Bodies

This movie is so good, and there's a lot to learn from it because the main character shows intelligent ways of thinking and calmly using her mind to think properly in order to escape. And how she became brave for herself. For me its 8.9/10

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This script is pathetic and totally unrealistic. You can't tell me that a medical student wouldn't be suspicious of a paramedic wanting to take her to the hospital for a sprain...and then trying to put an oxygen mask on her. Everyone is overacting which makes it even more laughable. The only good acting is from Brian Landis playing the mentally handicapped Jeffrey, and that's giving him the benefit of the doubt. The effects and camera work aren't too bad though.

A lot of folks are rating this movie poorly, which confuses me. I thought the story was good, the acting was great and the gory effects were very believable. Sure there is some twisted sex scenes that might make you uncomfortable, but that was the directors idea, to get you out of your comfort zone. I really liked this movie.

Paramedics otherwise known as bodies was such a hugely pleasant surprise and it simply wasn't even remotely what I expected. With the gory opening credits I expected a thorough gorefest and perhaps a degree of "Torture *" but I was mistaken, this is something altogether different. The film tells the story of two brothers, one a sociopath, the other autistic. They run a business together which involves pretending to be paramedics, drugging people and harvesting their organs for the black market. Things get complicated for them when they take a girl who they both grow a fondness for and a game of wits begins as she races to escape before her uses expire. The cast are great, 3 unknowns who really take their characters and make them their own. The mentally handicapped, the unhinged sociopath and the stalwart determined heroine. The film isn't as gory as I expected but certainly isn't for the faint of heart. Paramedics deals with some pretty hardcore themes including rape, necrophilia genital mutilation and incest and considerably more graphic than you'd imagine. If you can stomach the unpleasantness you have a very well constructed thriller that had me gripped. The Good: Fascinating little thriller Excellent performances The Bad: Some shoddy editing Does make for some uncomfortable viewing in places Things I Learnt From This Movie: Thats two movies lately about killer paramedics, next time I get hurt I'm walking! Expecting a tied up person to help is a bit of a needless guilt trip Bread & butter pudding is better with raisins

Well, this is terrific. A film that, should you go in blind as I did, doesn't give you any clue as to what course it is going to take. In fact, the underwhelming first scenes seem to indicate this is going to be a comedy. It isn't a comedy. Two brothers, one retarded, pose as a paramedics. They kidnap young people and sell their organs to the black market. The latest victim refuses to be intimidated by them, showing manipulative skills and a beaming intelligence - in short, she runs rings around them. But there's more going on, which I won't reveals without straying into spoilers - and that would be a shame. Writer/producer/director/'Delivery Driver' Rodney Wilson extols the virtues of a low-budget, providing a fascinating character-piece, whilst allowing us a few very effective moments of gore. The three main characters are very well played, and the minimalist production values really add to the sense of austerity and isolation. There would never be a mainstream, Hollywood-style film like this; and that's fine, because if there was, we wouldn't get independent gems like this. Long scenes, allowing performances to scale the heights of madness and dive into the depths of despair - without a cut in sight - command the attention and toy with it. The finale is, in retrospect, somewhat inevitable and satisfying, but such are the developments throughout the film, anything could happen. My score is 8 out of 10.

The beginning of this film gives the impression it is a black comedy, but it soon transpires there is nothing to laugh about in what is about to happen, and it is rightly styled a psychological thriller. Produced on an ultra-low budget, most of the action takes place in one room, and mostly there are three, often only two people in a scene. The bad guys are two brothers: the irredeemably evil Corey, and Jeffery who is not only a dullard but easily manipulated. The two pose as paramedics, but instead of taking people to the hospital they murder them and sell their body parts for transplant. For this modern day Burke and Hare there are rich pickings indeed, until they kidnap a gorgeous blonde who for some reason needs to be kept alive, which suits Corey because he can rape her regularly while administering both psychological and physical torture. The fly in the ointment is that this girl is not only highly intelligent but a dead ringer for their late sister, with whom both men did things no man should ever do to or with his own sister. It is not giving away too much to say the ending is gory, or that some people will be genuinely sickened by the wanton brutality meted out by Corey, which is far more convincing than most of the cracked skulls and broken limbs that can be found in many high budget thrillers and horror films.

Two twisted brothers, who had both had an incesteous relationship with their late sister, pose as paramedics. They listen in on and respond to 911 calls but instead of giving medical assistant they remove victims' organs to sell on the black market. I read no reviews of Paramedics before watching it and it got off to a promising start, with gore, nudity and amusingly bad acting. Then the brothers respond to a second call,a young female hiker (played by Jenice Marshall, who sheds her clothes numerous times throughout) with a twisted ankle. And this is where the film just plummets. They kidnap her and hold her captive in their crude operating theatre, subjecting her to physical and sexual abuse. This had potential but sadly it's her ridiculously unbelievable relationship with her captors and the sheer boredom that kills this movie. Most of the running time is in this one room and the film is mainly about the triangle between the brothers and their victim, just so incredibly boring. I think the makers attempt some black humour but there is too much bad taste here (girl, "Is it rapey time again?). The end thankfully does perk up but it's too little, too late. Just FFWD to the gore and nudity senes!