Powerful

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

This film is a case of being able to perfectly judge a book by its cover. The opening credits say this film is "Johannes Roberts's Darkhunters". Yes. Roberts's, not Roberts'. That no one involved with this movie, including writer/director Johannes Roberts, was smart or just attentive enough to catch that punctuation mistake says it all. Darkhunters is delightfully bad.The suckitude begins almost at once as the story lapses into a flashback after the opening scene, but then goes into a flashback within that flashback. I t doesn't stop there, however, as there are repeated flashbacks within the flashback within the flashback. After briefly introducing us to the main character, the story then focuses on a completely different and seemingly unrelated person for the next 15 minutes. I thought there'd been some sort of editing problem and another film got spliced into this one by mistake. The plot is also dominated by three of the longest and worst conversations you'll ever see in any motion picture. One is so confusing you'd need a Venn Diagram to understand what's being said, another feels like a maze where writer/director Roberts got lost inside his own script and couldn't find a way out. As for the third…well, you know those scenes where two people are face to face while the camera spins around them? That's how the third conversation is filmed, except the camera keeps spinning around them for two and a half minutes. I'm not sarcastically exaggerating. I actually timed it out.But, wait! It gets worse. About a third of this movie is nothing more that slo-mo images of feline frolicking, like a complimentary DVD you get for subscribing to Cat Fancy magazine. Then there's a scene in a dog pound that resembles a TV commercial from the Humane Society. Lead actress Susan Paterno is so awful, they would have been better off casting college football coach Joe Paterno in drag. Lead actor Dominique Pinon looks like a little person somehow blown up to regular size. In one of the most inexplicable career decisions of all time, legitimate Hollywood actor Jeff Fahey shows up as a demon in dire need of lip balm and a manicure. Another demon shows up that speaks in an unintelligible garble, but is given subtitles that make him sound like a slightly peeved accountant.I could go on and on about all the absurdly terrible things in this motion picture. What amplifies the crap factor into "so bad it's good" territory is that so many of those absurdly terrible things are repeated over and over again, making it crystal clear that no one involved with this production knew their ass from their elbow. If you and your friends tried to turn Darkhunters into a drinking game, they'd find you all dead the next day from alcohol poisoning.The story itself is basically the secret origin of Carol Miller (Susan Paterno), a woman chosen by God to kill ghosts by shooting them in the chest with bullets. They are ghosts who have been forgotten about through some sort of divine administrative mistake, ghosts who are invisible to the naked eye yet have enough physical substance to do things like drive cars. Miller has to track down these ghosts and shoot them before demons show up to claim their souls for some sort of supernatural black market. And yes, when the ghosts are shot, they bleed and fall to the floor like corpses.Johannes Roberts's Darkhunters is one of the most awesomely, hilariously bad things I've ever seen. If that's what you're in the mood for, there isn't a much better example of it than this movie.

This movie really is that bad, and I'm normally a sucker for bad movies, but this was too much. Seeing this is like OD'ing on pure SUCK. Now, you may think you've seen the bottom of the barrel. You may have waded through every title from Full Moon and Troma, all the movies of Edward D. Wood Jr, Uwe Boll, Albert Pyun and direct to DVD-flicks from faded men-of-action. You may even have seen Death Tunnel, Ghost Lake and a vast array of the movies that MST3K covered, but in their original form. But you do not know truly awful film-making until you have seen Darkhunters. And if you haven't, you shouldn't. Don't bother. Not only is this movie amazingly poorly written, directed, shot, edited, acted and splattered in crude, cheap aftereffects. First of all, it's a pretentious mess. But not good, Greenaway or Lynch-style pretentious or hilariously messy in an Ittenbach or early Waters sort of fashion. It's the kind of pretentiousness that comes when someone incredibly stupid thinks they've come up with something incredibly smart. Sort of like M. Night Shaymalan (sp?), only that man seems like a freakin' messiah when compared to this trainwreck (and this coming from a rampant Shaymalan hater). It's also boring. Not heavy going-type boring, which is okay, if the movie awards your patience. Darkhunters does no such thing. It's boring in a "Oh my fu(king God, if I see another shot of a cat set to an obnoxious audio cue I am going to fu(king kill myself!"-kind of way.Btw. anyone who claims to like this film is a boldfaced liar and anyone who claims this film is complex or deep knows what their mother is like in bed.

OK the box look interesting, the opening have great music and its kinda original, to that its all OK. But when the movie start...well its not my first videoville movie, i watched Ghost Lake, and its very similar of this movie except its ever worse here. The story at first sounded interesting but the whole movie look like a movie shot by a bunch of university student, with specials effect that me laugh, the blood look like a mix of red and white paint, the fire effect on the demon face look like it was done with a program i could buy at my local computer shop. All the movie is shot in day(very great for a movie supposed to be horror) and there like no gore(1 scene only and it look so home-made and not credible) and near no blood(it can be considered a great thing considering the look of the blood show) and 1 demon for the whole movie. The story is going nowhere , it give you the impression that it never start, there so much useless scene done only to give the movie the average duration time(when the demon search the guy in the dogs thing for about 4 minutes...) Way too much slow-mo things. Well lets just say this movie is a Z-series one and a very poor one. All cool idea lost themselves and you get a cheesy movie. It bored my all long and I'm not the guy who get bored very easily with horror movie, man i even like house of the dead and alone in the dark from Uwe Boll and you probably know the name for being one of the worst director but here it look too much like some guys wanting to make a movie for fun. Plus for us french speaker(tough i understand English i prefer to watch movie in my native language) there the usual videoville bad translation. In normal movie you can barely see its not the actor speaking(you have to check on lips etc) here you just have to listen to it and you know it. Very cheesy

This is truly one of the most awful movies of all time. It's dull, ponderous, badly acted, and teeth crawlingly pretentious.I watched for about an hour waiting for some kind of drama to unfold, before realising there wasn't any. The shot on a shoe string budget was particularly painful. These have to be the worst day for night shots since Plan Nine from Outer Space.The only barely redeeming feature is the ludicrous 'demons' wandering around the countryside with a plastic cat basket. How scary is that? And I did like the moggys used as extras, I suppose they are least cheap. Though it did seem a bit obvious that they had been enticed into camera by the careful placement of some tuna.This film is so dreadful, it should have a public health warning. There was a queue at my local video store when I took it back, of people demanding their money back. I kid you not!