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Community
| 26 August 2012 (USA)
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The Draymen Estate has become an urban legend. Amongst the sinister stories of unsavoury locals and brutal violence, several people have apparently gone missing. Even the police won't go there. Enter two naive student filmmakers with a well-meaning plan to make a sympathetic documentary of life on the estate. The unlucky duo quickly discovers that problems of drugs and crime in this community go way beyond the norm. This is a community which is about to present the students with material of unimaginable horror - turning their final project int their darkest nightmare.

Reviews
GarnettTeenage

The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

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ThedevilChoose

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

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Murphy Howard

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

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Brennan Camacho

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

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Michael Ledo

Isabel (Jemma Dallender) and her cameraman Will (Elliot Jordan) head off to a remote apartment complex called "The Estate", "Project" or "Community." They take the bus. They are to meet Mr. Lowman (Ellis Day) only to find out he had died. Instead they film an eerie group of kids eager to show them stuff, like dead animals.The film draws you in during the first 30 minutes or so. What is going on? Who are those guys watching in the car? What about the weed? What happens at night? Then there is the older kid on a bicycle looking like he came right out of "Better off Dead."Once we start to get past the mystery, the film goes downhill and at an hour into the feature it has gone from stellar to run of the mill. I loved the creepy kids and the Berryman looking guy, but it needed something more.Parental Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.

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DarleneHamilton

CLEARLY MARKED MILD SPOILERThis seems to be one of those movies where you either you get it or you don't. It's uniquely British in that it deals with a British setting, the current Daily Mail readers fear of those pesky hoodies and treats it all with a British sense of humour. The initial set up is creepy before turning into a black comedy in the same vein as Jam and League of Gentlemen. The leads are pleasantly good looking in that vacant, generic 'Skins' way, all the character is provided by Terry Bird (who is fantastic as Dumpy) and Paul McNealy as Auntie.SPOILERS ***There's a scene where he removes his wig and speaks to Isabelle in his real voice and tells her how he discovered the secret of his weed and it is a amazing piece of workSPOILER ENDS ***To sum up, this movie is nowhere as bad as the reviews say, these people are either not Brits or have a very light sense of humour. It is also not a 'drugs are bad' movie. It's a pastiche, parody and mockery of the Daily Mail way of thinking with some random horror thrown in.I was actually surprised by the twist too

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Chris 'Kets' Clarke

To be honest with you, this film is so awful that I really can't be bothered going into too much details as to why; other reviews here sum that up very nicely. I simply wanted to comment on the main underlying plot: that all of this violence, depravity etc is caused by the bad guys all smoking this special "weed" that they grow using corpses as fertilizer. This is rammed down your throat at every turn, even to the point where the arrival of any of the psychos etc will be heralded by a cloud of white smoke. The way weed is talked about & used here comes straight out of a government anti-drug handbook (& is therefore scientifically inaccurate & dangerous propaganda): it makes you aggressive (er, no it doesn't), it's addictive (nope), lack of it makes you have cold turkey type withdrawal (huh?) to the point where characters like "Auntie" (probably the only sympathetic character in the whole movie...I liked him/her far more than the protagonists) can use it to control the feral kids (all 3 or 4 of them...wow, that's scary!). Look, I cannot say this more clearly: this is the dumbest, most ridiculous excuse for a horror movie I have seen since Cherry Tree Lane (2010); just like that movie, this relies on tired, worn-out clichés about "urban youth", moral decay in the inner cities, drugs etc etc. And just like that film the acting is appalling save for one person: Asley Chin in CTL & Paul McNeilly as Auntie in this one. Interestingly, both play one of the main bad guys in each film, but both bring the only sense of humanity to their respective films & are the only ones in each that could actually exist outside of their contrived environments. I don't know, maybe the director, now he's got his personal feelings on the devil's weed out of the way, could go on and create something worth watching, but on this evidence, he's a long way to go. All in all, if you are a Daily Mail reader or just generally believe everything your government tells you about everything & believe that the poor & disenfranchised are all scum who should be put together & left to their own devices then you'll probably like this film. It will justify your prejudices & beliefs. If however you are a free thinker, have the first idea about cannabis, the plight of the poor in awful concrete urban monstrosities, or just know a little about real life then you'll simply want your time back.On a final note, this movie has probably the dumbest "movie journalists" (or whatever they are) since the four morons broke into the "Forbidden Zone" in Lamberto Bava's Demons 2 (1986). In fact, if they had just watched that film first, they'd have realized that nothing good ever comes of wandering into the area "talked about only in hushed tones" that is renowned for some horror or other. Then they'd have given the Drayman Estate a wide berth, Isabelle could have gone to Amsterdam if she wanted some killer weed & everyone would be alive and happy. Including this reviewer, who wouldn't then have had to sit through this crap in the hope that "surely it gets better, there must be some twist that'll make it all worthwhile..." It doesn't and there's not. 'Nuff said.

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ASouthernHorrorFan

"Community" follows a young college student forced to go undercover into a poor, crime-ridden residential community, where things are even darker than one's nightmares could imagine. She enters the Draymen Estates under the guise of photojournalism/documentary requirements however the real reason she is there with a cameraman is for more self serving desperate needs. The place has become a modern urban legend of horrors. Amongst the sinister stories of unsavory locals and brutal violence, several people have apparently gone missing. But even the police won't go there. "Community" was directed by Jason Ford and stars Jemma Dallender, Elliott Jordan, Paul McNeilly and Terry Bird."Community" is a dark, modern satire of poverty, neglect, and crime infested "planned neighborhoods". It is also a very intense urban legend that brings a more horrible nightmare to life. Drug Addiction, Cannibalism and homicidal youths. It is a perfect metaphor for how todays culture is being neglected into a state of self consumption by our own vices and evils. The film is an Indie flick that relies mostly on a couple of pretty decent young actors who portray the naïve students who have the misfortune of entering the "community" known as Draymen Estates. They as well as the f*cked up creepy cast that make up the residents of the estate –kids most definitely included- create one of the darkest chilling movies that I have seen. I set through most of the film with mouth agape, eyes "bugged out" in sheer horror at the intense plot as it unfolded. The movie held me on edge till the bitter end. This film is a very exciting nightmare that plays on modern, urban emotional and personal connections much like stories about cannibals in the subway do! The gore and violence is tops, the acting is standard grade-A Brit quality acting. This is a great gorefest flick that merits watching by modern grindhouse, blood thirsty horror fans.

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