Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.
... View MoreIt is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
... View MoreOne of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
... View MoreThe film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
... View MoreAs some of the others have stated, yes this movie is terrible. The acting is terrible and lacks any emotion. The plot is dumb and has been done already many times before. Everyone involved should be ashamed for being attached to this horrible film. Do yourself a favor and don't waste any of your time watching this.
... View MoreWriter/Director Robert Henderson provides us a horror TV movie entitled "Kruel".It stars Kierney Nelson, Dakota Morrissiey, Adam Vernier and J.T. Chinn.Together,they tell a story about psychotic ice cream vendor that disguises himself in order to get close to the women that he is attracted to.But unfortunately,he is actually a psychotic and mentally disturbed killer.Ben and Jo just broke up after the former admit to the latter that he cheated.This makes it hard for Jo to forgive her boyfriend.While Jo was working as a babysitter,Ben visits her unexpected.As they got focused on each other,one of the children that Jo is watching has evidently got lost.The police tried to search for the missing child but to no avail.Unexpectedly,Ben and Jo try to look for him just like the police did but unfortunately,they are led to a crazy ice cream vendor who is up to no good.No question that the story was definitely simplistic.What made it worse is the performances of the leads namely Kierney Nelson and Dakota Morrissiey. The former played Jo and the latter played Ben.Too bad that they were somewhat amateurish.It was evident that both still are new to acting when this TV movie was made.Overall,it was a poorly produced TV movie.
... View MoreAfter being forced back home to her parents' house, a troubled teen finds her life turned upside down when her babysitting charge falls prey to a vicious serial killer dressed as an ice-cream vendor and must find a way of catching him to stop his rampage.For the most part this one here wasn't all that impressive of a horror film. Most of the film's problems stem from the utterly bland and lifeless pace throughout the first half to this one, opting far more for a Drama feel than a terrifying feel. There's a lot of talk about how her life is falling apart with the break-up and returning back to live with them and the strange encounters with the ice-cream seller all tend to get featured so heavily that there's no chance for it to develop into a rather chilling story. Though it comes off a little better with the abduction angle, even still it's not so much about that as it is about the tragedy of the situation which takes center stage over the proceedings, and there's not a whole lot of action brought up by this in the meantime. Other factors here with the films' rather bland and lifeless pace are all stemming from the lack of a body count that don't offer up anything that makes for a more horror-based effort by detailing the lengths they go to with the investigation and keeping it away from the stalking they carry through together where they gradually come to believe the identity of the killer, the factor of not even getting anything remotely close to stalking or kills with the holding hostage angle that he employs against her while the the lazy search carries on to make this one feel quite bland overall. Likewise, without the body count there's very little to fear here about the killer who's quite lame in terms of being physically unscary but also with how their interactions have very little to generate any kind of actual fear with what happens. It all makes for a wholly disappointing experience overall with quite a few flaws holding this one down. There's only a few small areas that work with this one, from the actual concept here that concerns him targeting her and how he comes to the family which is quite chilling and more than appropriate in how to build that kind of story. Several of the later scenes here from how he has her trapped and kept at the house are pretty chilling as her continual escape attempts are the only part of this one that really gets any kind of action involved throughout here along with the strong final confrontation also getting some action involved as well. Otherwise, this one is more flawed than anything.Rated R: Graphic Language, Violence and intense themes of children- in-jeopardy.
... View MoreThis movie is as much a relationship movie as anything else: Between Jo (the main character) and her boyfriend and her mom and dad. Horror movie? I'm laughing right now so there's your answer.After breaking up with her boyfriend when he confesses something to her (The road to disaster is oft times paved with "good intentions", Reader. Dude should have kept his pie hole shut.) and refusing any and all attempts at communications from him, Jo later has an encounter with an ice cream vendor on wheels with a weird painted-on face. She later suspects him of committing a terrible crime facilitated by her negligence. She and her ex-boyfriend go sleuthing (she reluctantly) to see if they can find something on this guy who knows she's been snooping around and decides to target her. The constables don't believe anything she tells them (Surprise!) and have already decided they know what happened.If you have nothing better to do, this movie is best viewed at home in your underwear scratching your-- (Okay, I'm not going there). Point is, it's a "TV" movie about relationships with mild suspense (yawn) provide by the ice cream guy at the end. Needless to say, this movie was not "my cup of tea" as the saying goes. No interesting dialog, no interesting action, no senseless nudity...... Er, speaking of "senseless nudity", I think I'll go browse my video library. Love, Boloxxxi
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