BreadCrumbs (2011)

Please don't spend money on this.

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Beautiful, moving film.

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

BREADCRUMBS is yet ANOTHER slasher-in-the-woods low budget horror flick made with a paucity of imagination or style. It's dull beyond belief, and I'm not going to give the film-makers a break just because they didn't have any money to shoot; the British film-makers behind HAROLD'S GOING STIFF had nothing to work with either and they made a funny, genuinely heartwarming zombie film.The cartoon credits are the best thing about BREADCRUMBS and it all goes downhill from there. The storyline sees a modern-day Hansel and Gretel lurking in the woods, where they encounter the cast and crew of a porn shoot taking place in an EVIL DEAD-style cabin. What follows is a mildly gruesome slasher flick, with the deaths all happening in the most predictable way imaginable.The characters are poorly written and unlikeable and most of the plotting in the second half evolves around the most obvious and unworkable twist ever, so I don't know why they even bothered. Needless to say the cast and crew are all sub-par as well, making this a virtually worthless viewing experience.

Okay, they start out with this really cool and Gothic animated intro sequence that shows the origin of the "kids". Such a pity that it turns out it's the best part of the movie! It really was pretty much downhill from there. I personally thought a lot of this was kind of okay, it was a little better than mediocre, but it was still bad though-at the same time! It was very uneven and all over the place. I'm sort of in the middle when it comes to it myself. It was certainly never an even remotely frightening film, and it always lacked any suspense. Definitely nothing too spectacular here. Most of the actors were just straight-up bleh, and were just completely boring and held no interest for me at all. And when they finally started to drop I just didn't care. What I did care for the most about this flick was the far-out twisted siblings Pattie and Henry. There was something poignant and compellingly mysterious about them. I thought that "Adam's Family" thing that they had going on was great, I got that they were "evil", but they just weren't scary or even creepy! Shame, really. I also liked Marianne Hagan as Angie. I found her whole mid-life crisis and gravely misguided motherly affinity for Pattie interesting. ::: Amy Crowdis was so weird...like she was from Mars or something! She looked a lot like a young Alicia Witt. I have an inkling that most of the hate for this movie is actually due to her insufferable humming, which is indeed highly aggravating and annoying. Her character was okay, in a freaky lightheaded kooky kind of way. She makes me laugh in the scene where she badmouths the guy who's wife she has just "accidently" dropped on the floor, causing the arrows pin-cushioning her body to impale her further and polish her off! She sounded really amateurish and stupid near the end when she spouts some pathetic girly nonsense about "houses of candy" that just sounded totally meaningless. I did find Dan Shaked to be much better, although together they did make a good haunting duo. I loved Dan's performance. He kinda came off as a gay retard, which I thought was so funny. The murmurous voice he used with his few lines was so strange, he sounded like a little boy. I liked his sinister body language and the robotic way that he moved. I really love a little vocal exchange between him and Hagan where he says some-I guess it's supposed to be cryptic stuff about a woodsman and being "very cut and dry..." I thought he spoke the words so beautifully. One of the very few highlights is the great big what-the-f**k moment when Henry breaks his composure and completely wigs out!!! His friggin' huge girlish shrieks of insanity are all the more hilarious to hear because up to that point the character has been so completely rigid and subdued. I also thought he was really cute and adorable with his pouty little puppydog expression! He is my favourite thing about this movie. ::: I thought the theme tune was really great, bittersweet and ominous and quite soothing, to me. That's the main problem with this film, it's not really any kind of Hansel and Gretal tale, nor anything remotely fantasy whatever. But as slashers go, I thought it was a different approach. It's definitely not a good one by any means, I personally enjoyed it but I can see how many will think it poor or worse. But it's peculiar and odd and uh, I like that about it! Things even get a tad surreal and atmospheric during the final act. I do not get that ending. Were they gonna kill her too? Or was she one of them now? Had they finally found their "mommy..." It sure is an unsatisfying floaty type of ending, but overall, I think as long as you go at it not expecting something brilliant and try to like it for what it is, you might just find yourself enjoying this little house of rotten candy!

I normally love cheesy horror but this film was just plain bad, and not bad enough to make good watching. The characters are bland, undeveloped, and the acting is terrible. The plot is slightly different than other horrors, but not interesting enough to make it worth watching for that reason alone, and the filmmakers don't provide any other reason. The pace plods on like a metronome ticking and there are no memorable moments, shocks or build ups that are so integral to the genre.Skip this one if you're a fan of good horror, with or without cheese, because this one is just plain bland.

A film crew making a porn flick at a cabin in the remote woods run afoul of a couple of deranged and dangerous children. Director Mike Nichols, working from a twisted script by Charles Black and Sam Freeman, relates the gripping story at a brisk pace, does an expert job of creating and sustaining a spooky atmosphere, builds a good deal of tension (the last third in particular is quite harrowing), keeps the tone grimly serious throughout, and caps everything off with a nerve-shredding bummer ending. Moreover, the startling outbursts of brutal and grisly violence pack a pretty nasty punch and the plot about the abandoned psycho kids has a genuinely unsettling warped modern-day Grimm Brothers fairytale aspect to it. The secluded sylvan setting projects a potently upsetting feeling of stark isolation and vulnerability. The sound and credible acting from the able cast rates as another substantial plus, with praiseworthy contributions from Marianne Hagan as weary, aging veteran porn actress Angie, Steve Carey as the brave Billy, Jim J. Barnes as geeky camera dude Chuck, Alana Curry as the catty Vanity, Zoe Sloane as hot young starlet Skylar, Douglas Nyback as nervous novice Dominic, and director Nichols as mean jerk director Eddie. Pretty redhead Amy Crowdis and scrawny beanpole Dan Shaked are truly creepy and unnerving as sicko siblings Patti and Henry. Ian Dudley's slick'n'shadowy cinematography and Matt Sorenson's ominous score are both up to par. A neat little chiller.