
An asylum is being used by a film crew trying to film the movie "Silent Creek" based on murders that occurred in the 70's. The institution was shut down after Doctor Andersson "The Auteur" was caught making snuff films of himself torturing patients to death. It was believed that all the films were confiscated, yet the location where they were developed and screened was never found. While doing recordings, the crew find a hidden room. It contains the Doctor's undiscovered reco... (Full plot summary below)
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An asylum is being used by a film crew trying to film the movie "Silent Creek" based on murders that occurred in the 70's. The institution was shut down after Doctor Andersson "The Auteur" was caught making snuff films of himself torturing patients to death. It was believed that all the films were confiscated, yet the location where they were developed and screened was never found. While doing recordings, the crew find a hidden room. It contains the Doctor's undiscovered recordings, although the crew is disgusted by the snuff films, they decide not to call the police. The director of Silent Creek, becomes obsessed with Anderssons' films. He begins to act deranged, claiming their film is "not real enough".
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| User ReviewGreg BClever movie with some good twists. Campy. Reminded me of a 70's grindhouse film. |
| User ReviewJames HDon't go to Finland and visit an insane asylum... well, unless there are hot Finnish chicks involved. |
| User ReviewMixael XEntertaining horror geek b-flick. Meta-meta with extra meta on top. |
| User ReviewVen ESkeleton Crew starts out with a stranded couple desperately searching for help after their car crashed. Luckily, the girlfriend finds a creepy insane asylum nearby where they bring the boyfriend in for emergency surgery. The girlfriend walks around, creeped out by the place and its inhabitants before being attacked by the crazed doctor who gets off on making snuff movies. It is then, after 15-20 minutes, where we find out this has all been part of a filming of a horror film. The story now focuses on the film crew shooting this particularly movie based on an actual doctor who killed people in the very hospital they are shooting at. Things change for the filmcrew when they uncover the doctor's secret room where many of his film where never found. The doctor watches the movies and becomes so obsessed with them and he turns into the crazed doctor (with some help from the ghosts of the asylum, a plot device that is never fully explored) and starts killing off the rest of the crew. Though the film suffers from terrible acting and several small shortcomings, the story is pretty unique and interesting, offering bits of humor mixed with horror that is often reminiscent of the Scream franchise. The gory deaths aren't have bad either. The film kinda goes a little too overboard when the survivors realize that they are trapped inside a bad low-budget horror movie, which also allows for the director/killer to pull off his ultimate kill in the end, declaring it the director's cut (which is fairly amusing). The small scene after the credits is amusing as well. As for the cast, most of them aren't really the best of performers, but they manage to get the job done. Overall, decent low-budget horror if you come into it with lowered expectations. |
| User Reviewj.j.s.p. wSkeleton Crew is an awful-looking, poorly-acted piece of C-level horror cinema, but it does feature a decent premise that film strives to execute in the style of Saw, Hostel, Turistas, Wolf Creek, etc. It pales in comparison to even the worst of those films, but it does featuer loads of gore, plenty of twists in the plot, and plenty of eroticism and nudity. It is not a great film and it gets to the point where it makes little sense even as a piece of surrealistic filmmaking, but it is balls-out horror filmmaking, and hence it gets my kudos for that. |
| User ReviewDavid PSkeleton Crew is an awful-looking, poorly-acted piece of C-level horror cinema, but it does feature a decent premise that film strives to execute in the style of Saw, Hostel, Turistas, Wolf Creek, etc. It pales in comparison to even the worst of those films, but it does featuer loads of gore, plenty of twists in the plot, and plenty of eroticism and nudity. It is not a great film and it gets to the point where it makes little sense even as a piece of surrealistic filmmaking, but it is balls-out horror filmmaking, and hence it gets my kudos for that. |
| User ReviewJuha SI didnt think it was that bad. The torture scenes were abit much (for instance hammering nails into a girls hand), and i liked how the story started to twist (wont give it away). The acting is questionable at times, but isnt it in many films. Its not generally scary, its not gripping. Infact apart from the directors twist, everything else is rather predictable. "kill me now" blood and more blood, bla bla, its all good... |
| User Reviewxniquet Lwhen movie producer goes insane while making horror movie from watching real even torturing tapes, all the crew becomes his victims. |
| User ReviewSean CDidn't like the way it turned out. There were ghosts but they didn't do anything. |
| User ReviewJacob PInteresting plot but very low quality acting. It at least kept me engaged enough to see the ending, though. gotta give it credit for that. |