Eaters (2015)

Eaters: Directed by Johnny Tabor. With Tristan Parrish Moore, Hannah Risinger, Jonathan Haltiwanger, Marcelle Bowman. After their friend goes missing, five road-tripping friends must confront a violent biker gang, but after they narrowly escape, their nightmare goes from bad to spine-chilling.

“As said many times before, this is not coming from anybody who takes pleasure in hating a movie. In fact, quite the opposite, this is coming from somebody who tries to see good in anything thatu0026#39;s bad regardless of how strong any negative feelings are. Eaters is one of few movies in some time where there is nothing to say redeeming about it.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt is hard to say where Eaters failed most heavily, but the acting is a definite contender here. Atrocious isnu0026#39;t describing it enough, with the yellow T-shirt guy and the biker leader agreed tied for the worst performances, the former looking like he both didnu0026#39;t want to be there and didnu0026#39;t have a clue as to what he was doing and the latter is more irritating than menacing. Everybody looks disengaged and stumble constantly through their lines, giving the already crass and awkwardly written dialogue- that is enough to make even a toddler feel dumb- even less fluidity than it already suffered from. The cardboard, stereotypical characters were not worth giving a toss about, theyu0026#39;re all annoying and the bikers have no sense of presence and instead behave like idiots. The missing girl isnu0026#39;t on screen anywhere near long enough to make one care properly about the situation the characters are on or the basic story.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe story is another massive failing, there is nothing scary, suspenseful or tense about it, structurally itu0026#39;s choppy, a lot of scenes are so mind-numbingly stupid and pointless it was insulting and it just drags on and on with scenes stretched to interminability. There is nothing competent about the direction, which is literally all at sea, nor about the filming. The opening is alright, but everything else visually is unfocused to a dizzying degree, was starting to wonder whether the cameraman was drunk or something. Scenery is basic and drably lit, and the sound is so flat that hearing what was being said was difficult and sometimes like somebody trying unsuccessfully to tune a radio.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOverall, horrendously bad with nothing good to say in its favour. As someone who tries to be fair when viewing films/movies/shows Eaters really has to be one of the worst movies seen in quite a long time. 0/10 Bethany Cox”