Headhunter

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No pun intended - no really! It is quite literally - even if you are going for a person ... I reckon you are huning for his or her head. You want what is inside it - well you know what I mean by that. The movie itself is quite decent. You can tell it doesn't have the biggest budget - still for the money it probably had, it works well. I assume the location was given for free or was a bit of a lucky situation. Maybe they were able to use it after hours. The story is quite ... well easy to spot and I would assume that most will know where the movie is heading ... sorry for another pun. Next time I'll give you a ... heads up ... or not I reckon! Anyway, kidding aside, this is a low budget thriller ... make of it what you will ... just don't blame it for any shortcomings you should have been able to expect ... and story weaknesses that have to be there ... well it is what it is.

Ambitious young go-getter Ben Caruso signs on with sexy corporate headhunter Sarah Tierney. Sarah gets Ben a new job with great pay working the graveyard shift. However, Ben soon discovers that Sarah is a witch and his coworkers are the tormented souls of Sarah's previous conquests. There is not much I really have to say about this one other than it is boring and just not a very great film. I love good horror and I love bad horror, and this is neither -- it is just a half-baked idea in the oven. And strangely, it seems to have a very similar cover to "Tamara", which came out the same year. The professor who knows the Middle Eastern things was interesting and this could have been developed more. I am not at all clear why they thought a cheap trinket from a gumball machine could pass as an ancient artifact... this needed more thought.

Ambitious young go-getter Ben Caruso signs on with sexy corporate headhunter Sarah Tierney. Who wouldn't? She's hot. Sarah gets Ben a new job with great pay working the graveyard shift. However, Ben soon discovers that Sarah is a witch and his coworkers are the tormented souls of Sarah's previous conquests. If Ben doesn't find a missing head in a few days, he's in danger of losing his own. Beware of the glowing reviews here from people who have something to do with the film! Don't know why IMDb doesn't monitor better. They should not post reviews until someone has 5 reviews under their belt. That would weed out the fakes more. They also always seem to favor showing the rave reviews even when most reviews are bad. That's not a good representation for the film in question. Any way, this movie is cheaply made and the acting is mediocre at best. The writing is dumb and the staging is worse. When the hot babe is introduced she's basically wearing a negligee with a jacket over it! Yikes. And she has a PC on her desk that looks like it was made in 1980! The movie drones on talk talk talk zzzz zzzz zzzzz. None of it is believable. Fast forward to 31 for the sex scene and tell me if you also agree that the witch -- who has tiny breasts -- also has implants. I'm pretty sure. Anyway, the sex is scene is about as boring as the rest of the movie. There is little in this film to capture your attention. I won't reveal the ending, but OMG! I laffed so hard. It's so cheesy and unintentionally funny. This movie is not good.

This movie is so offensively bad I actually take it as a personal affront...and believe me, I've seen plenty of terrible horror movies. The acting is soap-opera-level - at BEST - and it is painfully apparent that none of these people have had much (if any) experience performing before a camera before and probably not much since. None of the characters are likable and the lead male is not sympathetic at all (he cheats on his wife in the first half-hour without any apparent remorse and after she is killed by the titular Headhunter he shows no grief AT ALL). Nothing that happens in the story makes any sense and none of the characters behave in anywhere near what could be considered a logical manner. The writing is inane. The special effects are laughable. The cemetery at the climax looks about as "realistic" as the one featured in Plan 9 From Outer Space. The only positive thing I can say about the whole production (and the reason I'm giving it a vote of 2 out of 10 instead of just 1) is that it's pretty professionally lit and filmed - THAT'S IT. Director Paul Tarantino (no; no relation to THAT Tarantino) should go back to film school, and if that doesn't work out, he should go apply at Pizza Hut. P.S., it should be obvious to anyone who has actually SEEN this waste of time that the people who posted good comments on the IMDb review section are either affiliated with the flick or are friends of the director. Nice try, guys.

I purchased this movie sight-unseen at a video rental chain that was going out of business, so I can't complain as it probably cost me about a dollar. It is, of course, a very low-budget independent horror film. I've seen a number of movies that fall under this category, so I'm no stranger to incompetence and utter crap when it comes to movies. First, it should be noted that from a technical perspective, this was a reasonably well done movie. I've seen independent horror flicks where the creators couldn't even figure out how to get the sound and light done right. Even the acting here isn't terrible; the leads do, at very least, seem to have some training in the art. Okay, so now I've just written two paragraphs that amount to my telling any reader that this movie could be much worse. Make of that what you will. Doug Bennett (Mark Aiken) is trying to move up in the business world, and finds himself an aggressive agent, Sarah Tierney (Kristi Clainos), to place him into a higher salary. He starts a new job on the graveyard shift and, well, that's where it gets weird. The only people he comes across in the way of coworkers is some guy who just yells and runs at him, then vanishes without a trace. There's also some mysterious voice on the intercom and the agent (actually a headhunter, or so they say) gets naked and seduces him for some reason. Like I said, it does get weird. Doug later discovers that Sarah is some sort of ghost or other undead beast (complete with a little full-frontal nudity) and she's trying to use this late-night office job as a means of coming back to life, or something like that. Really, the biggest weakness of this movie is the script. Most of the criticism that I share with many of the other reviewers is that this was not well written. It sort of reminds me of the type of movies that get played at two in the morning on basic cable stations. It's a good movie to make out to, but not as good as Schindler's List.

The British DVD front cover states that this is a Paul Tarantino film - who??? Never heard of him either, but obviously his surname is enough to catch the eye. As for the rear cover it tries to make comparisons with The Shining, The Ring and Stephen King - utter bull****!! Ambitious Ben gets a well paid office job working the graveyard shift thanks to a sexy corporate headhunter. But straight away he is thrown into a nightmare world of supernatural horror. The plot is pretty crazy though easy to follow, the acting is wooden & the special effects look very cheap. I'm not sure if the intention was to make a scary film, which this certainly isn't, or if it was done tongue in cheek. This is a bad, cheesy film, no two ways about it, but I found entertainingly so. NB - there is a short, final post-credits scene for anybody who refrains from hitting the eject button beforehand.

Ambitious young go-getter Ben Caruso (a solid and likable performance by Ben Parrillo) signs on with sexy corporate headhunter Sarah Tierney (a fine portrayal by the lovely Kristi Clainos). Sarah gets Ben a new job with great pay working the graveyard shift. However, Ben soon discovers that Sarah is a witch and his coworkers are the tormented souls of Sarah's previous conquests. If Ben doesn't find a missing head in a few days, he's in danger of losing his own. Writer/director Paul Tarantino relates the engrossing and entertaining story at a brisk pace, makes good use of the claustrophobic office building setting, expertly creates and sustains an eerie and intriguing oddball atmosphere, and grounds the offbeat premise in a credible white collar reality. Moreover, Tarantino further spices things up with amusing touches of inspired black humor and several grisly moments of nasty gore. The sound acting from the capable cast rates as another real plus: Parrillo and Clainos do top work in the leads, with sturdy support from Mark Aiken as the smarmy Doug Bennett, Matt Bushell as Ben's loyal friend Scott, and Lindsay Stoddart as Ben's concerned girlfriend Donna. Both Seth Kotak's sharp cinematography and Vincent Gillioz's shivery score are up to par. A cool little flick.