1/10
Abysmal
5 September 2023
Anthology of three extremely low-budget short films with the fourth serving as a framing device. It's one thing to make a B-movie that has limited resources such as not being afford to hire extras or only having one location for filming, but all of these shorts are the cheapest amateur garbage, looking like they were filmed entirely with the cheapest phone cameras and having abysmal editing, with audio being so out of place at times that I wondered if there's something wrong with my speakers.

The first short is the simplest most straightforward story about home invasion, completely forgettable and could've been 5 minutes long.

The second one is a dark comedy resembling Gremlins, but it's main problem is that despite revolving around a fantastical creature, the special effects are literally nonexistent. It mostly consists out of actors pretending to be haunted and killed by a scary off-screen creature, but it's just so badly filmed, it's obvious there's no creature whatsoever because the production couldn't even afford even a good prop, instead only showing a few glimpses of a plastic toy near the end.

The third short rips off Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but with way more cannibals. Again, everything is very amateurish, but what I found quite distracting is how a few shots were filmed with a camera that's of considerably higher quality than anything else used in this garbage anthology, so it's distracting how the image gets much clearer and better for just a few seconds here and there.

Finally, I think that the framing story actually had the most potential, since it's the only one that actually has an unpredictable plot twist. However, once again the special effects are nonexistent, and the surprise ending literally looks like just some rough raw footage that should have been heavily edited with some CGI added in, but it's obvious they couldn't afford any of that.
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