Rift (2011) Reviews

• Really Reviewers?

  Simone66662012-06-19

  I couldn't believe when I saw this flick and jumped on IMDb to see the user reviews there was nothing but praise, it didn't make any sense! It does make sense if you had some kind of connection to the piece though, one reviewer mentioned it's a great movie to have friends over and scare each other, I think my friends would be skeptical of my intelligence if I invited them over to watch this rot, they certainly wouldn't be coming to another movie night at my house! Absolutely awful movie, boring drawn out storyline, no good action, if you can handle over an hour of bad actors yelling I'm cold or where's Ricky (something like that I can't even remember any names they were that useless) then this movie is for you but if you like something that seems like there was any thought put into it at all I'd give it a miss.

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• amateur

  roswelljones-343-8877442012-12-17

  From beginning to end this movies is an amateur production. The acting is terrible with the lead female actress delivering a buffoonish performance with no spectrum of emotion or depth. Details are laughable - for instance the female lead picks a heavy padlock with a hairpin in 10 seconds. Locations seem to be the homes of cast members with cheap banners and signs identifying them as vital sites in the story. The plot itself might have served to make a fairly good horror story but the production is a disaster. The special effects are not all that special which detracts from the believability of the movie. I enjoy a campy bad film and even a generally bad film that has some good points in the plot or cast, but this film has neither. All in all the only thing I can say about Rift is that it is genuinely a BAD FILM!

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• Amateur hour.

  fedor82013-01-03

  After the obligatory first-scene killing, we are tormented with an endlessly uneventful introduction to these cardboard B-movie college characters (who are so original that they require no more than 35 seconds each) that goes on for a whole half-hour: an eternity. In it, a wide-eyed mega-cliché horror-flick hobo warns the college kids of the impending danger. How come those street-bums always know so much? What is it about drinking booze all day and night, and sleeping under bridges that gives hobos such magical powers? When I find the time, I will one find a nice magic-wielding bridge and bring along a bottle of magic-inducing booze with me, and then perhaps I too might find myself in possession of supernatural powers. TR's B-movie badness truly strikes once the action finally starts. Suddenly, the already cheesy dialog drops a few notches lower, from B-movie ineptness to D-movie sewerness, with characters saying very dumb and boring things indeed. The acting isn't much better either, but the script is the main culprit. As a result, TR is neither scary nor even mildly tense. The movie leaves you cold, as if watching a financial report on CNN. Speaking of the letters of the alphabet and how they relate to under-funded (or in some ways "over-funded") useless horror films, the soundtrack is on a G-movie level; parts of it could have been used in a G-rated Disney flick. The make-up effects are on an K-movie level; the bloodied wounds look as fake as if they'd given a 6th-grader a bottle of ketchup and told him: "you're hired". But at least the movie has the decency to warn us early on that no real terror awaits us: just check out those pathetic horror movies that the dorm kids watch early on. If they're anything to go by then we're in trouble, and so it turns out to be. If TR is an E-movie then the crap they're watching must be P-movie horror. Perhaps that's why they'd included them: to make TR look less crap by comparison. One scene involves a harmless-looking pudgy blond guy torturing an overweight woman; he is licking a ketchup wound on her thigh while sliding his blade across her face, in true horror-film psycho-on-the-loose doing-dull-and-predictable-things manner – but shot with a cheap camcorder. I have never seen two fat people involved in a sadist-and-victim scenario in any thriller, action, or horror film, so in a sense TR does have a note of originality. The other movie they watched was an N-movie horror film with a bored-looking middle-aged geezer chasing around some kids in the woods. The budget spent on those 2-3 scenes? Rough estimates are at $8. Thereabouts, give or take a penny. TR's value as a so-bad-it's-good flick is low. There is only one unintentionally funny moment: when the dumb blond finds her boyfriend stuck in an elevator and accuses him of the murders. Naturally, the mysterious brunette (Amber) who accused him was the obvious suspect from the word go; who didn't see THAT transparent "plot-twist" coming? The plot is an incomprehensible mess; many loose-ends and sub-plot dead-ends that cause all-out confusion. (Or perhaps I was too bored to pay attention.) It's almost as if there are three different stories/premises here: 1) the Satanic serial-killer who slays prostitutes, 2) the confused ghost offing college kids, and 3) the necrophiliac autopsy technician fiddling around with dead women. How these three plot-strings connect as a whole is beyond me. Let me take a wild guess… they don't. It's as if the director/writer/producer of TR (no, not Ed Wood's nephew) had planned to cram all his favourite horror clichés into one movie, sort of like "The Cabin in the Woods" but one million times weaker. A woman goes to check up on the corpse of her sister (who died in a brutal Satanic ritual), and what does she see in the morgue? The doctor having sex with the corpse. The same doctor who has absolutely nothing to do with the Satanist! I mean, what are the odds? That's what I call overkill. I'm surprised the director/writer/producer (I am not using his name so as to avoid embarrassing him) didn't include a zombie-virus sub-plot too – seeing as how he'd covered pretty much most other horror sub-genres already.

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• Not bad, but..., IDK...?

  bjjnedan2012-08-02

  This is "true story," about an investigative reporter recapping a story of several students murdered in an apartment building. Well..., this movie was interesting. The acting was okay for the most part. Well, the acting wasn't too terrible, usually. The plot, the story, the flow, all of it was just really, really f***ed up. During the last 1/4 of the movie, or so, it just got really confusing. During events, all the sudden, there'd be a flashback, then normal, then a flashback within a flashback probably, I don't really know cuz I lost track of everything at some point. F***, this movie made my brain hurt cuz I tried to follow it. This was one of those films where I wanted everybody to die. Even the reporter, who had nothing to do with the original murders and wasn't involved with the main story, I wanted that dumb b**** murdered horribly because she was a moron. Seriously, at the end, after she'd recapped everything, she found out there was a survivor by reading a front page article that should've been the first f***ing thing she'd looked at, and that is why she is a complete idiot who deserved to be murdered then disposed of in 10 different trashcans. Anyways, despite the opening, "Based on a true story," or whatever, dialogue, this is clearly a bulls*** movie that is, at best, a stupid explanation for something that may have happened somewhere. If you can stomach acting that ranges from bearable to f***ing horrible, very stupid decision making, a very confusing storyline and a lack-luster ending, then this movie may be worth the watch. /edit; this movie may be enjoyable to a very few, me being almost 1 of those few, but come on previous reviewers have some dignity. /edit; after re-watching it, the reading the retarded s*** the first reviewers wrote, this movie is far less enjoyable and actually really stupid because it makes no f***ing sense. Previous reviews, quit life because you suck at it, you retards.

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• Surprisingly watchable.

  Boba_Fett11382012-06-22

  The only genre I have consistently enjoyed throughout the years is the horror genre. However, I'm getting more than fed up with some of the genre movies of recent years, that do absolutely nothing new and besides are poorly put together ones. Perhaps therefore I also wasn't really expecting much from this unknown little genre movie but as it turned out, it's a surprisingly watchable one! Can't say that this is a brilliant or very effective genre movie but it least still does plenty of things right, which so many other movies do wrong. First of all, the characters are actually being somewhat likable. Normally these sort of movie, that have teenage characters in it, start to get on your nerves after a while, especially when some of them start doing some incredibly stupid and unlikely things. I never felt that this movie was going down that road as well. The movie besides does a pretty decent job at telling its story. It's actually nice to see that the movie takes its time to develop things and don't get into the 'action' right away. It's actually telling you a story, instead of using its story as an excuse to have as many gruesome killings in it as possible. Also the non-linear storytelling does add to some of the movie its originality. Yes, it's still a very clichéd movie but at least things get brought differently this time, which lets the movie sort of work out as a refreshing one, even despite not being all that original. The actual plot still remains a bit shaky. I mean, the whole killer aspect of the movie is being a bit too far fetched, even for my taste. The movie right now is being like a combination of a typical teenage slasher and a horror movie with supernatural aspects in it. It makes the movie feel a bit like an unbalanced one at times and also a bit of a mixed bag. Sometimes things work out but at other moments it makes the movie a bit too much of a ridicules and far fetched one. But really, as a whole this movie is being a pretty good and enjoyable one. Especially when you are into the genre, this movie is worth giving a shot. 6/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

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