Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Walter Sloane Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

myspecialparadise What is really disturbing about this film is that it was made into a film. The acting, if that is what you could call it, was the worse acting I have ever seen in my life. Pity too, because the lighting and camera work was quite good, the scripting was almost adequate, the music was pretty cool ... but the story is the same old crappy story of a thousand other hack films and there was not one person in the film that could act their way into a vintage Mickey Mouse cartoon.The cast was attractive, though many of the males come off as gay guys pretending to be straight ... and the killer actually wears a black pull-over that says "Prisoner" on the back. Like we couldn't have guessed that from the trail of bodies left behind.All in all ... this is a real stinker of a film that should never have made it to your local grocery store's bargain bin ... it belongs in a land fill ... right next to Jimmy Hoffa! Which is probably the only place that was never searched for the man! I give this film a one star rating because IMDb doesn't allow anything less!

Cam Erado Director Randy Aldridge must have been a film and/or drama teacher in high school with a slight background in the movie biz. One day, perhaps in the early 00's, he met Melissa D., the star of this film. Years later, working full-time as a real estate agent, he brought up an idea to his wife, make-up artist and co-producer Cindy Aldridge: "How about we use some of your mom's life insurance money and make a movie?" Thus started Disturbed, and Randy called up Melissa and Melissa thought this idea sounded better than her waitress gig. I will say this: Melissa D is a hard-core fox, and perhaps many ill- suited thoughts were laying dormant in the mind of Randy. Randy wanted to make a movie in which he could be seen torturing and killing not only Melissa, but other high school students. Undisturbed by these notions, wife Cindy had one declaration: "if you're going to make a movie about your rape fantasies, Randy, you should at least put our kids in it." And so the pimple-faced boy and the slow-girl are bandied about and nearly killed. It should be noted that Randy plays the killer in the film. Many scenes in Disturbed rely on cars pulling in and out of driveways, to give you an idea of what's disturbing to Mr. Aldridge, besides rape and murder. Also, the last three minutes of footage consists of following an ambulance. I'm not sure why any of the people associated with this movie exist, much like the movie itself. As part of the Wal-Mart 8 pack, the cost of this movie equaled about 57 cents, and I swear to you, I want that freaking 57 cents back.

Woodyanders Vicious serial killer Charles Mason (a genuinely creepy mute portrayal by Randy Aldridge) escapes from death row and embarks on a murderous spree in the quiet small town of Quartz Hill. A standard slasher premise for sure, but thanks to the unexpectedly believable and engaging teen characters who actually look, act, and talk like real adolescents, a strong and plausible depiction of the cozy suburban setting, a sizable amount of tension, competent direction by Aldridge and Brian McLaughlin, a steady pace, a satisfying smattering of sadistic violence and graphic gore, some inspired and effective cross-cutting juxtaposing jolting brutality with oblivious people happily partying, and a lively, gripping, and harrowing last third with Mason terrorizing several kids in a house, this slice'n'dice outing proves to be an above average entry in the sub-genre. The acceptable acting from the capable non-star cast qualifies as another plus, with especially praiseworthy work by Peyten Aldrige as the sweet and frumpy Peyten Fontaine, Melissa Deverian as her foxy, spunky, and protective sister Ashlee, Alex Aldridge as amiable slacker Alex, and Ronnie Wilbir as mean bitch Barbie Fall. Both the crisp cinematography by Michael Murray and Casey Stouffer as well as the shuddery score by David and Don Poole are up to speed. A real sleeper.

dbborroughs Shot on video horror film about a killer who gets out of death row and goes looking for revenge and runs into a family and party of teens. This reminded me very much of the odd black and white chillers of the 1960's, specifically of the sort that played in the drive ins. The acting is fair; there are goofy moments and the plot pure schlock. Of course there is a bump up in violence and graphic gore. Unfortunately there two problems, first we've been here before. The plot is nothing that hasn't been seen several dozen times since the mad killer films really started in the late fifties. The other problem is that having 50 years of dust and quaintness stripped away from a thriller of this sort and this plays like many of the original films played in their day, poorly. Perhaps if the acting had been better this might have worked better but as it stands now it just sort of lays there. I went from watching the film to doing other things pretty fast. Give it a point or two that I left it on but take one or two away because to be honest I really didn't care. If you must wait for cable