College Projects

[Stingy Jack]

I just rented and watched two incredibly abyssmal direct-to-video horror flicks. Good thing I didn't actually have to pay for them.

1) Dark Heaven

2) Blood Reaper

As I watched both of these, I couldn't help but imagine that they were somebody's projects for a college film class. I won't even waste time reviewing them ... but let's just say that Dark Heaven could not POSSIBLY be a horror film, since there is absolutely nothing threatening in the movie at all. And Blood Reaper is such a blatant rip-off of Friday the 13th (and a bad rip-off, I may add) that I'm surprised the producers expected this film to go anywhere at all.

Seriously ... how do we start a petition to send to these people begging them to stop destroying our beloved genre with their shit??

[ShankS]

agree.... there's some really terrible stuff that gets sent straight to video.

one I saw not too long ago, was a ripoff of F13th... had a mad guy terrorising some kids at a camp, with a sack on his head, I couldnt sit through the whole thing.... even forgotten the title of it.

[movieman64]

Another example of cover art being used to attract a person to rent the movie.

Whenever I purchase or rent one of these horrid things, and complain to my wife about how I wasted my money, she always replies, "so how many films have you written/produced?"
lol, I guess I should have learned by now to not complain to my wife.

[Vodstok]

What annoys me about these things is that someone saw fit to give these idiots money to make shit, but i havent had shit published yet...

And all the resea4rch i have done into sellign a screenplay seems to say "Get used to the idea that no matter how good your script is, the producers will probably turn it into a lump of gilded shit."