Fairlane Road (2016)

The Worst Film Ever

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

I gave this movie 2 stars only because some of the cinematography was decent. Other than that, this movie is a bust. The low budget shows through not only in the bad acting, but also the distractingly horrible cgi. I wonder if they were using cut and paste in paint it was that bad. The acting seemed as if they were reading the script for the first time on camera and said, "ok, that's good enough." The story could have been good, it was somewhat original, but as a whole I recommend skipping this one.

I will preface this by saying that I stopped paying super close attention to the movie and my understanding of what was happening towards the end was a little not great since so many things were happening all at once. But I will say this movie had one of the most anti climatic endings I have ever seen in at least the past 14(?) indie movies I've seen. Let me just cover the last half of the movie. Warning this spoils the ending that I really didn't like so be warned.*** OK so weird stuff starts popping up in the desert and there's this crazy lady that keeps trying to kill Greg Grunberg (I couldn't remember the character's actual name but he looked a lot like Greg Grunberg) or something and he's all like "whats up with that who is that crazy lady" and then the uncle that he's staying with reveals the big twist and he's like "that's your mom Greg and then Greg's like "noooo that's impossible i just talked to my mom on the phone" and then the uncle is like "NO Greg that's not your mom your mom is dead and she's actually a ghost which is that crazy lady that tried to kill you" and he's like "THIS IS BULLSH*T" and then the uncle is like "i'm going to end this and gets his gun to go shoot the ghost lady (I think?), but then Greg Grunberg try's to stop him for some reason and says not to do that but his uncle (who i think was also revealed to be his dad) pushes him onto the floor or something and then the rattle snake from the car from earlier i told you guys about slithers up to Greg Grunberg like it's gonna bite him and then his uncle (dad?) is like "no!" and then tries to shoot the snake but he misses and the bullet actually hits Greg Grunberg and then Greg actually dies and that's ACTUALLY THE END OF THE MOVIEgiving it a 3/10 because i at least was able to like watch the entire movie.

I like horror movies. Most horror movies on Netflix are awful and low- budget and unwatchable after 20 minutes. So my expectations are low.This was low-budget but not terrible. One of the few horror flicks set in the Southwest U.S. so that's unusual. The desert landscape plays a big role in the movie. Another reviewer said the acting was terrible. The acting was fine for the most part. The build-up to the climax was good. The climax itself was disappointing and kind of confusing. Throughout the movie, there's a weird dynamic between the mother and son that isn't fully explored or explained. Minor spoiler: a certain character's last words are kind of dumb. Either say something else or have him not say anything. Some scenes could've been shot a little better, even on the low budget. Like the title of this review says, it's a better than average horror flick on Netflix. Much better than a lot of them.

So I'm going to go out of my way to write a review for a movie that doesn't need a review. Basically this movie was garbage. Terrible acting all throughout the movie. Main actor was cringe-worthy and unrelatable. All the supporting actors were terrible. The scenes didn't work together or barely make sense. One scene in particular where the main character is chasing after a women who has a stilted up leg and cannot catch up with her even tho he can full on sprint.Every time he turns a corner shes farther away. And not in like a creepy ghosty way just a bad way. The cgi was terrible. The mother or whatever is insanely annoying. Makeup was bad. The list goes on. The only redeemable factors in this movie is the location is somewhat interesting. I realize this movie had an extremely low budget but god it was bad. I would barely call this a thriller. If you see this on netflix just watch something else.