Lovesusti
The Worst Film Ever
Noutions
Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .
Portia Hilton
Blistering performances.
Quiet Muffin
This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
BakuryuuTyranno
About the worst aspect of Death Row is its cast; not because of the acting but because with half the characters being criminals, ones shown to be without qualms about killing, there's not much reason to invest in these guys.Sure, Steven Monroe made similar characters somewhat sympathetic in Sasquatch Mountain, but Monroe's movies usually put more effort into the characters than most horror movie crews do today...Anyways, we see these people's deaths coming from miles away. Fortunately, the writers managed to think of interesting methods of offing people, and there is occasional humor thrown in, keeping the inevitable entertaining.Most importantly, it is fun horror. While watching people get offed one by one, without any atmosphere or investment in the characters, keeping it entertaining is important.
artemis_punk
If I could, I'd rate this movie as 5.5 but since there's no halfway, I'll give it a benefit of the doubt and rate it 6.Death Row is NOT a brilliant movie. In fact, it's a "horror" B-movie with a super low budget in Canada. It doesn't revolutionize anything and some - okay, most - of the deaths are really unrealistic but that's the whole fun of it! Honestly, it's not possible at all to push a body THROUGH a wire fence in any situation. But gore's always fun to watch in a movie.The acting from most of the younger actors was horrendous. Seriously, it was really painful to watch Claire Coffee as Missy... Her performance was more wooden than the Amazon Forest but the entire script was pretty much laughable. Which was probably the point for most viewers.If you liked the Final Destination franchise, it's pretty likely that you'll like this movie. Laughable plot, really bad special effects (that last scene with the implosion... UGH) and painful acting but the makeup was brilliant and some of the deaths were really really good.
quinnox-1
I see the IMDb rating is a 3, and I think it's about right. The best part of this movie are some decent gore scenes, but the rest is pretty poor. I do like the premise, an old haunted prison, but not much is done with it. Not scary or suspenseful, and the actors don't impress. I don't know what the previous reviewers who all gave it a good review saw in this but it wasn't a good horror movie, even for a B-movie. I will say the special effects on some of the gore were well done. Stacey Keach was the only star you would know, and he seemed to sleepwalk through his role. The rest of the cast are all unknowns. It's too bad because the story could have been a good one, if a big Hollywood budget was available I could see this storyline having some potential. As it is I wouldn't waste a rental on this like I did on Netflix.
Sawed-Off
I thought this one had some pretty good scares. I particularly liked the part with the girl and the ceiling fan. Gruesome stuff. The first guy getting squished through the jail bars was unique, too.This movie doesn't just kill people by the numbers.There's a lot of different kind of deaths. Jake Busey came off crazy as a bedbug and I thought this was the best I've seen him since Frighteners. I don't see why he doesn't do more stuff! I loved him in Contact and Starship Troopers, too.All in all, I thought this movie looked like it could have been in theaters. The low budget hampered the film sometimes, but not enough to bother me. I've seen worse out there. There's a shot of Jamie Mann (ceiling fan girl) crawling down the hall as a ghost that's creepy as hell.Overall, better than the usual SCI FI stuff you see. I was hoping to see more deleted scenes on the DVD, but the other extras are cool.I went back and checked out the director's other stuff and while I can't say I love them all, there's a great feeling that he's trying to tell fun stories. There's a real Saturday night, old- school drive-in feel to some of them.I think these film-makers are trying to get some of the same over-the-top feel that Tarantino and Rodriguez are going for with Grindhouse, just not going for the 70's exploitation stuff. If you want to have a good time and some pretty cool scares, check out Death Row.
