Basement Jack (2009)

Don't listen to the negative reviews

Crappy film

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Young man is tortured with a 9 volt battery by mother as a kid and turns into a killer only during thunderstorms.If you buy into that premise, you might also like the bad acting, horrible script, the dead victims whose eyes are literally blinking and moving on screen, and storms without rain.I didn't.Characters actions simply don't make sense. Not sure if you've ever licked a 9 volt battery. I have. It doesn't hurt in the slightest. You feel a dull tingle. That's how we'd test to see if they were good as kids. None of us turned into serial killers.And why do so many of the corpses move when they're supposed to be dead? Didn't anyone see this during the editing? IMDD says this movie had a million dollar budget. Where did the money go?

A serial killer, nicknamed Basement Jack because of his penchant for hiding out in his victim's basements before killing them, is released and returns to the small town of Downer's Grove to continue his massacre and finish off the one victim who was able to escape is slaughter years before.This film desperately tries to be a throwback to 80's slasher films, but it is too slow-paced and padded with the killer's backstory that it commits the worst crime a slasher film can: it becomes boring. The pace does pick up in the end and there are some ambitious attempts at heavy gore; however, it is extremely fake looking and some is obviously CGI. However, the director is able to create some nice atmosphere is spots and, despite the fake looking gore, the film looks great. In the end, though, this is nothing you haven't seen before and it has been done much, much better.FrightMeter Grade: D+

When i saw some preview's of this movie i thought it could be fun nothing big but a OK movie to watch on a late rainy night,but its a major disappointment.I know that if you don't have the budget you cant do the things that you see in big blockbuster movie's and thats OK,but then you need a good story and thats the problem with this flick it has none.It never gets clever or scary and there are some strange things in this movie that just don't add up,there seems to be a very different day cycle in the town that the movie is shot,for instance in a scene where the lead female role is locked up in the room of the cop thats like in the middle of the day,she looks five minutes on a computer and breaks out of the room and in the next scene its the middle of the night and this happens a few times in the movie where the time line doesn't add up.And the fight between the killer and the lead female role is just as bad,she get stabbed with a giant dagger or something and when the dagger comes out of here there is hardly blood and she starts fighting like jackie Chan and then all of a sudden during this fight she bleeds like hell and cant hardly walk anymore,for me personal these kinda things ruin a movie.But thats my opinion as i am a critical movie watcher,but if you wanna spend some time with a movie rent something else.

I'm beginning to wonder if I've been watching the same films as some of the other contributers on IMDb.I enjoy good horror films and I have been taking the ratings from this site into account when deciding which films to watch ( I've learnt my lesson now ).Unfotunately most of the recommendations and reviews I have read have not been very helpful( Babysitter wanted,poor and predictable,Staunton Hill again poor,I Sell The Dead comedy horror,fell short on both counts,All The Boys Love Mandy Lane rubbish,Albino Farm was funny although not meant to be ) .This being the latest one,Basement Jack isn't remotely frightening,the acting was poor almost laughable,the film was so bad,I switched off before the end,my 8 year old nephew probably wouldn't be scared by this.Abbott and Costello made scarier films than the above.