Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good
Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies
Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
nightwatch4773 I just loved the backwoods horror slasher film Madness and when I found out that this one was directed by the same director, I purchased it right away. What I love about Sonny Laguna's second horror outing is the love this man has for horror. This film has a very sleazy gory 70's grindhouse feel but with a touch of modern horror films like Cold Prey sprinkled all over it. The film looks gorgeous on DVD and it is hard to believe it only cost 5 grand to make. Terrific stuff here and we also have a great looking antagonist that can rival the best of them. Please Sonny make a sequel!!!!!!!!!! Can't wait for Mr Laguna's next project Wither. It sort of looks like Sweden's take on Evil Dead.....
Woodyanders Successful musician Winona (a sound and sympathetic performance by the pretty Hanna Oldenburg) returns to her hometown to take a much-needed break from her stressful lifestyle. Winona goes to a decrepit cabin with an old boyfriend and two of her boyfriend's friends. However, there's a vicious killer in the area who spoils everyone's fun. Director/co-writer Sonny Laguna relates the familiar, but enjoyable and effective premise at a steady pace, takes time to develop the characters with some depth, makes the most out of the desolate snow-covered wintry landscape, generates a reasonable amount of tension, and delivers both a pleasing smattering of tasty bare female breasts and a generous helping of nasty graphic splatter. The solid acting by the capable cast rates as another asset: Patrick Saxe as the morose Richard, Andreas Rylander as lovable lout Carl, and Elin Hugoson as the sweet Liz. The remote location projects a strong feeling of isolation and vulnerability. Moreover, this movie warrants extra praise for the crisp widescreen cinematography, the genuine creepy psycho, Samir El Alaoui's shuddery score, the tight 78 minute running time, and the overall grimly serious tone. Worth a watch for fans of slice'n'dice fare.
phantasmda If this film had have been done on a budget of $10m I would have gladly given it a solid 6 or 7 out of 10 but for the $5000 it took to make, it deserves a full 10 out of 10 plus. How on earth do you produce a film as good as this for so little cash? There's plenty of scares, some decent gore, an absolutely brilliant looking killer, seriously, they don't come much creepier than this one and the gore effects are top notch. It doesn't look cheap either, the camera work is fairly competent and looks far in excess of its meagre budget. The only quibble I'd have is with acting, which isn't the best if I'm honest but hey, for $5000 this is superb. I'd like to see what this director can do with a real budget. It was far better than some of the big budget dross that Hollywood churns out these days.
dschmeding "Blood runs cold" is the epitome of meaninglessness. Basically you get a low budget slasher, kind of the twice lobotomized brother of the lame "Fritt Vilt" movies. The killer has a pick Axe and lives under a house in a snow-scape where some kids end up being picked off one by one. Best things first... I thought the killer looked quite effectively creepy and considering the budget they managed to make the movie not look too bad at first sight and even managed some decent gore scenes. But this movie lacks where budget is no excuse. Half of the movie has close to no dialog and just dumb people stumbling through empty rooms and doing things that are totally irrelevant for the "plot". The movie just ends suddenly after a bunch of unbelievably dumb scenes of which most is shamelessly stolen from other horror movies and reproduced in a cheap low budget way. Many scenes of closeups seem repetitive, the blood looks orange like in a bad 70ies movie, the acting is bad, the snow looks fake and the plot is as close to non-existent as in a porn movie.Considering that the directors name is Sonny Laguna he is already halfway to a porn director, so why not go all the way? Anybody who rates this movie above average must have had his brain frozen due to excessive SlushPuppy indulgence.
