lootjunior So this is my first review here on IMDb, but I read on that was mostly negative and I just had to defend this trash jewel. This is a very fun movie it has great special effects, like old horror movies that don't rely on CGI at all. A Micheal Bay fan will not enjoy this gore fest. If you love movies that are made to be bad like Kung Fury or Black dynamite then you are going to love this one. Give it a try seriously. Summary: I'll try to keep this short and spoiler free. A stereotypical over the top fraternity is suspended from campus due to a prank gone wrong. They are send to an old haunted house in the woods. After that it all follows a known recipe horror fans know and enjoy. The director did a good job making the movie look like a 70's horror film. The writing team also did a great job as there were lots of funny jokes. The comedy part is also the best part of the movie, don't expect to be scared if you have seen a lot of horror movies before. 7/10

jusmarnew The issue I believe that Dude Bro Party Massacre III (DBPM3) holds is that it is entirely based off of a short sketch by the comedy troupe that made the film. In the sketch, which true to the troupe's name is only 5 seconds long, it basically shows a montage cheesy gore practical effects and murders in an homage to 80's slasher flicks. This isn't meant to be a slasher flick, this is supposed to be a parody of the genre. The plot itself, like the 3rd movie in a cheap slasher franchise is rather goofy when watched without context. However with context you can start to make comparisons to later franchise sequels where they've run out of plot devices and they have to get crazy and lazy to pump out something of a coherent script. When it comes to visual effects however, this movie is your deal. It has plenty of gore. Unreal amounts of blood, nasty organs, and plenty of murders. True to the movie's name there is quite the Massacre and the kills just keep coming in increasingly innovative and purposefully ironic ways. 5 Second Films, the group who made the sketch and the movie is really a comedy-centric cluster of people. The acting on many accounts is above par, especially when it comes to delivering absurd lines or doing crazy actions. When you watch DBPM3, you need to enter it expecting something goofy and cheesy.If you're a fan of 5 Second Films, you probably crowdfunded it so you already like it, but if you didn't you need to watch this. They managed to take one of their surreal sketches and flesh it out into a 90 minute gore-fest as an homage and satire of 80s B-list slasher films.For excellent effects, satire, acting, and ambition, I give it a solid 10. Especially so, as a movie should not be gimped purely on the fact that you do not understand it's source material and it's true intention.

Rob Miller Full disclosure: I've been a fan of 5SF for years and even bought tickets to the world premiere at the LA Film fest so I'm probably a fanboy.There are a plethora of horror comedies out there, and many self aware entries into the genre will poke fun at their own tropes, but never before like this. The best summary of DBPM3 I could give would be Friday the 13th mixed with Airplane mixed with the volleyball scene from Top Gun. The film has one of the highest jokes per minute rate of any I've ever seen: any duds or misses are swiftly forgotten when another joke is laid out less than 10 seconds later. It grabs a hold of your funny bone and mercilessly throttles it, I felt physically exhausted by the end.Even though it is a satire of 80's slashers, most of the jokes are timeless, and don't require extensive knowledge of the genre/time period to understand (and good thing too, I imagine the target audience was still in diapers during the 80's). It attempts to recreate the poor quality film making of low budget slashers, and largely succeeds, to the point where I couldn't tell which mistakes were intentional (i imagine most of them) The only stumbling block for me was the side plot involving Officer Sminkle. Although funny at times, it seemed to drag on, and was only tangentially related to the plot. For me it never seemed to join cohesively with the action at the frat.My advice? Get a group of friends and a case of beer before viewing this movie. It is strong on its own merits, but seems to have been created with group viewing in mind.

John Booth Just as some movies that should be great turn out to be awful, some movies that should be awful turn out to be great - Dude Bro Party Massacre III. Unfortunately, for a film that's based on a Frat party gone wrong, none of the current Frat members are going to admit to liking it now. Few will give it a chance and realize the direction is good, the acting is good, the music is good, that it's exciting, funny, scary, suitably epic and absolutely action-packed and that it looks fantastic.What looks like suicide at first glance - converting an average Chico party into a full-length feature - gets more appealing when you look at the source material closer. The real party was an epic hybrid of Dude broness and parties, with ancient teachers and janitors mixing with sex and murder. It also has a classic Alfred Hitchcock Birds feel, mixing Ancient Greece-era symbols and people who don't understand their significance.Dude Bro Party Massacre III succeeds because it takes the real experience of College and adapts not it's superficial qualities, but it's essence into a movie, turning it into a mature Homedy. This is where so many College based movies failed. They don't adapt their source material properly to make a successful feature film. You need to make the movie a natural progression from what it's based on, altering the look enough so it looks acceptable in real action, altering the characters into real people, choosing actors who can give real performances. It's not simply dressing superstars up as characters from a Fraternity, it's re-imagining the ideas as a movie. DBPM3 does this perfectly. You can fault it as a film itself, of course, but you can't fault it as an adaption.The production design is superb, with some superbly realized sets and costumes. Everything has been adapted to look more realistic on the big screen. The cast give uniformly decent performances. Nobody lets the side down - these are all 3D characters. Alec Owen proves he's one of the young men in our society who can truly act. Patton Oswalt gives an outstanding performance as Chief, his powerful presence almost bursting out of the TV and into your living room. Oswalt gives a shining example to all actors portraying hooded figures. There is a pervading sense of dread whenever he appears and the script gives him some awesome lines which he delivers with pure comedy prowess.Setting the movie in the middle of nowhere has it's advantages and disadvantages. It does give the film a human component. It also makes the murderer scarier - rather than being a distant psycho. On the other hand, it would have been cool to see some more of Chico and it's weird inhabitants and locations, but DBPM3 had a relatively small budget, so that sort of stuff was off limit anyway.DBPM3 is also packed with action, and we do mean packed. There is an outbreak of violence every 15 minutes or so, usually even less, and there is variety and imagination among the content, unlike many Homedy films, which consist of repetitive one-liners and fart jokes. It could possibly be said that it's quality over quantity, as some of it, particularly the jokes, are extremely well filmed, and none of the jokes ever reaches critical mass. And all the horror grows organically from the story - none of it seems put in simply because the movie needed an extra scene at a certain point.When Dude Bro Party Massacre III is released at cinemas this summer, people would realize how good it is compared to the blockbuster summer fare we get these days. And all for 400k, which is hardly anything.My Final note is Bravo and Thank you for a truly superb film.