Acts of Death (2007)

Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Beyond the cheap-yet-surprisingly-decent gore, The Final Curtain (sometimes called Acts of Death) is one of the worst pieces of Indie-Crud horror I've seen.The acting ranges from subpar to downright abysmal, with the script and dialogue becoming progressively worse. In horror movie fashion, the actors play their stock character in caricatured glory. The story dragged on to the point of a crawl, each scene (until the deaths, of course) duller than the last. Throughout the whole film, you'd feel that coprolalic compulsion to encourage each last character to his/her untimely and gristly doom. At the very least, the deaths were interesting. One guy gets split open, and his guts spill out as he whimpers.The WORST part of the film is the ending.I'M GONNA SPOIL IT.It turns out the main character raped his friend's sister and impregnated her. When she went to abort the baby, she died in the process. The film ends with enraged friend murdering richie boy and his Dean Daddy. If this was supposed to be a twist...forget it. Technically, it wouldn't count as a twist, as it is background information that wasn't revealed until the very end.So there you have it. In all advice, AVOID THIS FILM AT ALL COSTS. Even if you're a gorehound, I wouldn't suggest watching it.

Let's get straight to the point, this is low budget horror. So at the end, you've probably got what you asked for; below par acting, below par sets, below par directing and below par anything else that you might want to add. Of course you can come across very good low budget movies, and this certainly doesn't rank as one of the worst I've seen by any stretch of the imagination (see scarecrow or the Pumpkin Karver for that accolade for example), but this could have been so much better. The plot is typical slasher horror fair, with young college students trapped in a building, and the first half hour is quite interesting, setting up the situation. But then the film slows right down, and unfortunately it is very clichéd and never really sparks. There are also a number of very odd situations created that are plain annoying, and as with so many recent movies the attempted 'twist' is just pants. Certainly if the director had cut 20 or even 30 minutes out of this film it would have been a far more enjoyable fair. As it stands its a passable way to waste an evening if you have nothing better to do, and aren't expecting great cinema, but there are far better slasher movies out there.

I like to give indie movies their chance. Low budgets, I can live with it. Lack of experience, well, sometimes. In this case, the first forty-five minutes sustained my interest. The acting seems kinda uneven. Like, say, they learned to act through the process. Unfortunately, the movie was shot out of order, so, basically, the acting seems of random quality. At least, they tried. As for the story and the editing... when you see most of names three of four times on the credits, you know you are swimming in freaking low budget sea. But let's be fair. You can find something interesting in the in the first half of this movie. After that, when they try to get some action and the story moving, everything goes to clichéland. I can live with low budget, new-to-the-work director or sort, a kind of lack or originality, but now too much in the same plate. I tried to give this movie its chance. They just won't let me.

I watch a lot of indie horror films especially the ones that are released by lions gate films and I am disappointed a lot of times too by the low budget and predictable story. This one didn't have a predictable story entirely but it did drag out for the first hour and it failed to have enough excitement to wake me back up towards the final 42 minutes. I have seen much worse from lions gate, but then again I have seen much better. I really wouldn't recommend this to anyone because it really bored me a lot and the ending was really cheesy. I mean I didn't see it coming or anything but it was still stupid and the acting isn't very good in the film either but I don't look at that as much if its a good story but this movie was just a plain old sleeper compared to the awesome horror films I have seen in the past.So anyways this movie isn't worth your 3 dollars to rent it and surprisingly its not made by Ulli Lommel. In case no one knows him thats reading this, he is a complete idiot that wouldn't know directing if it smacked him in the face. Anyways I give this movie a 3 out of 10.