Comedown

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I would like to start by saying the only reason this movie made it to 3 stars, is solely because it has Jessica Barden. I actually enjoyed the acting and setting in this movie, everything else pretty much missed the mark. I want to say the directing in this movie wasn't good. It seemed fairly predictable and not very suspenseful. I feel like I already knew what was going to happen before it happened. The story had potential but lacked so much detail that it was hard to understand why things were happening. I think it is worth the watch, but only if it's out of boredom, not to entertain.

This is a below par British horror film, that could have been a surprise hit. I'm just gonna list the things I felt were wrong with the film... Some of the actors were weak as hell, some over acting, some under acting. Made me feel asif there was a good chance that I myself could go out tomorrow and get an acting job, they were sometimes that bad. The characters never really felt asif they clicked, I didn't understand the relationships between them so they didn't mix well, plus none of the characters were really drawn out well on their own so you just have to take the stereotype list out in order to understand them... 1) Weak white boy pyromaniac 2) Mouthy over the top mixed race guy 3) Pregnant girl 4) Sketty girl 5) Big stupid, soft at heart guy 6) Just left prison guy, getting himself in order Literally nobody in this movie grows, or surpasses the stereotype that their characters are written as. This is something I'd be willing to forgive if the horror was there but they mess that up too. Nothing in this movie is actually scary, except the reality check at the ending which did surprise me, they could have went down other roads, but they didn't. So I'm glad to see abit of originality where the ending was concerned. Geoff Bell... Having Geoff Bell in the movie as the bad guy and keeping him hooded up for 90 percent of the movie barely speaking a line of dialogue is a sin on its own, if you've seen Geoff Bell in 'The Business' than I'm sure you know what he's capable of, unfortunately in this film it's asif he doesn't even exist. Man what more is there to say, Imagine a scene where the elevator door opens, and theres the bad guy standing at the end of the hall way, drapped in darkness, running towards the lift at full speed as the kids are desperately hammering at the buttons, trying to get the doors to close, that's horror, there was nothing of the sort in this movie. Also where was the comedy too? I like Adam Deacon but his mad ramblings were doing nothing for me here. I pictured a scene where he screams, and everyone runs to him like "what's wrong" and he's just screaming cause he's got a bit of dirt on his new trainers, stuff like that was not crafted for this movie. Plus all of them supposedly used to live in the tower, and there wasn't even a scene crafted where one of them is in a flat that they grew up in, maybe it would have been a good scene to include a flashback, of them as children, to break up the movie a bit, maybe it would have involved the main guy and Adam Deacons character making friends again and teaming together, seeing as they were mortal enemies with no sign of ever being friends throughout the whole movie. Where was the drug effects throughout the film, they disappeared as soon as the drugs went, also, nobody's phone worked when the radio signal was up (stupid anyway) but nobody's phone worked after it was broke either, it's the only tower in London that can't carry a damn phone signal, why couldn't they at least all have left their phones on the table and when they returned to the room, they was all gone, to explain for the fact that they can't call out for help, maybe a scene where they had to retrieve a phone from the dead 554 guy could have been added. Urgh I could go on and on and on, I'm gonna have to stop, could have been a classic 8/10 movie, ended up in the trash pile. 3/10 (I'm being generous)

A more appropriate description would be "six druggie street kids, including one just out of prison, break into a man's home, destroy his property then torture and murder his pets along with their unborn offspring get what they deserve". The saddest part is that they didn't all die. It's pretty hard to feel sorry for these kids since they're all garbage human beings. This movie completely failed at getting us to care for the protagonists. In fact, I actually cheered for the "psychopath" to kill them all. Not scary. Not thrilling. Just aggravating.

This film starts out as a British gang movie and half way through suddenly becomes a slasher film. A group of young adults agree to place a broadcasting antenna for a pirate radio broadcast (they still do that with the Internet?) on top of Mercy Point, an abandoned apartment building taken over by rats and pigeons. They also decide to party with mind altering drugs. When the expecting Jemma (Sophie Stuckey) goes missing, her boyfriend Lloyd (Jacob Anderson) leads a search party with the expected knife/ nail gun slasher film results. I watched the film not realizing the slasher aspect, which made it a surprise for me and slightly more enjoyable. The film description gives this aspect away. I liked the setting and set up, although the slasher had no personality. There appears to have been some connection between the slasher and Jemma, although that was not known or developed. Likewise, we know nothing about the slasher until the end. It seems they set this film up for a sequel which will add interesting and intriguing aspects they opted to leave out of this one. Parental Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.

A grimy & gritty low-budget London based urban slasher where a bunch of vile street rats get killed off one by one in a rundown abandoned Block of flats & it's a pretty bad film because the gang are vile & the type in real life you want to get killed off!!! An all British urban version of an American Slasher & here i rooted for the KILLER!!!!

Some people just need to get off their high horse. This is a new generation of good British Drama. It's the emergence of a younger generation cultivating their own language, therefore the dialect is true to type of certain communities. Traditionalists are in denial that this section of society exists, and that their language has found its way into the movies. The movie hosts a mix of teen crime, mischievous behaviour, youth cult and culture. It's the result of all growing up in a Tower Block in the same area, where the likelihood is that they all attended the same schools and went through the UK schooling system, and gang warfare - but these were not gangs - these were just a group of friends with 'attitude'.

COMEDOWN is a low rent British horror film set entirely within the confines of a deserted tower block. The gritty realism and the setting made me hope for something along the lines of TOWER BLOCK or ATTACK THE BLOCK, but unfortunately this is nothing like those two (great) movies. Instead it's a cheap slasher, almost entirely devoid of imagination. Headlining the cast is Jacob Anderson, best known to audiences for his role as Grey Worm in GAME OF THRONES. Anderson and his buddies, including a pregnant girlfriend and an obnoxious type (Adam Deacon, playing firmly to type) hole up in a run-down building to help run a pirate radio station, but their drug-fuelled highs come crashing down when a killer starts picking them off one by one. COMEDOWN must feature one of the least menacing bad guys ever, and when you learn of his motivations you'll laugh out loud, they're that slim. The kills, which are what most horror fans will watch this for, are relatively tame, and there just isn't much in the way of suspense built along the way. It doesn't help that the dialogue is moronic throughout and that every twist in the script is well-choreographed. Add in some quite terrible cinematography, meaning 95% of this takes place in near blackness, and you have a quite unworthy film.

I watch a lot of horror/slasher films and most of them I get about half way through before I turn off. Comedown had absolutely nothing new to add to the genre and the characters were pretty unlikeable, yet I found I managed to sit through the whole thing without actually turning it off. A bunch of pretty horrible teenagers break into a condemned London tower block in order to set up a pirate radio station. However, there's the obligatory psycho happens to already be living there. And, unsurprisingly, he doesn't take too kindly to their intrusion. What follows is the typical 'hunt 'em and kill 'em' scenario. Although the killer looks like he's already starred in I Know What You Did Last Summer, he's played by Geoff Bell, an actor who always puts in a good performance (even if he does only just squeak in this case!). The rest of the cast are basically 'killer-fodder.' You won't find yourself shedding too many tears when they start getting hacked to death. One girl is pregnant and her boyfriend is a reformed convict, so I think we're supposed to root for them. Jessica Barden, who plays a particularly 'chavvy' young lady, actually puts in a pretty good performance. There's nothing new here and what little budget the film had seems to have been wasted on using computers to add extra blood in. Personally, I'd rather they'd have simply squirted a couple of bottles of tomato ketchup here and there, as the computer effects look a little bit too fake. Like I say, nothing too new here, but strangely watchable and quite good fun in its genre.

OK, I get why this Comedown only rated a 4.6 here at IMDb, as it is true it's a stock premise, that is, teenagers somehow exposed getting hunted down one by one in the tradition of numerous other slasher flicks. I'm giving it a 10. Comedown is a truly excellent slasher flik. The psychopath is truly creepy, and chillingly prepared for his night of slaughter, and the Director's handling of how he is introduced carefully scene by scene is a championship of editing. The murders are brilliant, each one carefully choreographed, with great shock value. Some classic horror images here. The tension is palpable. Even before the kids are in danger the delicate dynamics of their social wiles just kind of screams 'this is trouble'. It was a great way to lead in. The actors are all accomplished. The characters themselves are not easy to enjoy, but they are very authentic, helped along by a jabbing script. Then there is the grand set itself, with the lighting and texture throughout being powerful. The sense of danger is just screaming off the walls. This movie has all the heart pounding guts of a really, really outrageous dare, and I loved every minute.