In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

The premise is simple. A group of very different people gather gather for an experiment which entitles them to be filmed by cameras set all around the house. Everything's normal at first until the first victim is struck. The house then goes into automatic lock down leaving the group stuck inside with traps set all around as well as a killer loose inside. This movie has been compared to Halloween Resurrection but the difference between the two films (besides the fact that Kolobos came out first) is the fact that you start of with these sort of stereotypical characters but they develop as the story progresses. The music in this movie creates this nice mood as does the setting and artwork. The entire movie does a good job of keeping you engaged and keeping you guessing on who the killer is and whether the lead is crazy or not. The conclusion however is what throws you off. If you understand it it's completely genius but if you don't it ruins the movie. It's not you simple slasher flick, far from it. Hence why it's a must see.

Kolobos starts on a dark night as two people (Jeremy Kendall & Laura Holman) driving along run into an injured woman, she is taken to a local hospital where Dr. Waldman (Simms Thomas), an outpatient counsellor, tries to figure out who she is & how this woman had obtained some horrendous injuries... Five people, Kyra (Amy Weber), Tina (Promise LaMarco), Erica (Nichole Pelerine), Tom (Donny Terranova) & Gary (John Fairlie) have all answered an advert in a local newspaper advertising for people to spend some time in a house together with four strangers & have their every movement filmed, they are the chosen five. They all arrive & discover a large nicely furnished cabin which will be their home for the next few days. The director Carl (Jonathan Rone) explains to everyone what he is looking for & tells them all to relax, be natural & have fun. That night Tina heads into the kitchen to get some drinks when she is killed by spinning razor discs. Metal shutters suddenly descend over all the doors & window's trapping the four remaining inhabitants inside. As the night draws on it quickly becomes apparent that there is a killer in the house...This German production was co-written & directed by the duo of David Todd Ocvirk & Daniel Liatowitsch &, in my humble opinion, is pretty crap, incidentally the word Kolobos apparently comes from the Greek word to self-mutilate so now you know. The script by Ocvirk, Liatowitsch & co-producer Nne Ebong is really slow to get going, the first murder doesn't happen until past the 40 minute mark & all I can say is do you want to sit through 40 odd minutes of highly annoying, boring & clichéd character development? I didn't think so. They are all here, the troubled yet strong female, the annoying wisecracking coward etc. etc. Kolobos is an absolute mess of a film with narrative that is all over the place & one of the worst endings ever, I was expecting some hip, cool twist that would hopefully lift the film a bit but it never came & what I got instead was a limp, lame & throughly lazy climax that holds no surprise apart from the fact that the filmmakers decided to go with it. Was it a dream, reality, a set up, what? To me everything that happened seemed to contradict itself during the climax, very frustrating & ultimately unsatisfying. To obviously keep the budget as low as possible only four character's are given any real screen time which is not good as they are all extremely unlikable. On a positive note at least it's a bit different, there are one or two decent scenes & strikes a certain cord with all the popular reality based shows currently playing on TV.Directors Ocvirk & Liatowitsch (who had not made a film prior to Kolobos & thankfully not one since either) do absolutely nothing to liven the dull proceedings up, they aren't sure if they want a realistic hand held feel or not & in the end Kolobos has no style about it at all. They fail to create any tension or atmosphere as they think making the lights flash different colours is scary, guys it's not OK? The gore was disappointing after hearing good things about it, there a few splashes of blood, someone's stomach sliced open with a razor bladed Frisbee, a crappy looking melted face, a sliced ankle & a few other cheap looking effects like someone obviously sticking their head through a hole in a table to simulate a decapitated head & one terrible looking shot where someone's eye is impaled which is achieved by forced perspective.Technically Kolobos is bland, uninteresting & dull with very little to talk about, so I won't. It was obviously shot on video rather than film which also adds to it's cheapness. The acting is pretty bad by everyone involved, they became very irritating & I ended up hating them all.Kolobos had potential but it fails miserably in just about everything it sets out to do. The film is generally quite competent but that is about the best thing I can say about it. Definitely not worth 80 odd minutes of your life, there are better ways to spend it!

Kolobos is one of those dreary horror films that is about as original as the lead character turning out to be dead, and twice as irritating. The plot of this film will be familiar to anyone who's seen the later, better marketed, but still rubbish 'My Little Eye'. It follows five whiny, irritating strangers that are placed in a house together as part of an experiment. It isn't long after they've started to get to know one another that they're being picked off by an unknown assailant and a load of booby traps. The plot thickens when it turns out that one of the group lives in a mental home and after they've seen her drawings, she seems to be the prime suspect. The plot plays out in a common 'slasher' sort of a way, and is therefore very uninteresting. It's obvious that the director of Kolobos wanted it to be something more than it is, which is reflected in the way that the film tries to be psychological in it's approach. This angle hinders the film, however, and makes it very easy to get bored. Kolobos is a film that has tried to be clever, and failed miserably.Another help to the film's downfall is the fact that it doesn't present one single likable character. The people in the film just capture different degrees of annoyingness; and when the plot is dismal, and the characters are hateable; it's obvious that you haven't got a great, or even good, film on your hands. Something that could have saved the film is the gore. I'm a big fan of gore in movies, but it really has to be done in a way that's interesting. Quite how you can depict someone being sliced and diced and have it be boring is beyond me; but this film has somehow managed it. The acting is just as bad as the rest of the film too, and once again makes it all too easy to hate Kolobos. The lead villain is stupid, and basically a rip off from Clive Barkers 'Nightbreed' (which wasn't very good anyway). All in all; this film is a complete dead loss. Bad acting, bad characters, a boring plot, boring gore and a completely laughable attempt at being clever bring it down; and just to add icing to the cake, the twist at the end is almost as predictable as the 'lead character being dead all along' thing. Avoid this at all costs.

I have to say this is most definitely a horror gem. When my friend and I were choosing movies to watch on our movie night she decided to rent this one solely based on the description on the back of the cover. Man was this a good decision. For those of you that have already seen My Little Eye and later on watch this film, you will find that MLE is almost like a carbon copy (minus the ending...somewhat). 5 strangers are picked to spend (God knows how many) weeks/months in a house while being video taped 24/7. In MLE it was for a snuff website, in Kolobos it was for a "film". BOTH end up taking a turn for the worse. I really really REALLY enjoyed Kolobos because 1. They offered some fanTASTIC gore effects without all that CGI crap that so many horror films are using now, 2. The storyline is one giant mind fu*k that leaves you sitting there thinking "What the hell just happened? Woah..." (in a good way of course), and 3. The dialog between actors was hilarious. I really enjoyed the one scene where they're watching a cheesy slasher/horror that one of the girls chosen starred in, and one guy is going "This film is crap! How can you watch this bullsh*t." while another guy is sitting there with his eyes glued to the TV going off on some deep, intellectual view of the "crap" movie. . It was truly a funny scene. While I can't say the actual acting was good in this, everything else about it was. Highly recommended! *two thumbs up* 7.5/10