caleboster-06635 Where to begin with this mess, the acting is atrocious, the audio quality terrible, and finally the camera work and editing. I'm not going to spoil anything because to you are going to have to see this movie to see how truly bad it is. As everyone has said it actually starts off strong with good shots of the main characters and their mustang, a little background of the main characters, and it really feels like it is professional grade and you are in for a treat. Then without spoiling anything once they hit the rest stop (it happens like 5 minutes in) everything goes downhill. It seems as soon as they step out of the car they all forget how to act. The 2 girls have to go to the bathroom and we are shown these "scary" "intimidating" bikers. They of course hit on one of the girls are she comes back from the bathroom, and at this point while cliche the movie still looked ok. Later on our main characters have another run in with the biker gang and this is where I realized one of the major problems with this film. First off the acting obviously and the delivery of their lines. Nolan (the main man) has a gun to the bikers face and he trips and stumbles over his lines and it got to the point where a pistol sitting on a pillow would be more intimidating. To be fair to the cast the dialogue is so bland and basic if a middle school student were to write some of these sentences they would receive an F. It is so uninspired and vanilla I don't blame the actors for not caring about what they were saying. The second main problem with this film is throughout the entire 90 minutes the audio is so bad you have to struggle to hear what the characters are saying. The music blares at some parts or the music is too quiet and you can hear the transition from background music to the inserting of the audio recorded with their five dollar microphones. This was most apparent in the first ten minutes when it is showing the title "Eaters". They are talking in the car but you cant hear a word but it's not like your missing much with the uninspired dialogue. Finally the third biggest problem with "Eaters" was the camera work and their editing. All of the action scenes are unfocused or shaky. There is even a point in the movie where you can hear the camera man's footsteps! As for the editing this was glaringly off in the fight scenes, if you can call them that. Every time someone was punched or kicked it was like watching the 1960 superhero shows. The punches were pushes with the punching sound played way too loud. The same goes for the kicking. The only thing they did right was the gunshots and the angles with that. This movie had so much potential and that is why I am so angry and disappointed with this movie. The pacing is what kills the horror aspect of this movie. What I mean by pacing is how fast we are shown vital parts of the story so it can flow. It takes us 30 minutes to get to the "real villains". We are a third of the way through this movie and we are just introduced to the main villains. This is quite the problem but don't worry the writers decided to cut out silly things like a back story or what they really are or how long they have been living there. By doing this it creates shallow villains that aside from the masks are not scary. In the end they leave so much left unexplained and it leaves you with this annoying feeling in your gut. Along with a weak plot that after a while becomes more lost than the main characters. The plot seems to be forgotten at BackHeel. They began to introduce so many new things, characters, and events I had to check what time the movie was at. Once I did this I was concerned with how little time was left and how much they still had to go into detail about and explain and how much had to be resolved. At the very end of the film I had literally 23 questions that weren't answered. Of the 23 about 13 were vital to the plot while the rest were just little nitpicks. While the problems above would made any genre of film terrible those along with terrible pacing and a forgotten plot absolutely destroy it's chances of being a decent horror film. The worst part about this movie is what it could have been. I would be brave enough to see a remake if they decide to do one but if you're looking to kill 90 min, I would still not recommend this movie but don't take my word for it, if you think you are brave enough(and the movie is free) give it a shot.

crystalandry If your guilty pleasure is a dark night with a horror movie; you may be tempted to pick up "Eaters" by Johnny Tabor. There are not many people who have even heard this title by name. The image depicted on the cover of the movie "Eaters" tantalizes a horror junkie with a creepy scarecrow-like figure. This figure has human-like features covered by a tattered potato sack with large "X"s sewn into the eyes. Sounds interesting enough, Right? This review will look at the facts as I examine this low-budget horror film. This film is an amazing example of a poorly attempted horror flick. The plot was quite unclear. To any low-budget horror fans; you may want to watch the movie before you continue, in order to avoid the spoilers. The beginning of the movie leads you to feel like you are in a House of Wax-esque segment. This feeling lingers throughout the film and leads to a pile-up of questions that go unanswered. You find yourself in the cab of a car with five young adults on a road trip through New Mexico. Barren wasteland is the apparent setting. Driving on a never-ending stretch of two-lane road, they come to an eerie abandoned rest stop. They come face to face with a motorcycle gang. When one of the girls in the group goes missing, her arrogant hot-headed boyfriend is quick to point the finger at the gang of ruffians that were at the rest stop with them. After a brush with death in confronting the bikers, they continue driving and find themselves in need of gas. They all see an old wooden sign with chipped paint indicating down the road is food and gas. They head down the dirt road and decide to follow it to a town that they discovered was deserted. They find themselves without their hot- headed friend as he wanders off into a barn. The other three friends then realize they had been followed by two men from the biker gang, so they hide in fear. The bikers see a child with the same type of eerie sack over it's face. They begin to bully the child as the three friends watch (what we would assume to be the child's father) a large man with a giant wooden mallet defend the child. He knocks out one of the gang members and smashes the other's head like a watermelon with the over-sized mallet. This is where the killing starts. One of the friends died of blood loss from having his tongue cut out by the mysterious man in a sack who had killed the gang member. Another dies at the hands of the leader of the biker gang after traveling by foot along the road to get away from the death- filled-farm-town. The two survivors meet back up and continue traveling down the road until they come to another town. This town is filled with more of the people in sacks that killed their friends. The murderous leader from the last town has followed them and traps one of them as he stays behind to let the last friend survive. She travels as far as she can and passes out. The last scene of the movie shows her being picked up by a stranger that, thankfully, does not have a sack over his head with those haunting black stitches. They ride off into the distance in his truck and the credits populate. The movie itself was heavily flawed. Many unanswered questions that only lead to more questions. So many loose ends and missing information throughout the movie. Most movies, especially horror, are slow to begin. The ending was atrocious. The antagonists were never brought to justice, and yet there was no such cliff-hanger to imply a sequel to gain the necessary information to answer the many questions left before us. I doubt a sequel would be worth the time to see. This was an extreme let-down. When the movie is at its very best it's somewhat entertaining. So much time was wasted to get the story to an entertaining pace. Then there were the small bursts of interesting information that would lead right back into a slow time- wasting segment. I wouldn't suggest this movie. Overall the story was much more appealing in description, but if you like low-budget horrors you just might like it.

baroby I'm going to keep this simple: This is NOT a good movie.I'm not going to put any spoilers in here, because everyone else kinda did that. I'm not going to explain the characters or the story line, because others have done it, and there isn't really much to explain. But here's my take on it:The story is bad, the camera work looks like someone shot it with an iPhone, the script seems like it's mostly ad lib, there is next to no gore at all (at least for a movie this bad, you would think that it would be heavy on the gore), the acting is HORRID, the characters are vastly underdeveloped, the interactions make no sense, the movie itself drags for the first half hour, and then when it picks up it is almost comical, there is NOTHING believable about this film--it's just a flat out mess.I didn't give this a 1 because I've seen a LOT of bad movies in my day, especially of the horror genre. However, this movie didn't get a 1 out out of 10 simply because I've seen worse movies to compare it to, not because it wasn't really bad.Read the other reviews, and compile them all into one. Everyone is telling the truth all at the same time, trust me. If you like rustic independent films shot by film students, then this is right up your alley. If for some reason you want to see a really good horror film, either just because you like horror films or because you want to kick Halloween off with a bang, don't waste your time.

Lelio Mulas Well, that was interesting. The very first moments looked decent, with a somewhat retro look. But as soon as the characters open their mouth you realize you're in for a treat. Sound editing is terrible, you can't hear half of the lines, and the other half is people telling each other to shut up or chill out (duude). Dialogues are below 5 years old writing. Camera work is atrocious, some of the very few thrills in this bore-fest are courtesy of the cameraman struggling with focus. And losing miserably. The editing is lame. I just began to mentally trim the footage to accelerate the pacing, leaving behind minutes and minutes of awkward silent people blank staring, panting and gasping, looking around, while I was waiting for a line or a reaction to happen. My god... Then acting. Tell me about it. 'Great acting' someone said, holy cow... They are abysmal, all of 'em, with a special award for the guy in a yellow t-shirt (sluggishly dragging around like he hadn't any idea what he was doing) and the biker chief (desperately trying to be cool in a Samurai Cop wig). Storywise, it's a mess. Girl gets missing (we couldn't care less about her, 3 minutes screen time), friends freak out (kinda) and try to find her, they stumble upon drug courier bikers, they argue, they escape, they find refuge in a ghost town, the bikers follow them, cannibal creepy inbred people, almost everybody dies by stupidity. There is no tension whatsoever! The pacing is all off, slow and helpless, the bikers are not menacing, the 'eaters' could have been a redeeming point for the movie if there was any attention to details, maybe even some self aware irony (we're playing with 50 years old tropes, guys). The plot doesn't progress, it percolates like garbage juice. Even the gore is missing!Maybe they tried, maybe it was a joke. What remains is a mess of a movie, some occasional funny-bad moment (the screaming scene, as previously noted by other reviewers: hilarious) and lots of boredom and frustration. I somehow sat through all of it, but I don't recommend this experience to anyone.