Here’s the thing; for some reason my mailing address ended up in a database where anyone with a movie can send me a film for review. It never used to be like that with this particular company, which shall remain nameless, it used to have to be that the filmmakers would ask before they sent. Such is not the case anymore, and it’s kind of annoying when your expecting a horror film to come in the mail, and you get dramas or action films. Last I checked this site was called “The Horror Review” it used be part of a site called The Review back in 1999, but that has since dropped off the face of the world wide web for close to six years now. So getting back on topic, I got this here horror film in the mail titled Brain Blockers. Here the thing however, and it seems to be a certain thread with this particular company I’m talking about. It seems that all the films that every distribution company rejected, end up being sold on this site. Kind of says something about these films. Don’t you think? Anyway to get straight to the point this seems to be the case with Brain Blockers.
Brain Blockers tries it’s best to come off as a horror comedy; call me a dry person, but I didn’t laugh once. The film starts off a dull and boring note with one dimensional characters that I didn’t have one interest in trying to relate too. So just what is this film about you may ask yourself. Well in fact the plot is pretty simple, but just consists of a lot of pointless babbling and good looking girls. But in case you really need to know, the film is about a college professor whom is testing some kind of chemical potion on his students. Well his potion is not exactly working the way he planned it too and weird things start happening to the students he is using it on.
I’ll give the producer credit on a few things with this film. They managed to cast every female role with some of the best looking girls they can find. Some of them we’re even pretty good actors. They also managed to get some partial nudity out of one of the girls. So I give credit for working the sex angle in, however I’m not some fourteen year old who needs to wax his canon to films like this because he’s too young to watch porn. Nudity never impresses me in movies unless it simply needs to be there. Needless to say the half star I gave this film goes towards the alright acting in this film. It did out weight the bad acting in it, so it’s the least I can do.
As far as production value goes, I can’t say that it’s bad, the director and his crew obviously have some sense of knowing how to pick their shots, but the editing in this film was a bit off, and the film jumped around a lot. The make-up effects were halfway decent, but looked a lot like the make-up effects you would buy at a party store during the Halloween season. The CGI however was just plan bad, I can’t say anything else about it. Hollywood it’s not, but a film like this is not made to be put out to the public and nor should it be sent out to critics in hope of getting a good review. This is a film that was made for friends and family to check out, and maybe a few locals at a film festival.
Overall, I look at this movie as a stepping stone film, It’s not that the filmmakers are bad at the craft, it’s just that they need to make more films to get to the level of being better. But it’s not a film that I can recommend to horror fans as something worth watching unless you know someone who was part of making this movie.
– Horror Bob
- Interview with J.R. Bookwalter - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Andrew J. Rausch - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Rick Popko and Dan West - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Director Stevan Mena (Malevolence) - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Screenwriter Jeffery Reddick (Day of the Dead 2007) - January 22, 2015
- Teleconference interview with Mick Garris (Masters of Horror) - January 22, 2015
- A Day at the Morgue with Corri English (Unrest) - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Writer/Director Nacho Cerda (The Abandoned, Aftermath) - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Actress Thora Birch (Dark Corners, The Hole, American Beauty) - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Actor Jason Behr, Plus Skinwalkers Press Coverage - January 22, 2015
