hawktwo I'm pretty surprised at the low over rating this film has given its ability to scare the crapola out of you.Other than a sense that this is a video and not a film, it deserves kudos for atmosphere, a build of suspense, a surprise ending, and loads of gore.I didn't feel as though I was viewing a horror film with a predictable plot or characters.This film deserves a lot of respect. It is creepy, the actors, although certainly not known, are good actors. I didn't feel as though the lines or the acting was forced. The only character I felt was almost a bit comedic was the bar owner but you see that in a lot of horror films. Like Night of the Living Dead, the Ring, 6th Sense, this film brings a fresh perspective of horror.

Neil Robertson So, my nephew, a now accomplished Hollywood A-lister for major studio big budget films - got started back in 1987 asking me to borrow my S-VHS (state-of-the art at the time) so he could video tape his whore heroin addict lower Bronx whore street-trash prostitute girlfriend spew her bowel-load of soft-pass fecal matter from a 7-11 re-fried burrito frozen micro-wave oven heated diet - at stag parties for homeless Salvation Army dudes.This video made for a Mississippi drive-in porn truck-stop audience of uneducated, hillbilly, inbred of first cousins seems to rely on the artistic thrust of a high school video production class taught by a felony-convicted sibling rapist.This film is WORSE production value, story line than that.

DJShaft69 This movie is actually not as bad as a lot of people make it out to be, but it is not all that great either.If you want to know what it's like, just take a bit of Texas Chainsaw, Hills Have Eyes, Wrong Turn, Cabin Fever, Hostel, and House of 1000 Corpses and run them through a blender.Nothing new here at all, and it was done a lot better in the classic horror movies I mentioned above.Still, overall it's not that bad if you give it a fair chance to sink in. The parts where they are watching the assumed home made horror films was actually a pretty decent idea, and the movie actually revolves around that central point to give it some basic premise of originality.The parts where the Carver was on the grainy film were probably some of the best points of the movie. The characters were such that you just couldn't wait to see them get killed, with the exception of the little brother, you sort of root for him, then cheer when he finally gets it in the end.All in all it was done before in a lot of other much better movies, but it is worth a watch if you are a fan of the torture genre. I was actually surprised that it came out way better than my expectations.I saw all the bad reviews here and was not hoping for much, but the low budget quality adds to the overall effect and should not detract from the experience.In my opinion it is decent enough for a viewing by those who like this particular brand of torture/horror. Just don't expect anything really new or innovative. Take it for what it is, an excuse to watch people get brutally tortured and killed in very sick and disgusting ways.Nothing like a good saw blade to the skull to make you day suck @##.

terrible2 Decent gore hampered by an unoriginal, over-done, seen it all before, becoming quite redundant, for the love of God... Story.This is a real shame, because I truly enjoyed everything else about "Carver". It's shot well, the acting is solid and for the most part it is a strong contender to be a stand out horror film. But, instead follows the same olé' boring formulas of a thousand other (better) movies. Director Franklin Guerrero has the eye to make a real name for himself in the business, but first he must trust his "Own" abilities and stop trying to remake other peoples work. And as far as the whole "Based on a true story" (Crap) is concerned, it's just that, and no-one is buying it anymore so you can leave it off the packaging. I look forward to seeing what Mr. Guerrero can do with a story that he writes himself, and not after watching "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" followed by "The Hills Have Eyes" as a double feature with "Hostel" and then going to his neighbor's house to watch "Vacancy" and "Wrong Turn"....Originality is a key element in this genre... Try it, you might be surprised.