Venom Coast

I gotta appreciate a scrappy filmmaker who managed access to an interesting location, in this case a derelict cruise ship, and decided to build a micro-budget film around it. And I'll even give props for trying to make the film be about something more than just young people stalked by crazy killer family. But, sadly, despite the good intentions of the writer/director adding a veneer of wealth vs the 99%, or capitalizing on a location, he stumbles repeatedly once the actors start speaking and then fails miserably once the action gets underway. Could have used a bit more screenwriting to believably get the partiers on that particular ship - it's way too sketchy in appearance for anyone to think it could sail - and just making them stupid doesn't do the trick. But that's forgivable compared to the absolutely stupid behavior once the crazies come out. How many times do we have to see a character watch someone brutally murdered, and then see them rush back to the body (to try and wake them up?) with no idea where the killer just went. Cuz, guess what, the killer is behind them now!! Or how about hiding on each side of an open doorway while multiple crazies walk past, who - miracle of miracles - never look right or left or - I don't know - possess peripheral vision! People stop struggling the moment someone has a hard time tying them to a table (not a one-person job UNLESS the victim cooperates) and I won't even go into the Coast Guard who show up who know nothing about how the Coast Guard operates. Just so there's more potential victims. Attempts to give the crazy family some depth fails (but at least he tried), and everything remains overly familiar tropes from a hundred other Hillbilly Horror flicks. The actors range from amateurish to godawful but the characters they were given to play are one-dimensional and cartoonish. Even when they stop every once and a while to say "something serious". I'll excuse the fact we never believe the ship has put to sea, or that it could even be operated, cuz the director tries his best to shoot around it, but once everyone agrees to the set-up in the first place there's no one to root for (except to die) and no one behaves believably (not even when they die) and there is no suspense, or atmosphere, or decently staged kills to make sitting through the flick worth it. I'll give it 3/10 cuz it tried to be a little bit more, but ultimately failed.

If I could give this movie a big fat ZERO I would. Don't waste your time on the crappy plot, crappy acting and just all around crap this movie spews throughout it's entirety.

Just a slasher and a really bad one, at that. Not scary, no nuance, nothing psychological, just dumb. I mean, how can several military-trained shooters with high-powered rifles not hit the metal guy in the spots where he wasn't covered with the metal?? I gave it a 2 instead of a 1 because the rich kids were annoying and they got what they deserved (in movieland, I don't condone killing IRL!).

Once again the title and advertising pic caught my attention and I did not pay attention to the low reviews...What a divot, I should know better by now but I am always hoping to find a gem amongst the coal of movies and so subject my eyeballs to the most excruciatingly bad movie ordure! Utterly atrocious acting from the very first word of the very first scene. Mind bendingly annoying characters, each and every one who you want to see mass murdered within the moment the girls start screeching on the boat and the men start abusing the ship by throwing cans around and uttering the worst dialogue possible, shaky camera work, feeble backstory, zero characterization but I held on in the hope there might be an iota of decent horror in there...sadly it was not to be! They could have thrown in some good looking eye candy but even that was a let down - does no one know the basics of making a horror movie these days? Utter kerrap and I hate using bad language, I rarely do but sometimes only that simple and effective expletive will suffice to show my extreme displeasure at what movie producers throw money at these days - The current IMDB rating of 3.2 is overly generous! Avoid this one like the plague, it is the equivalent of a cinematic dog tvrd!