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• Actors: Traci Lords, Frank Whaley, Dina Meyer, George Newbern, Dan DeLuca
• Directors: James K. Jones
• Writers: Dan DeLuca, James K. Jones, Ji-un Kwon
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: March 18, 2008
• Run Time: 80 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00127RAIU
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #51,270 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Crazy Eights - After Dark Horror Fest" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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CRAZY EIGHTS - DVD Movie

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A gory spook story that we've seen before, and seen better, September 11, 2008

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N. Durham "Big Evil" (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Crazy Eights - After Dark Horror Fest (DVD)

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.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Crazy Eights, April 22, 2008

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DJ Deathwish (Tucson, AZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Crazy Eights - After Dark Horror Fest (DVD)

I just can not recommend this movie, it's not bad, I just found it to be incredibly boring and formulaic. The cast is really good but they just look bored, and if they were bored making just imagine what kind of fun you're in line for. Nothing of consequence really happens in this movie. There's some blood and off camera kills, nothing special occurs there either. The plot is far from anything new but this movie still could have been something more, an utter disappointment.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Lamest of the Lame, May 12, 2008

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J. McCullough "Jenn" - See all my reviews
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I'm not sure I saw the same movie as the other reviewers. This was a bloody awful film. I love psychological thrillers...the promise of this is what drew me to this film. However, it fell flat and left me upset I spent $3.99 and 80 minutes of my time on it. It does not require you to think except to think 'What the...?' Nothing really makes sense, there is no logic as far as why these people had to die (they accidentally killed a little girl while subjects of some crazy doctors...abandoned by their parents, apparently....how is that something they should be punished for as adults?) The ending left me completely baffled. Of course, by then, I'd pretty much given up on the movie. Dina Meyers says 'I'm the only one left' after she destroys the toys that supposedly hold the link to getting them out of the hospital. So, she has to kill herself to set herself free? What? And then suddenly she's a little girl again choosing between a trunk holding redemption and another representing more testing. Again...what?

I agree with the other reviewers comments about Session 9. That was a generally creepy movie and it's twists actually contain logic that you can follow without having to pry open the writer/director's brain or crawl around for scraps on the cutting room floor.

I definitely see NO comparison to The Big Chill. I can't believe it was brought up. TBC is a phenomenal movie with real stars, a great plot, and well thought-out character development. It has nothing in common with Crazy Eights. And this film only boasted Whalley- who's been not been consistently good in films. And, frankly, none of them should have bothered. I wonder if the script they read was completely different from what we saw or perhaps when the director explained it to them, he provided insight we weren't privileged to in the process of watching the movie.

Something just seems lost here- I believe it's the plot. Well, it seems to be happening with most of the other Horror Fest films, so no big surprise here.