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Director:
Brad Sykes
Writer:
Brad Sykes (writer)
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Release Date:
10 June 2003 (USA) more
Genre:
Thriller | Horror more
Tagline:
They Live a Lifestyle on the Edge of Insanity. more
Plot:
GOTH blurs the boundaries between reality-driven horror and the hallucinatory style of REQUIEM FOR A... more | add synopsis
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OK, obviously it's no Lord of the Rings... more

Cast

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Phoebe Dollar ... Goth
Laura Reilly ... Crissy

Dave Stann ... Boone
Larry Sprock ... Max

Todd Livingston ... Duff

Jed Rowen ... Tor
Ashley White ... Sara
Matt Nespoli ... Alex
Krista Stilley ... Angel
Joe Di Angelo ... Bouncer
Monika Wild ... Chyna
Snakelady Rose ... Mello

Joe Myles ... Frank
Gary Levinson ... Lewis
Zenova Braeden ... Dina
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Additional Details

Runtime:
USA:85 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Certification:
UK:18
Filming Locations:
Los Angeles, California, USA

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Goth: That is why I took you along with me. So you can see what goths really do, while posers are safe in their bed. more

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5 out of 9 people found the following comment useful:-
OK, obviously it's no Lord of the Rings..., 10 June 2005
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Author: Danny_G13 from Glasgow, Scotland

Budget Goth subculture movie is nothing more than cheap and cheerful. Well, without much cheer.

OK, so this one was obviously made on a shoestring budget, and the production values suffer as a result...

Laura Reilly (Who?) is Chrissy, a 'goth' who embraces the superficial nature of the culture. Aided and abetted by her boyfriend Boone (Dave Stann) she goes to a gig at a club and encounters Phoebe Dollar's (Your guess is as good as mine) 'Goth', a sadistic and sinister goth who delights in making people suffer. She takes the 2 on a trip of violence, sodomy, and drug-taking.

OK, first off, the acting is not good, but it's the type of movie where it's impossible to act well. The low budget cheap film-reel is more Blair Witch than anything else, with the difference being the movie isn't filmed as a documentary. So it does look like a group of film students have taken a day off college to film a project...

The 'effects' are truly appalling - the blood literally looks like tomato sauce, and no attempt has been made to create convincing wounds. Apparently smearing puree on someone's chest is enough to tell us they've been sliced open.

The plot itself is daft, but quite honestly it's not hopeless. It's *reasonably* entertaining, and not overly predictable. Sure, it's not especially original, but it doesn't have to be.

As for the question of the accuracies about goth subculture, well I find anyone defending goth culture to be mostly misguided. People become goths because they're trying to be different, yet because it's such a common route to take, by trying to be different, goths end up conforming just like the rest of us. Plus true Gothic culture is nothing like the film portrays, nor anything like what most people think it is.

But this is academic and irrelevant.

Ignore the factual discrepancies, the poor special effects, the awful acting, and purely focus on the strongest aspect, the story, and you'll find this vaguely agreeable for an hour and a half.

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