The Graves (Horrorfest ’10)
| release date | January 29 2010 |
| studio | After Dark Films |
| director | Brian Pulido |
| writer | Brian Pulido |
| starring | Clare Grant, Jillian Murray, Bill Moseley, Lamb of God singer D. Randall Blythe, Tony Todd |
| site | thegravesmovie.com |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
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I went a saw this one hoping for a bloody good time. It was an OKAY movie. However, it’s shot pretty crappy, the actors suck, the sound sucks, and the story is meh at best. The gore shots were very mediocre, pretty awful actually. Honestly, I don’t recommend this one at all.
This was one of my favourites from this year’s After Dark. Mind you, not because it’s a great film, but because it felt like I was watching an episode of Tales From The Crypt or any other made-for-TV horror flick with terrible production value and acting, but an interesting and fantastical plot that keeps your interest.
Watch it on a rainy day, you could do much worse.
It SUCKED week old unwashed yeast infected ASS~!Are you fucking kidding me?????????
What a joke.
I enjoyed it! It was a fun no non-sense slasher flick.Maybe caught on a more serious day I wouldn’t had like it as much but my mood was right for it.The acting was bad, the little tiny bit of cgi was bad but the fun was on overload!I could watch over and over on my goofy days!I agree its like an episode of Tales from the Crypt but hell those were fun! People be putting to much into horror movies these days.THEY ARE MEANT TO BE FUN!If I wanted to watch an oscar worthy film I would watch Precious(gag) or The Blind Side(awesome) or Up(another great)with my kids.Horror movies 90%of the time are not meant to be taken serious and this is a prime example!Reminded me of old cheesy 80s flicks.
WTF was this lame piece of shit. This movie had nothing new to offer it manage to rip off 10 movies that I know in the short running time. The plot was confusing as hell. Actually there wasn’t even a plot.
Its not worth talking about this. I am giving this 3 out of 10 because the two main girls were slamming. ANd it has The amazing Bill Moseley and TOny Todd. But even those guys couldn’t save this waste of time.
THIS MOVIE WAS AWFUL..!!
AND FOR THE RECORD I AM TIRED OF PEOPLE WRITING SCRIPTS WHERE… EVIL IS BEING PORTRAYED AS GOD OR JESUS…
LETS JUST SAY THIS> THIS MOVIE IS RUBBISH..
I found the Graves to be immensely frustrating and the first major disappointment that I have had with this year’s Horrorfest IV. You see I can appreciate a bad movie with the best of them. The Gravedancers was really bad in some spots, but so bad I enjoyed the hell out of it. Sometimes ever total drek like Captivity can be viewable for what it is.
Sadly, the Graves is one of those films that ends up being bad, but also maddening in that it clearly had some potential to actually be a good film. The film itself was shot well enough, striking that perfect boundary between low budget and hand-cam low budget. Bill Mosely channeled some of his House of a Thousand Corpses energy and manages to provide us with some entertainment,
The main problem is how uneven everything is. The two lead females are attractive and run the line between acting, trying to act, kicking ass and being annoying, often in the same scene. For as solid as Bill Mosely is, nearly every other villain in the movie is one-sided and completely over-the-top hokey. Tony Todd’s Reverend character is possibly one of the worst movie villain performances I have ever seen, topping Jeroen Krabbé’a performance as a villain in the 1989 Punisher movie.
The movie is essentially about a strange town that seems to be killing all visitors that come to it as part of some religious ceremony. The plot is pretty ambiguous and you are only given about a one minute explanation as to what is occurring and why.
The one unintentionally funny part of the movie is how fast the killers seem to be able to walk, versus the girls always running full speed. Seriously, you would watch the girls run for like 2 minutes and keep cutting back to a killer walking casually along and literally a second later he was right behind the girls. It reminds me of Leslie Vernon’s instruction in Behind the Mask.
The needless flaws and the uneven delivery prevent me from really recommending the movie. Truly only big Bill Moseley fans need apply here.
Skip this film if you have a chance. Not even the eye candy could even save it.
Graves May Not Be One Of The Best Horror Films There Ever Is But Since Randy Blythe Appears, I Will Give It A Shot……..Tell You What? Apart From A Few Exceptions Like Freddy VS Jason, TCM: The Beginning, Rob Zombie Hallowen And SAW None Of The 2000′s Horror Films Are Great….The Sexiest Ones Appeared In 70′s, 80′s And Few From 90′s! I Just Hope That They Dont Make A Remake Of The Original Psycho Or Otherwise It Would Be A Slap To The Master Plus The Director! Peace….
This supernatural/survival/whatever-rubbish is undoubtedly the worst movie I’ve seen this year so far. Everything after the first 5 minutes (which are quite enjoyable) is pure crap.
All acting performances – lousy (even Bill Moseley’s).
Dialogue – most of the time horrid.
Special/make-up/gore effects – totally lousy.
Story – uninteresting and pointless.
Camera work, editing – lame.
Soundtrack – meh.
Suspense, tension – none.
Entertainment – none.
Overall, an absolute disaster of a movie. Avoid this piece of shit at all cost.
Every year there is one good horrorfest movie out of the 8 and this sure the fuck wasnt the one of the 2010 series.
Not really worth the time, the comedy was lacking and the horror non-existent.
I saw this today and to be honest…i wasn’t all that impressed.
The tiny insight into the movie on my tv channel said “Strong gore and horror.”
Hmm…i was expected strong gore along the lines of Saw? Nah. It wasn’t what I’d consider gore.
I found the two leading ladies okay. They weren’t amazing actresses but I’m not really expected that from this. They both were not generically pretty like all these bimbo actresses but were still beautiful; the eldest sister, I think, had a very Megan Fox kinda look to her. Having said that, some of the dialogue they were given to say didn’t help the fact.
The villians weren’t scary. Even Bill Moseley’s character was kinda lame and his ‘comedic’ kind of personality wasn’t ever funny. They all seemed way too easy to kill.
The priest guy was odd. I found him very funny at times but I doubt this was intentional.
The story itself with the whole abandoned mine/demon possession/religious cult was a bit jumbled. It should have been one out the group not try to shove all three into an hour 1/2.
The soundtrack was awful. I HATED the song from the goth-metalhead-whatever-the-hell-it-was gig at the beginning and the ‘suspensful’ music going through the movie were really cheap.
There was one scene in particular that really bugged me. At the beginning when the sisters first discover the deadly secrets of the town, the eldest sister just stands at the window staring whilst the ‘hot’ guy from the diner is brutally murdered. She doesn’t try to hide before the big guy goes to find her and her sister, she just stands there saying, “There’s something wrong.” over and over again.
The demonic possession thing was really weird too. You can tell the movie is low-budget. You don’t see this ‘demon’ or any of the possession. It’s all out of shot with cheapy looking effects and ANNOYING flies!!!
Overall, it’s entertaining and fun. Nothing special but seen worse.