Sorry, this movie sucks

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Kelby Unger (Ward Roberts) is a young man from a dysfunctional family that lives with his girlfriend Amelia Gates (Christy Jackson) and has sleeping problems with dreadful nightmares. When he proposes Amelia, he coincidently receives a phone call from the warden of the prison of his hometown telling that his father had just died from heart attack. He decides to return to Bisbee for the funeral and Amelia goes with him. Kelby and Amelia lodge at his mother's house and he meets his slut sister Trish (Alexa Havins), his former friends James Lilly (Aaron Gaffey) and the policeman Wally (Jeremiah Jordan) and his unknown uncle Tom (John Coffman). When Wally has a nervous breakdown with the name of Joshua, Kelby is haunted by the evil past in Bisbee.Yesterday I saw "Joshua" and I am still impressed with this disturbing and sick movie. The director and writer Travis Betz has been well-succeeded in capturing the essence of evil and horror, creating a very original low-budget movie that confronts the innocence of a baby with the twisted and mean minds of three very bad boys. I dare to compare the importance and originality "Joshua" in the horror genre to George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead", Sam Raimi's "The Evil Dead" or Tobe Hooper's "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", just to mention a few of movies that became the basis for many rip-offs. Further, with an appropriate distribution and marketing, I believe "Joshua" has potential to be a future classic in the genre. The story is very simple but credible, with a fantastic camera that explores unusual angles, great acting of unknown actors and actresses and I must confess that I had trouble to sleep after watching "Joshua". My vote is nine.Title (Brazil): "Joshua"

If you want one crazy twisted Horror film, this is right for you. If you want a Slaher, go check out something different It's really slow in the beginning so you just have to be patient. You have to watch all of it unfortunately before you can get to the last little bit which is what you really want to see. The acting sucks, it's low budget too so you don't get very many good effects or make-up, it even feels like the same car keeps driving around town. This looks like the work of a College Student done with his friends for class.The reason why to check it out is for the story. I believe this would have been much more effective as a novel because the story is great. I gave this a 4 because of Story alone. The rest was crap.I suggest you look for a friend to rent/buy this for you. Don't waste your money on it. Only pay for it if you're looking for a good story.

Not the worst movie I've ever seen, but definitely in the same ballpark. Being from Indiana (where the film was shot "on location"), I was hoping for much more. What some might call "creative, kinetic camera work" is really just a complete lack of understanding about what goes into composing a shot. I can't say how many times you will see the backs of people's heads while they are talking, or their knees as the enter a room, or huge chunks of wall or ceiling instead of characters, or characters moving on and off camera while we get a good loooooooooong look at the freaking lamp in the background. Some of the actors do a decent job - I just wish that I was offered the chance to care about them. The lighting... well, I could go on and on, so I'm going to switch gears and discuss the movie itself. It wasn't scary, which is a bad thing for a horror film. It was confusing. The idea was okay, but it seemed like the best parts were stolen from other horror films. There's a Leatherface scene, a People Under the Stairs scene, a Silence of the Lambs theme, heck - there was a scene from Bring It On that they ended up cutting from the film. I will end by saying that if the director (Travis Betz, I believe) gets a chance to make a film with the help of a cinematographer and a lighting tech (a sound tech wouldn't hurt either), that he seems capable of doing much, much better work. Here's hoping it works out for him.

What a twisted delight. JOSHUA delivers. If you want an intelligent story with horrifying broadsides every 10 minutes, great acting, chiseled directing, with a maddeningly dean-on score, this is the one for you...if you're legally sick enough to enjoy it! I did. Travis is the edgy director of the future, Ward was believable and poignant (and nice abs), and Aaron Gaffey, well... that Aaron... he terrifies and arouses at the same time...what an actor...see him in Jackhammer Massacre and The Revolting Dead. We want more Aaron...on a silver platter. See JOSHUA...YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED (though you might lose some sleep, especially if you're with a friend).