Killer Pad (2008)

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Arriving in Los Angeles, a group of losers hold a special housewarming bash to celebrate their independence, but a series of misfortunes before and during the event eventually makes them realize that the Devil is using the location to harvest sinful souls to rot in Hell and they must try to stop it while keeping everyone safe.This one was quite a lame and incredibly unfunny horror/comedy. Among the numerous highly detrimental flaws here, the majority of time here is that the supposedly cheesy comedy is really lame and so not funny, not only in the execution but the concept as well. There's little about the concept of being unable to understand the Mexican that is provided with subtitles while they believe his concerns are for food, the absolutely single-minded mentality of keeping the house to themselves during the party as obviously creepy goings-on are happening that should render a higher degree of urgency in their actions or even taking those actions with much more intelligence than what's going through their reasoning here which is filled to the brim with such lame concepts that are supposedly funny. The characters here are so brain-numbingly stupid in their decision-making and backwards in their logic that there's so little to be feared from the scenario as it's furthered by their pure idiocy that they feature some nearly impossible amount of work throughout here just to make the story seem competent that these guys would be that completely stupid to let these events keep happening and not do something useful only to continually be stuck in the same situation minutes later due to their inherent stupidity. While there's little to blame here about this not being all too funny, the general stupidity of the action required to complete the storyline here is what hurts this one so badly and severely that together it's enough to knock this down even before getting several of the big flaws. Despite the length, there's several needless scenes here with the Fire Marshall and the lonely guy at the party just being totally unnecessary to make this seem longer than it really is, and there's the utterly detrimental plot thread about the story being treated as a joke here in the course of the movie which lower this even further. There's still a few positives here in this one, from the horror-worthy set-up that's pretty nicely done, there's some nice atmosphere at the part of the demons and some of the action at the end here isn't bad as the concept to overcome their Satanic powers isn't bad. Still, this one is just plain stupid and really can't overcome these problems.Rated R: Graphic Language, Violence, Brief Nudity, heavy drug use, intense scatological humor and a clothed sex scene.

Movie review:***spoiler at the very end****Read a few posts down, this movie is the epitome of what we were talking about: Inability to shut a movie off when it starts. Robert Englund is back directing after 976- Evil, 20 years ago, btw. That isn't a good start, but I still had to check it out. I'll give the story I guess, 3 guys (actors names are unimportant) fall into some money so they decide to move from IL to LA and get a great place to live the good life, and get laid. Well, they stumble upon a great house for a very cheap price (and when i say house, that is an understatement) and immediately jump on it. So, yes, of course, the place is the home of a portal to hell located in the basement of course. Well, minor, yet trivial things happen there but the go unnoticed, blaming these things on "squatters" living in the house. The writers must have thought that was the funniest thing ever since it comes up at least every ten seconds throughout this movie. I digress, by this point you already have seen/heard some really lame attempts at humor that most would have already turned off, ME? Hell no, how much worse can it get? At this point, I was already set to begin heating up a spoon and gouging my eyeballs out but i continued on to find out the plan was a huge housewarming party (more victims) so I figured maybe some creative deaths and boobs. OK, complete failure there and my brain is now begging me to shut off the movie, but I had already taken a nailgun and fastened my hands to the desk so I was unable to stop it. The pain of doing so actually hurt less than watching the movie. The 3 complete idiots have some very sweet friends from down the street that help them get a party together, played by 3 young, attractive women that couldn't act there way out of a cardboard box. I may have dozed off from blood loss, but the party at the Killer Pad is now in full swing and I swear I heard a familiar voice. Could this be star power? Yes, it's none other than Joey Lawerence. Ladies, I know you MUST be very interested now, he's a "dream." So cue the party goers getting killed in really stupid, non gory or creative fashion. All the eye candy was completely wasted, not a single joke worked in the slightest, and if the ending surprised you, there is no amount of teaching you can receive to cure your "stupid." I won't bother describing in detail any of the killings since i pray you don't damage your mind and watch this crap. The movie does end, might be the longest 84 minutes of your life, and maybe you will do what I did to feel better. Took off my socks, dipped my feet in gasoline, lit my feet on fire and ran across a field of broken glass for about an hour. Since I struggle to find a good point in a movie, it was a nice house. Luckily I didn't subject anyone else to watching this with me, I don't have many friends and I can assure you, that would've sealed the fate of any relation with anyone. If you are like me and just have to see it, do not return and say I did not warn you. Freddy, do us a favor, don't make any more movies, stay in front of the camera, please !!! 1.4/10 IMDb 3.9 Joey must've blown a LOT of people to get that rating up. *********spoilers******** Nobody dies, everyone miraculously gets up after the house implodes and is just fine and that isn't the big surprise, you already saw that one, and it better not surprise you.

I agree with the comment I just read about this in saying, I don't see why this movie got a bad wrap, I thought it was great.The only problem I really had was the intense over-acting of Brody, but at the same time, it made it a tad bit funnier. I think Englund did an amazing job with this film, probably one of the best horror-comedy films I have seen in a while.The only other thing I could have changed in this movie was the really lame "lets dress up a dead body to make it look alive again." Weekend at Bernies could do it and make it funny, this movie didn't. I liked the cameo by Bobby Lee, he made the movie just that much more funny. But then again, you could put Bobby Lee in anything and it would make it funny.Midgits, Pornstars and Satan, what more could you ask for?

I bought Killer Pad because the box looked appealing to me...knowing nothing about it, i thought, what the hell, I will give it a try. I was very pleasantly surprised with this independent movie. Hilarious movie. I was laughing throughout the movie. Hector Jimenez (the guy from Nacho Libre) was great. Another thing that I enjoyed was the appearance of Milonakis. I very much enjoy his show (very unique at times i know), and his appearance in this movie was great, not to mention the up-and-coming actor Eric Jungmann (I think he is on the Wendy's commercial now) This movie really does have everything. Being an independent film fan, I am very impressed and would recommend the movie to all audiences.