marymorrissey incompetent. towards the beginning there is a part when the guy is popping open a beer and drinking it and it takes like 6 shots just for that! and it's not stylish as aren't these annoying flashbacks and the sputtering light throughout the latter part of the movie that seems to have gone to everyone's brain. in one scene this girl leaves the group to go to the bathroom she gets some kind of murder by being partially pulled through the ceiling and screams a lot and the group wonders "what was that?" over like 15 shots hey maybe it's the b who went to take a p for goodnessakes! the wife cuts her hand badly stabbing one of the zombies with a shard of helpfully broken glass... but later has no wound. I mean basically this movie was very incompetent.

Kellie Stewart This movie could have had potential if it had live up to the write up. The "hero" of the story seems to be a superman that can do all things, even figure out that a pharmacist in his jail is responsible for the the disappearance of his son. The major plot hole is all that is missing between the time the kids were taken and the time they were released. At an outward glance, it looks like they were all trapped in cages. If this is the case, where do they get their blood lust? There should have been more insight into what happened to the kids while they were in his custody and his motives should have been better explained. The 30 year old trying to play a young guitarist was ridiculous. The randomness of the whole movie left everything open. There should have been a lot more to the story explaining the 10 years in captivity and what the captor was trying to achieve. Mainly, we need to know if they were on a seek and destroy mission or if they were on a "kill the people that abandoned you" mission. The story itself could have been a good one if they had tried to make a proper story out of instead of a showing how well they do dismemberment effects. This was a very poorly thought out movie.

Scarecrow-88 A deeply sorrowful policeman, Dwayne Hopper(Patrick O'Kane)had a son kidnapped as did thirteen other families and the man responsible he discovers was picked up on a speeding charge. The man is Ronald Perkins(Richard Brake), a pharmacist who's "friends with the judge", but some particular comments he makes to Dwayne(..along with a missing finger)throws up signals that he was the one who kidnapped his son. Pleading with an off-duty cop to investigate Perkins' home, policeman Hal(Dean Sansone)hears noise in the basement and discovers a hidden room containing prison cells..lifting a switch, the bars open and "they" are released..those 14 kids, now ten years older, aren't remotely human as we'd describe. Hal is ferociously attacked and soon Dwayne, along with his prisoner, investigate for himself what lies within that secret room, and the horrifying discoveries will change the landscape of the sleepy town of Stone Grove forever.Craig Singer's PERKINS 14 ambiguously relates to us why these youths are such ferocious, cannibalistic, practically unstoppable predators. Through some collected recordings in Perkin's hidden room, Dwayne realizes that they were held prisoner, not allowed to talk, barely fed, and injected with drugs(..PCP is one such drug established)..being a pharmacist, Perkins may've even experimented with these kids, pumping their systems with only God know what. The killers resemble the fast-moving zombies of the modern horror era..they move fast, their eyes are albino(..representing the loss of humanity, nothing visible ), clothes tattered, and attack with feverish intensity. Victims who often encounter them have little time to defend themselves and the killers rip them to shreds, devouring their flesh like hungry vultures. The film is depressingly bleak and the story of the family of the Hoppers is quite a somber, tragic one. I feel like the film's strength is the effects on the Hoppers regarding the loss of the son and how happiness has eroded over time due to Dwayne's detachment from his loved ones and life in general. Before the killer youths are unleashed on the town, we see how Dwayne's obsession in finding Kyle has caused a friction between himself and his wife/daughter. Wife Janine(Mihaela Mihut)has been having an affair with a local stud, and daughter Daisy(Shayla Beesley)is enamored with a potential rock star. When circumstances pen the Hoppers inside the town sheriff's department, they will have to put aside their differences, and ban together..but, facing the sheer thought of killing his son in order to save themselves is what drives the central emotional conflict, and Dwayne's plight draws enormous sympathy. It would be incredibly hard for a parent, once he's finally found the long-lost son everyone said was dead, to actually kill him. The hope that he can reach Kyle is what motivates the dread..deep inside we know that Dwayne's outcome will probably not end well, but understand why he makes such decisions. While I don't understand why these kids attack humans with weapons, tearing into their flesh, and yet aren't able to determine any human emotion at all(..or understand that their actions aren't justified), they are a frightening brood..director Singer displays their cruel methods of destruction(..such as the use of a champagne bottle to smash in a face or the off-distance shot of a flashlight bobbing up and down in the dark as we squishing sounds)in devastating ways, while we also witness their nasty eating habits(..one victim's stomach is torn open as they remove his organs and intestines)and determined pursuit for victims(..one female killer youth is so desirable for Janine, locked in a bathroom, her fingernails come apart as she rips up and down the door). The tragic fate of the Hoppers, at the hands of their own Kyle, is particularly chilling because a promise is broken. Most of the attacks are often cleverly disguised by Singer through camera movement, careful editing, and flickering light(..not to mention the darkness of night). Plenty of blood shed, though. The major problem that rather ate at me(..pun intended)was the idea that Perkins planned all of this in advance, his imprisonment would set off the cycle of events that would ensue..it's the "Saw" logic that everything would have to perfectly fall into place for his "revenge" on those who quit looking for their children(..his psychosis derives from the fact that those investigating the slaughter of his parents while he was in the house and could hear the whole thing gave up, just calling this situation a murder-suicide)to be successful, with characters exactly behaving predictably as he planned it in his mind.

GoneWithTheTwins "Perkins' 14" begins decently enough. We meet Dwayne Hopper (Patrick O'Kane), a police officer from the small town of Stone Cove. He has been detached from his wife and daughter ever since his son, Kyle, was kidnapped some years earlier along with thirteen other children, and now he's consumed with finding the culprit. Whether or not his son is still alive, he doesn't know. All he does know is that tonight is the tenth anniversary of the first kidnapping, and he begins to suspect that one of his inmates, pharmacist Ronald Perkins (Richard Brake), is responsible. Hopper then coerces one of his fellow officers to search Perkins' home for evidence. This leads to the discovery of a secret cellar, which is hellishly dark and dank, filled with medication vials and stacks of videocassettes.But before I go any further, let's examine why the first part of this film works. There were hints that the relationship between Hopper and Perkins would develop in much the same way as the one between Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling. Perkins methodically probes Hopper's mind, trying to find his weak points so that they can be exploited. Hopper tries to be strong, but it's obvious that the pressure is getting to him, which is understandable given his one-track mind. And then there's the relationship between Hopper and his remaining family, which is strained to say the least. He doesn't get along too well with his daughter, Daisy (Shayla Beesley), who dresses a bit punkish and is dating a much older guitar player named Eric (Michale Graves), who apparently has a criminal record. As for Hopper's wife, Janine (Mihaela Mihut), she's been having an affair for who knows how long. Given her husband's inability to move on, her actions are somewhat understandable.Then, without warning, "Perkins' 14" shifts gears, veering away from psychological drama to become a gory zombie film. It begins when Hopper's assistant discovers the aforementioned secret cellar; along with the meds and cassettes, he also finds filthy teenagers locked in cages. He opens one of them, thinking the girl within is desperately in need of help. Rather than clinging to him like a helpless child, she savagely attacks him. It isn't long before the other wild teens are released, which quickly plunges Stone Cove into chaos. The townspeople are brutally attacked and killed by mindless, violent teens, which under different circumstances might have worked as satire. It soon becomes a life or death struggle, with Hopper and his family barricaded in a police station. I did not like the last three quarters of this film. For one thing, the idea behind the killings is completely implausible, even within the context of a horror movie: As revenge for being forgotten when his parents were brutally murdered, Perkins used cult-like techniques and mega doses of PCP to brainwash fourteen Stone Cove children. Once they break free from his cellar, their new programming only allows them to do Perkins' bidding. Does this sound a little far fetched to you? It sounds to me like a diabolical plot only a mad scientist in a grade-B movie would think up. Indeed, maybe this film would have worked better if it had gone in the direction of a parody. That would necessitate a complete rewrite of the film's first quarter, but hey, at least the film would have been both consistent and fun.There's also the fact that the final twenty minutes or so take place in areas so poorly lit that there's no sense of mystery or suspense. The Stone Cove police station is a maze of dark hallways and strobe-light effects, which is visually irritating.But the biggest problem is the needlessly dark nature of the plot. There's no sense of classic horror movie fun with this movie; there's only a prolonged sense of hopelessness and grief, and that just seems a bit melodramatic. This movie ends on such a low note that it was impossible for me to feel thrilled, and isn't that what horror movies are all about?Now here's the interesting thing: "Perkins' 14" is the first ever fan-generated horror movie. Fans and filmmakers alike were asked to submit story ideas to Massify.com, where a team of judges would vote on the best one. Out of 400 submissions, Jeremy Donaldson's story about fourteen mindless sociopaths attacking a small town got the most votes. I admit, the idea is intriguing, especially since it plays on our fears of what would happen after a dangerous criminal is arrested and put behind bars. But in the hands of screenwriter Lane Shadgett and director Craig Singer, the idea was turned into a complete mess of a film. "Perkins' 14" is unpleasant and unfocused, and it doesn't seem to value the possibility of hope. If another horror movie is made on the basis of an idea submitted by fans, I can only offer this piece of advice: Make sure you hire filmmakers who can actually make something of it. Chris Pandolfi