Highly Overrated But Still Good

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

I was expecting hell on earth. I was waiting for the worst piece of cinema ever. I expected junk. And that was not it. It's existential story telling and is more about interpretation than vapid force feeding of the plot. So obviously some might despise because they're not familiar. Although experimental filmmaking is definitely not everyones style of story telling, I can still name a few horror films that were worse: "House of Wax", "Boogeyman", "Alone in the Dark", "The Devil Inside", "Texas 3D", "Ice Cream Man", "Troll 2", "Human Centipede", "Paranormal Activity 2 and 3 and 4 and 5", "Nightmare on Elm Street Remake", "Fear Dot Com", "When a Stranger Calls Remake", "Black Christmas Remake", "Killer Klowns from Outer Space", "Wicker Man Remake", and all of Rob Zombie's films - none of which cost less to make than "The Taking"Don't get me wrong, there is still a large part of "The Taking" that is difficult to sit through, irritating to listen to and hilarious at points that leaves it far behind experimental films such as "Eraserhead", "Naked Lunch", "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "The Pillow Book"but the filmmakers have taken a leap in a different direction compared to many larger budget horror films on offer. And for that reason I am eager to see where they go next.The fat naked man was great... the thud of that fall was hilarious - oh, its after 10min, you didn't see it? Shame, it was the best part of it all.True horror fans might want to watch this, I mean we love "Army of Darkness", we do, but its far from stellar story telling, so why not give the avant-garde, indie horror filmmakers a chance? Because it sucks nonetheless, but I'll watch it again over "House of Wax"

If my review was written like this movie was directed: "Growwwlll dark forest sandy flow BLOOD OMG BLOOD on trees and faces and knives tangled in chains with BLOOD run for your life rivers flow at dusk while blood and chains make growling booming sounds as they wrap around bloody trees and tautly pull the sun through the trees, but bloody lips and demons chasing green grass singing. Pain feels like rivers with chains and blood. Growl for our demon masters! Use the knife! The knife in the farmer! Oh no more blood! Is it dark? Giggle. The devil is talking in porridge made chains. Oh bloody bloody blood! Attack and prey. Run. The trees have blood, the river and growling. Why? Why? Because our demon lord craves sunlight with cornstarch." I think I've said enough. I don't wanna give anything away!

One Dark film. Evil abstract & artsy piece of work. The whole film I found unsettling to watch especially with the deep satanic voice that runs through out the film. Though it didn't receive good ratings I found the film interesting and found myself watching it again. Fans of films like "The Begotten" & "Eraser Head" will enjoy this dark sinister piece of film work. This film is not a popcorn & candy floss film. Gloomy and condemning. I look forward to seeing what's coming next from both Lydelle Jackson & Cezil Reed. Menacing, not one for the ladies. If you watched a lot if film as I have you'll find this a interesting watch.

Im sorry.. I love Horror Movies...and I am all for New talent coming along, even making movies on small budgets..and I have seen many good ones....But, THIS..... Dreadful start ...couldnt make head nor tail of it...had no idea what was going on...Acting...Bad...and i mean, Bad. The music was dire, and all the shaky camera shots ( trying to be arty i assume, but failed ) was making it very hard to watch. The blood effects, were bad too. sorry, i wouldn't even waste your time watching this... even i didn't make it to the end...i had totally had enough of it and the bad music . Seriously...I dare you to try and make it to the end of this drivel. There is nothing Original in this story at all..which is a shame for people trying to break into the Horror genre, or just movie making in general. This looks like it was made on a university Campus during Halloween week. Epic Fail. And I really do not like to see new up and coming movie makers Fail, but, honestly this did.