Crazy Eights - After Dark Horror Fest (2006)

Genuinely creepy moments so cut it some slack

I caught this on on-demand Fearnet and wasn't expecting much. However, from the introduction to the final scene, the film held my interest and had some pretty creepy scenes. Worth renting and I'll take this over any of the Saw movies any day of the week. August 25, 2008

traci

i'm a big traci lords-fan (not of her porns) and so i bought this dvd, because i was lucky that there was a new movie starring her. the idea of the movie was not so bad, but the movie for itself was a little bit boring. also i think that some brutal scenes were cut. on this dvd were trailers from the other 7 films from the after dark horrorfest, and i think, those films are better. especially borderland, where i also bought the dvd.the first star from my rating is for a new traci-film, and the second star is therefore, that she plays almost a leading role! July 28, 2008

Almost worth the price.

This movie carried some decent B-movie actors (and even a porn star) through a fairly solid story, but most of the people that watched this with me agreed that the ending was extremely weak. It had a great build-up, quality kills, but fizzled into either a rush job, an undecided director's bad choice, or both.

Slightly scary with elements that have been run into the ground repeatedly.
If you can rent it cheap, you'll like it more. July 2, 2008

Lamest of the Lame

I'm not sure I saw the same movie as the other reviewers. This was a bloody awful film. I love psychological thrillers...the promise of this is what drew me to this film. However, it fell flat and left me upset I spent $3.99 and 80 minutes of my time on it. It does not require you to think except to think 'What the...?' Nothing really makes sense, there is no logic as far as why these people had to die (they accidentally killed a little girl while subjects of some crazy doctors...abandoned by their parents, apparently....how is that something they should be punished for as adults?) The ending left me completely baffled. Of course, by then, I'd pretty much given up on the movie. Dina Meyers says 'I'm the only one left' after she destroys the toys that supposedly hold the link to getting them out of the hospital. So, she has to kill herself to set herself free? What? And then suddenly she's a little girl again choosing between a trunk holding redemption and another representing more testing. Again...what?

I agree with the other reviewers comments about Session 9. That was a generally creepy movie and it's twists actually contain logic that you can follow without having to pry open the writer/director's brain or crawl around for scraps on the cutting room floor.

I definitely see NO comparison to The Big Chill. I can't believe it was brought up. TBC is a phenomenal movie with real stars, a great plot, and well thought-out character development. It has nothing in common with Crazy Eights. And this film only boasted Whalley- who's been not been consistently good in films. And, frankly, none of them should have bothered. I wonder if the script they read was completely different from what we saw or perhaps when the director explained it to them, he provided insight we weren't privileged to in the process of watching the movie.

Something just seems lost here- I believe it's the plot. Well, it seems to be happening with most of the other Horror Fest films, so no big surprise here. May 12, 2008

Crazy Eights

I just can not recommend this movie, it's not bad, I just found it to be incredibly boring and formulaic. The cast is really good but they just look bored, and if they were bored making just imagine what kind of fun you're in line for. Nothing of consequence really happens in this movie. There's some blood and off camera kills, nothing special occurs there either. The plot is far from anything new but this movie still could have been something more, an utter disappointment. April 22, 2008

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