Paul Andrews Necrosis starts as six friends make their way up to an isolated log cabin on a mountain, the locals warn of evil but the friends don't listen & carry on. Rented by Mike (Robert Micheal Ryan) he talks of spooky legends that surround the mountain & that bad things happen there like sporadic outburst's of cannibalism & killing sprees. As a fierce snowstorm hits the mountain the six friends are trapped & the generator goes down, while trying to fix it a dead body is noticed laying in the snow which mysterious disappears a short time later. Worried the friends don't know what to do & are unsure of whats going on, could history be repeating itself as the ghosts of the murdered return for revenge or is it their over active imagination?Apparently had the working title Dead of Winter & called Ice of the Dead in Japan I think Necrosis is more commonly known under the title Blood Snow, co-written & directed by Jason Robert Stephens I get the impression that Necrosis was meant to be a psychological horror thriller in the vein of The Shining (1980) as some slowly goes insane though sheer isolation & the appearance of various ghosts which may or may not be in his imagination. Unfortunately Necrosis is far too slow, virtually nothing happens & the character's are just not fleshed out well enough. Sure the schizophrenic guy Jerry is given some background as he's the one who goes mad but the rest of the cast are cardboard cutout teens with zero personality. The script also has problems with huge gaping questions left unanswered, OK while I get the idea of leaving the whole supernatural element ambiguous as to whether it was ghosts or just Jerry going mad but what about Mike & Karen on the snowmobile? What happened to them? The mystery surrounding the dead body is never elaborated on & in fact once it disappears it's never even so much as mentioned again. Some scenes may or may not be a dream & the film doesn't make it clear enough either way. What was Seymour doing trying to deliver supplies in the middle of the night? How did he get there if the roads were blocked? He walked? Yeah right, also why didn't that guy pick up the supplies at least? The whole back story about the Donner party is underused & Necrosis felt like it didn't really know what it wanted to be, a straight ghost story or a psychological thriller & ends up being neither really. At about 90 odd minutes long Necrosis is slow with few character's, few incidents & little story.The film looks alright, there are few scenes with ghosts but little to no gore, there's a couple of brief moments of cannibalism & a couple of people get shot but nothing else. The setting is quite nice although the log cabin in a wood is a staple of the horror genre, the CGI snow fall is rather poor & there's never enough snow around to truly convince me that the friends were totally stranded. An appearance by 80's pop singer Tiffany is the only real thing of note about the entire film really, I can't say I recognised her but then I only ever saw her in that I Think We're Alone pop video from 1989.Filmed in the San Bernardino National Forest in California the production values are alright but nothing amazing, a large portion of the film seemed dubbed to me which is a bit distracting at times. The acting is OK, Tiffany is alright from what I remember while genre regular Michael Berryman has a small role.Necrosis is a pretty poor low budget psychological horror thriller that has various plot holes & a sense that more could have been done with the premise, watch The Shining again instead as it's loads better.

UnknwnProd Necrosis is a nifty little ghost thriller in the vein of The Shining. The plot concerns a group of six young people who travel to a beautiful cabin in the woods in the dead of winter for a little getaway. Unfortunately for the group, the cabin sits directly on the land where the ill-fated Donner Party was stranded in a huge snowstorm over 150 years ago. As we all know, the actual Donner Party resorted to cannibalism in order to survive their winter ordeal in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, eventually making it into California in the spring of 1847. Although the locals try to warn the group of young people, their warnings go unheeded. As the snow begins to pile up, so do the mysterious occurrences as well as the number of corpses. Are these events truly caused by ghosts, or is cabin fever causing certain members of the group to lose their grip on reality? Director Jason Robert Stephens has assembled a terrific cast, including Heroes star James Kyson-Lee, indie scream queen Danielle De Luca, 7th Heaven star George Stults, Penny Drake (of Zombie Strippers fame), and 80's mall-pop icon Tiffany in her first starring role. The women are beautiful and the acting is generally strong, a real plus for a low-budget horror film. As a bonus we get cult horror film actor Michael Berryman who plays the misunderstood local who tries to warn the group of their impending doom.Although only his third feature, Stephens shows he is a good director that can turn out a quality product. I especially enjoyed his scene transitions using shots of nature such as clouds forming and reforming as well as wintry scenes. Stephens also knows how to set up a shot, so there are plenty of unique angles and tracking shots that keep the movie interesting.While the plot isn't terribly original—it's the same basic idea as The Shining, including the open-ended idea that the hotel (or cabin in Necrosis) could be haunted or it could be the imagination of a mentally unbalanced person suffering from cabin fever—Stephens is able to keep the story fresh enough that it doesn't seem like a complete ripoff and manages to be fun.Kyson-Lee plays Jerry, a man with a history of mental illness who manages to keep his illness in check with the use of medication. As the snow sets in, the men find the body of the cabin's caretaker who apparently froze to death. Deciding to keep it to themselves so as not to upset the girls, Jerry later realizes that the body has disappeared. While the others rationalize that an animal must have taken the body, Jerry remains unconvinced. Shortly thereafter, Jerry begins to see the ghosts of the Donner party. Before long they begin to talk to him. Some of the group members die in mysterious accidents while others are murdered by Jerry.There are some flaws in the film. While the acting is generally strong, I found Danielle De Luca's character to be a bit too whiny and annoying for my tastes. She is constantly whining and harping on her boyfriend, Jerry (Kyson-Lee). I found all this incessant henpecking to be quite irritating, creating an unsympathetic feeling towards De Luca's character. There is also a terribly unrealistic scene where Samantha (De Luca) slips on some ice and "falls" down a steep hill, having to be rescued by her friends. The entire scene was not only horribly fake, but didn't need to be included because it doesn't move the story along. That being said, I don't blame these faults on De Luca herself; rather the director is to blame for creating such an irritating and helpless character and for including this brief but laughable scene. But the strengths in both characterization as well as story far outweigh these relatively minor quibbles.While the use of CGI was minimal, it was also unrealistic enough to be picked out fairly easily. There are a couple of snow scenes that are obviously digitally enhanced which distracted me enough that it took me out of the picture.I also felt like the climax of the film occurred too quickly. While the remaining two survivors (Drake and Stults) are able to subdue Jerry (Kyson-Lee), the film ends with them still trapped in the cabin, still in the middle of a snowstorm, and with the generator running out of gas. Worse still, one of the survivors is beginning to see strange things. So the viewer is left not knowing whether the two survived or whether they didn't. And if they didn't, were the ghosts real or was cabin fever beginning to set in again? Normally I prefer open endings like this, but in this case I didn't feel like there was any resolution at all and that too much was left for the viewer to decide.There is a decent amount of gore—a few gunshots, several relatively quick scenes of cannibalism, and a fairly protracted scene showing one character picking the buckshot from another character's gunshot wound. The violence is realistic and effective but is over fairly quickly, so even the squeamish shouldn't be too put off. In fact, the film is billed as "unrated" but it looks more like an R-rated film to me. I suspect it is unrated because it wasn't submitted to the MPAA.Overall I really liked this film. It's not without its flaws, but it is a solid effort and looks really good, even for a low-budget movie. It doesn't take itself too seriously and is a fun film to watch. The packaging is also really nice and DVD extras include the trailer, Making of Necrosis, and director's commentary. If you would like to purchase this DVD, you can get it from BrinkDVD.Review by Cary Conley from Rogue Cinema (5/1/2010).

oliver-sheaff This was far and away the worst film I have ever seen.Four nights a week I have devoted my total attention to a film since I was 17. That was eleven years ago now. The mix of positive and negative reviews on IMDb.com made me want to make my own mind up about this film.I couldn't do it. No metaphor or similie could describe how awful this is. Comparing it to having your fingernails pulled out while a pirhana with a powerdrill gave you a prostate examination would be too KIND to the film in question.This was torture. I could go on describing how awful this actually was, but I summise by saying that after ELEVEN YEARS watching 4 films a week, it was THIS film that made me join IMDb.com as a member (a website I use daily), SIMPLY to warn others about this horrendous assault on the senses that is referred to as 'Necrosis'.To all those who sat through the entire thing, I pray for your very souls, and salute you for having a stroke or heart attack mid-film..... I presume you MUST have had one of the above or you wouldn't have go past the sixth minute.

iwaheed i watched this lick last night and slept somewhere around 3A.M..and after watching this SO CALLED movie i cursed myself like anything. Why did I watch it..it was one of the worst flicks I have ever seen in my life...No storyline, No acting skills, no directional,,,and the worst was the background music..it sounded like some BABy channel program... Anyway,,I warn everyone to give this flick a big ignore and Please do not watch the trailer as It is really deceiving....It is a total waste for sure and a really bad effort (if there was any)... I would recommend viewers to watch Tom & Jerry classic cartoons instead of this flick. The Chinese guy in this flick was a little better than the rest... A BIG DISASTER...