Satan's Playground
Satan's Playground
NR | 22 August 2006 (USA)
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A family's spine-tingling odyssey in New Jersey's legendary Pine Barrens region. After their car breaks down, they meet the bizarre Mrs. Leeds, who warns of a violent, unseen force lurking in the forbidding countryside. Soon, the family will encounter a supernatural evil older than the woods themselves.

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Interesteg

What makes it different from others?

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Ploydsge

just watch it!

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Lightdeossk

Captivating movie !

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Derry Herrera

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

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lastliberal

It seemed like a stereotypical dysfunctional family, presumably Italian-American, on a trip through the woods in New Jersey. They break down and, like the back roads of Texas, they come upon things they should have left alone.Felissa Rose seemed more like the daughter than the wife, but I'll play along. If Frank (Salvatore Paul Piro) can get a wife like that, there is hope for me.Major screams from Felissa Rose, putting her at the head of the class as a Scream Queen.Creepy, bloody, suspenseful fun makes for a good scary pic with some very weird characters.

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mikidutza_the_best

Well I must say this movie is a complete cinematic disaster.The characters act like some cartoons characters.Even Tom and Jerry would keep me more interested...The author of the movie inspired from a lot of other movies...like "The Texas chainsaw massacre" ,"Running scared".It's ingenuity isn't shown at all.I started watching this movie with great interest,fooled by the captivating title.This movie is lame,not horror at all...And when the creature cuts a boy,from his throat runs so much blood like it was a comedy or something.It's not making any sense regarding to the title.Maybe I am used to real horror movies and criticize too much but I think this movie wouldn't scare anyone who has seen at least one real horror movie.If I may compare this to "The Texas chainsaw massacre" I can say this is just a lame copy of the script put on screen with some second category characters.It's not worth seeing.Better try the original!

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stmichaeldet

Wow.I have to say, I've seen a lot of bad films in my time, but not many that can rival Satan's Playground. And, it's not a good kind of bad, either. More like the "shake your head sadly and pity everyone involved" kind of bad.The plot is simply a basic, Texas Chainsaw ripoff. A group of people are stranded in the middle of nowhere and are killed one after another by a family of inbred mutant hicks. Of course, in TCM, the inbreds had to work a bit to take down their prey; in this movie, the victims are dim enough to walk straight up to the horror house one at a time, knock on the door, and ask to use the phone. One right after another, like clockwork. Oh, and there's a lurking monster - the Jersey Devil - thrown in to pick off the stragglers. Just don't expect JD to actually put in an on-camera appearance; that, apparently, was too much effort for this production.But don't worry about the plot so much; most likely, you'll be too distracted by the atrocious casting to worry about it. Our victims, far as I can tell, are a family unit - Mom, Dad, Sis, Sis' baby, and Autistic Bro. Took forever to figure that out, though, since Dad looks about 45-50, Mom looks like she's in her late twenties, Sis looks about 30, while A-Bro is established at 18, and looks about 23. The baby, however, is convincingly infantile. Much like the rest of this flick. (Yeah, I know it's a cheap shot, but can you blame me?) After you've wrapped your head around that, then you can marvel at how... busy the middle of nowhere is. As mentioned above, we've got four separate scenes of the principles wandering up to Casa Mutata, plus another, totally unrelated and irrelevant stranded woman pounding on the door (and basically being told to stand in line behind the rest of the movie if she wants killin'), random Satanists coming up on the weekend to perform unholy rites in the inbreds' front yard, a cop who seems to be patrolling in area (and doesn't bother to check out the stranded vehicle stuck not 20 yards from where he parked), and several cars driving up and down the backwoods dirt roads. One of which won't even slow down to help a fleeing victim.Nothing hangs together, or even appears to be trying to make any sense. Even if you're a fan of the badfilm, I'd recommend you take a pass on this one.

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Anthony Laura

It's been a long time since I rented a horror movie that simply looked scary. Satan's Playground stars some of horrors best known stars. I am not one of the biggest fans of the Evil Dead and Texas Chainsaw movies. However, I decided to give this film a watch. Upon the first few minutes of the film, I was immediately taken in. The way the film catches you from the beginning moments right up until the fade out to the credits is something that rarely happens with a film in this genre. Many people, I've read in reviews, have been turned away from this film because they think it is generalized with Evil Dead-type films. Please do not be fooled by this in any way. The truth is the psychological version of this film far beats the horror elements. If I had to make a fair comparison I would say it has the psychological elements of Halloween and the scare factors of Rosemary's Baby. Taking place in the New Jersey area, and following the characters whose subplots are just as interesting as what's happening in front of you, peels back every layer of horror in a reality based environment. Tomaselli is a genius and should go on record as becoming the next Craven in horror masters. He knows how to captivate his audience. Most importantly, he knows exactly what to leave out and lets the subtext speak for itself. As an avid moviegoer myself, I buy movies regularly, as opposed to most people who just rent. If there's one thing I can say for certain about this film is that this will go in my collection under "Things to Watch on October 31st/and Friday the 13th."

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