Huff

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You know, it's too bad that the rich kids are the ones allowed to make films simply because they can afford the equipment and the schooling. The problem there is rich kids have absolutely nothing to say. Zip. What can be the source of their angst? The water ran cold in the Jacuzzi? The maid called in sick so now somebody has to sweep the foyer? Muffy refuses to eat dinner because Jake got a new iPhone for Christmas and she has to suffer by using last year's model? Ridiculous. The best these aspiring filmmakers can do is rob every Peter and Paul in Hollywoodland of their unoriginal ideas and throw it up on screen. 'Huff', or 'Big Bad Wolf' is so uninteresting that time is better spent pruning a tree than watching this crap. One of the biggest problem these new filmmakers have is casting. How on God's Green Earth does one find such gorgeous, Playboy models inhabiting the sticks of Arkansas or the trailer parks of West Virginia? You stand in front of a decrepit home in Buttf*ck, Tennessee with the wash hanging out on the line in the front yard, a '59 pickup with no hood and two supermarket shopping carts on the lawn and enough dog poop around the house to start your own compost company, then you open the front door to watch Beyoncé and Paris Hilton exit? I don't think so. Rich boys, get a grip. This is one of those films you have to fast forward through till you see someone bleeding which, in this case, was very little. The movie was as thin as rice paper - no depth, no substance, no nothing. Maybe frat boys will applaud this tripe, but then, they're probably watching a movie their cousins made.

Wasn't scared one bit. The only reason I finished the movie is because I like closure. I want to see it to the end, regardless of how bad it is. So, my recommendation, avoid at all costs. So, you're looking for your money, and it's really important to you? Why not stay and search right in the same area all day long, and even visit your home for most of the movie. Don't worry, that type of money just comes back to you, it doesn't run away. Just wait for it. Oh, and how smart do you have to be to be handcuffed to a large loophole screw, and not think to attempt to unscrew it, instead, to watch your son be killed in front of you. You think the story is bad? Just wait to see the acting, actually, don't wait, just pass. Absolutely nothing in this movie makes any sense. There are just so many things in the movie that even common sense could not screw up. I'm just mad that I wasted time watching this instead of watching something else while working.

OK, don't read this at all until after you see it if you care more about spoiler than wasting your life. First issue is that casting was horrible. Three daughters look basically same age as their mother, which is around 30. They are supposed to behave like they are under 16 or something, or its another attempt by some idiot to try and say that 17 year olds are 'children', either way, I saw them as used up by life, not as children and as thats kinda main point of film, it failed right from start. Second thing that really sucked majorly is that Huff character (name of main guy apparently, who is supposed to represent 'the wolf') is highly inconsistent. He has asthma which seems to be so severe that he can barely do anything, yet here he is running around actively. Person who wrote the character is clueless about asthma, and as I am not it killed it for me. I cant say I got point of his quoting the Bible few times as he was obviously nonreligious. I am agnostic, but it just felt like retarded extremist atheist portrayal of retarded extremist Christian ... maybe that was whole point of entire film. I found it to be garbage overall, although actor playing Huff did great job acting. Probably only person in the entire film that did something actually productive. My advice to Huff actor playing Huff: Dude find a better agent. You can do much better than this type of crap films, you've got talent.

There's a solid story in here, but someone forgot to tell it. The whole thing is disjointed. The opening scene presents a perverted world view. Then there's a pointless scene with a gang. Then there's a load of scenes showing the director has no idea how to tell a story or generate believable action. The actors are good, but several of the characters don't need to be here. Why three sisters? Because there were three little pigs. Why does Huff have two women? No idea. The incoherence between scenes, and even within scenes, is spectacular. And yet it's very well shot. I bet the photographer looked at the story boards and said, "But..." and the director said, "Shut up - I'm the boss". On top of that the sex and violence is really prudish. Hoping for a PG13? LOL. With a good director this could have been a decent black comedy of white trash despair. Instead it's just trash.

I was able to see this at a screening held in Dallas last month, with some of the cast and crew involved also attending. While this movie will not set the world on fire, if you take it at face value (a take off of the 3 Little Pigs with some random and sometimes uncomfortable humor involved), it is a decent flick - worth a rental although not a full-on purchase. Spoilers below Huff, the titular character played by Charlie O'Connell, is not a good guy - dealing drugs and stepping out with a mistress - who wants to make one big score before leaving the US. Unfortunately, the drug money he has gets into his girlfriend's hands, who then gives the money to her 3 daughters to start a better life with. Huff eventually finds them all, with varying degrees of success about getting the money back. There is some nudity and definitely a lot of blood (although not a lot of gore, really, compared to some slasher flicks). The callbacks to the 3 Little Pigs story are sometimes great and sometimes cringe worthy. The actresses playing the mother and her 3 daughters are not very good, but I don't think this is a movie people will want to watch for the acting skills. For the type of movie it is (which I would consider cheesy, cheeky slasher), I give this a 7/10, or a C. It's not the best in the genre, but it's entertaining.

Evil and abusive stepfather Huff (robustly played to the hateful hilt by Charlie O'Connell) is on the verge of making a lucrative drug deal that will enable Huff to settle down in Mexico with his mistress Laci (a spot-on saucy portrayal by the scorching hot Natasha Alam). However, Huff's battered wife Lorelei (a brief, but memorable turn by Elina Madison) messes things up after she sends her three daughters away with Huff's drug money. Director Paul Morrell, working from a hard-hitting script by Curt Howell, relates the compellingly twisted premise at a quick pace, maintains an unflinchingly tough'n'gritty tone throughout, does an ace job of crafting a tasty'n'seamy white trash atmosphere, adds a few neat touches of pitch-black humor (the religious angle in particular gives this a pleasingly subversive edge), and tackles some extremely dark and disturbing subject matter head on. The moments of brutal violence pack a really fierce punch. Marie Bollinger, Jenna Stone, and Elly Stefanko are all quite attractive and personable as the stepdaughters. Popping up in nifty bits are Clint Howard as amiable farmer Karl and Rance Howard as fearsome crime kingpin Scotty. Royce Allen Dudley's glossy widescreen cinematography provides an impressive polished look. Ken Eberhard's rattling score and the lowdown bluesy rock soundtrack hit the stirring spot. A nice'n'nasty item.

From the beginning of the movie you will hate Charlie O'Connell idiotic character, if the director is trying to create a new "Villian", he failed miserably, the character is dumb, slow, almost like he have a mental problem. The dialogues are just...unbelievable...non sense...rude and completely weird. There is not a single character you will think "ok, movie sucks but the acting of...", forget it this will never happens. The script is crap, the acting is primary school level and the cameras...oh dear... In total there are like 10 people in all the movie, effects are far from awful, are like 700 steps under awful... The action parts are like "they are really trying to make an horror movie?!" The old school "* + gore + pretty girls + scary character" it is far from being accomplished, there is nothing that makes people get related to this movie. This movie is not even attractive from the Bizarre/b-movie point of view. Just...awful...

source: Huff

You know, it's too bad that the rich kids are the ones allowed to make films simply because they can afford the equipment and the schooling. The problem there is rich kids have absolutely nothing to say. Zip. What can be the source of their angst? The water ran cold in the Jacuzzi? The maid called in sick so now somebody has to sweep the foyer? Muffy refuses to eat dinner because Jake got a new iPhone for Christmas and she has to suffer by using last year's model? Ridiculous. The best these aspiring filmmakers can do is rob every Peter and Paul in Hollywoodland of their unoriginal ideas and throw it up on screen. 'Huff', or 'Big Bad Wolf' is so uninteresting that time is better spent pruning a tree than watching this crap. One of the biggest problem these new filmmakers have is casting. How on God's Green Earth does one find such gorgeous, Playboy models inhabiting the sticks of Arkansas or the trailer parks of West Virginia? You stand in front of a decrepit home in Buttf*ck, Tennessee with the wash hanging out on the line in the front yard, a '59 pickup with no hood and two supermarket shopping carts on the lawn and enough dog poop around the house to start your own compost company, then you open the front door to watch Beyoncé and Paris Hilton exit? I don't think so. Rich boys, get a grip. This is one of those films you have to fast forward through till you see someone bleeding which, in this case, was very little. The movie was as thin as rice paper - no depth, no substance, no nothing. Maybe frat boys will applaud this tripe, but then, they're probably watching a movie their cousins made.