Eaters

It's been a very long time since I've seen such horrific acting, casting and directing. To find all three in the same film doesn't surprise me when a 'Biker Gang' consists of four normal looking men trying to look imposing and missing by a mile. As a biker myself, I'm used to seeing stereotypical representations of motorcycle riders, but this just made them look like fools. The plot is (you'll be unsurprised to hear) a common one that frankly has been done a lot better in other movies. The characters are as weak and two dimensional as the acting and the narrative and script appear to have been written by teenagers without a firm grasp of what making a film should entail. Unless you enjoy watching paint dry or grass grow, I'd give this shocking excuse for a film a wide berth. Low budget doesn't have to mean low quality, it's just a shame no one reminded the director and production team associated with this disaster.

Low budget movies are one thing, but total lack of acting talent is another. Usually you can find one "actor" that has a modicum of chops, but this is ridiculous. It's as if no one has ever acted a lick. Probably none of them have and they are all friends/relatives of the director. I could've done better and I'm sure I did even in grade school plays.

Too many other movies to watch to waste 90 minutes on this train wreck.

I would say I've seen worse, but I'm drawing a blank.

I will say remember the director's name: Johnny Tabor. That way you can avoid anything else he may have the misfortune of writing and/or directing.

I really wanted to like this film. The plot seemed decent and i found the villains pretty creepy. The acting in this film though is shockingly bad. I mean really, really bad. There isn't a good way to describe it other than it's like watching a high school play, but in all honesty most high school plays have better acting. Marcelle Bowman was the only decent actor in the cast. The dialogue and delivery was just horrible from everyone else in the movie. There are quite a few plot holes as well.

All in all, this could be a good candidate for a remake with some good actors and a new screen writer.

A group of these young friends, while on a road trip stumble into a biker gang. On their way to find one of their friends, after she's gone missing, they find themselves lured into a trap, now turning their nightmare into something more sinister as they come face, to face with the supposed "Eaters" One plain sentence can pretty much sum this entire movie up. What a load of crap. This movie was just.. terrible. To start off, the acting. The acting in this movie was absolutely atrocious, and words can't describe how painfully obvious it was that these "actors" had the slightest clue on how to act. Their line delivery was terrible, their reaction acting, as well was dreadful, and their all around delivery of their characters was God awful, and just painful to sit through. On Top of that, the characters they acted as were flat out, to the core, completely clichéd. You have your typical bunch of clichéd characters, at this point, you could literally care less about. This film just delivers the same copied group thrown into the same, boring situation, just another time. The entire plot of this film was mixed together with clichés, and to top that off, it was presented in the most atrocious of ways. You have the same, agonizingly old situation where a bunch of characters are stuck in the middle of nowhere, more specifically, the desert. And you have the same old situation where they're being hunter by killers. The only thing that this movie differs with, is an execution of the same exact cliché, only in a more agonizingly boring, and convolutely ugly way. The pacing in this movie just threw any interest out the window completely, as we have an unwanted mixed bag of which sends the storyline, overall to be a horribly slow, slow movie. We barely see these "Eaters" until the 30 minute mark of the film, even then, we barely really get to see them at all. The film makes itself even more pointless as we get barely ANY story whatsoever. We literally watch these strangers of characters be thrown with these strangers of killers. What makes matters even more worse is the budget. With such horrible elements of the film, we get the horrid elements with an even more horrid budget. The cinematography was atrocious, most of the shots couldn't even focus, making things look blurry. And for the most part, we get ugly shades of yellow throughout this entire film, making even the smallest of things look ugly, and simply unsettling, and not in the good way. And finally, the audio.. Half of this film, the audience struggles to hear what their trying to say as it pans in, and out constantly, making it not only frustrating, but angering, and annoying.

In conclusion.. what an atrocity. I can honestly say this is one of the worst, in not the worst horror films of 2015. Terrible, God awful acting, horrible elements, lazy writing, ugly technical work, and all around a jumbled mess of a supposed "film" I honestly can't recommend this under any circumstances, you're better off watching a high school film of a horror film, in all honesty, as this proves to just be another one of Lionsgate's dump films.

Where to begin with this mess, the acting is atrocious, the audio quality terrible, and finally the camera work and editing. I'm not going to spoil anything because to you are going to have to see this movie to see how truly bad it is. As everyone has said it actually starts off strong with good shots of the main characters and their mustang, a little background of the main characters, and it really feels like it is professional grade and you are in for a treat. Then without spoiling anything once they hit the rest stop (it happens like 5 minutes in) everything goes downhill. It seems as soon as they step out of the car they all forget how to act. The 2 girls have to go to the bathroom and we are shown these "scary" "intimidating" bikers. They of course hit on one of the girls are she comes back from the bathroom, and at this point while cliche the movie still looked ok. Later on our main characters have another run in with the biker gang and this is where I realized one of the major problems with this film. First off the acting obviously and the delivery of their lines. Nolan (the main man) has a gun to the bikers face and he trips and stumbles over his lines and it got to the point where a pistol sitting on a pillow would be more intimidating. To be fair to the cast the dialogue is so bland and basic if a middle school student were to write some of these sentences they would receive an F. It is so uninspired and vanilla I don't blame the actors for not caring about what they were saying. The second main problem with this film is throughout the entire 90 minutes the audio is so bad you have to struggle to hear what the characters are saying. The music blares at some parts or the music is too quiet and you can hear the transition from background music to the inserting of the audio recorded with their five dollar microphones. This was most apparent in the first ten minutes when it is showing the title "Eaters". They are talking in the car but you cant hear a word but it's not like your missing much with the uninspired dialogue. Finally the third biggest problem with "Eaters" was the camera work and their editing. All of the action scenes are unfocused or shaky. There is even a point in the movie where you can hear the camera man's footsteps! As for the editing this was glaringly off in the fight scenes, if you can call them that. Every time someone was punched or kicked it was like watching the 1960 superhero shows. The punches were pushes with the punching sound played way too loud. The same goes for the kicking. The only thing they did right was the gunshots and the angles with that. This movie had so much potential and that is why I am so angry and disappointed with this movie. The pacing is what kills the horror aspect of this movie. What I mean by pacing is how fast we are shown vital parts of the story so it can flow. It takes us 30 minutes to get to the "real villains". We are a third of the way through this movie and we are just introduced to the main villains. This is quite the problem but don't worry the writers decided to cut out silly things like a back story or what they really are or how long they have been living there. By doing this it creates shallow villains that aside from the masks are not scary. In the end they leave so much left unexplained and it leaves you with this annoying feeling in your gut. Along with a weak plot that after a while becomes more lost than the main characters. The plot seems to be forgotten at BackHeel. They began to introduce so many new things, characters, and events I had to check what time the movie was at. Once I did this I was concerned with how little time was left and how much they still had to go into detail about and explain and how much had to be resolved. At the very end of the film I had literally 23 questions that weren't answered. Of the 23 about 13 were vital to the plot while the rest were just little nitpicks. While the problems above would made any genre of film terrible those along with terrible pacing and a forgotten plot absolutely destroy it's chances of being a decent horror film. The worst part about this movie is what it could have been. I would be brave enough to see a remake if they decide to do one but if you're looking to kill 90 min, I would still not recommend this movie but don't take my word for it, if you think you are brave enough(and the movie is free) give it a shot.