marbleann This had to be some parody of white slasher movies. I just saw this movie called Dead Snow, a Norwegian movie, that made fun of American slasher movies. Dead Snow was excellent. This was alright.For any of these movies to work people have to do dumb things and the cell phone has to dead or out of range. Perhaps that is why most of the time they use young people as main characters. Not only that the setting has to be in a isolated place and the police force is a force of 2. The Sheriff and his deputy.The one thing that was different about this is that there was a neighbor who lived in a cabin across the grass. And there was a main town not too far away but far enough away. The neighbor was a very odd man and he immediately reminded me of Boo Radley from To Kill A Mockingbird. And I think that was the intention for people who never saw the movie so they didn't know what was coming.This plot contains two African American couples. One of them uncle owns the cabin. One of the woman have a birthday and 2 more couples show up who are white. One has asthma. I have asthma and I always love the way they portray Asthmatics in movies. They never get it right. This one is no different. You would think as many Asthmatics there are movie makers would at least ask one how to portray a genuine attack. I just know when I see a Asthmatic in a movie their inhaler will become in peril. And we know what happens then.One couple disappears and the stupid decisions start. One of the people seem to have more sense then any of the friends. The voice of reason. He is the character who uncle owns the house. But no one listens to him. One by one people start to disappear and one bad decision is made for each of them. Call the cops, no don't call the cops because his uncle is going to get mad. Let's split up and look, no don't split up because it is smart to stay together. They split up. Oops I forgot my car keys in the house. Don't take the rifle in the sheriffs car while a killer is looking for you. Walking to town and taking a ride from a man who is driving in the wrong direction because the sheriff happens to be at his house. And then going into the house.Then we have the Silence of the Lambs type killer. Seems he was a plastic surgeon and now he is taking body parts from his subjects. Something happened a few years ago and the sheriff knows about it and refuses to let his deputy mention it, even though history seems to be repeating itself.I am not going to tell the ending other then look at the subject heading. It wasn't bad as far as these type of movies go. If you have nothing to do and want to watch something to waste your time this movie would do fine. Just don't expect anything too different. But it was entertaining. And as far as I am concerned that is all a movie should at least be.

amjeezy This movie was simply OK. It is extremely hard to understand all of the time. It starts out with a bunch of friends at a vacation cabin until 2 go missing. apparently there looks to be a ghost child a random stalker outside and some1 who walks in their house. it also is mainly gory. it is not scary all it is is gory and at rare times suspenseful. It switches at random moments to the friends dying to whatever. it makes no sense. it also ends in the random stalker killing the guy killing the kids in his own house and apparently the little girl is his daughter? WTF and u realize this all at around the last 10 minutes. there isn't any reason the stalker to be in the killer's house. it is just funny. while i was watching it i called the killer "The hiker" cause he's always hiking somewhere or killing some1. no sense. oh hes also a plastic surgeon

ctomvelu-1 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.

Nightmare-Maker 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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!