Product Details

• Actors: Gregory O'Connor, Patrick O'Kane, Katherine Pawlak, Shayla Beesley, Mihaela Mihut
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: March 31, 2009
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001P9N99Y
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,171 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Ten years after officer Dwayne Hooper’s son disappeared, the final of 14 victims in a string of local unsolved disappearances, his suspicions are aroused by prison inmate Perkins. Dwayne searches Perkins’ house and discovers a collection of torture videos featuring the missing victims from the past. In a fit of rage, Dwayne kills Perkins. But things get complicated when a wave of carnage which sweeps the town, with reports of Dwayne’s own son amongst the marauding psychopaths.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars TERRIFYING, AND VERY, VERY DISTURBING, May 10, 2009

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Robert F. Powers "show maniac" (Quincy, Ma USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Perkins' 14 (DVD)

Perkins 14 is a taut, fast-paced chiller that delivers the goods compared to most of the bargain basement junk that passes for horror these days.

Victims are slashed, impaled, mutilated and bludgeoned to death but it's not a slasher movie.

Victims are torn apart and eaten but it's not a zombie movie.

What it is about is Perkins a physcopath who has kidnapped 14 children and kept them for 10 years locked in cages in his basement where he has abused, starved, and drugged them out of their skulls, and he has videotaped each one showing the stalking, kidnapping and abuse of each child.

Kyle, one of the last kidnapped is the son of the local sherrif named Dwayne Hopper who is wracked with guilt over the fact that he gave up too quickly trying to locate his missing son. Hopper also has an adulterous wife and a goth-light daughter who has the type of boyfriend you wouldn't invite over for Sunday dinner with Mom & Dad. The cages are accidently unlocked, Sheriff Hopper kills Perkins and then the carnage begins to escalate in a series of brutal and gruesome killings.

The father-son reunion towards the end is both heart-breaking and
horrifying. The movie is left open-ended for a sequel and I hope they never do make one. A sequel is unneccesary and would just be a rehash and pointless to try to "improve" the original.

The movie is really a 4.5 rated movie bacause of a few lapses in logic but I opted to rate upwards rather than backwards because the movie took me by surprise and has more thrills and chills than some movies that try to pass themselves off as horror.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Perkins' 14, July 14, 2010

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Carl Manes - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Perkins' 14 (DVD)

Officer Dwayne Hopper discovers that he may have the man that kidnapped his son ten years earlier locked up in one of his cells. After interrogating the man and sending a friend to investigate his home, Hopper unwittingly unleashes his prisoner's fourteen victims, whose years of torture and drug exposure have turned them into feral killers! What begins as a suspenseful play on the familiar SILENCE OF THE LAMBS motif quickly descends into a bloody survival Horror film with unexpected thrills. PERKINS' unlikeable characters manage to garner the audience's support when they are faced with the unstoppable PCP-induced teens. Craig Singer brings a frenetic energy to the attack sequences, which include a number of inventive deaths (the most memorable of which involves a black screen broken only by the light of a flashlight as it hammers into a policeman's skull repeatedly). The film is a welcome surprise out of the After Dark Horrorfest III!

-Carl Manes
I Like Horror Movies

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Gruesome Fun, November 19, 2009

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Tim Janson (Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Perkins' 14 (DVD)

Perkins 14 is another entry in this year's batch of After Dark Horrorfest films and one of the better ones. Patrick O'Kane plays Dwayne Hopper, a member of a small tourist town's Sheriff Department. Ten year's earlier, Hopper's son Kyle was kidnapped from his bedroom, the last of 14 child abductions that went unsolved. The pain of losing his son has driven Dwayne to alcoholism and torn his marriage apart. As Dwayne checks in for the night shift, he finds that a mysterious man named Perkins is locked up in the jail. As Dwayne talks to him, he becomes convinced that this man may no something about the child abductions.

Against orders from his superiors, Dwayne investigates the man's home to find numerous dank, dirty, but empty cells in Perkins' basement. He also finds a library of video tapes, all showing the torturous treatment the children received at the hands of Mr. Perkins. Now you're thinking that this may be one of those cat and mouse type thrillers where the cop knows who the killer is but does not have any legal evidence to charge him with. Will the cop go against his superiors to get revenge on the man who took his son? Ah, but here's where Perkins 14 tosses us a curve ball. It's a tale of revenge to be sure, but not the cop's revenge. As mentioned, Dwayne found only empty cells. Those children, now teenagers, tortured and turned into feral, drugged up beasts, have been set loose on the small town in a rampaging, "28 Days Later" style, attacking everything in their path and devouring their prey.

Director Craig Singer's quick change of direction from taut thriller to zombie-style action was surprising and well disguised. There's gore-a-plenty as bodies are literally ripped to pieces leaving the bestial kids to wrestle over pieces of entrails. It culminates with a standoff in the town's police station as a small group of survivors tries to survive the night.

Perkins 14 is not without its drawbacks. It's hard to imagine that a small town could be overrun by a group of 14 people, even if they are animalistic. Rather than try to remain hidden in their homes the residents of Stone Cove seem all too willing to venture out at night and make themselves easy targets. And it seems as if the Sheriff's office only has about three guns...go figure. The women in the film, and I mean all of them, are guilty of overacting, particularly Mihaela Mihut, who plays Dwayne's wife, Janine. They end up distracting the viewer from the plot and you're soon hoping they become the next meal.

Singer also directed the 2006 After Dark Horrorfest entry, Dark Ride, and while it's not a classic, Perkins 14 is certainly better than that earlier effort.