The Damned Thing (2006)

I love this movie so much

This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Excellent, a Must See

Did you people see the same film I saw?

Damned Thing, The (2006) *** (out of 4) The second season of Masters of Horror kicks off with Tobe Hooper's entry. I haven't viewed all of season one yet but so far Hooper's film has been the worst so I didn't have high hopes with this one. As a child, a Sheriff (Sean Patrick Flanery) witnessed his father turn crazy and kill his mother but he also saw the entire town go crazy with suicide and murder. Twenty-four years later he begins to feel the town is once again going crazy with strange murders and more suicides. I was pleasantly shocked to see how much I enjoyed this film. I enjoyed it so much that I don't have any problem in saying this is Hooper's best work since The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The film has some nice suspense and Hooper keeps the mystery going very well. There's some extremely graphic violence that actually works quite nice but the ending is just downright stupid and pulls the film down some.

I enjoyed this MOH episode (although it was not the season opener in Oz). I believe the whole oil / Texas / Iraq / madness embodied by a demon connection could have made a good horror feature - not for the obvious reasons but for what made this episode so watchable. That is, the people who are responsible and those who subsequently benefit are held accountable - fair or not. Good to see Tobe Hooper plugging away as I always like his work (Dance of the Dead on MOH season one was excellent). Hooper appears to be much more an actor's director than a "horror guy". See his fantastic Salem's Lot miniseries and you will get the picture. Cheers!

Masters of Horror: The Damed Thing starts in the small American town of Cloverdale during 1981 where the evil 'thing' he set free a number of years earlier finds John Reddle (Brent Stait) & makes him kill his wife (Georgia Craig) & try to kill his young son Kevin (Ryan Drescher) before it rips him to pieces... Jump forward 'Twenty-Four Years Later' & Kevin is now the Sheriff of Cloverdale & is still haunted by what he witnessed all those years ago, usually Cloverdale is a quiet place to live but all of a sudden the murder, suicide & general mortality rate has alarmingly gone through the roof as the 'thing' that Kevin's father unleashed has come back to claim him & his family as well as anyone who gets in it's way...This Canadian American co-production was episode 1 from season 2 of the hit-and-miss Masters of Horror TV series, the second episode to be directed by Tobe Hooper after Dance of the Dead from season 1 I liked The Damned Thing & thought it was a hit. The script by Richard Christian Matheson was based on a short story by Ambrose Bierce & while some of it is a bit ambiguous that helps the overall mood & this one certainly delivers in the violence department. Of course it's not perfect, why didn't the damned thing just kill Kevin when it killed his father? Why does the damned thing seem to effect people in different ways & why do some seem immune to it's presence? I also thought there was a bit too much pointless 'personal angst' type stuff in regards to Kevin & what happened to him. These are minor issues though as I found myself enjoying this tale of supernatural forces. I would probably say it's a touch predictable & even at less than 60 minutes in length it seemed like there was some padding here, the character's aren't great but on a pure entertainment level The Damned Thing in my opinion is one of the better Masters of Horror episodes out there.Director Hooper does OK, there's not that many scares here & there's not much tension either but if your looking for gore then this is the one for you as there's plenty of it & it's pretty graphic. There's some bloody shotgun blasting including point blank into someone's stomach, someone is literally ripped open & their guts hang out all over the place, someone has a gun put in their mouth & their brains are blown out, there's a cool bit when Kevin tries to remove a car crash victim & they have been cut in half & someone commits suicide by hitting his own head with a hammer which is accompanied by fountains of spraying blood. There's even a CGI mud monster thing at the end which is wisely used sparingly, I've seen worse CGI computer effects but at the same time I've seen better.Technically this one is well made as usual for Masters of Horror but it's maybe a bit bland & a tad forgettable. The acting is pretty good although the material is a bit silly.The Damned Thing is a good Masters of Horror episode although it's one which seems to divide opinion but I don't care because I liked it & that's all that matters to me, definitely worth a watch for horror fans & a decent way to kick off season 2.

I can't believe MOH chose to open their second season with this stinker. Seriously, I've seen better horror films on Youtube. I have to assume the previous glowing review it got was from someone involved with the show. Maybe Tobe Hooper himself.Bad acting. Bad directing. Bad story. Random characters that come out of nowhere just in time to be killed. No real plot to speak of, and an ending that seems tacked on from a completely different story. Plus a lot of voice-over exposition from the main character - never a good sign.Hopefully the episodes will get better from now on. Frankly, I don't see how it could get worse.