The Rage (2007)

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Absolutely the worst movie.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Robert Kurtzmans' "The Rage" is basically for those people who judge how successful a horror movie is by its level of violence. The gore reaches beautifully over the top levels, and some of the grisly highlights are sure to generate enthusiastic laughs of approval from the audience. As for the story, this is pretty damn derivative stuff, but then one can't imagine very many people, including the filmmakers and viewers, caring much about that. This is first and foremost a showcase for makeup effects teams.A demented research doctor, Viktor Vasilienko (Andrew Divoff, star of Kurtzmans' "Wishmaster") is hellbent on getting revenge on a world that seemed out to get him. It seems that he'd discovered the cure for cancer, but pharmaceutical interests wanted to quash his efforts. So now he works in seclusion, infecting unfortunate test subjects with a "rage mutagen" that hideously deforms them. One of these subjects escapes, and allows the infection to spread, aided by the plethora of vultures in the area. Now an inane group of youngsters who'd been attending a rave in the woods are in peril and have to run for their lives.One good thing is that Kurtzmans' pacing is pretty solid; this movie goes through its motions with efficiency. Other than Divoff, who's fun as usual, other draws in the cast include "Phantasm" series veteran Reggie Bannister as Uncle Ben, and Erin Brown, a.k.a. Misty Mundae, as one of the tormented youngsters. Most of the supporting performances are pretty abysmal, but Divoff makes up for that with his villainous portrayal. Overall "The Rage" is generic stuff, but it doesn't pretend to be anything more, and that may be enough to suit some horror fans. The ending falls short of being really satisfying, but until then the movie is good for a number of chuckles and thrills.Six out of 10.

Goofy semi spoof, semi serious offshoot of films like "28 Days Later," with plenty of " Re-animator" overtones.A scientist invents a "Rage" virus that turn humans in to blood thirsty mutated Zombie like creatures. Not only does it work wonders of mass meaty mutilation from it's human infected, but infects giant vultures who (somewhat hilariously) swoop down from the sky & attack an RV filled with twenty something's. What ensues is a funny fearful fight for survival, as they become infected their self's, one by one.For you blood thirsty gory gore hounds out there, this is your main course of red rare meat by the piled plateful, quivering, shivering, glossy globs of gluttony gore . For the rest of you, just sit back & be bemused, & amused by the whole bloody spectacle!

A mad Russian scientist works on a potion to infest humans with uncontrollable rage and making them look rather sick and deformed. Of course, things go wrong in the lab and he is himself infected. The disease ends up spreading to vultures feasting on the corpses of the infected and in turn, vulture vomit (!?) infects humans. Things start out quite gory.Next we meet a bunch of dope-head teenagers partying and driving around the woods in their RV. They eventually are attacked and pursued by our vicious CGI vultures. This part of the movie is the weakest. There is very little character development of these kids, not even the lovely Erin Brown (aka Misty) can save this. While CGI allows these vultures to be quite brutal, the effect is too obvious, and GCI gore is not convincing, not to mention that they are nearly indestructible. And frankly watching kids running around and being attacked by some birds is just not entertaining at all.Eventually the kids reach the cabin of our scientist who by now is nearly fully transformed into a rage creature and still working but now with some very creepy and fun sidekicks. We've seen plenty of freaky humanoids recently, but these fellows are pretty weird. This immediately reinvigorates the movie from the lackluster RV part. We find out why the scientist is doing what he is doing, and it's a good story, actually, something I haven't seen anywhere else.The Rage obviously could have been much better without the vulture element. It could have been a great monster/slasher film with rage creatures on the lose and terrorizing teens. More nudity was needed, the real gore is great, the CGI not so much. The acting could use improvement except for the actor in the role of the scientist who is the only interesting character in the film. It is almost as if the cabin sequences were made at a different time by a different director.A good effort, that has some weaknesses but it's still campy and fun. A sequel with more budget would be great.

Wow. This movie had it all. From the first 10 minutes, you know this movie will be a blast. I did anyway. Of course you will probably have to be a hardcore horror/gore fan to enjoy this ride. You can't go in watching this expecting a high quality Emmy nominated horror flick. You have to have an open mind and should probably be in the mood to witness some nasty gruesome fun. I LOVED it. First off, Andrew Divoff has always been a good actor in my mind and in this movie, he ROCKED. The other actors and actresses, I can't say were good by any means. They were average if not below average. BUT who cares. This movie was fun regardless. I've seen much worse acting in my day. What made this movie shine was its abundant blood and gore. Yeah yeah, the CGI wasn't the greatest but I don't think it took away from the nastiness of it. Plus the makeup they used was excellent. The mutations looked gross and made my stomach queasy, and it takes a lot to effect me that way. The plot was pretty simple, nothing really new, but the action was non stop and exciting. The movie flew by quickly. Time flies when you are having fun. I also found this movie pretty funny in some parts. Maybe it wasn't intended to be, but I laughed quite a bit. If you enjoy a good classic horror film filled with non stop blood and gore, action packed fun, this movie is defiantly for you. True horror fans will appreciate this. I know I do.