Bottom Feeder (Unrated) (WS)

Description

(Horror) Evil lies beneath the surface in this thrilling, edge-of-your-seat gore and monster-fest! Sizemore stars as a maintenance worker who, along with his crew, is hunted and terrorized by an indestructible creature. Featuring slick and gruesome effects in the vein of Feast, Slither, The Descent, The Cave and other recent horror hits!

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better than expected.......2007-08-15

Great effects, good gross factor, culd have used more scares. Good story and leaves it open for more carnage. Over all great horror film.

When Med-Science Goes Wrong.......2007-07-07

A disfigured millionaire has hired a doctor to find a cure for his condition. The doctor comes up with a serum that will help the body heal at a phenomenal rate. But to fuel the healing, the patient needs to consume a special protein potion. If they don't get the right potion, they will become mad with hunger and try to get it from anywhere they can. But if it is not the special protein, their body will incorporate the attributes of that which they eat. Well, a test needs to be run so a subject is wounded, given the cure, and locked in an abandoned medical facility. Unfortunately he can't get to the special protein. Our main characters are a maintenance crew headed by Tome Sizemore. Sizemore tries to earn a little extra on the side by selling the abandoned medical supplies. Guess what? They get locked in to the same facility as the test subject.

So we have a typical setting for a monster film. Diverse characters stuck in an enclosed area with bad lighting, tunnels, hungry monster, bad tempers, and all the other cliches. It becomes a typical survival struggle with the characters having to stop the monster, stay alive, and find a way out. Pretty typical but with a few cleaver little twists thrown in. Find out who survives and if the creature is defeated by watching.

Tom Sizemore immediately steals the show as a very likeable working stiff. But there is no shortage of other good characters running around this film. The effects are about average with nothing spectacular but far from cheap looking. More went into the acting and atmosphere than in the effects and it is better for it. If you want to see an above average locked-in-with-the-monster film, then this one should fit the bill. Check it out.

Decent little monster movie.....2 1/2 Stars.......2007-03-29

The plot is a little convoluted with the antagonist billionare skulking in the back of his limosine in an abandoned building's parking garage, while the action happens below in tunnels. The monster's creation it is genre standard stuff. All of the charactors are cliche'd in one way or another. The creature effects were decent, as were the practical effects overall.

My biggest gripes are:

1. Lack atmosphere, which I think had to do with the choice of lighting, lenses, and editing for the underground scenes.

2. Lack of tension. Without spoiling anything, there was more intensity in one particular line given by Sizemore at the begining of the third act than any menace given off by the monster in the whole film. The monster actually peeks around corners like a shy child and was slow enough to be outrun for most of the "chase". Bottom line: not scary.

3. For people running from a monster in fear for their lives , the charactors kept stopping in the middle of the hallways to stand around and spout out extended expositional dialogue.

And a word of warning: the DVD cover art touts this as "UNRATED" in bloody red letters, but I put forth that they just didn't bother to submit it to the MPAA. There isn't much blood, some standard gore (lopped off heads, nothing really new there), no nudity, and no swearing that I remember. It's actually closer to a PG-13 than an R in my opinion, and with very little editing you'll probably see it on basic cable soon.

The "Making Of" feature was a basic collection of short interviews with the director and selected cast talking about the filming experience intercut with scenes from the movie. Everyone seemed to be enjoying the themselves, but tired from the quick shooting schedule.

Overall Bottom Feeder was a mediocre little monster movie for a small budget feature. Too bad, because with more preproduction/postproduction polishing this could have been a lot better. Not campy enough to be funny, and too serious to be taken seriously, so I doubt it will be able to ever reach "cult classic" status. Most of the cast did a fair acting job, and as usual Tom Sizemore puts in a good performance. One exeption, I couldn't wait for the bum to die because his acting was so bad.

One of the trailers included on the DVD was for the upcoming zombie flick "The Mad" with Billy Zane. Looks to be a fun time as one of the "so bad it's good" campy horror releases.

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Director: Thomas Baumann
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