Chrispatschack I've been fascinated with the Ricky Kasso story ever since I read about it. I had no idea that this movie was based on the case. The movie wasn't half bad though, the color wasn't really good to be perfect honest. The acting, although done well, were a little too melodramatic. The actors did a good job, Eric Mabius does a good job as the evil Shane. It's not really that effective and it's not really that scary if you ask me. But, just to be nice, I'm going to be fair with the filmmakers, they've done the best they can to make the movie. But at least they were lucky enough to get their movie out there to be seen. I just wish they would get RICKY 6 out soon.

waterlily1002 As a youthful fan of the Lost Boys, I actually liked Matthew's movie. It was not a big budget "hollywood" production movie, but the story was very good. I am 33 and still remember what it feels like to be the "new" kid in school and having to "prove" yourself. Kids can be mean, especially teenagers. But as a 33 year old with a 16 year old punk mentality still, I can relate to the story line. Not on a witchcraft level, even though everyone in high school thought we were witches because we wore black and pointy shoes. Just remember what it felt like to be an "outcast" or not a popular kid and I think you will enjoy showing your kids this movie and watching it with your angst ridden "adult" friends. Also, real life stories have a way of paralleling "reality". Where do you think "reality TV" came from? If you are looking for fabulous effects, look some place else. This is just a good story about "some boy's life". Give the story a chance and I think you will enjoy it. Wow, I was just told that I had to put 10 lines of text down. I am not known to be short winded. OK, Matthew Carnahan is an amazing man too.

Logan-22 An amateur, lacklustre retelling of the true story of "Acid King" Ricky Kasso, who killed a kid in the woods by stabbing him and bashing his head in after making him say, "I love Satan!" This film is poorly put together, has a terrible non-ending, and completely muddles the facts in the case, padding the film out with boring nonsense. There are few adults in this film, and that hurts its credibility. Where are the parents? This story was done much more honestly and professionally (as well as graphically) by Jim Van Bebber in his classic short film, MY SWEET SATAN. BLACK CIRCLE BOYS is a boring, pointlessly homo-erotic version with little basis in fact and only minor entertainment value. The low budget of the film glaringly shows through in every scene, whereas in Van Bebber's even more low budget short, he uses his micro-budget as an asset, achieving a disturbing, quasi-documentary quality to his film that BLACK CIRCLE BOYS never comes close to. BLACK CIRCLE BOYS is bland but not terrible, and is one of the better films A-Pix has released on video (most everything they put out is beyond horrible, so I generally avoid anything on that label). However, if you want a much gorier, creepy and honest version of the Ricky Kasso case (with only a few minor details changed), you can't go wrong with Jim Van Bebber's MY SWEET SATAN. It's brutal and believable!

asilvahalo Oh, the joys of telecinema. This is, on one level, one of the worst movies I've ever seen, not so much from an acting perspective as from a script/plot perspective. Supposedly based on a true story, it's more like a male version of The Craft, only with a gay Donnie Wahlberg. On another level, though, it's practically a parody of itself and all those anonymous diaries you find in the bookstore about kids who fall into lives of drug abuse and Satanism.The movie is meant to be serious! And frightening! But it's more the sort of movie you'll want to get drunk with your friends and laugh at, particularly if you've got slightly twisted senses of humourA superb good-bad movie.And that Mabius kid's kinda cute.