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Some typically Aussie chauvinistic characters from the get go. A really weak monster that isn't scary in the slightest, but a bonus point for being flagrantly Australian and for repping a Bodyjar shirt.

Ashburn Waters is an Australian take on the "ultra-low budget slasher movie made by a couple of friends over a weekend" genre. Let's not start pretending that we have high expectations or have set a high bar for a movie like this; we know that at best, the acting is going to be a C+, the effects/costumes are going to be a C-, and if we are lucky, someone on the crew understands how to capture sound. Ashburn Waters is on the better side of movies of this ilk, but that's not saying its good. The acting is mostly kind of okay, but there are some really bad deliveries, but no one here does bad enough to specifically call out; everyone seems to be at least trying. The story is boilerplate and although it's only an hour and twenty minutes, it feels so long. I understand the goal was to create characters that we care about before they start getting sliced, but I really don't; every character is an obvious horror cliche and I found them all annoying. While nothing is particularly good, there is one piece that is bad enough to be noteworthy, the monster/demon. I get that there were budgetary constraints, but I'm not freaking out about a ghillie with light up eyes. They have a good enough camera that I can see things clearly and then they expect to carry a horror movie with somebody looking like a rejected Pokemon cosplay slapping people to death. No. No. No. Just paint some dude's face red and we're already better off. There are exactly two things I expect out of a slasher movie, cool kills and a creepy looking bad guy. Ashburn Waters gives us shots of dead bodies with some blood on their faces and walking seaweed. Every Friday the 13th movie was terrible, every single one, but at lest there was a scary man and we got to see a guy get his head chopped off; we got something out of the movie. I got nothing from Ashburn Waters. The only thing I can compliment it on is that the sound was very good for a movie of this budget. I didn't notice any ADR and although there were a few times where the sound level dropped dramatically enough that I had to turn the volume up just to hear the dialog (not that I could understand everything because every man in this movie has a very thick Australian accent), overall is was well done. Maybe if you really want to support Australian Cinema, check it out, but otherwise I can't say I recommend it at all.

I like an Australian Film, and an Indie. So this was going to be good for me. Also I like pop corn horror flicks. But this one is pretty bad. Bad story and dialog. A bunch of teen actors and a few adults. Probably cost $1000 to make. The movie just gets worse and worse. A cheap nude girl scene to check that box. Then it just ends. I think they ran out of money or the park they used to film it in had to open to the public.

Family Friendly? Nude Woman (topless), smoking, drinking, some slasher style killing, bad language.

I don't know what this is supposed to be but it is truly awful right from the beginning to the end, the script is awful, the dialogue is awful and the acting is woeful, woeful like they dragged these people straight off the set of an ABC children's show and told them to act scared which none of them actually has the acting ability to do so particularly when there is ZERO chemistry between the actors, if it wasn't for the magnificent boob scenes this wouldn't be worth the time it takes to watch it and it's lucky for that girl she has those assets because her acting is terrible, as for the '' demon ", are they serious! I've seen better makeup and costumes at a kindergarten pantomime than this pathetic effort. Don't waste your time, this flick is absolutely pathetic.

I thoroughly enjoyed this film. If you ignore that basically all aspects of this film is garbage and also ignore the story completely it's a fun watch.

James Grace is my favourite actor now.

Had a lot of fun with this Aussie indie flick. While super low budget, the Australian humour, the (mostly) likeable characters and few good jump scares got me. Worth a watch.

I often read reviews on imdb and it's strange how common it is for things to get either the unbelievably bad tag or the greatest movie ever. In truth virtually no movie is either.

So Ashburn Waters is evidently not made on a huge budget and honestly if I didn't know it's not much different to a lot of US films (This is Australian) on the same sort of topic.....teens go into the woods/a campsite and end up victims of a slasher/monster/demon etc etc.

The acting while not oscar winning is fine for the genre, I've definitely seen way worse. Similarly the script and direction is good. Naturally all the characters are stereotypes, Good girl, slutty girl, decent guy, drunk blah blah but that's pretty common for horror movies in general.

Definitely fails a bit on special effects but then that's a budget thing and not the fault of anyone involved.

In short this is a serviceable genre film no worse or no better than the norm. Go into it expecting Halloween and you'll be disaster but it's fine for a casual watch free on Amazon.