Perkins' 14

What starts as a very interesting premise, dealing with a pharmacist and the kids he's brainwashed into mindless killing machines, is hamstrung by terrible execution and shoddy acting. At the beginning I was intrigued but as the movie wore on I found my Interests waning exponentially, hoping that the film would just end already. When the end finally came it didn't even cause me a sigh of relief that the whole awful movie was over, but rather more mad that I ever watched it in the first place. The ending, be that as it may, was simply atrocious. Yeah who would've thought there would be an awful '8 films to die for' movie? (that's sarcasm by the way )

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Well let me start off by saying that this movie was a pretty decent horror movie. I've seen several of the "8 films to die for" movies made over the last three years. Some good, some not so good. Premise was good but something was missing to make it a great horror movie, not sure what. The "PCP psychos" were effective. The one thing that really bothered me was at the end when the sheriff had locked his daughter in the cell to protect her from the the "PCP psychos" (one of which is his son whom was among the kidnapped)he locks the her cell door and the bar door that leads to the cells. Then he goes out of the locked bar door looking for his son hoping that he will recognize him and remember the love they had. Now, I understand his motives but in his overwhelming guilt of not looking harder to find his son, he goes to hug his son and gets his neck broken. Now the son has the keys to the cell where his sister is suppose to be safe. He goes in and kills the sister with a shotgun that she's holding. He should have left the key or his daughter. In his quest to regain his son, he lost his life and the life of his daughter.

Ten years ago a string of 14 abductions took place in a small town. All of them were children with the final one being deputy sheriff Dwayne Hopper's (O'Kane) son Kyle. This has shattered the town and Dwayne's family as they have never been solved. He's alienated from his daughter Daisy (Beesley) and his wife Janine (Mihut) is having affair behind his back. One night he comes across Ronald Perkins (Brake) a local resident brought in on a small charge to his jail. Hopper has a creepy suspicion about the man and sends a deputy to Perkins house. The deputy finds the 14 abductees locked up in the basement and he frees them. Perkins has spent the last 10 years turning these kids into savages and killers and they quickly kill the deputy and are loose in the town. Hopper tries to collect his family and keep them safe as the town is being over run by the 14 killers. They eventually take refuge in the police station as Dwayne must fight with himself whether to kill his son or try and save him. This original horror tale is a breath of fresh air. The story by Jeremy Donaldson and screenplay by Lane Shadgett raises interesting moral issues about main character Dwayne Hopper. His love for his son has driven Dwayne beyond reason on many occasions as he must face the toughest choices. Director Craig Singer keeps the story moving and some of the deaths are very bloody which should please gore fans. The movie never gets cheap and moves to a chilling ending which seems perfect for this tale. Patrick O'Kane is very believable and convincing as Dwayne Hopper and his performance carries the film in some places. By no means is this a classic, but Perkins 14 is a fresh and scary idea in a world of remakes and sequels.

For once I thought this film is telling a father who will manage to fight his own fear to understand the situation of his son from being one of a perkin's victim. Yet I was wrong, he's weaker than he looks... The first scene till the middle scene is clearly shown that he's great & I'm startin' to admire his bravery. However, in the middle to the end the father become completely an idiot by letting a prisoner go out by herself, killing his partner for being weak in the critical situation, her wife crawling alone I thought he will accompany her from behind in darkness, & for being weak with his son. I understand for his feeling but need to know that the son is missing around 10 years so it would be hard to recognize his father since the son is still a little brat when he's kidnapped, also his mind is totally screwed. Ahh... Honestly I really like this movie actually in the beginning but hate it when going to the end, it's so terrible for the character's roles.... Overall the movie itself is not so bad from the environment even though the camera angle sucks, & what I really like is the prologue... The case of the father for missing his son is totally outstanding, & the middle of the movie were good. Also the mother is hot, too bad she's a *! Then the followed scene to the last at the building were sucks as hell! The ending came to be like that, so is there any plan for a sequel? I think it will need for exterminating + mutilate the 14 victims....

PERKINS 14 is part of the third season of the After Dark Horrorfest. Dwayne Hopper(Patrick O'Kane)is part of a small police department and he lacks the motivation to even go to work since his son was kidnapped ten years ago. To be exact, his son was the fourteenth and last victim in a string of disappearances. Hopper reports to work one evening and becomes suspicious of a prisoner locked up earlier. Hopper begins adding similarities to his son's purported kidnapper. The prisoner, Ronald Perkins(Richard Brake), is a local pharmacist that seems to be a mystery man. An unofficial investigation of the Perkin's basement leads to a grisly discovery. There is some violence, but it may be the anxiety playing with your blood pressure that adds to the fright. Also in the cast: Gregory O'Connor, Michale Graves, Katherine Pawlak and Trey Farley.

My vote of 7 is based on a 10 for concept and a 4 for execution. This isn't a polished piece of work, but there's a lot of talent at work here and a lot of these people should go on to much better things. Writer Lane Shadgett keeps within the discipline of a three act structure. Act I finds small town cop Dwayne Hooper getting ready for work on the tenth anniversary of the disappearance of his and wife Janine's son Kyle. This was one of numerous disappearances that plagued the town of Stone Cove, Maine, and were never solved. Dwayne and his family are alienated from themselves and from each other. He's obsessed with work, and still trying to solve Kyle's kidnapping. Janine is meeting her boyfriend at the local No Tell Motel (How can they keep this a secret in a small New England town?). Daughter Daisy is infatuated with a much older would be musician. Dwayne interrogates a prisoner named Ronald Perkins, and suspects the man's involvement in the kidnappings. After an officer is killed when he goes to the house and accidentally opens the cages holding several teenagers, Dwayne finds what happened: Perkins had kidnapped the children and spent his time pumping them full of drugs and turning them into killing machines. Knowing that Kyle had been one of Perkins' unwilling lab rats, Dwayne executes Perkins in cold blood. Act II finds Dwayne looking for his wife and daughter while Stone Cove comes under attack by the freed teenagers. He gets Daisy and she tells him where Janine is, just in time to rescue her after the motel is attacked. Dwayne spots Kyle but doesn't shoot at him, hoping he can find a spark of humanity in the boy. Act III takes place at the police station/jail. Daisy and Janine go there as it's probably a safe place, and Dwayne soon joins them. The killer teenagers focus their attack on the police station, where the survivors mount a last stand not unlike ATTACK ON PRECINCT 13, which itself borrowed heavily from RIO BRAVO. If only the people who made this had been up to the task. As always, smart people are required to do stupid things. Worse yet, we get no feel for what life in Stone Cove is like. Much of this is due to the film's having been made in Romania. At the entrance to the police station there's a big sign welcoming people to Stone Cove, and the sign has errors of grammar that remind us that English wasn't somebody's first language. It would be great to see this remade with the same cast but a bigger budget and a tighter screenplay.

incompetent. towards the beginning there is a part when the guy is popping open a beer and drinking it and it takes like 6 shots just for that! and it's not stylish as aren't these annoying flashbacks and the sputtering light throughout the latter part of the movie that seems to have gone to everyone's brain. in one scene this girl leaves the group to go to the bathroom she gets some kind of murder by being partially pulled through the ceiling and screams a lot and the group wonders "what was that?" over like 15 shots hey maybe it's the b who went to take a p for goodnessakes! the wife cuts her hand badly stabbing one of the zombies with a shard of helpfully broken glass... but later has no wound. I mean basically this movie was very incompetent.

One a night shift, deputy sheriff Dwayne Hopper (Patrick O'Kane) finds out some terrible things about Ronald Perkins (Richard Brake) and the disappearance of 14 children-one of whom was Hopper's son. Well, Hopper kills Perkins in a fit of rage, and the next thing you know 14 nearly unstoppable zombie like killers cause mayhem in town with only one thing in mind-kill for Perkins. While it sounds great, "Perkins 14" is a mess from the get go. How could a movie with such an inventive premise go wrong? Well, for starters, the acting (save for Brake, whose performance as Perkins is bone chilling) is universally awful and largely amateur at best. While it's satisfyingly gory and has some decent moments in direction (I love the use of color schemes which bring to mind directors such as Argento, Bava and Fulci), the script is terrible and ends up being uninteresting, while the conclusion is too anti-climactic, the plot-holes are too gaping, the characters are uninteresting and the editing and score are jarring. I could go on really. So why am I giving it 3? Because it's at least original, has some nice gore and has a few interesting moments. In the end though, it reminded me somewhat of another bad horror movie I've reviewed called "Frozen Scream" in that it has a great premise, yet it all goes to waste and feels like a letdown. This is also the 4th of this years "8 Films To Die For" I've seen so far. As of now, the gory and blackly comic "Autopsy" is the only one that I've enjoyed, as the others have been decent but disappointing ("The Brøken "), a total mess (the film reviewed within) and pedestrian and dull ("Dying Breed.") So far, this years Horrorfest has mostly been a letdown. Too bad really. Maybe the next one will have more good entries. If not, then maybe they should just stop now.

On the tenth anniversary of his son's abduction, Deputy Dwayne Hopper (Patrick O'Kane) thinks he might have the kidnapper in one of his holding cells. Ronald Perkins (Richard Brake) was picked up and all of the info he has been giving up isn't matching up. Sending an off duty buddy to Perkins' house, Hopper soon finds out that Perkins is indeed the Stone Cove Kidnapper and a man with a sinister plan. Part of After Dark Horrorfest III, this little film started off so good. It has a great premise and set up, but the major plot action ends at 40 minutes in, leaving me wondering what in the world they were going to fill the remaining 50 minutes with. The rest falls into standard "people being stalked" territory. O'Kane and Brake are interesting leads, both men having unique looks that set them apart from the usual shiny teen lead casts we see nowadays. Director Craig Singer (DARK RIDE) does an excellent job of disguising Romania for Maine and the film is incredibly well shot. Too bad he kinda blew it with the handling of the plot. Look for former Misfits replacement singer Michale Graves in a supporting role.