Acts of Death (2007)

Too much of everything

Awesome Movie

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

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

This movie could have been a blast! It had potential...but the idea got lost somewhere! Its just plain bad...the acting was horrible...the dialogs where cheesy! I've seen Independent/Low Budget movies...some are good, some are bad...this is in the category of bad...but this movie created a new way of bad...if there's anything below bad...this movie belongs there! But the only thing that made me want to take out my eyes...cook them and eat them...then sit in front of my TV with this movie on and blow my brains out was the special effects! Im telling you this is more than bad! I think the only good thing was the twist at the end...but the movie was so ruined we don't even care! Watch it if u wanna see a really bad movie...or if ure completely bored! I saw this movie cause I saw the box art and it looked interesting and I bough it in a DVD Store for like $2.50 and u wanna know what...I want that money back! If u wanna see a good Independent/Low Budget Horror Movie...see HACK! Its not the best but has some good entertaining parts! :D

A perfect example of a film with an intriguing sounding plot--very similar to "The Clown at Midnight" and "Stage Fright aka Deliria" that was executed, or at least written, very poorly. Certainly this isn't the first film to do this, but that makes it even more problematic because by now filmmakers should know what to do and what not to do, particularly when you are working with the slasher genre. And one thing you DON'T do is make a boring slasher film, which is exactly what "Acts of Death" is.The film centers around a group of college theater students who decide to initiate new students by playing a prank on them while they are in the theater. Unfortunately, something goes horribly wrong, and a'la "I Know What You Did Last Summer," some of the students decide to cover up their act. Bad idea. See, the next night, the same group of students get locked in the theater and begin getting picked off one by one by a mysterious killer.The Bad: Sounds decent enough for a slasher film, right? Well, lets just say that for the first 45 minutes of this film I was BORED OUT OF MY MIND. Nothing happened except talking talking and more talking. By the time the action starts, I really didn't care because (a)I hated the characters and (b)I was half asleep. The plot meanders along with no real purpose, even when the killing starts. The acting is hokey, even for a low-budget horror film--I did not, for a second, believe these were college theater students. The twist comes out of left field and the, the film ends abruptly in a very unsatisfying way. It's a shame because this film could have been a decent slasher film if the director had remembered that is what he was making...not a WB teen drama.The Good: Um....a cool death scene? Seriously....involving a wire and a pulley-like device. Pretty cool. Other than that....not much. I suppose the film looks OK and the setting is pretty effective, but really, the pacing and bad script sink this film.Could have been better, but just isn't very good. There are much much better DTV slashers out there if you look. Avoid this unless, of course, you need something to put you to sleep. Trust me, it's not addictive.My Grade: F

Beyond the cheap-yet-surprisingly-decent gore, The Final Curtain (sometimes called Acts of Death) is one of the worst pieces of Indie-Crud horror I've seen.The acting ranges from subpar to downright abysmal, with the script and dialogue becoming progressively worse. In horror movie fashion, the actors play their stock character in caricatured glory. The story dragged on to the point of a crawl, each scene (until the deaths, of course) duller than the last. Throughout the whole film, you'd feel that coprolalic compulsion to encourage each last character to his/her untimely and gristly doom. At the very least, the deaths were interesting. One guy gets split open, and his guts spill out as he whimpers.The WORST part of the film is the ending.I'M GONNA SPOIL IT.It turns out the main character raped his friend's sister and impregnated her. When she went to abort the baby, she died in the process. The film ends with enraged friend murdering richie boy and his Dean Daddy. If this was supposed to be a twist...forget it. Technically, it wouldn't count as a twist, as it is background information that wasn't revealed until the very end.So there you have it. In all advice, AVOID THIS FILM AT ALL COSTS. Even if you're a gorehound, I wouldn't suggest watching it.

I watch strange and "under the radar" movies all the time. I have to. Most Hollywood movies in my opinion, rely on special effects rather than innovative story plots. I will be the first to agree that special effects are a great thing and a necessity for some demographics, however, if the viewer knows what is going to happen, before it happens, the sensation of true enamorement is lost.This is why I liked this movie. Acts of Death, though probably didn't use a $20Million budget, sure was refreshing when it came to delivering the ending (not to give anything away). I would surely purchase the next movie made by Jeff Burton. Tallyho! And hey,..if Hollywood sees us spending $ on indie films,..perhaps,..just perhaps they will get the hint and start making truly great films,..like they once did.