Crazy Eights - After Dark Horror Fest | 
| Director: James Koya Jones
Actors: Gabrielle Anwar, Traci Lords, George Newbern, Frank Whaley, Dina Meyer
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 27341
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 80 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: 22683
UPC: 031398226833
EAN: 0031398226833
ASIN: B00127RAIU
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: March 18, 2008
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CRAZY EIGHTS - WS (DVD MOVIE)
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A solid cast of name actors enliven this indie ghost story from the 2007 After Dark Horror Fest. Dina Meyer, Frank Whaley, Traci Lords and Gabrielle Anwar are among a group of friends directed to an abandoned home by instructions left in a will by a deceased companion; naturally, they become trapped inside the structure, which is revealed to be a former hospital where behavioral experiments were conducted in prior decades on scores of children. That the group should have a connection to these experiments should come as no surprise to viewers, nor should the fact that the hospital's vengeful spirits plan to keep their secret safe by eliminating the intruders in Ten Little Indians fashion. In fact, there's very little fresh material for horror fans to gnaw on in Crazy Eights: The dialogue is leaden and the plot constantly forces one or more cast member to irrationally wander alone into the darkness in order to meet their fate. Director James K. Jones should be credited for bringing a professional and atmospheric look to his production, and for some restraint in the gore department, but the picture as a whole treads overly familiar territory and is therefore not particularly frightening. The cast certainly tries hard, especially Whaley and Lords. The sole extra is a handful of webisodes that follow the search for Miss HorrorFest 2007. -- Paul Gaita
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 pretty scary December 30, 2008
B. E Jackson (Pennsylvania)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I can see Crazy Eights has received many negative reviews, and well, those comments are completely understandable. If anything, the movie felt like it could and SHOULD have been so much more.
Instead, we were treated to a storyline that built slowly and gradually, and by the time the actual fear was present, there simply wasn't enough of it to satisfy me. So the movie comes up a BIT short.
With that said, I am honestly VERY impressed with the atmosphere of the place the eight people were trapped in. Around every single corner of the place you can sense dread and a place of many deaths and emotional confusion, and that was the obvious high point of the movie for me- the atmosphere and the fear that something very bad could happen at any moment.
So yeah, this movie is still pretty good and I recommend it, contains plenty of suspense along with a pretty good story- you just can't help but feel the story could have been even better than what we ended up with.
 Disappointing & Leaves you Hanging November 29, 2008
M. Ervin (Boston, MA)
I have just started watching the AfterDark movies, and except for "Tooth and Nail", I have been far from disappointed. Until now. Like most of the reviews said, it just left me hanging. Not very well developed. It has GREAT potential to be a thriller if only the plot would have gone somewhere. I was left wondering why the girl wanted to kill them -- if it really was them; or was everything in their head? Was it all just part of the experiments? I like movies that make me think, but I like a little something to back up my thoughts. I feel like these ideas I'm just pulling out of thin air because the movie doesn't give much for you to think on....WAY too open-ended
 A gory spook story that we've seen before, and seen better September 12, 2008
N. Durham (Philadelphia, PA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Crazy Eights, an offering in the second year of the After Dark Horror Fest, is a gory spook story that doesn't offer anything that hasn't been seen plenty of times before, and were it not for it's game cast, this flick would be a pure waste of celuloid. Crazy Eights revolves around a group of old friends (Dina Meyer, George Newbern, Traci Lords, Frank Whaley, Burn Notice's Gabrielle Anwar, and The Wire vet Dan DeLuca who also co-wrote this flick) who are re-united after the passing of a friend of theirs. Turns out that all of them were involved in some sort of dark research and experiments, and soon enough all of them become trapped and start to get picked off. What kills Crazy Eights is it's predictability: you know what's going to happen right before it happens. Not to mention that there are so many non-sensical twists and developments that the film ends up becoming almost incomprehensible as it winds down, and the road getting there is more boring than anything else. The grainy look of the film doesn't make matters any better either, but as said before, the cast is good. All of them, even Lords (who pulls off a great and blood-curdling scream), manage to accomplish some great work, but that's the only thing about Crazy Eights worth mentioning really. All in all, you'll certainly see worse horror flicks, but you can certainly do better than what you get here.
 Genuinely creepy moments so cut it some slack August 25, 2008
Rick H (NC)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I caught this on on-demand Fearnet and wasn't expecting much. However, from the introduction to the final scene, the film held my interest and had some pretty creepy scenes. Worth renting and I'll take this over any of the Saw movies any day of the week.
traci July 28, 2008
andy (vienna, austria)
i'm a big traci lords-fan (not of her porns) and so i bought this dvd, because i was lucky that there was a new movie starring her. the idea of the movie was not so bad, but the movie for itself was a little bit boring. also i think that some brutal scenes were cut. on this dvd were trailers from the other 7 films from the after dark horrorfest, and i think, those films are better. especially borderland, where i also bought the dvd.the first star from my rating is for a new traci-film, and the second star is therefore, that she plays almost a leading role!
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