Somebody Help Me (2007)

Beautiful, moving film.

Absolutely the worst movie.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Several couples descend on a cabin in the woods for a little R&R Unfortunately, there is a mad killer on the loose and he starts picking them off one by one. We get to see some nifty torture sequences straight out of HOSTEL. The acting is strictly from hunger, but what else is new in the slasher category? The novelty of this inexpensive, 80s-style horror flick is that some of the couples are black and the story is largely seen through the eyes of two black guys. Too much wandering around the woods, which is standard for this type of movie, to help pad out the running time. While it will not win any awards, SOMEBODY is watchable. And better than AX 'EM. Far, far better.

Somebody Help Me starts as four close friends drive towards the small Californian town of Lake Arrowhead where they plan on celebrating Serena's (Brooklyn Sudano) 21st birthday, they arrive & plan to stay in Darryl's (Omarion Grandberry) uncle's cabin. Later that night several more of their friends turn up to join in the celebrations, the next morning & two of them have mysteriously disappeared. A desperate search yields nothing, local Sheriff Bob (Jim Wilkey) is unhelpful & as the hours pass & day turns to night more of the friends go missing until only Darryl & Brendan (Marques Houston) are left. It's up to them to find out what is going on & save their friends if they are still alive & save themselves...Written & directed by Chris Stokes this fairly dull & lethargic teen slasher is notable for the fact that most of the teen cast are black & that it's not very good. The first half of the film is pretty slow going with the kids arriving at the typical log cabin isolated location & several of them disappearing although there's no horror sequences as they are never seen being stalked & only a few brief glimpses of the killer surgeon are seen. During these bits he tortures his victims who are strapped into a chair which reminded me heavily of the torture scenes from the Hostel flicks, only not as good or gory. The actual motives for the killer are never really explained, there's a girl who may or may not be evil who turns up out of nowhere, the main character never seems to make any attempt to kill the killer despite having a shotgun, the reasons why why the kids don't ask for help sooner are just stupid & they guy who does shoot the killer at the end has no real reason to be there & his connection to the whole story is never really explained in any satisfactory detail. The character's are generally quite annoying, there's not much blood or gore, the killer's motives are never gone into apart from the fact he is a surgeon & there's no mystery elements either.The killer keeps his victims in what look like fairly flimsy dog cages which any adult could easily have kicked their way out of. The blood & gore is sparse, someone has her ear cut off, someone is scalped, someone's teeth & fingernails are pulled & eyeballs are removed but these are very quick scenes with lots of bright flashing white lights & very quick editing which means you don't actually see that much although in principal they are quite brutal but nowhere near as good as the torture scenes in the Hostel films. The body count is actually surprisingly low with only two or three death's. There's no nudity either if you wanted to know.With a supposed budget of about $600,000 & shot in Twin Peaks in California this actually has fairly decent production values & some nice photography. The acting isn't that good but it's not as bad as some low budget horror films.Somebody Help Me is a modern day teen slasher without much slashing, a low body count & a muddled story about some killer surgeon & a seemingly random little girl. It's all rather fractured, bitty & loose.

The things that really made this movie bad, was the acting and the script (what is left you wonder) The main characters were 2 black couples and as side dish for the slasher there were 3 white couples. 20 minutes into the movie, you just hoped the killer would give them a slow and painful dead. Apart from annoying these guys were really stupid. Two examples: The killer is chasing me, i steal a cop car (with a shotgun in it) i hide the car, the killer drives by, i go back to the house to find my friends. I leave the shotgun in the car. Go back to the car to sleep with the shotgun in my hand. A little girl finds me, i go to free my friends, but still i leave the shotgun in the car. Quote: We can't call the cops, we are black. We might upset the town unquote. The movie is funny, the music is cliché and gets eery when nothing happens. If you wanna get drunk with some friends and have a good laugh, watch this movie (make sure it's lots of alcohol) Otherwise it's not worth it.

I Just got a screener of the DVD 'Somebody Help Me'...After reading mixed reviews - a lot of pretty good ones mind, I was quite looking forward to seeing it. The story seemed pretty familiar, five couples go to a cabin in the woods, slasher killer around picking them off one by one...you know the rest!!! But as soon as the film was on I thought it was pretty good. The acting was quite good, above average for a DTV film, and the setting was really good I thought. They chucked in the obvious 'IT COULD BE'S' like all these films do, but this had a kind of supernatural twist to it too, which never really materialised into anything.But it had a kind of 'SAW' feel to it too. I don't want to spoil things too much!!! Also it did have some nice gore effects, (I'm a massive gorehound) although not a gorefest by any stretch of the imagination. This for me was heading for a strong 7/10 - the ending was "Oh, is that it...", it left me totally unsatisfied and kind of cheated in a way as it just did'nt explain what I had just seen for the last hour and a half. Massive let down for us - maybe somebody may be able to help me out! -I just did'nt get it. 5/10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!