The Darkness, Rage and the Fury (2014) Reviews

• Worth checking out

  Hanksum2014-03-16

  Not a horror flick guy but checked out The 13th Unit after coming across it online. Surprisingly good camera work and acting given my expectations for a low budget film. Story line was cheesy but interesting enough to keep me going. This film gave me some weird dreams after watching it in the dark before going to bed. Probably the reason I don't normally watch horror movies. That and horror films are all cheesy to me. If you need to shut the mind off for a few hours and feel like your somewhere else, check out this flick. Just be forewarned you might want to leave the light on while found so.

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• Mind-Bogglingly Awful

  alansmithee042014-03-22

  It's hard to overstate how gut-wrenchingly incompetent this film is. It looks like the final project of a student at an unaccredited film school. Specifically, a student who sat dozing in the back of the classroom while zonked out on cough syrup. The film is about a demon haunted storage facility. The story lines of three groups of characters exploring the place are not so much intertwined as put in a bucket and mashed together with a toilet plunger, creating a confusing mess whose only positive outcome is to obscure the film's insipid plot. As the victims are picked off by the POV monster (fortunately never seen) we're treated to endless repeats of the last scene of "Rec", which might make for an interesting drinking game, but only if Thorazine were used instead of alcohol. The main group of characters appear to be three hapless college age kids (Stringy Hair, Mr. Eyebrows and The Girl) who go on a treasure hunt in the aforementioned storage building. Their story is inter-cut with the two other groups, a widower and his dude-bro friend and a pair of women who (bewilderingly) resemble a young Melissa Etheridge and Cher. All three groups wander through poorly titled scenes edited by an old copy of Windows Movie Maker until the POV monster shows up to end their misery. All-in-all, this is the kind of movie I would have made if I'd been a 16 year old death-metal fan with a serious head wound. Maybe the guys at Rifftrax could do something with it, but I doubt that even they could make this train wreck entertaining.

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• Not bad, better than most...

  Juicewizzle2014-03-14

  My buddy told me about this film, said how it wasn't that great but was very creative for the budget - since we are thinking about doing a low budget film I had to check it out. I read the reviews, 50% ripping it, the other half saying its OK...my review has to fall a little closer to the okay side of the tracks. The actors, music, camera and editing was good for the little horror film it was. Some of the killing scenes were little cheesy, but not over the top bad. I've watched A LOT of "shoe-string" budget films that have major sound problems, EXTREMELY HORRIBLE ACTORS, the camera work kills you, completely takes you out of the movie. This film held together for what it was - small low budget horror. If people are expecting Mike Bay Transformer effects after you watched the trailer, then you mislead yourself. The story could have been better, but I liked the multiple story lines. I compared it for what it was...cool shoe-string budget film that worked.

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• Mindbogglingly bad- numbingly suspense-less

  bobkuhl2014-03-10

  It's kind of a very low budget cross between (rec) and the Friday the 13th Jason movies, except there is absolutely no suspense. For the first half of the movie, between flashbacks showing why they are there, various people in the storage facility get suddenly killed by some shadowy, unseen gnarling demon thing, which has been unleashed by some thrill seeking relic hunting grad students who go there to find some museum relic (one of whom may have performed a ritual with it to let the demon out- but all the flashbacks (time-stamped) are so all over the time-line its hard to tell). There are about 5 or 6 parallel stories, all with their own flashbacks, so you might want to make a chart. Then some people discover bodies, and other ranting people, but except for one woman, no one really gets any idea they are in deadly demon danger for at least the first two thirds of the movie. No one really gets chased- they just peek into lockers, get dragged in and die. I stopped watching at that point. There might have been some semblance of a decent low budget movie premise here in someones mind at some point, but it was either lost on the editing room floor, or, more likely, was a very bad script and a director who has no grasp of suspense or drama. I suspect the local high school A/V club could collaborate and write something as good or better in terms of a horror script/storyboard.

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• Cheesy and Different...but OK

  dockatmitrone2014-03-24

  I got hooked into watching low budget horror films, don't know how, it just happened - guess I just like seeing fresh new faces instead of the same old Hollywood plastic people...so I stumbled over this on UVerse. All in all, i thought it was an okay little horror story, nothing over complex or trying for a set up, just a simple straight forward, you're trapped and this thing is coming to get you. It started a little slow, scattered with 3 different story lines, but it came together, then the lights went out in the storage building...felt real enough to me, my storage building is xtra creepy at night. I skimmed a few of the reviews before I wrote mine, I don't understand people who are soooo bitter and crazy when they wrote reviews totally smashing (with personal attacks) a low budget attempt at a film...probably because they all failed/wanna be filmmakers themselves, but back to the point of the review. Acting was okay, camera, music and sounds helped it along...better than what I expected, and believe me, I have seen some bad horror films with lots of cash behind them....this little horror engine could be better, but it was OK...

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