dreamerlives Lame plot which goes absolutely nowhere. Somehow hypnosis (did the writer bother to research the subject) turns a bunch of kids into angry pseudo-zombies that run around and chase people in a small town. There isn't a single likable character in the film. We never care if anyone lives or dies. The action and pacing are slow. The movie is way too dark. Bad cinematography. Then in the prison for about 20 minutes we get strobe lights and sparks in a weak effort to pass for visual excitement. The end is the worst part of all. It's downbeat, pointless and dull. Typical of Horrorfest films, maybe even sub-par, and that's saying a lot. The director and writer haven't worked much since this came out. So I guess that's our happy ending.

dschmeding First off... along with Autopsy this is one of the of the 8 films to die for which I could sit through without falling asleep. Perkins'14 starts off very calm revolving around a cop who had his son abducted along with 13 other kids 10 years ago and can't let go. There is a lot of strange flashbacks inter-cut with the actual events where suddenly someone arrives at the police station who he considers to be the Abductor of the children ...from here it turns into mind-games between him and that guy named Perkins and by the title you can already guess that Mr. Cop is right about him. When a colleague searches Perkins house he finds a cellar with cages and his sudden death by one of the raging kids who were turned into blood lusting maniacs by 10 years of PCP-therapy. Now they are out in the streets on a rampage and we are up to a happy family re-union between the cop and his son ... or are we not??What starts out slow and confusing (later you learn that its not confusing but pretty random) turns into a zombie-like movie with some pretty decent gore elements. The violence is depicted pretty raw and bloody and those kids are more a mix of instinct driven animals and zombies than anything else. They attack like the "28 days later" zombies, jump and run around, crawl air ducts, snap necks and disembowel with their bare hands. Thats nice, the visuals also carry it with some decent atmosphere. Problem is that the whole plot makes pretty little sense as of why Mr. Perkins engineers blood lusting zombie-kids on PCP and how they track down their kin and I really wonder how such obviously instinct driven creatures suddenly know how to use keys, shoot rifles etc. The whole ending is pretty idiotic and the movie should have rather focused on a logic plot and characters not acting like idiots (like a cop entering zombie infested crime scenes without a gun or his wife jingling key-chains like a crazy kid) instead of the massive bloodshed and bleak finale. Perkins'14 has really a lot going for it but smashes my hopes with a plot full of holes and dozens of ridiculous horror clichés.

viofitz For once I thought this film is telling a father who will manage to fight his own fear to understand the situation of his son from being one of a perkin's victim. Yet I was wrong, he's weaker than he looks... The first scene till the middle scene is clearly shown that he's great & I'm startin' to admire his bravery. However, in the middle to the end the father become completely an idiot by letting a prisoner go out by herself, killing his partner for being weak in the critical situation, her wife crawling alone I thought he will accompany her from behind in darkness, & for being weak with his son. I understand for his feeling but need to know that the son is missing around 10 years so it would be hard to recognize his father since the son is still a little brat when he's kidnapped, also his mind is totally screwed. Ahh... Honestly I really like this movie actually in the beginning but hate it when going to the end, it's so terrible for the character's roles.... Overall the movie itself is not so bad from the environment even though the camera angle sucks, & what I really like is the prologue... The case of the father for missing his son is totally outstanding, & the middle of the movie were good. Also the mother is hot, too bad she's a slut! Then the followed scene to the last at the building were sucks as hell! The ending came to be like that, so is there any plan for a sequel? I think it will need for exterminating + mutilate the 14 victims....

lovedtobescared Well let me start off by saying that this movie was a pretty decent horror movie. I've seen several of the "8 films to die for" movies made over the last three years. Some good, some not so good. Premise was good but something was missing to make it a great horror movie, not sure what. The "PCP psychos" were effective. The one thing that really bothered me was at the end when the sheriff had locked his daughter in the cell to protect her from the the "PCP psychos" (one of which is his son whom was among the kidnapped)he locks the her cell door and the bar door that leads to the cells. Then he goes out of the locked bar door looking for his son hoping that he will recognize him and remember the love they had. Now, I understand his motives but in his overwhelming guilt of not looking harder to find his son, he goes to hug his son and gets his neck broken. Now the son has the keys to the cell where his sister is suppose to be safe. He goes in and kills the sister with a shotgun that she's holding. He should have left the key or his daughter. In his quest to regain his son, he lost his life and the life of his daughter.