WOULD YOU RATHER (2013)

Would You Rather (2013)

Plot:   Iris (Brittany Snow) is struggling, her brother is ill and well down the list for an essential bone marrow transplant, with no other family to rely on she can’t afford the bills for prescription drugs.  


Basically things are shit and shit times call for desperate measures, visiting the doctor to get some better insurance terms there is a mystery guest Shepard Lambrick (Jeffrey Combs) with some seemingly good news.  

 He’s rich & he likes her cause offering the chance to not only clear the debts, get extra cash but have a donor ready by the end of the week.  Obviously there’s a catch and she must attend a dinner party (sounds easy) & participate in a game (ahhh thinking to herself "I’m going to get bummed").   

Stop laughing at my headband bitch

That afternoon she gets knocked back from a waitressing job due to lack of experience & things the potential bumming is worth the risk.

So the game: 8 strangers must play, would you rather? Seemingly a simple game of choice, but the Lambrick’s are a sick bunch of shits and as the games escalate it the realisation occurs that only the winner may have a chance to come out alive. 



Is it good: Yes & No, the plus points are; it’s an effective low budget effort mostly set in one location.  It’s all you need and feeds on the importance that this maybe the last room they ever see depending on the choices they make.

Yes this is the last fucking supper

The film plays on the morality of the participants.  What will they do to win, some will be brave, some will give there lives, some will be nasty fucking selfish bitches.

Brittany is good as the pretty but down trodden girl trying to look after her brother but Jeffrey Combs wins the show hands down the Re-Animator himself who played one of my favorite characters Milton Dammers in The Frighteners (1996) plays it like a pantomime villain but the biggest surprise was professional cock Juggler (Sasha Grey) putting in a good performance as the nasty sexy bitch Amy.  When shes not busy shoving huge things up her butt like in Anal Cavity Search 6 (2008) and the other 200+ skin flicks she’s done, she isn’t too bad.     

 

Opps wrong movie

Turdige: It wasn’t as good as it could have been.  Not every film has to have saw level of gore but this movie could have done with a touch more.  It did have some brutal & squeamish moments but not enough was made of their Salvador Dali moment. 

Money & desperation may be good motivators but the fight or flight instinct surely would have kicked in a bit sooner.  

The start of the party - little tests, you would have to be a blind monkey on a stick not to see it would get worse, initial stabs at demeaning people for money "you're a veggie I'll give you $10,000 to get a steak"
your a recovering alchy heres £50,000 drink this shit load of whiskey.   They would have been out the door before the torture arrived.

Crab man just looked bored to be there.  

The very end was so obvious I figured it out in 1984 



Overall:  Arrr I may have to watch it again I was very tired and I think it affected my enjoyment.  I should have loved it but it just didn’t quite hit the mark, way above average but not as great as I thought it would be I think it could have been bigger more brutal and either realistic or comedic without having to up the budget. 

Director:David Guy Levy Cast:Brittany Snow, Jeffrey Combs, Jonny Coyne, Lawrence Gilliard Jr, Enver Gjokaj, Sasha Grey, John Heard

Not Available on DVD till 09/07/13 UK

UK_ USA_







T Shirts & Stuff

CDC Zombie Apocalypse Response Team T-shirt by zombieplanet
Browse Zazzle for another teezazzle.co.uk

Read More

HOUSE OF 9 - (2005) DVD review

House of 9 (2005)



Plot:   Stick 9 very different people in a sealed house together.  Feed them only chicken, spuds and whisky throw in a potential $5 million if they kill each other, film it and you’ve got a the answer to Big Brothers falling viewing figures.  Or in this case House of 9.   

The  voice in the wall has had them kidnapped for his own sick entertainment and in what seems like an amazingly short amount of time for society to collapse the inmates go from just generally disliking each other to psychotic.  As the greed and paranoia grows so does the body count and the $5 million looks doable. 




 Is it good:  The varied group which as the voice (In the wall) says are specifically chosen (because of how they would act towards each other, much like in reality TV where opposites are picked to cause conflict).  

Time of the month alert

Kelly Brook, generally regarded as just a pair of tits with eyes who can’t hold a job fairs quite well as Lea the most human of the bunch.  

It’s difficult for me to see Max (Peter Capaldi) as anything but the“fuck cunt” spouting Scot Malcom Tucker from “The thick of it” but he is a good actor.  In fact (Almost all) the actors do a pretty good job Jay (Raffaello), Shona (Morven Christie) Al B (Ashley Walters) all come across believable (They are not supposed to come of well or as heroes as their characters are meant to be different kinds of arsehole chosen because they are likely to kill under certain amount of pressure).

Not exactly a splatter-fest but one scene with a face and an Iron bar is pretty harsh. 

At least there is no Brian Dowling

Turdige:  Dennis Hopper has played some brilliant characters (Frank Booth in  Blue Velvet (1986) the stand off in True Romance (1993)) Father Duffy is not one of them.  Fuck knows how the other actors could listen to is piss poor Irish accent and not burst out laughing.  Jay (Raffaello Degruttola) played an American cop so why they just didn’t let the Hop use his own voice.

Susie Amy is  terrible actress and unfortunately the usually reliable "tits out" Julienne Davis keeps them covered.


The film seemed to be lacking in effort as it had all the action points associated with these trapped by mysterious people, no way out Kind of movies

Bejesus... fiddle de de

1.      Denial

  2.      Attempt to escape

  3.      Work together

  4.      Paranoia split allegiances

  5.      More paranoia, fights

  6.      Acceptance of the choices given at the start and deaths      

   

But it all seems to happen in (as there is no help with a time on the camera) 2/3 days which you can only pick up from the couple of times they get food.   I assume it’s over a much longer period but a couple good scenes hitting you with that would help draw you into the movie and feel the reasons for the breakdown.

Unused outtake

More of an issue is the time it takes for them to give up trying to escape and accept their prison its astounding.  The house is fully functional showers/toilets/electrics but they don’t try and dismantle any of it and find a source or at least spoil the big guys TV show.  




   
Overall:   Not a bad film but erratically paced and even more erratically acted (By Hopper) some nice touches and a great twist of an ending (I believe there are alternate endings so errr good luck).  With what they had, it seems a missed opportunity to make something much better. 

Director: Steven R. Monroe Cast: Dennis Hopper, Kelly Brook, Susie Amy, Peter Capaldi , Hippolyte Girardot, Ashley Walters






UK_DVD_ USA_


 



T Shirts& Stuff

CDC Zombie Apocalypse Response Team T-shirt by zombieplanet
Browse Zazzle for another teezazzle.co.uk

Read More