Butcher House (2006)
In the 1960's at Arthur Kingston's old butcher house blood and guts were routine. That all changed one night when the blood spilled was human. At the hand of a murderous, rampaging butcher, two workers and the owner's son were killed. The factory was shut down. Decades pass. The massacre became a legend, but the abandoned butcher house still held the evil in its halls. As six teenagers explore the old butcher house, they unleash the horror that lies within.
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To me, this movie is perfection.
Really Surprised!
It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.
The acting in this movie is really good.
Just simply awful. A complete waste of film and people. You will watch a cliché cast stumble through a horridly contrived plot with some of the most hideous editing ever. A laughable killer who looks like a lost Quaid brother chases kids through an old damned building they are supposed to be surveying(!). Each character makes the dumbest choices imaginable as to ensure that they die on cue. The lighting is beyond dark, and a deep thrum accompanies all of the kills. Did I mention the camera work? Uninspired. This is not a movie, but moreso a film created by people who THINK they know what people want to see. Dreadful, insulting, it is the cinematic equivalent to vomit.
There's an impostor stalking the on demand and dtv circuit. It looks like a horror film. It smells like a horror film. But beware; it's a sheep in wolf's clothing. Butcher House is a bland, stand-in. A film that's seen a few other horror movies and tries hard to emulate them, but fails miserably. Kinda like a frat guy trying to act punk rock, or really outta touch parent trying to relate to his hipster kid. Even worse, it's an obvious attempt to rake in some cash, by folks with little or no respect or understanding of horror films or what makes them work. For further proof take a look at the director's filmorgraphy.BH moves through it's very, very long feeling 80 odd minutes with no sense of pace, horror or story telling. The plot revolves around five or six generic teen horror stereotypes (moonlighting as characters), whose job it is to take inventory of an abandoned butcher house. The filmmakers make these kids an "eclectic mix" of skaters and Goths. I suppose that's supposed to give it some kind of indie cred. But, to no avail. You could keep all the dialog exactly the same and stock the movie with Abercrombie and Fitch models with gap wardrobe and the movie would play no different. Except for one lame reference to the "Goth" girl. Blah, blah, blah exposition, ancient Indian burial ground (sure why not), ancient curse, Freddy Krueger riffing, poorly staged horror, some decent effects, overlong third act. End. Yay.There's been a disturbing trend in horror films in last few years to over rely on quick cuts and close ups in murder and suspense scenes. This trend is taken to new lows in Butcher House (where the horror scenes look more like a 9 inch nails video than a horror movie.) When are they gonna learn that in suspense scenes more cuts = less tension. Of course that's a generality and there are plenty of successful exceptions. Butcher House is not one.Waste of time. I save one or two's for totally inept movies. Butcher House it at least professionally put together. IE you can see and hear everything. On second thought maybe it's better if we couldn't.
Finally a bloody horror flick! Rented on video on demand and loved it. Although I wasn't sold on the Aztec story, I was sold on the Butcher. I don't see this movie as a big movie, but it does rank up there with a good horror. I have to disagree with "asshemp" on the story. I liked the story and the way the teens were caught up in the Butcher's killings. By the way the blood was great! This kind of flick wouldn't work with comedy, what worked was the way the Butcher killed the kids as they were stuck in the old place. I do agree it seemed a bit classic horror, but I had fun, so what.The acting was great, and I thought the director made it very scary, and the way the lighting and the dirty look of the scenes. Although the characters were typical, I thought they were believable. A great change from the bimbos and dumb jocks. Refreshing!
I was fortunate enough to see the world premier of this movie @ the Eerie Horror Film Fest. The movie kept you on your seat and looking over your shoulder the whole time.I was able to meet some of the actors and man they were all a great group of people.Lighting was awesome, most movies in dark places you can see anything not Butcher House. Very well done. I think this movie puts a lot of super high budget films to shame.The acting was also spectacular, which lacks in most horror movies. I can't wait to see more From you guys... It will definitely be something I'll "Wanna Watch"!!!