DVD The Eves
Run time: 85 min
Rating: 4.3
Genres: Thriller
Director: Tyler Glodt
Writers: Matthew Albrecht, Tyler Glodt
Stars: Alexa Albrecht, Matthew Albrecht, Phillip Albrecht
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Storyline A group of students are en route to the beach for spring break when their car overheats near a crumbling hunting lodge, leaving them alone and defenseless while an unseen force attacks them from all sides. |
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Details: Country: USA Release Date: 19 October 2012 (Mexico) |
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Box Office Budget: $500,000 (estimated) |
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DVD The Eves
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I enjoy renting low-budget horror films. If they're not scary (and they usually aren't) then they're sometimes good for a laugh. When I rented The Eves last weekend I definitely thought it was going to be no exception. An attractive group of college kids stranded at a dilapidated house in the middle of nowhere is definitely something I've seen a thousand times.
However, this film surprised me for several reasons. The twist ending was nicely executed and kept me engaged. Also, the filmmakers took a lot of time developing each character and their strained relationships at the outset. As a result, the pacing is a little slow in the beginning but when things begin to unfold and the mystery of what is happening presents itself, it really does draw you in. After watching the film once I zipped through it again and found clues I hadn't noticed or picked up on during my first viewing.
There wasn't as much blood and gore as I prefer but the third act is very violent and quite creepy as the film mixes religion and violence giving it a Southern Gothic tone. The performances were all very good. Overall, I'd recommend this film as it definitely stands apart from other low-budget horror films.
This surprised me; I was wanting a potboiler to watch and, having seen everything that actually interested me, settled for this. Like the previous reviewer, Bobby Everett, I went back and watched it again to look for the clues I missed the first time round. Viewers may have suspicions, as I did, about the "baddies", but I don't think many would put the whole thing together before the reveal.
The little twist at the ending was foreseeable, but the ending itself was satisfying. I'm not a fan of gore and torture and, thankfully, there was not too much of that; the worst bit being about 15 minutes before the end. The rest was more psychological. I gave it an 8 because I was interested enough to review it looking for clues. Worth watching.
Getting stranded while on a road-trip, a group of friends follow the advice of a local to stay at a supposedly-abandoned shack in the woods, only to find it's actually the home to a group of demented, devout religious followers intent on saving them from their sins, forcing them into a deadly struggle to survive.
For the most part, this is an absolutely generic slasher in every sense of the word, as the fact that the twisted, warped views on religion provide so many agonizing moments of stupidity to come forth that it alone amounts for nearly all the film's problems right there, then take into account that it follows a time-honored tradition of a group of friends getting stranded in the woods and the locals with a hidden agenda that just seems so common a set-up that, by not doing anything radically different here, it tends to feel very clichéd and repetitive after a while. Added together with the very slow and drawn-out beginning here and it's got a lot to overcome. There's some nice brutality in the kills and the treatment of the prisoners in a dark, intense second half filled with more confrontations and encounters that does go some way toward redeeming this one, but all that religious stuff really can't be overcome and drags this down a lot, for there's not a lot that really overcomes a flaw like that.
Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence and Brief Nudity.