The Hamiltons - After Dark Horror Fest (2006)

The Hamiltons seem to be the picture-perfect American family. They are hardworking community members; giving to their local charities attending town hall meetings and always respectful of their neighbors...except for the fact that they usually end up killing them.System Requirements:Run Time: 90 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: R UPC: 031398210832 Manufacturer No: 21083 Product Description

I'd recommend instead...

Not sure why so many people are giving high ratings on this one. The acting was sub-par, the lighting design was heinous, and the production was more horrifying than the story. If you want to see a truly creepy indie horror film, check out Baby Blues. I was lucky enough to attend a private screening and was thoroughly creeped out. The acting is better than expected as is the production value. It had some truly unexpected twists. Check it out instead, it comes out on DVD in August. June 7, 2008

Precious Horror Masterpiece

Like many who have reviewed before me, I turned to Afterdark Horrorfest with hopes of a horror genre revolution or at the very least revitalization. They're doing an okay job. It's a step up above the garbage that gets released at the movie theatres!

I became slightly obsessed with this movie. I started watching it daily, figuring out more symbolism and picking up clues here and there. The movie is incredible because it does something that only true masterpieces can. It makes you sympathetic to the villain. At the end of the movie, you even feel sorry for the damned Hamilton family. Or at least I did. Maybe I'm just that twisted. But I sort of wanted to be in the Hamilton family... May 8, 2008

The Hamiltons

This was one of the better movies from the '06 Horrorfest, described as a really dark Party of Five. To be honest with you, I really can't go in-depth into the movie without giving away spoilers, so I'll just put it like this: Good acting, excellent atmosphere, suspenseful at times, slow at others, interesting characters and great direction. Its horror, its dark, and I just love how it ends so check it out, it's a very good addition to the genre. April 23, 2008

Seriously?

I can't believe how many people fawn over this movie. It has as much tension in it as a bag of wonder bread. This movie isn't very memorable. In fact I forgot that I had even seen it until I saw a preview for it on the Unrest disc. Then I remembered this drivel.

The whole story about a family of psychopaths who are psychos "just because" doesn't really work. The acting was decent, it had to be to hold the weak, slow, plodding story together. The story just meanders along taking its sweet time to get to an unsatisfying conclusion. Weak production quality. Looks like someone shot it on their camera phone.

Waste of a rental.
April 2, 2008

one word...

yawn...zzzzzzzzzzzzz....finally rented the movie to see what it was all about and like other reviewers said, it was boring...i guess for an indie flick, i shouldn't expect much but it was suppse to be a horror movie...right? i hope the second batch of after horror fest movies are better than theis first batch. March 13, 2008

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