coloradorockstar24 This film is one of those extreme low budget horror films that is worth checking out. I love the fact that this film reveals what you can actually do and achieve on a micro budget. There should be a fair warning though that some of the scenes are not as polished as today's movie going audiences have come to expect. True horror fans will not sweat this at all and will love what is happening in the film. Be very careful of IMDb "Fanboys" who will try to dismiss this film with their huge colorful words and flowery language. Remember, for them, nothing is good enough. Even with all of its flaws, this film is so much more entertaining than your average studio released film like "Scream."

Paul Andrews The Other Side is set in Georgia where Hanna Thompson (Jaimie Alexander) works as a waitress, after her boyfriend Samuel North (Nathan Mobley) returns home after a long absence the two plan on meeting up that very night to rekindle their relationship. However Hanna never turns up to the arranged meeting place & Samuel becomes worried, then a white van suddenly rams Samuels car over a cliff with him still inside sending Samuel to his death. Samuel then wakes up in a hospital having escaped the pit in Hell, meanwhile three evil Reapers are sent from Hell to reclaim those who have escaped the pit & Samuel is on their hit-list along with anyone else who has managed to escape including Oz (Poncho Hodges) & Mally (Cory Rouse) who decide to help Samuel find Hanna & solve the mystery of her disappearance & hopefully find redemption which will keep them out of the pit & Hell for good...Edited, written, produced & directed by Greg Bishop who is also credited as playing Reaper Number 4 I wasn't expecting much from The Other Side, so I saw that it was on telly & the on screen guide made it sound alright so I decided to record it & watch it when I was really bored & so I did. While I can't say The Other Side is anything better than average it did have some promise & with a bigger budget, decent actor's & proper special effects The Other Side could have been a bit of a sleeper hit. The script is a little loose with various genres all mixed together sometimes in very awkward fashion, from supernatural horror to action film to thriller to murder mystery & even tragic love story by the end The Other Side tries to put as much plot & action on screen as it can & it almost succeeds in being a great little film that no-one has ever heard of. Almost. For all it's enthusiasm & willingness The Other Side falls just short, there are too many unanswered questions like how is it so easy to escape from Hell? Multiple times as well. How did Oz & Mally know that Samuel was at the graveyard? The evil Reapers feel like they were modelled after Terminator's & while the set-pieces try hard like the rest of the film they fall a little short & fail to really excite or stay in the memory for that long. Overall The Other Side was much better than I expected but then again I expected a complete Turkey so anything even half decent was going to impress.The film looks pretty good although one has to say there are several scenes which are very badly lit, the photography is decent enough & there's none of that horrible shaky hand-held crap although the film does cut between shots quite quickly but I suspect that was because of the budget rather than an artistic choice. There's not that much blood or gore but there's some blood splatter, some gory gunshot wounds, a scythe through someone's chest, a huge shotgun blast through someone's body, a guy has his head pulverised with a huge pneumatic drill (off screen) & there are some alight shoot-outs & fights which are probably as good as the makers could do on the budget.Amazingly the budget for The Other Side was apparently just $15,000 which means everyone basically worked for free, director Bishop apparently financed the film himself with profits from his animated short Voodoo (1999). Filmed in Atlanta in Georgia. The acting isn't great, I have seen worse I suppose but it's not going to win anyone any awards.The Other Side is surprisingly quite good, it's not great & I don't think I would want to see it again but for what it is & made with the limitations it was it's better than it has any right to be. Not a bad little time waster & you could do a lot worse.

gavin6942 Sometimes death is the end. But sometimes, it is the beginning. In the tradition of "Ghost" and "The Crow" (though very original), "The Other Side" is the story of a man who runs from death in order to solve his own murder and help find his kidnapped girlfriend. But with the police and the reapers after him, does he stand a ghost of a chance?According to the Internet Movie Database, USC film school graduate Gregg Bishop (who wrote, directed and did pretty much everything for this film) financed "The Other Side" himself with $15,000 (the profits from his film "Voodoo"). One has to comment that this film looks amazing for the budget. Some special effects used far surpass what other, bigger studios have tried to pawn off on their viewers, and the overall acting and story are quite impressive. I have to say that hell ("the pit") looks cool. Bishop skipped the fire and brimstone and torture route and went straight into the dark, lonely isolation sort of underworld. Not only does this probably correlate better with the Bible, but I think it personally makes for a more terrifying punishment. Confined, alone in darkness for eternity. That's pain.This film has lots of blood. We're talking "Kill Bill" levels of blood, "Izo" levels of blood. Every gunshot makes a good splatter. And I couldn't be happier about this. While much of the film was more action than horror (the only real "horror" aspects are the fact we have corpses coming back to life), the horror fans will likely appreciate the blood and excessive flesh wounds. Jaimie Alexander appears in this film, although not as prominently as the cover of the film might imply. Her appearance in this film not only probably helped her career (this predates "Rest Stop" and "Hallowed Ground", as well as her leading roles in "Kyle XY" and that other show), but it helped sell this film. After it was filmed, but before going to DVD is when Jaimie broke through into the mainstream, giving this film an added star it probably hadn't counted on. And with looks that are a cross between Katie Holmes and somebody actually attractive, her presence is a big plus for everyone.The humor in this was subtle but appreciated. I loved the character of Mally the Adulterer. His womanizing antics were amusing, his one-liners were funny, and I thought the scene where he smokes multiple cigarettes was classic (he's dead -- why not?). There was also a great visual gag involving a neighborhood watch sign that might have been the best thing in the entire movie. I' ma sucker for intelligent and clever humor.I could make some complaints (aside from the obvious budget constraints). Like, was I really supposed to believe the reapers were 30-50 years old (as reported by the news anchor)? These ages seem a little funny, as I would have put them more in the 25-30 range. In fact, everyone in the film seemed a little young. But this in no way took away from their acting or ability to relate to the audience.I recommend you check this out to see how to make a film with a limited budget, because I dare you to find anything else on this level. There may be some minor drawbacks, and I thought the twist was a bit hard to accept, but the themes were great and the plot was smooth. Gregg Bishop is a man who knows how to tell a good story and make it look how it should. I eagerly await his next feature film.

undrgroundthug I love this movie! Great performances and great script.I've done some research on this film: The movie premiered at Slamdance, won Best Feature at ShreikFest, and won Best Picture, Best Screenplay and Best Actor (Nathan Mobley) at IFFYNTX (Independent Film Festival of North Texas).Jaimie Alexander from Kyle XY and REST STOP is in it too. Very creative and unique movie. This is a film for anyone who loves a great story with edge-of-your-seat action. It's the kind of movie that reminds you of the first films by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez. You can just see the raw talent from the filmmakers, despite the budget that they are working with.10/10 rating.