WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

GL84 Getting stranded on the way to a party, a group of friends seeking shelter at a seemingly abandoned farmhouse in the middle of nowhere finds a dangerous colony of bats turning people into zombies and tries to fend off the creature to get away.This here is one of the most surprising fun times around. One of the brightest spots here is the fact that it mixes two distinct and separate genres, the creature feature and the zombie genres, which is ingenious, creative and has one of the most plausible excuses possible for unleashing them. That also allows the film to keep up the suspense towards the end, since it could've easily stopped to induce the plot and lost momentum, while the acknowledgment of zombies running around is perfect at derailing that. That also helps the film's overwhelming suspense, which is quite out-of-the- ordinary. The barnyard setting is nearly perfect, being a creepy location with plenty of fantastic locations for creepy happenings and is paid off in grand style here with this settling holding plenty of fun action scenes. The early attacks here are great wit the flaping wings behind the doors and low screeching being quite fun while letting the darkness and great size of the barn serve really well during the early walk-throughs. It's big suspense scene is the one inside following the first attack as the footsteps above them add to their confusion finding their friend and the sudden appearance of the dead body and his resulting disappearance which is so finely handled that the cliché attack by the zombie at the end still gets the jump, due to how well the rest of the scene is built up. The attacks in general are plain fun, from the scene up in the hay loft or inside the greenhouse also works as the numerous bats flying around and swarming victims are all full of great scenes. There's some fun to be had from the zombies here are pretty good, distorted enough to be recognizable and mixed with various bleeding wounds, gnarled features and the usual zombie characteristics gives them a lot to like. Along with the nice gore here, it is an altogether fun film that doesn't have a whole lot of flaws. The film's biggest issues here are the opening and closing segments with the horror film host as they serve little purpose but to pad out the time. It's also hard to get into the film's pacing when a sizable portion of the time is taken up with these scenes, and the entire purpose with doing this seems to be entirely confusing as airing the film as such is entirely confusing. It also works with the long wait to introduce the bats to create a slow first-half as it's still pretty creepy, but there isn't a whole lot of action. It does get better in the second half, but the slowness is hard to get into. These here hold this back, but it's still quite fun.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

Matt Kracht I'm not sure why Ti West has so much hype associated with him, because he's really not that good. His movies have long, boring stretches of filler, where pretty much nothing happens. His writing is so minimalistic that it's difficult to say that his movies actually have any plot to speak of. In fact, the entirety of The Roost can be summed up with one sentence: Bats turn people into zombies. That's it. This can work (several of John Carpenter's movies are highly minimalist and feature only the most essential plot elements), but -- as this movie shows -- there's a very real danger that audiences will simply become bored and leave unfulfilled.If you're big into retro 1970s/1980s horror, full of atmosphere and tension, then you might appreciate this movie more than some other audiences. I like that style, but I still found this to be a bit underwhelming, for the most part. There were some parts that I liked, but, overall, I think the Ti West hype is mostly just overexcited, loud fanboys.

Cujo108 Four people are on their way to a wedding when they decide to take a backroad due to traffic. A bat hits their windshield causing them to wreck the car, and now they're stuck in the middle of nowhere. After walking a good ways, they realize that there's a farm down the road. Too bad for them the rest of the bats have chosen the farm's barn to roost in. Worse, the people that the bats attack turn into zombies for whatever reason, and they already attacked the elderly owners of the farm.This film takes a very threadbare plot and does nothing with it. Not that they could really do much with it to begin with, you might say, but anything can happen if you bring enough imagination and rugged ambition to the table. Alas, "The Roost" winds up being a relatively bland effort where not much happens. The bat attacks are underwhelming and sloppily handled. It's never explained why their victims become zombies. I love the unexplained, I love being left to wonder about certain things that aren't spelled out for you, but I just didn't care in this case. In fact, the film didn't give me a reason to care about much of anything. The characters are whiny too, so I couldn't really invest in them. Cult director Larry Fessenden appears very briefly as an ill-fated tow truck driver. He also served as producer. Seems like an odd fit since his films are the right kind of ambiguous, whereas this thing tries ambiguity just to be even more stripped down than it already is.The whole film has a faux "Frightmare Theater" wraparound complete with horror host, but it was more annoying than it was effective at creating any type of nostalgia. At one point, the film is stopped dead in it's tracks due to the host's antics. Really, did we need this nonsense intruding on the main tale?Even with the bare minimum of a plot, this could have been something. It seems like Mr. West just wasn't interested. There is one moment in the film that I really liked, that being when one of the teens gets into the farmhouse and looks over a bunch of pictures on the wall. The way in which West shoots this brief sequence made something so simple as looking at photos take on a certain level of uneasiness. The rest of the film was in desperate need of something like that. Excluding that one bit, this is weak stuff all around.

Scarecrow-88 Okay little creeper using the "more is less" approach with quite a wacky premise..four young adults, on their way to a wedding taking a scenic route, meet a dangerous detour when they come across deadly bats(who have formed a colony within the barn of a nearby isolated farmhouse)which turn those they bite into zombies! Character actor Tom Noonan serves as a type of creature feature host for this flick, even interrupting at one point when he found the whimpering(..at the seemingly hopeless situation they face)of brother Elliot(Wil Horneff)and sister Allison(Vanessa Horneff, whose lip sticks out in a pout for most of the duration, as she complains, gripes, moans & groans about this and that..)grotesque. The first victims to encounter an unfortunate demise at the teeth of the bats were the elderly couple who live in the farmhouse and a policeman the group need assistance from in order to reach their car which was wrecked when a bat crashed into their windshield leaving the vehicle's axle locked on a big rock.The film is shot, on digital, entirely in the night which probably makes the bats more effective. I think those killer bats were mostly CGI, but the director has them flapping past the screen and at victims at such a frenzied state, one can barely tell. When you get a good look at the bats on top of a roof window, they aren't as effective..but as a collective swarming around their prey, I think the CGI isn't a detriment. The film really follows the characters as they try to remain out of the path of the bats, but when the zombies pop up out of nowhere that double threat really heightens the suspense. I like the disorienting violin strings as they get under the skin..this is what the director also uses to keep the viewer on edge. Not a bad way to waste about 75 minutes..looks like a little indie horror flick that might be featured within the "8 films to die for.." collection(whether or not that's a compliment or insult depends on the mixed response those film so often receive). The gore, if you're wondering, comes from the zombie flesh ripping and blood spatter.