Normally, I wouldn't waste my time commenting on swill like Hollywood KILLS but since no one has yet to review it, as a public service, here goes: Recently I discovered that my Time-Warner cable service had added a new channel to its lineup entitled "Chiller". Fair enough. Horror films and thrillers (even junky ones) have always been one of my favorite genres. My first sampling on "Chiller", a 2006 gem entitled "Hollywood Kills", certainly had a promising premise: four young hopefuls are lured to the empty studio of a once-well-known filmmaker with promises of fame and fortune after they "audition" for him. Enough said. The IMDb lists the budget of this cinematic turd as $200,000. An extremely low budget? Yes, but I still would like to know: where did the budget go? Certainly not on the director (the worst), the actors (inept and repulsive), the script (or was this monstrosity improvised?), the production (if you're longing for those bottom-of-the-barrel cheapies cranked out in the 1940s by such poverty-row studios as PRC and Monogram, "Hollywood Kills" is for you!), etc. I would venture to say that, since this thing was made in 2006, it was an attempt to cash in on the mercifully short-lived popularity of such garbage as the "Saw" series, "Hostel" and "Vacancy", which by any stretch of the imagination could not even be called thrillers or even slasher flicks, but a disreputable genre known as "torture porn" that focused ad nauseum on revolting closeups of the torture and dismemberment of its protagonists. However, even on this despicable level, "Hollywood Kills" is a boring disaster. I doubt if I shall ever again sample the wares of the "Chiller" channel, which is so putrid it makes me take back every negative comment I've made about the Sci-Fi channel (whose mostly self-produced monster-on-a-rampage epics at least provide amusingly tacky CGI special effects, fairly generous budgets, and employment for once-popular actors like Dean Cain and Christopher Atkins). Summing up, please don't waste one minute of your time on imbecilic junk like "Hollywood Kills" or, for that matter, the "Chiller" channel. Cable TV, with its plethora of channels aimed at specialized tastes, was a wonderful idea in concept. But the fulfillment of its potential has been, so far, entirely another matter!
4 Reviews
The worst movie I watched from beginning to end, ever
ObjT7 December 2013
sdiner82 somehow really said it all. I just wanted to add who it came to me, that I really watched this horribly bad movie from beginning to end. It is because of the fun. Everything was so bad that I had to laugh all the way through the movie.
The dialogs of the terrible actors seemed to be at least 50% improvised, then the German voice-over was just terrible at translating the English text, as if they sometimes had to use Google translate for it, with the same effect that you get when using it yourself.
The plot didn't have any logic at all. I don't remember too exactly, but the characters had a lot of possibilities not getting killed, but well, as the script wanted them to die, and no one had the time to think about any clever way of letting them die, they all just had to be very stupid.
The stage props were hilariously bad. The big bad evil boss didn't have a fireplace, for example, but an old TV on the ground where a video of a fireplace played.
After all, everything on this movie was so bad, that I would recommend it as an anti-pattern- movie for filmmakers.
The dialogs of the terrible actors seemed to be at least 50% improvised, then the German voice-over was just terrible at translating the English text, as if they sometimes had to use Google translate for it, with the same effect that you get when using it yourself.
The plot didn't have any logic at all. I don't remember too exactly, but the characters had a lot of possibilities not getting killed, but well, as the script wanted them to die, and no one had the time to think about any clever way of letting them die, they all just had to be very stupid.
The stage props were hilariously bad. The big bad evil boss didn't have a fireplace, for example, but an old TV on the ground where a video of a fireplace played.
After all, everything on this movie was so bad, that I would recommend it as an anti-pattern- movie for filmmakers.
What a load of crap
ArchieIsCool1 April 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Ok started to watch this dvd firstly the way it's filmed looks like some students put it together. Then the acting oh dear wooden to say the least that you don't care for any of the characters, it's about a group of wannabe actors who go to see this producer but he's not what he seems again played so badly it's comical. They are drugged and then tortured and killed but it's not gory as the lighting is abmissal throughout, the ending ends with no survivors but the producer so don't waste your money I wish I hadn't bothered.
THAT'S HOW I WANT TO PROVE MYSELF
nogodnomasters14 December 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Four people become pawns in a private filming and torture by a psychotic film maker. Country girl Sarah Dell (Angela DiMarco) wants to be in movies as does her roommate Chantelle Sholay (Gillian Shure). When Sarah's brother James (Happy Mahaney) and screwball cousin Vaughn (Mathew Scollon) come visit they decide to go out on the town, only to be lured and drugged by said film maker. Their torture is related to what they want most in life.
This is another "me too" kids in a warehouse type film. It keeps you engaged. Characters, other than Vaughn, are not memorable and developed to be bland. Our torturer (Dominic Keating) was not given convincing dialogue. Nice touch with the oriental twins filming everything.
Available on a 30 Horror Film Collection.
Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex, rape, nudity (Jazmin Daley)
This is another "me too" kids in a warehouse type film. It keeps you engaged. Characters, other than Vaughn, are not memorable and developed to be bland. Our torturer (Dominic Keating) was not given convincing dialogue. Nice touch with the oriental twins filming everything.
Available on a 30 Horror Film Collection.
Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex, rape, nudity (Jazmin Daley)
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