Leofwine_draca THE CULLING is an entirely cheap indie horror effort that sells itself on the presence of an established actor (Jeremy Sumpter) in the cast. Unfortunately his presence is nowhere near enough to lift an uninteresting script, boring characterisation, and a flagging storyline. A group of friends driving through the woods encounter a spooky little girl and problems ensue, but this is a low key effort heavy on the dialogue and light on everything else. In particularly, the horror content is virtually nil making the whole thing a bore to sit through.

Tru Review I have actually sadly seen worse than this but it greatly tops the charts in a bad one! I found it too incredibly predictable and the lighting where there was much of any at all through the entire movie was far too dim to see much of anything! For the most part it was too dark to identify anything really going on which dropped any interest I may have had right from the start! There were no characters you could relate to or care enough about whether or not they survived which any good or decent movie has! This cast was whiny and not very likable so I honestly didn't care what happened to any of them! I can't believe I made it through the whole thing considering how bad it was but I kept hoping it might actually get any at all better than it actually was! That never happened and all this did is to leave the viewer with questions never answered during the movie! I previously enjoyed things with several of the cast members so I tried to give this a fair chance but it was so unbelievably bad I can't see myself making that mistake again any time soon! I have always tried to be fair about movies and TV shows reserving my thoughts and opinions until I see the things in their entirety and to form my own unbiased opinion however in the case of this story I honestly wish I had read the reviews and opinions of people who had previously seen it because it would have spared me a bad movie viewing and the time spent struggling to watch it all the way through to the very end for what seems like nothing but a horrendous movie experience I can't undo! I think from now on I am going to attempt to read some of what people have to say about something before I spend time viewing it to spare myself this! Future viewers beware!

a_baron If you haven't seen precisely this film before, you're surely seen the type. A group of teens/college students/young adults drive off for a weekend or an event - in this case apparently some sort of rock festival - and their journey is interrupted. Here there are two girls with an extra guy playing gooseberry - that's when he isn't playing the idiot because as you might have guessed, this group is slightly dysfunctional.Their journey is interrupted rather unusually by a cute little blonde girl who has apparently lost or been lost by her grandfather. What can they do but take her home? When they arrive, the house is empty but her parents soon turn up, and they are invited to stay a while.They end up staying quite a bit longer, become isolated, one of their group is killed in a freak motor accident, and there are really weird things going on, not the least being one character we are led to believe is dead coming back to life momentarily to rescue the remaining damsel with a single dreadful act.This film has had some very bad reviews which it doesn't deserve. There are two or three genuinely scary moments due more to the suddenness of the relevant event rather than anything supernatural, but there is no proper resolution, and a film that ends with a question mark is often more annoying than enticing, as is this one.

chrismackey1972 Yawn. There was nothing new, and I wasn't drawn in by the characters or the storyline.I know some have criticized the acting, but I didn't see anything wrong with it. I've seen better, but I've also seen far worse acting in horror movies.The storyline wasn't original. It doesn't necessarily have to be. I've seen plenty of recycled story lines, but the execution of this was just...yawn. The kids should've thought something was amiss when the parents run to the doctor and leave their little girl in the care of people THEY DON'T KNOW! Even stranger, the stupid kids accept that responsibility. The story wasn't awful, just boring. I know some can look at those as being one in the same.I will say Elizabeth Di Prinzio and Chris Coy did good acting in their roles. Di Prinzio was the lead, so you have to hope she can act at least a little. She brought the right amount of emotion to her scenes. Coy was good in his role. This was, however, a step down from his role of Martin in The Walking Dead.The CGI monster at the end was silly. He was only there for about two seconds. It's just as well it was for such a short time. It was poorly done.I don't recommend, unless you have the need to see every horror movie out there. When voting commences on this, I'll give it a 4-star rating.