worst film of all time | Words really do fail me when I try to summon up feelings about this awful attempt at a movie. "Vapid", "puerile", "lazy", "contrived", "pointless" - nothing quite seems to capture the boiling hatred I felt whilst watching it. I hated the actors; I hated the script; I hated every aspect of the cinematics. Mostly, I think, I hated the fact that anyone ever saw any worth in it and provided funding to make it a painful reality.
I don't even want to pick apart this film's flaws: there are too many and they all converge to make one giant flaw in the fabric of modern filmmaking. Let's just condemn this piece of garbage by saying simply this: it copies The Blair Witch Project, focuses on its poorest elements and manages to make them even worse.
When this soul-destroying movie finished, I wanted to kick my TV out of the window and watch it sail down three storeys to shatter into pieces on the pavement below. It would have been more entertaining and, frankly, if this is what producers and movie companies consider a job well done - I don't want to own a TV anymore.
| Written on 26 August 2008 | |
| You're in the jungle, baby! | Like most things this is down to personal taste, and a good gauge here is your feelings towards The Blair Witch Project. Yes, this story is told through the lens of two handheld video cameras, and so in any film like this you have to imagine that you are actually there, meaning a certain amount of imagination is required.
As others have mentioned, what we get is not the "teens going out and making out whilst each one gets picked off" type of film, no, we have the relationship strain between two sets of friends that can be a lot more real then other throwaway high-budget films with the stereotypical and unrealistic characters.
Like in Hostel, the gore, and action are a long time coming, and my only real gripe with this film is the weak reasons why they go out into the jungle knowing the dangers, especially with their very first run in with the locals, but anyway, if you over look this, then the film is entertaining, and whilst we know that it's low-budget, I didn't feel it was so whilst the film was running. I thought the DVD ending was very good, especially if you pay attention to what you see...
Having watched 95% of horror films out there, and the night before I sat through the poor acting, and plastic characters of Wrong Turn 2, this is one of the best low-budget horrors on DVD this year. Paradise Lost could've been better if it had gone more down these lines instead of jumping on the bandwagon of torture-horror, and of course the biggest difference between this and Blair Witch, is that Blair Witch revolves around a supernatural legend, whereas there is more than a small chance that this could happen to you if you decided to explore New Guinea on your own, and let's face it the most frightening horror is that which could actually happen...
| Written on 31 July 2008 | |
| Welcome To The Bungle | Don't buy this rubbbish.
As is my flaw I was sucked in by the cover art and proclamations of this being possibly the most terrifying movie in the last decade, and the fact that it was directed by Jonathan Hensleigh, who directed Thomas Jane in Punisher, and produced by Gale Anne Hurd, responsible for the Aliens and Terminator movies. It's a Cannibal Holocaust Blair Witch rip off and don`t let the commentary tell you any different (yes, I watched it again with the commentary running and still didn`t feel like I got my money's worth).
The story revolves around four people who go traipsing around the New Guinea jungle looking for some guy who disappeared there in the sixties, and who are set upon by cannibals in the final half an hour in shaky-cam.
The last 30 minutes are okay, what with the actual cannibalising going on, but until then you're taken for a ride, and I don't mean the enjoyable roller-coaster of terror kind.
This film really sucked marrow. I would have still been angry about this even if I had found it on new & used for fifty pence.
The best thing about this DVD was the trailers. | Written on 13 July 2008 | |
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