artpf Young man is tortured with a 9 volt battery by mother as a kid and turns into a killer only during thunderstorms.If you buy into that premise, you might also like the bad acting, horrible script, the dead victims whose eyes are literally blinking and moving on screen, and storms without rain.I didn't.Characters actions simply don't make sense. Not sure if you've ever licked a 9 volt battery. I have. It doesn't hurt in the slightest. You feel a dull tingle. That's how we'd test to see if they were good as kids. None of us turned into serial killers.And why do so many of the corpses move when they're supposed to be dead? Didn't anyone see this during the editing? IMDD says this movie had a million dollar budget. Where did the money go?

Paul Andrews Basement Jack starts eleven years ago as tormented teenager John Reily (producer Eric Peter-Kaiser) goes nuts & kills several families including the boyfriend, mother, father & brother of Karen Cook (Michele Morrow) who manages to survive the brutal attack. Reily is caught but since he was underage he only spent ten years in prison & now he is free, free to hunt Karen down across the US & see to unfinished business from ten years previous by finally killing her. However Karen survived Reily's attempts to kill her once & she is determined to do so again & teams up with small town rookie cop Chris Watts (Sam Skoryna) to put an end to Reily's killing & finally lay some ghost's to rest...Co-produced & directed by Michael Shelton this is pretty much your average teen slasher that is slightly more competently made than usual but otherwise does nothing to distinguish itself from an over-crowed & limited sub-genre that the likes of Halloween & Friday the 13th (original's or remakes) & their numerous sequels & rip-offs have all sewn up already. There's nothing new or original here, a child who is abused by his mother grow's up & starts killing families (if he only killed entire families why did he kill those cops at the station?) for no apparent reason other than that & for some reason he has to do it during a thunder storm which is mentioned a few times but seems utterly pointless. The pace is slow, that character's are stupid (if you opened the door to a serial killer who had been on the telly would you just stand there waiting for him to kill you?) & forgettable (yet another teen with a troubled past, the clichéd good hearted cop who has a craggy old boss) while the kills are the one area where Basement Jack should stand-out but it doesn't as just about every one is the same as Basement Jack kills everyone with his big knife, if your making a slasher film & can't even put any effort or creativity into the kills then you know your making films in the wrong genre. The killer himself was a missed opportunity, he is very bland & in fact doesn't say a single word during the entire film as he just walks around looking like a goth reject with hair hanging down over his face.There's a bit of gore here but the kills are very samey with various stabbings, an arm is cut off & the tops of two cops heads are clichéd off too complete with bad CGI computer effects. As one would expect there's the obligatory final confrontation between Karen & the killer with expected results & a really bad ending which uses the old 'he wasn't dead even though he was' trick to leave things open for a sequel. There are a lot of thunder storms in Basement Jack but there's never any rain (probably due to budgetary reasons), now I don't know if in reality it's possible to have a thunder storm without rain & maybe it is but it just looks strange, it doesn't feel as atmospheric & is just odd (also why is the thunder always as loud inside as it is outside?).With a supposed budget of about $1,000,000 this is quite well made but is as forgettable a teen slasher as you will ever likely see. The cast are OK but no-one stands out particularly.Basement Jack is a standard teen slasher made to cash in on the other countless teen slashers out there but with a dull bad guy, forgettable kills & an instantly forgettable plot there are definitely better examples of the genre out there.

joker-101 Being a slasher movie fan, I was thinking, well, it can't be all that bad. I mean, even the worst films have some good thing about them.Let me tell you right now.THIS ONE HAS NONE!The movie is just terrible, and the worst part is that they took it seriously. Acting is truly bad. Even for a slasher movie... At most points the stabbing scenes are made badly and you can see how they miss the person. Even at a moment when a person is stabbed through, falls to the floor and then... No blood on their back when the knife just came out.If you are thinking about watching this movie, I can only tell you one thing: DON'T!There is a whole list of things you can do instead that are much more entertaining: - Starring a white wall for a couple of hours - Counting Flakes in you cornflake box - Going to sleepand much much more.

smtppirate I got this, lured by the title and general first impression, looking forward to a dark and brutal horror flick, though expectations weren't very high to begin with, this was a major let down. The portrayals of the characters were really bad and made me doubt that anyone involved in the making of this movie knew anything about insanity, homicidal madness or how to properly convey it. Watching the characters behave as they did I fought an urge to stand up and stomp around cursing them for being such idiots. And tacking on a sob story to the main antagonist's past in an attempt to make some kind of sense of his killing was laughable and shallow, not very well done either. The general production quality was fairly good though... the writing and acting, not so much. No suspense, no awe, little horror and scarce laughs. The makers of this movie have a lot to learn about horror before attempting it again.