After Dark Horrorfest III |  | Directors: Craig Singer, Jody Dwyer, Ki-hwan Oh, Phedon Papamichael, Sean Ellis
Actors: Jin-seo Yun, Gi-woong Park, Ki-woo Lee, Yu-seon Ham, So-eun Kim
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 8
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.5 x 5.3
MPN: LGED25287D
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Genre: Horror
Rating: R
Release Date: 31-MAR-2009
Media Type: DVD
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 WOW IF U DONT LOVE THESE U ARNT A TRUE HORROR FAN January 30, 2010
Candace S. Johnson (Amherst, NY United States)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
VERY VERY GOOD IDK Y PEOPLE HATE THESE MOVIES I MEAN 2 AND A HALF STARS!!! UHHHHHH THEY DESERVE A 3 AND A HALF ATLEAST MAYBE EVEN A 4 THERE WAS LIKE NOTHING WRONG WITH THESE MOVIES THE PICTURE WAS FINE IDC BOUT ACTING IT A HORROR MOVIE I MEAN COME ON REALLY BUT IF U A FAN OF THE FEST MOVIES U REALLY SHOULD WATCH THEM DONT LISTEN TO BAD REVIEWS JUST WATCH THEM ALL FOR URSELF....
 A non-scary, uninteresting, but ultimately a creative way of bashing Christianity December 30, 2009
K. Credille
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This movie was terrible. The dialogue was fair at best. It was not very interesting, not very scary, and it moved very slowly.
The movie portrayed Christians in an offensive way throughout its entirety. All the Christians in the small town were portrayed as uneducated and immoral, and they did not "practice what they preached." The film ended with a dialogue by a ungodly man, defining himself as a Christian, as he burned a young girl alive in God's name, and claimed it was his duty.
Reviews on this movie have been mostly positive because critics of Christianity are pleased that Christians are being portrayed in a "genuine" or "real" way. Unfortunately, it portrayed the loud minority of Christians, and not the silent majority.
iLL Horror Movie October 22, 2009
thecooLapse (in my mind)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I wasnt expecting much but this movie exceeded all of my expectations. If your looking for a horror movie this is the way to go plus it may be the only movie in the afterdark series since Gravedancers that has been entertaining.
 Pretty To Look At, But Devolves Into Typical B-Horror In The End - Near The Bottom of 2009's "8 Films To Die For" Heap. October 10, 2009
Steve Forsyth (Denton, TX USA)
On the island of Tasmania, rumor tells of a thought-to-be extinct tiger roaming the woods. A woman named Nina has photographic evidence of this beast, taken years previously by her sister, who later turned up drowned in the same area. Nina sets off to catch her own glimpse of the elusive animal, taking along her boyfriend, his brother, and his brother's girlfriend. Once the four enter the backwater locale, things quickly proceed from bad to worse as they run afoul of another local legend, the infamous Alexander Pearce, AKA "The Pieman." An infamous escapee from an 1800s era prison who reportedly survived on human flesh, this real-life legend comes to haunt our cast in the form of Pearce's supposed offspring.
This was the third of the 8 Films To Die For I watched this year, trying to go in order of least to most interested. From the trailer and synopsis, I went into this one with very little interest.
At first, I thought I might be headed for a pleasant surprise. The film is absolutely gorgeous to look at. Widescreen views of the heavily wooded waterways shrouded in ominous clouds gives the film a wonderfully eerie start. Add to that the wonderfully likable Melanie Vallejo, and I was settling in for a good time with what appeared to be a good old-fashioned creature feature.
Unfortunately, the original premise of hunting for a fabled tiger turned out to be a misdirection. The true horror lies in the confrontation with the locals - supposed descendants of the famous cannibal. What was looking like a nice, creepy chiller turns into a run-of-the-mill "hillbilly horror" flick. I don't think I have ever seen this sub-sub-genre pulled off effectively (unless you include TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE) - something about the redneck cannibals just always seems excessively cheesy and improbable.
But what really kills the film are the inanely stupid decisions the main characters make in the second half. The first kill was effective and jarring, I'll give it that. But after this, the remaining three become complete nimrods. First, they seperate. Second, they allow themselves to be led from one trap to another by one of the locals whom they have NO reason to trust! In the end, you feel like they deserve to meet their ultimate demise! By the time the film reached it's predictably gloomy conclusion, I was ready to eat these people myself! It is sad, because I felt the movie set these characters up nicely in the beginning. They seemed to be a level above the usual horror fare. I actually liked these people - until they got stupid.
As I said, the setup was good, but once the slaughter begins, the script quickly runs out of ideas. Creativity and suspense take a back seat to simple, straightforward gore. Why set up an elaborate chase sequence, when you can just have an extreme close-up of a man chewing a woman's toes off her severed foot? What filmmakers need to know today is that simply throwing blood and goo at the lens does not compensate for a lack of imagination. Ironically, the one truly memorable death in the film involves the annoying brother-in-law, a bear trap, and VERY LITTLE blood.
Somewhere along the way, hints were dropped to suggest that the hillbillies have more in mind than just food - that they also are eyeing the main girl as a potential breeder . . . whatever, it's such a slapdash inclusion, it barely has any lasting impact on the overall proceedings.
All in all, this is near the bottom of the Afterdark heap for me this year.
 Dark and Creepy, if Derivative - I'm gonna go ahead and call it the best of 2009's "8 Films To Die For." October 10, 2009
Steve Forsyth (Denton, TX USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
A small town is afflicted with a rash of suicides. Beginning with a young man who shoots himself in front of his bewildered girlfriend, and continuing on to her, and on and on to anyone who is near the latest victim. A Christian girl named Lindsay is trying to make sense of these tragedies but is beset by the other affliction the town suffers, and that is the extreme religious views of its mega-church. Convinced the deaths stem from a local "witch" family, Lindsay's boyfriend Dylan leads the effort to first intimidate, and ultimately kill them off. Lindsay has to choose sides - devotion to the town's faith, or helping the boy whom the town is gunning for.
FROM WITHIN is one of the last of this year's 8 Films To Die For that I watched, and it's certainly one of the most polished. Acting is flawless, as is direction, cinematography, and, for the most part, writing. The story is coherent and follows a logical progression. And, it delivers plenty of chills along the way. In short, it has what most of the other films didn't have.
I do have two slight issues with the movie. The first is the fact that, chilling as it is, the bulk of the films scares are lifted almost directly from other films. You have the creepy girl with the hair covering her face, or the girl appearing in the TV, or the cheap After Effects shot of the sudden black-eyed demon face. The film also suffers from having THE BROKEN in the same festival this year, both films drawing heavily on mirrors and reflections attacking people. But, though these effects are lifted from other films, they are still employed very well here - the movie delivers plenty of great creep-out moments, even if they are familiar.
The only other issue I have is in the broadly stereotypical portrayal of extreme religion. For starters, the writers don't seem to have much of a grasp on what religious group they are portraying. At first, it would seem to be the evangelistic mega-church with its "God is here to bless you" mentality. But, early on it is clear that they want these to be "witch hunt" types that blame every ill on the devil and are quick to take up a gun and shoot their own members who stray. In other words, NOT the type of belief system that attracts enough members to become a mega-church.
Later still, the loonies are suddenly invoking a catholic type ceremony, making the sign of the cross on a girls forehead, repeating a rote prayer, and referring to visions of the Virgin Mary. It's this kind of inconsistent portrayal that tells me the writers were just looking for a convenient villain, and thus created a conglomerate of every religious stereotype they could think of, again lifted from other films.
Now, at least the pastor has his moment to condemn the extremities that his son is going to. And, to be fair, the pagan character are also rendered in a pretty stereotypical light. In fact, one could argue that, at its core, the film argues for moderation from ALL faiths, as our two main characters both seem disillusioned with the extreme believers of their relative belief systems. I know the feeling!
But, these quibbles aside, the film is still very well put together, and will have no problem being remembered as one of the few stand outs for After Dark's third Horror-fest.
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