Death Cast

This is pretty dire. I usually try to give low budget movies a fair go especially concerning especially effects and lack of locations etc. The problem with this movie it's trying to be a generic slasher (With a sort of twist but not really) but there's very little horror here and worst off the story and script are awful. It would have been better to either try to make something original or concentrate on making a decent slasher (The fact it's all done in daylight until the end doesn't really help atmospherically either) but instead they opted to make a movie that comes over like a high school project of a slightly cynical students view of what people who watch slashers expect. Lacy Hartselle is a decent enough actress who I've seen in a number of lower budget films but she's wasted in this mess. Score: 2 : For getting Lacy Hartselle to be in this. -1: For Lacy Hartselle agreeing.

You know for the most part it could have been a half decent budget horror picture to waste an hour and a half on on a rainy weekend. A group of young actors and actresses take a part in a horror movie and are shipped out to the country for your typical young kid out in the woods horror type activities. And then things start getting real. Ok, been there done that before but its at least holding my attention. The actors./actresses aren't really bad but its clear that any talents they have are being wasted by a lack of a real script. Nothing unique happens for about an hour... and then it just ends. No questions answered, no reveal, it just ends. I assume that the director thinks its artistic ending the movie like this but IMO its just lazy. There's really no reason to watch this. There's killings and blood but no real gore. An attractive cast but no nudity.

This film begins with 6 young actors auditioning for a part in an upcoming movie. Upon being accepted for their respective roles they are all given scripts to rehearse on their own. A couple of weeks later they are all driven to a secluded house in the woods where filming will start. However, unlike other movies, they are all informed that there will be nobody filming them at the site. Instead, the director has chosen to place remote-controlled cameras inside the house along with cameras mounted on drones for any filming outside. So, once they are dropped off at the house, they are the only people there. What they don't realize, however, is that the picture they are making is a "snuff film" and that all but one of them will be murdered. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this was an interesting film for the most part which suffered somewhat from an abrupt and disappointing ending. Likewise, being a low-budget production, it experienced the usual problems associated with films of this type, such as a weak script and uneven acting. It did, however, have a couple of attractive actresses with Danielle Stratton (as "Stefanie") probably standing out the most. In any case, while this may not have been a bad film necessarily, it certainly could have been better in several respects and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly below average.

You can judge how bad this movie will be from the astoundingly cringeworthy and fake disclaimer before it even begins: "The following content is of unknown origin and contains graphic and explicit material that may represent actual violence and/or murder. The distributors of this film claim no knowledge of or responsibility for any crimes that may have been committed during or in association with the production of this film."

When six young and hopeful actors land roles in an experimental horror film shooting on a remote location with no crew present - what is this Makinov directing the Who Can Kill A Child? Remake? - and only drones to film the events. Of course, before you can say snuff film, that's exactly what starts happening. Director/writer Bobby Marinelli has done just about every job there is to do on a set, so his knowledge of the way these characters behave is probably pretty well informed. He told Timothy Rawles of iHorror, "A lot of my career as a reality television producer was based on manipulating ordinary people into extraordinary situations. I often wondered how far this could be taken and it developed into a really interesting premise for a horror film. With Death Cast I was able to blend reality docudrama tropes with those of a slasher flick, the result is familiar but unique to the genre." I got major vibes of a better David DeCoteau Full Moon production here, which is not a bad thing, so if you're in the mood for a slasher that plays with technology and the need to be a star, this is the one for you.

Starts Off Bad, But Wait, it Gets Worse... 1 Star. I would give 0 Stars, but the rating system won't allow it. By far the worst movie I've ever watched in my life If you want to waste your time, and I mean waste it to the point that there is not a single net benefit, this is your movie. Insanely terrible. That was an hour and seventeen minutes of visual torture. I can't believe I actually put myself through that.

Anyone know how to punch a movie in the face? I tried screaming at the screen. I tried hitting my computer monitor with a broom. I even set my desk on fire. Sadly, nothing seemed to penetrate the incompetency presented here. Cut your losses early on this one. There is no pleasant topless scene, no memorable kill, no plot swerves, and no twist ending.

Another "Amateur Night at the Bijou" attempt in the vein of "found footage." There is nothing new here--no interesting ideas, no ORIGINAL ideas, horrible acting, horrible direction--horrible all around. I cannot believe how stupid these caricatures were written. Reminds me of the commercial where all the kids make the wrong choices. "Head for the cemetery." Skip it; you won't be sorry.

Bad acting, badly written characters. Weak as a slasher movie, simple kills with minimal makeup effects dispatched by unmenacing killers. The house in the middle of nowhere is the kind of horror movie cliché The Cabin in the Woods (2011) made fun of. A potentially interesting concept becomes dubious, potential wasted. The story is a movie within a movie. The main characters are actors who play parts in a horror movie. Little did they know that the producers would make the horror real. One trick I did like: The movie starts out full screen, then when the actors are playing the characters in the horror movie, the screen goes letterboxed. Then when the first actor gets killed for real and the other actors realize they're in real jeopardy, the screen goes back to full screen. Neat visual trick to separate the inner movie from the outer one, the actors playing characters from them behaving in their real lives. This is a twist on found footage, where the producers are purposely making a movie about killing off the actors in a movie. But the actors aren't in on the gag, so it's kind of reality television with deadly consequences. The concept has potential, but the story doesn't pan out. Maybe with better writing and acting, this could have been something. Hopefully this is a stepping stone to the writer/director producing something better next time.

Is the female extra one of the killers considering the fact that the drone is still active and i presume that there are more than other who work on this snuff movie type.