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Gothkill: Satanic Special Edition

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I had hopes for this one based on the 2 reviews posted in the Amazon listing, but those guys must be on the payroll `cause this flick`s a joke. Low budget,shot on video, badly acted, poorly scripted, ugly guys and women you don`t really wanna see naked are all that`s on parade here - that`s probably why the cover is a painting/illustration and not a shot from the actual movie. Horror? No. Comedy? The joke`s on you. Do your self a favor, have a turpentine enema instead - it`ll be less painful.

Ok, so I'm a fan of bad horror. Even still, this one had me laughing so hard my sides hurt. Bad acting, low budget, and such exagerate stereotypes you won't know if you should be mad, or laughing. I chose laughing!! For folks who like B horror, please check this one out. For those of you who are sensative to having your unofficial title of being 'Goth' being made fun of. Don't watch. At either rate, don't spend too much on this one. But it is definitely worth a look if you like laughing at B movies.

GothKill (JJ Connelly, 2009)

I wish I could tell you something that would make you want to see GothKill, but I've no idea why. Confusing, right? I should be warning you away with as much enthusiasm as I can drum up; this is a movie that is bad in every way, and if you end up accidentally pressing this button at Redbox instead of the Michael Bay flick next door, you will find yourself wasting an hour and change of your life on a movie so depressingly bad you will kick the machine trying to get your money back and get hauled away by fat, balding rent-a-cops. And yet there is something about this movie that makes it horribly watchable. It's not in the so-bad-it's-good category, not by a country mile, but it's kind of in the so-bad-it's-a-train-wreck category. You know you're killing your brain cells, but you just can't bring yourself to look away.

Annie (Erica Giovinazzo in her first screen role) is a country girl who's finally on her own in New York to go to college. As soon as she gets there, her cousin Kate (Eve Blackwater, also in her first screen role) swoops in and promises to introduce Annie to the pleasures of New York's goth subculture. This involves a quick trip to the local leather store (and in a movie that contains as much nudity as this one, the fact that the two of them trying on leather gear is by far the movie's most erotic scene is all too depressing), where they get outfitted and invited to a party being held by the Scorpion Society, an underground group run by Lord Walechia (Michael Day, in his... oh, you guessed it). Of course, this is not by chance, as Walechia intends to use them in a fake ritual to keep his goth kids enthralled. (By the way, anyone who's been to a goth club-- ever--even for five minutes--will laugh hysterically at Connelly's depiction of same.) Problem is, Walechia's "fake" ritual is anything but, and ends up freeing the soul of Nick Dread (performance artist Flambeaux in his first feature role), an Inquisitor who promised Satan one hundred thousand human souls in exchange for eternal life. (Was it one hundred thousand? I think it was.) He's getting close to the total, but needs a few more. And when his soul pops back into this world, possessing Annie's body, he finds himself in a room full of goth kids...

no one in this movie, and I mean no one (including the "big draw", Juliya Chernetsky), can act his or her way out of a wet noodle. Connelly's idea of a goth party takes place in this horrid, far-too-well-lit room decorated like something out of a cheesy late-sixties psychedelic-swinger-party movie. Our goth kids are all way, way too happy to be actually goth kids (except when they're being slaughtered... on second thought, even then, as half of them seem as if they're trying not to crack up), and Lord Walechia is about the least charismatic leader you will ever see on film. But enough about the actors. Connelly's direction is right up there with, say, Andreas Schnaas' in Goblet of Gore. This movie isn't quite as awful as that one, but it wasn't for lack of trying. * ½

Soooo entertaining!!!
You might have to be from NY to really get the real humor in this flick.
But in the dungeons of most cities you do get to see these scenes and a bit more if youre in the know.
So what would happen if one of these so called Lords or Barons or Goddesses actually had some ancient truth come through them......
I suppose if you had an 'alteration' as I like to call it....you might think you are the real thing.

if you like zombie guts and what not you wont really find it here.. though there is plenty of blood and fighting.
The acting abilities really range but its soooooo part of the flick and part of this alternative lifestyle that really does exist.
Some people take themselves wayyyyy to seriously and others just are in it for fun and fashion.

You will definitely laugh a lot. I really liked the writing...and the characters were real looking.
I hate films and tv where people look like models and so completely unreal.
some of the chics in this movie have great bodies but still pretty realistic.
This is not hollywood..people... But its F****N awesome!
As fantastical as the story is.. there is plenty of truth to it.
Serial killers, people who like to dress up and play naughty, serious crimes that occur, nightlife rules, and a bit of history to look into.
As silly as it may seem at times.. its pretty damn intelligent. Congrats to the creators of the film!!! Great Job! I want another one!!!
oh... and the main character... you get to like him... its kind of a story of salvation, and revenge and success...and when an artist can create a piece of work wether a song, a painting, novel, or film... the finished projects contains all of that. Much respect!