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Amusement [Blu-ray] (2008)

Starring: Katheryn Winnick, Laura Breckenridge Director: John Simpson Rating: R (Restricted) Format: Blu-ray
2.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)

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Product Details

  • Actors: Katheryn Winnick, Laura Breckenridge, Jessica Lucas, Keir O'Donnell, Tad Hilgenbrink
  • Directors: John Simpson
  • Writers: Jake Wade Wall
  • Producers: Merideth Finn, Mike Macari, Neal Edelstein, Udi Nedivi
  • Format: Color, Widescreen
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby TrueHD 5.1)
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rating: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: New Line Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: January 20, 2009
  • Run Time: 85 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001LIK8M0
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #82,783 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Amusement opens with a too-long scene involving a girl named Shelby’s (Laura Breckenridge) reluctance to join a trucking convoy that her boyfriend behind the wheel is for some reason totally dedicated to. One can guess if they ever return from this fateful road trip. From here, the film splinters into three more parts, focusing on Shelby’s childhood friends, Lisa (Jessica Lucas) and Tabitha (Katheryn Winnick), and finally, a serial killer who aims to ensnare them all because they didn’t laugh at his animal-torturing diorama in grade school. The killer, a brainiac who sports rubber apron, gloves, and goggles for his sick enterprises, operates on the premise that his killings are funny, and cackles ring throughout the film. There is not a tremendous amount of gore in Amusement, as it focuses on what little suspense it manages, as citizens and FBI agents alike fail to catch the crafty villain. Perhaps the most notable aspect to this film is the mysterious criminal ringleader, a clown doll, who appears midway through as Tabitha tries to babysit. Furthering Stephen King’s It tradition, this movie gets slightly better when the girls enter this evil clown’s territory, a bedroom packed with clown toys. However, the clown and his clown posse are a bit non sequitur, and the entire film feels confused and patched together. Return to Child’s Play if you really want to delve into evil toys and the young boys who play with them. --Trinie Dalton

Product Description
Tabitha. Shelby. Lisa. They're longtime friends on separate life paths. But they share a horrific destination when a seemingly innocent incident from their school days comes back to terrify them. Something - someone - wants payback: warped vengeance... mind-games vengeance...taunting, shredding, slashing vengeance. Inside a stone-walled chamber of prison cells and mechanisms of doom, the three women and other victims face a fierce fight to survive. Who lives? Who dies? It's all for someone's Amusement. From screenwriter Jake Wade Wall (The Hitcher) and director John Simpson (Freeze Frame) comes a new film foray into horror. Turn down the lights. Turn up the fear.

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2.0 out of 5 stars The Cover drew me in but the film didn't deliver, July 5, 2009
By Jay (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Amusement (DVD)
When a horror movie posts a creepy looking clown on the cover odds are I'm going to check it out. When looking at scary movies with clowns only Clownhouse, It, & Killer Klowns from Outer Space are real standouts for my taste. Despite that fact I still tend to check out all these weak clown horror attempts in hopes of finding a classic. Unfortunately in this case the clown on the cover was something to lure you in since it only played a role for about 10 minutes of the film. I've noticed this is a pretty common complaint about the film and overall will aid in more negative reviews.

The film turns out to consist of a few different poorly written stories all tying together at the end. The first story is about a girl Shelby & her boyfriend rob as they become part of a disastrous convey trip. The second is the best part of the film where the clown appears for the first and only time while a girl named Tabitha is babysitting. The third installment is a girl Lisa who goes home with a guy after a night at the bar to never come home again. Now all the girls in the stories wind up being linked through a ridiculous situation back in elementary school along with their killer.

It's pretty much a waste of an hour and a half with very few enjoyable parts. The killer himself is so pathetic there is no way you could find him scary. He has this annoying laugh he does through that becomes so annoying you want jump through the tv and strangle him. It wasn't all terrible though thanks to the girls in the story. All 3 actresses did a really solid job with Tabitha(Katheryn Winnick) leading the pack by being the most believable. The clown segment itself was pretty creepy and should have been the premise for the entire film. If they had focused primarily on the killer being dressed up as the clown the film would've had a better chance at success.
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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Ehh, January 26, 2009
This review is from: Amusement (DVD)
Begins with a different approach, and starts fun, then it derails. And it doesn't really care about the characters. I'd go more in depth, but I have a lot to do. Sorry I blind bought this one.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Not at all fun, January 20, 2009
By Jason A. Greeno (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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Super boring. Not gross. No nudity. No coherent plot. No wonder this sat on a shelf for so long. It completely and totally sucks. Choppy watered-down mess. Do not pay more than .99 for this film. It's awful. Makes "The Boogeyman" or "When a Stranger Calls (remake)" look like award-winning cinema. Cute girls but not worth your nearly 90 mins. Avoid at all costs. Totally misleading box and ads. It's a bust!
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