Bad Meat (2011)

hyped garbage

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Some teens are sent to a juvenile detention facility. They fall foul of the guards who, having eaten the bad meat of the title (served up in soup by the cook), want to eat the teens.This is fairly routine horror fare, with cardboard characters going through a Last Man Standing zombie victim routine which isn't very well done. I don't mind it being predictable and treading a well-worn path, I don't even mind the rubbish acting, but I do object to it being dull. If you're going to be rubbish, at least be entertaining rubbish.Elizabeth Harnois and Dave Franco have gone on to better things. They could hardly have gone on to something worse.

This film is clearly unfinished. It builds story, setting, and characters well, and the tone of it is great — fun, schlocky gore. I was surprised at how enjoyable it was... and then it just peters out and stops. It isn't an enigmatic or deliberately open-ended climax — it merely hasn't been completed. Whether this was a screen writing problem or a production thing I don't know, but in simplest terms: there is no third act to speak of.It's a real shame as what's there is good, solid, trashy horror. Frustrating, and a real waste. It's a bit of an affront to release it and present it as a finished piece, to be frank; it's especially galling to see it was funded by the UK lottery/Film Council.If it were completed I reckon it was on for a 7/10. The annoyance of sitting through it only to be cheated out of a properly finished story makes me want to give it 2/10. So: 4 it is.

The movie was full of gore and a solid "b-" production. I got exactly what I was looking for in a "b" production. It was not supposed to be Star Wars. Just a great evening of entertainment. I wold rate the movie a buy. I would also by purchase "Bad Meat 2". Hope it's not plagued with the production problems the first one was. There is, however, a great chance it will be. This is clearly not a movie for those with a weak stomach or those who don't enjoy raw violence low on plot and theme. The kids have reasonable acting although the monsters (Staff) were a little over the top. The sex seen was not sexy, the blood was bloody, the body parts didn't look real.

Before I decided to watch this, I sifted through dozens of reviews, most of the claiming that this movie was beyond terrible and that no one in the right mind should see it. I decided to see it anyway.Surprisingly, it was much better than I expected. There was plenty of gore for those who like it bloody, some funny scenes, great acting (especially from Mark Pellegrino), and a fairly decent plot. The only problem was that some of the plot was a little confusing and the audience is left with a few loose ends. I don't think those things took away from the movie too much though.Honestly, I don't regret seeing this movie, and I don't think people should be put off by the lack of good reviews. It's not the greatest horror movie ever made, but it kept me interested until the very end, so I'd say it's worth watching in my book.