28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Barricade....GORE GALORE, January 8, 2007
This review is from: Barricade (DVD)
If you like GORE then this movie is for you. If Hostel and Saw made you squirm, this one will make u puke. In the first 8 minutes there are 6 murders ranging from a blood gushing emasculation (which will make any man watching iit wince in pain. To pouring some sort of liquid acid down the throat so the the entire body melts and pours out.
And thats just the beginning of the fun. Joe Zaso is Michael an American who has moved to Germany with an annoying friend David played by Andre Reissig (whom I was ready to see him die with the 1st 2 minutes).
Michael is pining away over Nina a love that may or may not be what he really wants.
Nina, played by Raine Brown apparently is up for Bitch of the Year Award,
at least thats what she seemed to be trying to prove. (Wheres an axe when you need one?)
The three friends go off in the woods for an overnight camp out. This gives Michael and Nina plenty of time to wander around and have heart to hearts which really try way too hard to give us incite to them.
Meanwhile in the woods is a family who is a combination of the Hills Have Eyes clan and Wrong Turn inbred killers some of whom are even dressed like the killers in Hostel. Every few minutes while we are following the angst of Michael and Nina out of nowhere the scene switches to the next gore filled killing just to keep you awake.
The movie have SERIOUS SERIOUS GORE GALORE. I don't think that I have ever in all the many many horror films I have watched in my lifetime seen so much realistic over the top gore and violence. It's MESSY for sure.
The reveal of the movie to me was kinda silly but it doesn't detract from what this movie is about and thats the gore...
Joe Zaso is the best of the 3 main actors and not to mention the fact that he is gorgeous and has a skinny dipping scene. He is the most realistic and convincing of the characters.
Raine Browns acting is over the top, just seemed that her character way more of a bitch than she should have been. She over acts for the most part.
Andre Reissig was ok but annoying as David.
All in all this is a good little movie, a great one for a group of friends to get together have a few beers and see who can watch it without turning away from the screen or puking.
The DVD Extras are pretty good too just DONT watch them before the movie it will spoil the whole thing.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Gore Galore, August 18, 2007
This review is from: Barricade (DVD)
If you are looking for gore then, this film is for you, i'm a big horror fan, and i have never seen so much blood and gore in a movie as this. The story is really weak, and the ending is worse, i gave this 4 stars just because of the gore and i bought this movie just for that as well, but if i have to give stars for the story line then i would give it 2 stars. This really could have been a good movie, if there was some good acting and a well crafted story line. But what really is amazing is the gore effects on the movie. If you are into gore and just plain hack and slash entertainment, then buy this movie as it's worth the money you pay for to see the chunks of blood and gore fly across the screen.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Where Is The Rest Of This Movie?, July 17, 2007
This review is from: Barricade (DVD)
This movie could have been much better with little effort. First, there was too much gore. That usually does not add much to this genre. Second the fast forward [...] should have beeen eliminated alltogether. What was the purpose? The fast forward messed up what could and should have been some decent fight scenes. There was too much action in too dark a scenery. We had no idea what was goin on. Why was so much edited out. One minute David is with Nina and Michael, the next, he is being chased by killers. There was no continueum from one scene to the next. This plagued the entire movie. A critical scene that should have been insrumental to the movie was when the killers took and beat up Michael. Apparently anybody could beat up big, muscular Michael at will. There were also too many victims in the movie, which dilutes the importance of someone like David being killed. The fight scenes should have been normal speed. Why did we not get to see Nina and Michael escape the killers, just like we did not get to see the killers beat and take Michael, when he was snared in the foot.
Why, whenever Nina and Michael were surrounde by the killers, was Michael hiding behind Nina? This made him look pathetic.If he is not going to be useful in the fight scenes ,then at least give us a good reason why, like a good beating when he was taken from the snare, or a good beating in the cabin, before he and Nina escaped. And that "broken record" part of the soundtrack(BARF)was terrible. As a matter of fact, much of the soundtrack was terrible.
This is one of a thousand movies inspired by Burt Reynolds' "Deliverance".
And this is one of the thousand that should have been better. Normal fight scenes, a little more light in the extremely dark scenes, a better soundtrack, including crucial deleted scenes and 1/2 of the protagonist haveing some guts and a good left hook. I rate this movie a solid -2- because I really don't think anybody will be breaking down any barricades to see this one, but it is worth watching from behind one though.
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