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Late Fee

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This is THE worst movie I have seen for a long time. The short films inside the movie were shot previously in 2003. The director plugged them in to be part of another movie to make a fast buck. The production value is extremely low and the movie was shot in a real video store in New Jersy using a hand-held camera. It is like a free commercial for the store exchanging for s shoot. In this sense, the director-producer never intended to make a decent movie in the first place. Instead, by re-using two old shorts to be part of new movie can lower production costs and make some fast money out of ignorant audience. Since it is part of new releases among all other DVD & blu-ray titles on that particular day (Tuesday) and there are no film reviews for this direct-to-DVD title, they can easily fool the audience for trying it out just based on the title.

It is very unfortunate for a somewhat serious filmaker who did some decent shorts back in 2003 to hail Mary this kind of money making scheme and damage his own reputation for the future if there is one. I know it is hard to sustain a living being an indie filmmaker. But this kind of deperate shot defeats the purpose of his or her past dream of being a serious filmmaker as I speculate. In fact, the 2003 short is not too bad. I can see it as a decent genre effort. But when one tries to rehash old material into a new project in an obvious low production value, its intention becomes questionable.

Length:: 7:20 Mins

Horror Happy Hour reviews "Late Fee" -
the anthology horror flick from the producers of: Wicked Lake, Hills Run Red, Flesh for the Beast, & Shadow: Dead Riot

This was 1.5 hours of my life that I'll never get back, but I don't regret having spent them watching this movie. In short, a couple decides to rent two movies from a local rental store. They find the store to be not your ordinary dreaded Blockbuster, and after talking the reluctant clerk into letting them rent the films, he requires them to sign an extensive contract and advises them that they have until midnight to return the movies, or face severe late fees. What then follows are two movies within a movie (each corresponding to the couple watching their two rented flicks). The first mini movie involves a hooker and a john, with one of them not being what they seem. The second involves a backwoods rogue police officer, jail, some satanic weirdness and a snuff film (trying to avoid a spoiler here...). At the end, the story returns to the rental couple who confront their movie return obligations.

Overall, it was ok, and just ok. It entertained me, but it lacked a compelling something. The story was a neat concept with the rentals turning into movie w/in a movie, but the individual plot concepts were highly predictable and based on very frequently reused topics. The acting was very stunted at times, the camera angles occasionally awkward. I do give them credit for trying to be creative with the camera (a few cool POV shots), but it did feel amateurish at times. Not much music or good mood setting atmospherics. It was a high quality video production though, with good image quality. So in summary, its a worthy rental, but would advise against purchasing without first having seen it.

cool halloween type of movie, its 2 short stories and a story with in them as well if that makes sense lol. The first one I liked it was creepy,and weird but good, the second one I really didnt care for. To be honest I liked the begining of the movie the middle of the movie and the end of it the best, those are the parts that all take place on halloween night.Some creepy people in the movie for sure ! if you like horror and halloween i think you will enjoy this movie

This is a good bad movie, I like talking about how bad movies are and this one has plenty to talk about. And it has a cool cover, perfect.

A couple walks into a DVD store and is deciding what movie to rent, they don't want that weak Hollywood horror. They pick up a title called "Damnation." I've already seen Damnation so at this point I'm trying to think of any way that I can stop these two from renting the movie. Damnation was bad, like, unwatchable bad. It leaves you confused and angry, you're not confused about a plot twist, you're confused as to why anyone would make this movie.

My pleas go unanswered, they rent the movie along with "The Pickup". So basically, all they do is watch these two movies without adding any real commentary. So if you've already seen one, or both of these movies you don't need to watch this movie.