Desecrated (2015) Reviews

• Bore.

  ThyCriticMan2015-01-12

  The 80's… …an era where slashers sliced and diced their way to the top of the horror scene… …these days are long gone. The first fifteen years of the 2000's featured more ghosts and demonic possessions than they did unstoppable monsters or folks who have the ability to wield kitchen knifes better than the top chefs in the world. Sure, we have witnessed the birth of Mick Taylor and the Wolf Creek franchise. Yeah, Saw and Jigsaw have made a huge impact in the horror game. Fair enough that Victor Crowley from Hatchet, Chromeskull from Laid to Rest, and Leslie Vernon from Behind The Mask have also made considerable impacts on horror fans. However, if you mention any of these names to a casual movie-goer who does not know a single thing about horror, I bet you only Jigsaw can possibly ring a bell. They aren't nearly as popular as good old Leatherface, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, Chucky, or Jason Voorhees. It is the demons of Paranormal Activity or the titles with the devil in them that sell tickets these days. I'm at the point where I'm tired of demons. It is a new year and 2015 offers a new slasher flick in the form of Desecrated. Is this our chance to relive the glory days once again? The plot is simple enough. Haylie Duff plays a wealthy girl named Allie McClean. She takes her friends up to her isolated ranch house for a fun weekend of the usual stuff. The usual stuff isn't as fun as usual due to a grumpy caretaker who doesn't usually like visitors. Unless they are dead. He sure seems to have fun killing his visitors. We should be able to have fun watching him kill his visitors, right? I don't think I did. Everything about Desecrated is done in the most bland way possible. The characters? Bland. The only character who is not bland is an obnoxious prick. Nothing more. His girlfriend is a pretty lady with an accent. Nothing more. Allie is a nice girl who plays the lead. Nothing more. Her boyfriend is the guy who takes charge. Nothing more. The remaining girl thinks the caretaker is good-looking. She wants to bang him. Nothing more. The final dude is kind of a wimp. He is Paul James from Greek and I know for a fact that he is quite good as an actor. This performance does not do him any good though. They are all incredibly dumb to the point where they are challenging to sympathize with. The killer himself is the most interesting character in the movie. Gonzalo Menendez does not come close to Christian Bale in American Psycho and falls short of Wolf Creek's Mick Taylor, but his psychopath military man is entertaining enough. With that said, I doubt he will be capable of haunting anyone's nightmares once the film comes to an end. This isn't a big-budget film. I don't feel like ripping apart the filmmakers on how everything looks and sounds. It isn't impressive. I'll leave it at that. This is a cliché-ridden film with twists that don't really seem needed once everything is all said and done. I wasn't entertained the slightest bit by anything that occurs throughout this film. Mick Taylor is still the most entertaining slasher of the 2000's in my opinion. Follow me on Instagram (thycriticman) and on Twitter (@ThyCriticMan) because…why the hell not? Or check out my website, thycriticman.com Superpower Film Scale: 1.5/5 1: Villainous Waste 2: Careless Bystander 3: Hero unaware of powers 4: On the verge of greatness 5: Heroic film Standout acting heroes: Gonzalo Menendez

• Really boring and unbelievable

  sarah-haverty2015-03-15

  I can forgive low-budget films if the storyline is halfway decent. This is not one of those films; the dialogue is poorly written and horribly executed. The characters are snoopy and not very good at hiding it; each are altogether unlikeable, either having no personality or abrasive, and crude. I didn't think the antagonist was believable. I began to hope they would be killed, especially since they have no survival skills whatsoever, not even basic ones... I don't like that about slasher films in general. Honestly, of horror movies, I prefer ghost, demonic possession, or zombie movies. Zombie movies at least usually have a mix of characters with some that have some survival skills. A good Zombie movie I saw recently was Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead, a good film, not perfect, but enjoyable. This slasher film simply wasn't worth making. I wish I could give this film a 0/10.

• I desecrated almost 90 minutes of my life watching this

  chrismackey19722015-01-10

  So many clichés were at work in this. Clichés are not a bad thing, nor is an unoriginal storyline IF it's all executed well. In the case of this movie, it was not. There was the 'nobody knows we're at this place' cliché. The 'college kids are stupid' cliché. The 'military guy is nuts' cliché. The 'let's break into this place, even though there's a big frickin' lock keeping us out' cliché. The 'Daddy comes to save the day, but he actually had my mom killed' cliché. 'All the kids are killed except for the lead' cliché. Heck, I wish Ben killed some of the clichés in between killing the kids. Speaking of Ben (Gonzalo Menendez), he was the only character with any sort of development. All joking aside, Gonzalo Menendez did a good job pulling off that character. In this movie, he was the best actor - easily. I was on his side. Please kill these annoying imbeciles. Eduardo was the MOST irritating. He was a beta acting like an alpha. I gave this movie a 2-star rating on the strength of Menendez's acting. Unfortunately, the others inability to act caused me to subtract stars.

• Boring and Cliche

  Dragalge6912018-06-09

  Nothing worthwhile happen in the movie. It's the basic slasher movie, bunch of teenagers go to a cabin in the middle of nowhere, the caretaker went crazy is start to killing them. Generally, movies like this try to make the movie a little more interesting appelling with sex, violence or comedy, but this one don't even do that. Take even so much time to the killing happen...and it's not that interesting. Nothing much to talk about the rest. The characters are stupid and the dialog is awful like any other slasher movie.

• The trailer, the tire, what's next?

  nogodnomasters2018-05-25

  The film opens with three guys hunted and killed in the woods by a large man in a gas mask. Next Haylie Duff is introduced as what would be "the final girl" for another cabin-in-the-wooods type of film. There is only one suspect for the killer and they don't keep it a mystery. They let you know on the back of the DVD cover. Boring people with boring dialogue. The kill scenes are camera shy. Guide: F-word, implied sex, implied rape. No nudity