Farm House

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First i was reluctant to see this film, as i thought it was just another hostel type film...to a certain extent it was. it'll make you rethink about getting into a gambling debt with organized crime. either way by the time you get to the cheese grater scene things pick up REAL quick. i must say the ending was almost telegraphed with all the foreshadowing. but they keep it together long enough to hit you in the gut with the very dark menacing and bone chilling ending. and i heavily agree about the look of the film. it's low budget but you'll never know it, because it looks like a major mainstream picture. this should have definitely been a major release. this twisted little flick was a great find..

Chad and Scarlett are looking for a fresh start. Thanks to the death of their child and Chad's gambling debts that have violent thugs threatening their well-being, the couple take to the road until a near fatal accident leaves them stranded in the middle of nowhere. Walking to the nearest farmhouse, Chad (William Lee Scott) and Scarlett (Jamie Anne Allman) meet Lilith and Samael (Kelly Hu and Steven Webber) who take them in for the night with the promise of delivering them to town in the morning. But after a night of eating and drinking, Lilith and Samael prove to be anything but the warm and inviting hosts that they projected. As the evening descends, Lilith and Samael engage in various tortures of the young couple beginning with a suffering experiment where Chad must hold the weight of his Scarlett's weight between his teeth to avert her drowning. The hours before dawn will have Chad and Scarlett in one do or die circumstance after another where their decisions and a mysterious link to their past will have intense, bloody and painful repercussions. Farmhouse was directed by George Bessudo who was last in control behind the camera for Lake Dead (2007), one of the 8 Films to Die For series. Bessudo shows some real maturity with Farmhouse creating, at times, a threatening atmosphere and two involving baddies in Lilith and Samael. The violence in Farmhouse is typical of most horrors which dabble in the gore/torture * genre. A particular scene of an eyeball being plucked with a pocket knife was most noticeably cringe inducing moment. Based on a script by Jason Hice and Daniel P. Coughlin, Farmhouse is a better than average horror film that is able to develop interesting characters in a ghastly if not unfamiliar scenario. There are many flashbacks in Farmhouse which will inevitably have you trying to determine the purpose of the past to present shooting scenes. But we will suggest you don't read too much into the couple's past and let things play out as intended. The final chapters of Farmhouse were both interesting and a bit disappointing with the make-up and special effects that are essential to the final reveal and closure to the couple's evening. Although I appreciated the small twist, the execution of what is arguably the most important scene in the film seemed alienated from the rest of the film and lacked the quality required to execute the climax with above average flair. The downturn towards the end credits do take away some of the generated momentum of its earlier moments, but Farmhouse is still a film that is worth a mild recommendation. www.killerreviews.com

First things first and I have to say "WOW!" what a GREAT flick! At first glance this movie looks like your typical horror/torture movie but slowly it reveals itself to be much more than that. Throughout the movie you think you know what's going on as it gradually grabs you and tells the characters story through flashbacks. It all seems simple and predictable enough until you realized you were all wrong and the ending just blows you away. Love this movie! ZombieSteak.com - Discover a new world of horror films, designed just for you.

I rented this thinking it was going to be just another slasher film but was really surprised to find out it was much more than a simple horror film. Kelly Hu was awesome in this, the acting was above average for most of it, while by the middle of the film I was on the edge of my seat and the end I was surprised by the twist. I can see that viewers of this film who were expecting a suspense filled drama wouldn't like it if they were not fans of this genre and it is a true horror flick. The story begins a little slow for the first 5-10 min. and seems like a typical low budget horror film but once it gets rolling it is a nice piece of work, the film turns out not to be a low budget horror but a suspense filled horror film that is a bit creepy and fun at the same time. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys bloody good horror films!

Farmhouse begins as a pretty run-of-the-mill revenge flick, about a couple fleeing San Diego as they owe a lot of money and lost their son. We're treated to the details through a bunch of tedious flashbacks, which still manage to be vague, so we never really know what is going on. They crash their car, and wind up at a farmhouse, home of the lovely and criminally underused Kelly Hu, and her husband. First of all, the guy who plays Chad is a terrible actor. I haven't seen such poor use of facial expressions, and downright cowardliness on display in quite sometime. He's just really pathetic in every possible way. Anyone remotely familiar with horror can guess where the plot is going once we find out about the debt the couple are in. They go off the road in the middle of nowhere, (as they love to repeat). But, low and behold, help is in the home of the debt collectors nearby! The farmhouse couple are rather nasty, and punish the other two quite a bit. Nothing fascinating happens, but Kelly Hu plays a very good bitch, and the cheese grater may be this decade's hobbling. There are some mild nods to demons, with names such as "Lilith", "Samael" and "Alal". But, trust me. You won't even begin to fathom where this is headed. The people behind this obviously thought murder for money wasn't risky enough, so they decided to incorporate the ever failing plot twist: "They're dead!", and add purgatory and demons into the mix. It sounds kind of clever, and maybe it could have been if it wasn't executed so poorly. But it's completely unsatisfying, the cgi is embarrassing, and it doesn't really make much sense. 1. I think demons straight from Hell could come up with some better torture than they did. 2. Kelly Hu is above this crap, and needs to fire her agent. 3. The ending isn't shocking, even though I didn't see it coming. It's just ridiculous, devoid of any true resolution. Only bother with this if you REALLY can't find anything else to rent.

First of all the plot is simple, two people have lost their son and want to get away..as they drive to Seattle, we find out that they are running away from bookies who they owe money...Until they crash their car and find themselves on a farm, the owners of the farm decide that the two people should stay with them and then the fun begins when the farmers begin torturing the two 'stupid' people.. The acting from the guy Chad, is appalling...he is seriously weak with no range, the actress playing is wife, thinks that if she say's the F word a couple of times it makes her sound angry....Just really bad...There is one plus though Kelly Hu..who sizzles in practically everything she's ever in...here there's a steamy scene....which caught my eye....The knee grating scene is also a plus...there are good bits..but ruined by the main two actors...

This definitely takes torture films to a whole new level with it's brutality and very dark subject matter with a twist that will shock you to the core. I thought the performances were all pretty good but sometimes fell flat but nothing distracting and is very graphic and twisted in some scenes that is definitely not for the squeamish. There was dread throughout the moment it started and it will have you guessing how it's going to end and you will probably be wrong because it's devastating and horrific. The production values are pretty basic lifetime movie of the week material but that doesn't make it lose its effectiveness and being downright disturbing and dark, very dark. Overall this is a pretty solid thriller about a couple that tries to start a new life after the death of their child but wound up fighting for their lives and I recommend this slow trip to hell for the twist alone.

This is a very decent psychological thriller horror with some excellent acting and there is nothing cheap or cheerful about this movie, I like movies which make you think and ask questions and this film - a little bit like Lovely Bones recently - makes you do that. The film in a way also reminds me of the recent horror Vacancy with the couple on the run and the couple conveniently being in a range of a farmhouse when they crash the car. Chad has a gambling problem - but why was he gambling? And how was the 25K paid? I assume the house where they lived was rented, not owned, and they gave the furniture away to a neighbour, so took nothing away with them in the car, or so it seemed. The girl clearly had a problem in childcare and a healthcare issue with her baby. They both had a problem and the visitation to the farmhouse was a sort of addressing of their guilt and wrongs, so how I seem the drowning of the girls head and the prompt for Chad to justify himself as a man and try and save her. There is A TOUCH of SAW 6 in this morality (if there is any morality). The deaf guy is a key character in the story but is he the only worker to be employed on such a large vineyard 30 miles from anywhere? Absurd but intriguing. The sinister couple too busy bonking to put their hand to the hands on management of the vineyard. Great ending but I still don't get the opening scene when Scarlet the girl is a child and is flash backed again at the end. Need to watch again for further curiosity. Overall, excellent thriller, not top-drawer but enjoyable in this specific film sector although why they persist in including mindless eroticism (sex scene with the open door) is quite beyond me. A theme of many of such films of date I have some AFTERTHOUGHTS to my original posting. Of course what has happened is that the couple have wronged with the death of their child and perhaps cashed in an insurance Policy to meet the gambling debt and fund a getaway. But this is wrong through the eyes of God and the car accident is their penitence and punishment for eternity, hence the role played by Lil and Samyel, although brutal and horrific, is intended to send a very clear message - and it surely does. In life there is no second chance. there is also a slight moral connection with the Cohens A Serious Man (but only slight). Wow, this is a real thinking film, there is definitely a similarity in this movie with what happened to the little girl in Lovely Bones and the couple in the car crash. Enjoy this movie, its great!

I just finish watching and i loved it. I must say when i first watched it i thought it was going to be a regular horror flick but this goes way beyond that. At first i was thinking people who do not want to live don't live that is why they die. He could have shot her but he ran away they always run away because they do not want to live. So as the movies goes on i was hoping that the killers would kill them and burn them. I didn't see the end coming at all. I loved it. I have always believe that you always pay for what you do. No one is safe from sin.They deserved what they got and more so much more. I highly recommend this movie to everyone.