Aunt Rose (2005)

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

My wife has a knack for renting these type of extremely low budget horror movies. So I have seen a fair share. At first I though "here we go again, at least I will get to bed at a decent hour." Well the start of the movie was, well... bad. I was ready to give up on it when it took a sick twist. Which sparked my interest for another few minutes. Although poorly acted by a majority of the cast two or three sorta put the rest on their shoulders and waded through some really, really bad dialog. Here is where I give the movie credit. Somewhere down the line I actually wanted to watch the thing to the end. And felt the need to see what happened. So, to me they accomplished something. Like a said most of the time I will give up on these things after 15-20 minutes. Granted there are times watching this movie where you will just shake your head, but gosh darn it, its worth a watch, if your extremely board with nowhere to go, and about an hour and a half to kill.

For those of you like me, who feel even R rated horror is to commercial, then Aunt rose is the film for you. Every single cast member delivers an excellent on the money performance, which is rare for a low budget movie featuring several newcomers. The thugs who invade the house and torture the poor family are made up of the leader Johnny Nelson who was very intimidating and believable, the crazy but sexy Velocity Chyaldd, and the misguided, but slightly more level headed Kevin T. Collins. What this movie does that so few ever touch upon, is giving a history of these villains, to show there troubled, abusive pasts, and how they came to be the sick sadistic monsters you see before you. The mother and father were also very realistic, they portray the family as loving, but also estranged somewhat with there teenage daughters life choices. When the family is taken hostage, you feel there desperation every step of the way, and root for them to come through it intact. The film is not quite as gory as I thought it would be, but the kills are very nasty, and cruel, and have a surprising impact on the audience. I must also mention Raine Brown who played the daughter's lesbian lover, in an excellent, and oddly non exploitive way. Keep an eye out for her, I predict she'll become a new genre staple alongside my personal favorite scream queens Debbie Rochon, and Tiffany Shepis. My only beefs with the film are as follows, for one I found in a few instances that some of the family members foolishly taunted, or provoked the murderers for no direct reason. I guess you don't know how a person would react to an invasion like that, but I just found myself questioning what the heck they were thinking. It kept me on the edge of my seat though, and made me think about what I would do, so maybe thats not such a bad thing. And finally, I felt the ending wasn't totally satisfying. Without spoiling anything, I just felt it lacked the impact it needed. A couple very minor instances aside, I highly recommend Aunt Rose to the hardcore horror crowd. It's one of the better acted low budget horrors I've seen in some time.

I knew nothing about this movie when I watched it and thought the cover looked good; old scary lady, typical of a horror movie but oh well, I gave it a go. The opening scene set up a mood for a somewhat of a lame script, the main female character who had an attitude problem, and the movie being full of gore.The main part of the movie that stuck with me was the breasts of Robin. Other than that fact, the movie was enjoyable if you watch it with buddies, so that you can say how lame the lines were or how bad the acting was.Overall, the character development lacked entirely. Aunt Rose; who was she? Why was she like she was? Only until the end the whole blood out of her mouth came to life, making the dead father alive. If you accept it for what it was and don't question what or why something happened, you'll be doing better than I was. I always wondered why Aunt Rose could bring people back to life.. it made no sense at all.I think the movie focused too much on the three bad guys too much, over looking any other characters; I don't care about some guy going into a pet shop to get "money for his wedding" nor about the stupid blonde stripper, or as she wanted to be called, exotic dancer.There was no reason or direction behind aunt Rose, and her son at the end, that ugly masked looking guy, had no reason to be there. Again it left me with questions, why..what and how. The ending itself I was left very disappointed; we finally see what was making those dumb noises out the window and it only lasted for a few seconds! Over all, aside from the gore in the movie and one of the last scenes where Mr. Tough guy vomits out his guys after his "dark soul" has been taken by Aunt Rose, which was again a really undeveloped idea, the only memorable scenes was the two females kissing, the breasts everywhere and when the blonde exotic dancer finally shut up.The characters in this movie I could not stand; again the blonde stripper who would never shut up..and she deserved what she got, Aunt Rose being overly freaky and trying too hard to sound like Darth Vader and the "tony" girl sounding like a robotic cross dresser.Unless you switch your brain off, watch it like a droid and don't think too much into it, the movie would be okay at best. Other than that, I would try not to go near it and look for another movie which has less annoying characters, a better plot and a movie which has some form of logic in it.

One of James Tucker's better films. Quirky acting, funny, odd, disturbing at times, he also edits his own projects and that's probably one of the stronger elements here, the pace moves quickly.The story is a combination of several types of films which keeps it fresh. The early going is a bit rough, some of the most poorly done scenes are right up front which makes one wonder why Anchor Bay bought the film since distributors supposedly only watch the first ten minutes and those are not good minutes in this movie. This opening sets up the groups of people who will end up at the mercy of "Auntie's" powers during the last 2/3rds of the story.The acting is uneven but most of the actors have their good moments. Dad is probably the best overall. Yes I guess it needs to be said this is a very low budget shot on video "film" the lighting is flat but at least there is none of the greenish or grainy lack of all quality that can happen with video.Worth renting for the well acted comedy scene where a topless would be actress character talks on and on about her "career." Brilliant.It's the story and unexpected, sometimes funny, sometimes gross turns the film takes that keeps it together along with the quirky actors who seem to make the most of the best moments in the movie, if not always making the most of the lesser moments. Tucker, as director could pick better angles to stage his scenes in, but certainly deserves credit for holding it all together.