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18 out of 24 people found the following comment useful :-
Damn, I Wanted To Love This Film..., 27 August 2006

Author: EVOL666 from St. John's Abortion Clinic

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It almost hurts me to have to write this review - I REALLY hoped that LIVE FEED was going to be THE "underground" film to watch for this year, and have been anxiously awaiting a view. Well - I got ahold of the unrated screener, and I have to say that I was disappointed. I really dug director Ryan Nicholson's twisted rape/revenge film TORCHED - as the performances were good, the gore was hot-and-heavy, and the subject-matter and film as a whole had a dark and twisted feel to it. LIVE FEED fails on pretty much all those levels. I was hoping for a nihilistic gore-fest and instead witnessed a disjointed mish-mash of genre stylings with a few decent moments...

Five tourists on holiday in Asia make a big mistake when one of the group insults a mob Boss while hanging out at a bar. A local guy tries to smooth things over but the Boss and his gang aren't so easily appeased. Things go from bad to worse for the group of travelers when the gang of thugs trap them inside a seedy porno theater and decide to show them a little Asian "hospitality"...

Good points - there are some decent gore scenes, and the beginning has a good bit of relatively explicit nudity. The over-the-top performances by the Asian mob Boss and the character of the bugged-out looking porno theater doorman were enjoyable. Unfortunately, that's about it as far as the good stuff. The acting by virtually everyone else is pretty weak, and the film feels disjointed and "confused", as though Nicholson didn't quite know what sort of film he wanted to make. Overall, LIVE FEED felt too campy for my taste, and I was hoping for something "darker" and more nihilistic. It's not a horrible film by any means, and is relatively entertaining - it just didn't feel like anything truly noteworthy to me. I still think Nicholson has a ton of potential, and just hope that GUTTERBALLS turns out better...6/10

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14 out of 20 people found the following comment useful :-
Brutally Awful, 21 December 2006

Author: bobcoughlin from United States

First of all, this is a low-budget movie, so my expectations were incredibly low going into it. I assume most people looking at the info for this movie just wanted a bloodfest, and essentially that's all it is.

Plot? There really is none. It's basically Saw but in China and a whole hell of a lot worse. Cast? There is none, period. Special Effects? Absolutely awful in my opinion... There were cutaways and the blood was often completely unbelievable because of amounts, splatter, color, texture, etc.

I believe the purpose of this movie was supposed to be a brutal, shock film. Now it had some great potential on a bigger budget but poor scripting, poor dialogue, awful acting, what seemed like camcorder video shots, and just plain unbelievable "gore," made this movie truly awful.

There are movies worth taking a chance against some reviews, even "b-rate" movies deserve some opportunities (blood trails for example was the most recent I saw against reviews that was worth it), but this was simply awful. I hope that people considering this movie read my comment and decide against it.

I'm all for brutality and shock, but the overall unrealism and truly awful acting makes for an awful experience. Save your time/money and chance something else, you won't be disappointed.

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11 out of 15 people found the following comment useful :-
What a pile of rubbish!!, 28 November 2006

Author: ESXTony from United Kingdom

This is one of the worst films I've seen in years!! You could randomly pluck 5 people off the streets and they could act better than anyone in this film. Absolute waste of time watching it. I only gave it a 2 as I like gory films but this is just plain rubbish. The acting (and I use that term VERY loosely) is abysmal, someone please tell me that the 5 main actors in this were making their first ever film?? Don't waste your time watching this. Hostel was a better film by some way. I cannot believe that someone has spent money making this, I hope for the producers sake it only cost $50,000 to make - it looks like a school project, made by kids who haven't got a clue. Did this even make it to the cinema??

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11 out of 16 people found the following comment useful :-
Unbelievable, 20 February 2007

Author: Fyxe from Sweden

This is the kind of movie that's so extremely bad that you cant stop watching it because you keep telling yourself that 'it cannot continue to be this crappy all the way to the end. It just cant'. You know, 'worse than Jaws 4'-kind of bad.

I honestly think I've only seen ONE movie that was worse than this, and then we're talking religious crap about how you'd end up in hell for lying or watching football.

Gore? Indeed and lots of it. Well made gore? No way.

The acting is beyond bad and all the lines are lousy clichés. Same goes for the storyline which only really consist of sex, blood and violence, like so many other gore movies.

If you're hoping for a mix between Ichi the Killer and August Underground… keep looking. You wont find it in Live Feed.

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13 out of 22 people found the following comment useful :-
rubbish, 14 October 2006

Author: debski2222 from United Kingdom,birmingham

just watched it, me and my better half could not believe how awful and badly acted it was. If anyone else thinks its good then you must be easily pleased. I actually gave up a night out to watch this, its all been done before. IE. hostel springs to mind, but at least that did not make you cringe with the bad acting and lack of story line, same old stuff, re-hatched,i read so much about this film, i even recommended it to my mates, my fault,someone said it was good! no more gory,horror or reeling back in disgust than your average "scary movie" it has to be said, please don't bother with this movie. get mary poppins. now thats scary! I'm off out now, go to the cinema and watch something scarier than this, little miss sunshine maybe

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33 out of 62 people found the following comment useful :-
Sleazy and extremely gory low-budget horror at its best., 9 February 2006

Author: HumanoidOfFlesh from Chyby,Poland

Five young tourists(Mike,Darren,Emily,Linda and Sarah)are on vacation in an Asian city.First they visit a traditional Night Market,where they are shocked to see a butcher slaughtering a dog for meat.After this gruesome event they decide to relax and have some fun in a local Karaoke Bar,where Emily meets a handsome Japanese man named Miles.Unfortunately for them Mike insults the Triad Boss,who entered the place with his henchmen.Big mistake!However Miles defuses the situation as he apologizes to the Boss and persuades the tourists to move on as soon as possible.Soon the action moves into a creepy porno theatre.The tourists buy tickets and enter this filthy place to forget about the evening's hostilities.Unbeknownst to them the Boss and his cohort have followed them to the Venus Theatre.The sadistically explicit bloodbath begins there...First of all I enjoyed Ryan Nicholson's nasty rape and revenge shocker "Torched",but "Live Feed" is even better.It is also one of the goriest horror films I have seen.The gore is plentiful and truly extreme with dismemberments,decapitations,grisly tortures,sword impalings and geysers of grue to boost.The acting is great and the action is fast-paced,intense and bloody as hell.Stephen Chang is especially memorable as the Triad Boss with a taste for human flesh.So if you are a fan of gore or grindhouse exploitation flicks you can't go wrong with "Live Feed".10 out of 10.Truly awesome stuff that will surely please genre fans!

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4 out of 5 people found the following comment useful :-
Better than Hostel...I think not, 12 June 2007

Author: deadman71 from United Kingdom

I watched the Unrated version of this film and realised about 30 minutes into it that I was never getting my time back. I persevered to the end hoping that the dialogue would improve, the martial arts would look realistic eventually, the special FX would actually look special. I was so wrong. I love Horror, I am a complete gore hound. I number some of the eighties splatter flicks amongst the greats of the film world. This however was not made in the eighties, if this film had come out in the early eighties the fax could be forgiven for looking so bad. It wasn't so it hasn't got that defence. The dialogue is terrible with so many bad lines I was wincing at the writing rather than squirming at torture. I don't like Hostel, never have, I thought it was over rated, over hyped and I felt nothing for the protagonists, however it shines as a beacon to greatness next to this garbage. The back of the cover for Live Feed promised a twist you would never see coming, I'm still waiting for the twist that was promised.

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6 out of 9 people found the following comment useful :-
Bad acting, bad plot line, 11 November 2006

Author: jsb-26 from United States

I agree with the last reviewer that this movie had terrible acting. Yes, there was a lot of gore and some nudity. But it was overshadowed by a slow-moving, meaningless plot and dumb ending. Where was this supposed to be filmed anyway: a Canadian Chinatown or Hong Kong? Hostel was a much better movie and I would recommend seeing that instead. A technical annoyance I had with the DVD is that if you shut off the Spanish subtitles, they return after a few scenes and then you have to go back to the main menu and turn them off again. Also, don't waste your time on the deleted scenes because there's no audio and it just looks like tourist footage.

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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful :-
A disappointing full-length feature from the maker of Torched., 3 November 2007

Author: ba.harrison from Hampshire, England

The first full-length feature from FX-man turned director Ryan Nicholson, Live Feed treads similar territory to recent 'torture porn' movies Hostel 1 & 2 (and to a lesser degree, Vacancy and Turistas), and likewise fails to make the most of an admittedly interesting premise. I guess the fact that I actually rate it on a par with much higher budgeted efforts from major studios can be seen as a positive, but, considering I really enjoyed Nicholson's earlier 'short' Torched (rated 8/10 by me), I can't help but feel somewhat let down.

Live Feed sees a group of five hedonistic friends on vacation in the Far East, who become trapped in a sleazy porno theatre. There they become the latest victims of a vicious organised crime syndicate whose boss gets his kicks from watching people die. One-by-one, the petrified tourists are slaughtered by a hulking brute wearing a rubber apron and a bizarre S&M-style mask, with all of the gory action broadcast to the sadistic boss on a 'live feed'.

With plenty of nasty violence and loads of gratuitous nudity, this film certainly doesn't pull any punches, but it is let down considerably by bad characterisation, lame acting and a poor script. Unfortunately, no amount of extreme bloodletting and welcome T&A from pretty girls could distract this viewer from these weaknesses, and although I enjoyed the many brutal deaths (especially the bit where one guy gets his head twisted clean off!), I wish more time had been spent on bringing the substandard aspects of the film up to scratch.

Nicholson could be praised for achieving the same degree of nastiness in his film as self-proclaimed 'saviour of horror' Eli Roth does with his over-hyped Hostel. But since I genuinely believe that he has more potential than Roth (and certainly has more respect for fans of the genre), I regrettably give this film a rather disappointing 5/10, and hope that he fares much better with his next project, the intriguingly titled Gutterballs.

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5 out of 8 people found the following comment useful :-
So bad it's terrible!, 18 November 2006

Author: byroti from Melbourne, Australia

I'm all for a "bad" horror movie but this was just a pile of dog sh!t! How anyone can call this movie cool or decent is beyond me. If you like rushed editing to cover the special effects, bad acting and a bad script then go for it! There was no suspense whatsoever and the gore factor was laughable because it was so fake. I'll take Hostel or Wolf Creek over this pile any day. My partner gave up after about 20 minutes, she knows a stinker when she sees one. I on the other hand stupidly sat through the whole movie just to wait and see if it got any better. No such luck! I haven't sen his other movie Torched and I doubt if I'll bother now.

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