Filthy (2003)

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

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

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

There are three ways to completely destroy the power of a film without touching the story and those are through sound, sight, and mind. If a movie sounds great, you have captured some of your audience. If it looks good as well, you have captured even more and finally, if you can keep them mentally involved than you, as a director, should have most to all of the audience in your hands. Sadly, Filthy did none of the above. The sound was horrendous. Synchronizing your actor's voices to match what they were saying when filming and the emotions they were feeling is not hard. Apparently, director Andy decided robots could make this English spoken poorly dubbed in English feature. I found myself laughing whenever anyone opened their mouth. I couldn't tell if anyone was actually interested in what was happening, or if the amount of beer drinking that occurred before the dubbing was finally taking effect. Second, the sight of this film was just as bad as the voices. No apparent acting classes were needed from any of the actors or from the killers. There needs to be some level of class with the both the actors and killers, but in this film there were not. Everyone else seemed like they were going through the actions that were given to them that minute and trying to remember what exactly they were doing. There were no genuine moments in this film visually, just non-actors remembering to be robots. Finally, the mental involvement is key. I am not talking about just story here, because you can have a bad story but still keep people guessing for more. I am talking about just the apparent want to see what happens. Does your audience want to see what is going to happen next? In this film, my answer would be "no". The ending does not provide any moments of shock. It is just unoriginal, flat, amateurish, idiotic, and mediocre...well just like the filmmakers.

A creative, succinct, excellent film. While amateurish in spots (due to a low budget and it's being an initial effort), the cast is excellent and the story is one-of-a-kind. It would be well worth any horror fan's time to travel far off the beaten path to see this film.I look forward to what the future holds for Lalino and the rest of his cadre with giddy anticipation. More! Encore!!!

...i saw this piece of crap at Chicago's legendary Three Penny Cinema last night as part of the "Chicago Horror Film Festival". It is SO amateurish, ill-concieved, badly shot, and derivative, that one can't help but think that this is exactly what the film makers were shooting for.Emptying catheter bag on faces, bobbing for scrotum, eating out of a freshly vomited into bed pan, and fingers removed with cigar cutter cauterized with a cigarette...this covers a lot of ground in 32 minutes. I laughed a lot...a kinda neat little Halloween surprise.

Forget the blood and guts of classic horror -- knives, axes etc...no, think more in terms of "Faces of Death". The edgy, fast paced story following a doomed newscaster walks the tightrope of grotesque.Blood, guts, excremant, and the creative use of hand-held hole-punchers -- it's there to make you squirm. These are "throwback" filmmakers to the works of classic horror (Carpenter for instance), not some cheasy, cliche that Hollywood cranks out with teenagers from the WB sitcoms.The short film has all of the makings of a successful cult film - great editing, sound and strong cinematography. The strength of the film is really the two leads: Jennifer Bass and Shari Lawrence. This is an emotional rollercoaster of fear and nausea which is handled perfectly by these two actresses.Now, the question is whether you can stomach it or not.The supporting cast did a good job and the musical score is an homage to "Halloween". You want to look away, but you can't -- you don't want to miss anything.Enjoy it -- just don't eat first.