Product Details

• Directors: Kit Ryan
• Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• DVD Release Date: May 13, 2008
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0014FAIYI
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #58,255 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Product Description
In the spirit of great horror comedies like Army of Darkness, Shaun of The Dead, and An American Werewolf in London comes BOTCHED a film that takes funny and gore to the next level. Having recently won best feature at the New York City Horror Film Festival, the film's star Stephen Dorff (Blade, World Trade Center, and who is currently filming Public Enemies with Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, and Director Michael Mann) also took home Best Actor honors as well. Jamie Murray (Dexter, and the BBC series Hustle) is also along for the ride along with a ensemble cast of memorable characters. From producer Steve Richards, who also brought you The Matrix: Reloaded, House on Haunted Hill, and the upcoming Guy Ritchie film RocknRolla comes the story of Ritchie Donovan (Stephen Dorff), a professional thief whose luck turns from bad to worse. The only survivor from a heist that goes terribly wrong, Ritchie is forced to take the rap and is sent to Russia to steal a priceless antique cross locked in a safe on the penthouse floor of a Moscow skyscraper. Unfortunately, his luck runs out, yet again, and things rapidly go downhill. During the robbery, Ritchie and his Russian accomplices are trapped by police and are forced to take hostages, seeking refuge on the building's unused 13th Floor... and we all know how unlucky the number 13 is.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars You need to be REALLY drunk..., July 12, 2008

By	K. D. Payne "Ravenskya the Princess of Horror" (Chattanooga) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

This movie starts out really well, I was excited, interested and engaged... then it sank into a quagmire of trying too hard to be funny. The opening felt like your typical mob/crime film then we get to the horror/comedy part and everything went so way over the top that it felt like a student film.

The premise, a couple of thieves steal a golden cross at the request of their crime boss, then during their getaway get stuck in the building with a serial killer, some crazies, a loony security guard, and an assortment of whiny bad guy fodder. True some of the gore was GREAT, I wasn't thrilled with one of the decapitation scenes, but the rest of the gore was spot on. The problem was that the premise got old quickly and the movie starts becoming reminiscent of that old 80's film "Clue" with Tim Currey. Now I loved "Clue" but it also didn't contain a random man dressed up like a barbarian, wielding a sword through the hallways of a high rise.

I have heard this movie compared to "Fido" "Black Sheep" and the like, but sadly I feel that this movie attempted to go there, but never made it. Rather than funny, it was silly, and failed on all attempts by the time you get to the end.

Now I suppose if you are REALLY drunk, this movie might be funny. Other than that go for something else.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Botched, indeed, July 6, 2008

By	deaner73 (Palo Alto, CA USA) - See all my reviews

Allow me to be frank - this is a terrible film. The most interesting aspect in viewing this stinker is observing how consistently the film degrades from 'full of promise' in the first 15 minutes to bad and then absolutely dreadful by the time the end credits roll. As a further insult to injury (or perhaps a blessing in disguise?) this disc contains ZERO extras - not even a cheezy 10 minute making-of featurette.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The title says it all, August 24, 2008

By	David West "David West" (Hebron, KY, United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The film begins with an almost Fargo-like series of mis-steps and mishaps that actually grab your interest. Unfortunately, that's as good as it gets. The joke, if you get it, begins with a Mr. Grozny (a fish-out-of-water Sean Pertwee...wouldn't Dr. Who just turn in his grave?) inviting the idiot who blew his last job to steal some "family heirlooms" in the penthouse suite of some Moscow high-rise. What they showed could well have been the former Lubyanka.
Recruiting the aid of a couple of Russian morons, probably too closely related, the theft goes from bad to worse, as does the film. Stupidity abounds with the cast slowly being slaughtered by some whirling dervish and so on.
Comedy and horror really don't mix too well and you have to be careful about your mix. Severance got it absolutely right and The Cottage comes in a close second. Here, it's like oil and water, one or the other.
This wretched experience brings the Keystone Kops to a new level of sophistication.
For what it's worth, "grozny" (pronounced "grozh-nyee") means "terrible." As in "Ivan the Terrible."